# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MrBerious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MrBerious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBerious)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/81 "2009-08-29T18:10:46Z")
**War of the Roses** featured neither Yorkists or Lancasters ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/82 "2009-08-29T18:30:11Z")
_Equilibrium_. Not a movie about games theory, let me tell ya. Not really Zen, either. _Gothika_. Humm, where are the goth chicks ? That’s the only reason I went and saw that POS. They \*\*lied \*\*to me. _Once were warriors_. Decidedly not a high fantasy fairytale. ---
**Author:** ![BKReporter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@BKReporter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BKReporter)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/83 "2009-09-03T15:49:55Z")
Here’s a movie called Liverpool, that’s probably bound to disappoint some Beatles fans: [http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/movies/02liver.html?hpw](http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/movies/02liver.html?hpw) It’s about Tierra Del Fuego. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/84 "2009-09-03T20:36:03Z")
\*Saturday Night Fever \*only showed one hospital shot, and the patient was in for being on the wrong end of an ass-beating. And for you old-school network/cabling gurus: \*Terminator \*was not about an electrical component. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/85 "2009-09-03T21:59:36Z")
> [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](#): > > Indeed, it is west of Java, but not _East of Java_ as the movie purports. It _is_ east of Java, though. OK, I guess it’s closer if you go west, but if you head east, you’ll get there eventually. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/86 "2009-09-03T22:29:07Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > And for you old-school network/cabling gurus: > > \*Terminator \*was not about an electrical component. Nor did it have anything to do with sunrise or sunset. (Astronomy geek joke.) ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/87 "2009-09-05T04:34:00Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > _Saturday Night Fever_ - wasn’t the story of a virulent viral outbreak. There was disco dancing in it so maybe it was… **Snatch** had nothing to do with female genitalia. **The eagle has Landed** was not an ornithological film. \*\* 8 Days a week \*\* was not about the Beatles ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/88 "2009-09-05T04:55:21Z")
> [@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! Well, there was lunch though: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OaLJPjLIdRQ/hqdefault.jpg "Allison Reynolds (Lunch Scene) - The Breakfast Club") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaLJPjLIdRQ) (The infamous Ally Sheedy sandwich) BTW, was that really lunch? I have not seen the movie for a long time but weren’t the kids on detention for the morning? So while that scene was “lunch”, was the scene taking place in the morning and it was technically “breakfast” for some of the students? ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/89 "2009-09-13T15:49:29Z")
Trainspotting,brilliant movie but was very disappointed as I rather hoped that I’d get to see at least one 4-6-4 King Alfred class steam locomotive with reciprocating overhead none return valves. (You know the ones I mean,the hand easy gear lever is on the RIGHT hand side of the controls) And not ONE of the characters wore an anorak and carried a weak orange drink in a plastic container. It quite spoiled the entire film for this poster at least. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/90 "2009-09-13T16:22:16Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Fight Club How is that misleading, what two words would better describe that movie? ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/91 "2009-09-13T16:25:52Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > _Trainspotting_ - also hmm. The title makes more sense in the book. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/92 "2009-09-13T17:07:41Z")
Not a movie, but **The Story of O** is not about Oprah _or_ her magazine. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/93 "2009-09-13T17:37:51Z")
AMC last night was showing a 1967 movie which starred Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson, plus virtually every second-tier actor who appeared regularly on late sixties TV shows like _Mannix_ and _Marcus Welby_. The movie itself was titled _Point Blank_, when it actually should have been called _Out Of Range_, or more accurately, _Wretchedly Dull Drama Occurring In Darkened Rooms_. It actually got [good reviews](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Blank_(film)). :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/94 "2009-09-13T19:20:05Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Not a movie, but **The Story of O** is not about Oprah _or_ her magazine. UH… it actually was a movie, as well. Or so I hear. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/95 "2009-09-13T19:43:47Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The movie itself was titled _Point Blank_, when it actually should have been called _Out Of Range_ I haven’t seen it, but from the trailer: ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TRj7sTZpf7M/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/TRj7sTZpf7M?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque . . . it looks like he brandishes a gun while using his free hand to shove a guy around, and then he shoots multiple people at point-blank range, plus he brandishes a gun while using his free hand to shove another guy around, and he smacks yet other guys upside the head with his gun, and there’s also the time he brandishes a gun while using his free hand to shove yet someone _ **else** _ around, plus he shoots a bunch of stuff off some guy’s desk while sitting right next to it. What’s the rest of the movie like? ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870/96 "2009-09-14T08:17:32Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I haven’t seen it, but from the trailer: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRj7sTZpf7M](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRj7sTZpf7M) > > . . . it looks like he brandishes a gun while using his free hand to shove a guy around, and then he shoots multiple people at point-blank range, plus he brandishes a gun while using his free hand to shove another guy around, and he smacks yet other guys upside the head with his gun, and there’s also the time he brandishes a gun while using his free hand to shove yet someone _ **else** _ around, plus he shoots a bunch of stuff off some guy’s desk while sitting right next to it. > > What’s the rest of the movie like? I have seen it many times and IMO is a totally brilliant movie but not for people with weak stomachs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misleadingly-titled-movies/506870.md?page=4)