Hello - someone in GQ brought up this movie and it has me thinking - do you think the name of this movie will help or hurt?
I strongly believe it will hurt the movies chance of success, but I don’t know anything about hollywood, acting, shaking people down for $8.50 - so I’m just guessing.
My line of reasoning is that there are going to be theaters that won’t carry it, won’t be able to sell it at Wal-Mart on DVD, the name garners more attention than the actual movie.
I’d like to know what others think of the name - both good and bad.
I think it’s a dumb, obvious idea that will get a lot of teens in for a first look-see. After that, how the movie does will depend on whether those who saw it the first weekend think the movie’s funny. (I’m betting not.) The rest of us will ignore it.
Of course, this is the follow-up to Meet the Parents, which did very well, so I think this one will too.
And some people really do have weird last names. My grandmother once knew a man named Schittenburger (probably not correct spelling). There’s an idea for a film: Meet the Schittenburgers, about a nice, friendly German family who can’t understand why their family-owned fast food joint is so unsuccessful…
I’ve known several folks with the Japanese surname Takeshita, and I always wonder how many times they’ve had to endure “take-a sh*t-a” jokes in school…
I have a doctor named Grabher. And she practices gynecology.
I guess Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand are going to play Ben Stiller’s parents (that’s what I thought this thread was going to be about–the casting choices). I think Ben Stiller’s real parents should play his parents in the movie, since they’re both actors. Although I hated Meet the Parents so there’s really no way you’ll get me to pay $8 for Meet the Fockers, even if they did get Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.
And give me a break, there has been a hell of a lot worse that has slimed its way into the local cineplex. And while I doubt there will be an abundance of Oscar nominations for this film, my guess is it will have a few entertaining moments.
And I once went to a doctor whose last name was Twat. Nice guy, but…well, an unfortunate name.
Yeah, and I know a family named Fuchs, and another named Lipshitz. And I have relatives who had the last name of Ennema. A perfectly respectable name back in the old Low Country. Didn’t make the transition to the US very easy for them. Pity my cousin Jacomina Ennema. She had a rough time in school in the US.
Ah, QtM, I also knew a family with the last name Fuchs. Pronounced like “fox”. I knew their son in 6th or 7th grade. He got off pretty easy–no one made fun of him.
I think you guys are way overreacting. No theater nor Walmart will have any problem with the word Focker. In fact, the studio is having a contest for families whose last name reallly is Focker.
Story time. There’s a couple families in my areas with the last name Kuntz.
Lady came in to pick up her photos from the lab. Friend of mine worked the counter. Lady asked for her photos, and he asked for the first name. She said she didn’t know who dropped them off, did it really matter? Without missing a beat, buddy responds, using the short u pronunciation like the lady did:
The movie namer is of the same mentality as the ones who came up (!) with the movie names, “Snatch, Blow”, & Pecker." Just to titillate and to get “that word” into print, legitimately, for media controversy and publicity.
Speaking of the latter and real last names, there was a man in my hometown whose last name was Pecker and his first was Sumner, nicknamed, Sum, honest.
On the subject of strange last names…
There was a family in my hometown with the last name Rape. Their daughter’s first name was Djuana (sp?). Pronounced D-wanna. Poor child.
