True Romance - not a lighthearted date movie. 
Also, I think Oldboy could not possibly have a title to prepare the viewer for what they are going to get (but I guess that’s part of what makes it so memorable).
24 Grams has nothing to do with cocaine.
Watership Down sounds like it should have a sort of Titanic theme going on. It doesn’t. Buncha rabbits.
I know this is a pretty lighthearted thread, but can we really make out a complaint against Fight Club? Some guy really does form a club where the members engage in bare-knuckle fights with each other, according to rules that get mentioned in scene after scene; the narrator talks about people he’d like to fight, explains that the bruises on his face are from fighting, describes how the guys in the club have been getting tougher, and, yes, watches as the whole thing gradually spirals out of control – starting when each member is told to start a fight with a total stranger, and escalating to the point where a pack of them will bully a cop, and, sure, it just gets bigger and bigger from there for the adrenaline-soaked men who go on and on about masculinity and testicles in between fight after fight after fight after fight in their private arena, often involving the guy who does a lot of sit-ups and cheerfully threatens the occasional co-worker to get more money for more nights of the aptly-named Fight Club.
What more were you expecting from a movie called Fight Club?
The Greatest Story Ever Told. Turns out it was all full of religion an’ shite.
Would you just stop talking about it, for crissakes?
A better marketing campaign, perhaps?
I still hear complaints from people who think it’s a macho testosterone-driven flick which symbolizes what’s wrong with Hollywood these days, even though they’ve never seen the movie itself. I’d like to tell them what it’s really about, but you know, rule #2…
With a movie entitled What’s the Worst That Could Happen?, there is an implication that the movie itself isn’t. Yet, alas…
Snakes on a Plane.
The snakes weren’t on the plane, they were in the plane. Sheesh.
I so agree that this was a great film. I firmly believe if this had a better title it would not have bombed at the box office. As it was the people who would have liked it didn’t go to it thinking it was a Merlin the Magician thing and those who went looking for a sword and socerey flick left in the first five minutes. (the pun was intentional)
I’ve heard “Kiss of the Spider Woman” panned with “No kisses, no spiders, and no women.”
(I really need to watch that).
The Seven Year Itch has nothing to do with eczema.
IIRC there were indeed kisses – just no women.
Star Wars: The stars didn’t fight anybody, they just sat there in the background.
Sonia Braga wants to have a word with you, Mister.:dubious:
At first it was the title, Lars and the Real Girl that made me iffy. Then it was the description of the movie. Eww. Sounds like a porno.
Last night I saw the movie and it was charmingly quirkish or quirkishly charming but either way I liked it. Title is kinda dumb though.
I don’t need to read the rest of this thread;
You Win!
Another old one; An Andalusian Dog
I still think The World’s Fastest Indian should have been about Jim Thorpe.
It was in the book.
As someone’s signature on this board points out, Krakatoa is not west of Java.
Dances With Wolves was not the musical, circus little number that I was expecting.