# Most misleadingly titled movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870 "2009-08-18T18:37:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/61 "2009-08-22T17:34:39Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > I’ve heard “Kiss of the Spider Woman” panned with “No kisses, no spiders, and no women.”… My favorite one-word movie review: _Xanadon’t_. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/62 "2009-08-22T18:09:38Z")
**The Black Hole**. You go looking for interracial porn and you get a space movie :smack:. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/63 "2009-08-22T18:31:54Z")
**xXx** Not a money shot in the entire movie. Not even any nudity… ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/64 "2009-08-22T19:48:15Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > _Watership Down_ sounds like it should have a sort of Titanic theme going on. It doesn’t. Buncha rabbits. For years as I kid I thought it was another version of the _Poseidon Adventure_. ---
**Author:** ![Jerseyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Jerseyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerseyman)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/65 "2009-08-22T19:58:41Z")
Empire of the Sun. All set for scifi action and along comes a story about a young boy in occupied Shanghai ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/66 "2009-08-22T22:42:18Z")
Chariots of Fire. Guys in hot pants running, nothing about Apollo at all. Weirdly, I thought ‘Seeker- The Dark is Rising’ would have something to do with the books by Susan Cooper. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/67 "2009-08-22T22:47:18Z")
**Prick Up Your Ears** ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/68 "2009-08-22T22:49:57Z")
> [@Jettboy](#): > > _The Naked Lunch_ should’ve been about naked chicks eating lunch. Now that I think about it, the original novel would’ve been better if it was about naked chicks eating lunch, too. But they did make a sequel. Naked Lunch 2: Two girls, one cup. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/69 "2009-08-22T23:19:27Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > **I, Robot**. > > If they had just called it something else and gave Calvin and Lanning different names, it would be like “Hey, cool! A big Will Smith action pic about robots and stuff! and there’s even stuff about the _three laws of robotics_ in there! Awesome!!” > > But as it is, it makes nerds on the internet very grumpy. Including me. > > p.s. I absolutely love the movie, in spite of the fact that it has virtually nothing to do with the real _I, Robot_. > ETA: In case it wasn’t clear, it’s misleading because it is not a movie _of_ I, Robot. It just uses a few concepts, and doesn’t even use them well. Heh, it’s worth noting that pretty much any movie will make nerds on the internet very grumpy. There are a lot of irritable nerds. ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/70 "2009-08-25T09:58:23Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > As someone’s signature on this board points out, Krakatoa is not west of Java. Indeed, it is west of Java, but not _East of Java_ as the movie purports. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/71 "2009-08-25T13:44:14Z")
I’m going to Hell for this one… _Octopussy_ isn’t about Nadya Suleman. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/72 "2009-08-25T13:57:17Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > What are some movies whose titles lead you to believe they’re about something that they’re not? > “The Squid and the Whale” is the perfect example. The title makes you think it’s going to be an undersea monster flick. It’s actually about divorce. > Also I think the Simpsons did a joke about this, but “Naked Lunch.” I can understand how that would be disappointing to someone expecting to see one giant nude fest. > Actually you could probably include pretty much any non-porn movie with “naked” in the title. **"_To Kill A Mockingbird"_ wasn’t about animal cruelty.** My other movie title got censored, I think. _"Octopssy" isn’t about Nadya Suleman._\* ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/73 "2009-08-25T23:53:48Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > **I, Robot** … > > p.s. I absolutely love the movie, in spite of the fact that it has virtually nothing to do with the real _I, Robot_… Likewise **The Art of War** (which only references the book a couple times) and **The Lawnmower Man** (which used the name of a Stephen King short story simply to put his name in the credits.) > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > _George Washington_ is not really about the first President. Nor is **Dead Presidents**. For those who don’t know, **O** was a modern retelling of **Othello**. I don’t know how clear that was made when it was being advertised. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/74 "2009-08-26T17:29:19Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Okay. Then let me try again. Three of them. > > **O** > > Surely, this was to be a biography or documentary about Oprah (who, for some reason, I thought owned the letter “O”.) Instead, it’s about gangsters and drug dealers and people who get shot, complete with bad acting by pretty boy Josh Hartnett. Never, ever read a book called “O”. [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] And sheesh, Rebecca never appears in the movie named after her! [/QUOTE] [http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Mrs-deWinter/Susan-Hill/e/9780380721450/?itm=1](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Mrs-deWinter/Susan-Hill/e/9780380721450/?itm=1) 😃 Rambo isn’t about a ram at all. ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/75 "2009-08-26T17:44:09Z")
**Factory Girl** - It should be about some slut from Detroit or some labor organizer from Alabama. At least it should be about someone who had actually done a day’s work. A spoiled model and Andy Warhol? That one got an early return to Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/76 "2009-08-26T20:08:53Z")
No gods, but several generals, appear in _Gods and Generals_. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/77 "2009-08-26T21:40:17Z")
_Beetlejuice_ featured no insect fluids. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/78 "2009-08-26T21:43:30Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > _Beetlejuice_ featured no insect fluids. And had nothing to do with the [star](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse) either. ---
**Author:** ![depocali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@depocali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/depocali)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/79 "2009-08-26T22:25:16Z")
[La vita è bella](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/) Great movie, but really off in the title ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/80 "2009-08-29T16:27:04Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > The Breakfast Club. > > There was no club. Or breakfast. It was just a bunch of kids in detention. I want my money back! Hear Hear! I at least expected some creative omlettes!! :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870.md?page=5)