Movies that are ruined by saying the title of the movie during the movie.

Why do movies have to do things like this? We know the name of the movie. Why does a character have to say the name of the movie in a line?

I understand it happens all the time, I don’t mind it when it happens in movies like “Black Hawk Down”. It doesn’t sound bad or cheesy when it comes up in the movie.

But when they force the line, that’s when it pisses me off:

“Awesome Point Break
“They pose a clear and present danger to us”
“Welcome to con air

MtM

Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.

Oh, I just watched Black Hawk Down tonight for the first time…(awesome flick by the way). That’s what I thought about when I saw the title of this OP.

Maybe you should ask…“why do they name the movie after a memorable line?”

I think the best example of this has to be A View To A Kill. The phrase barely makes sense even when you consider it as a Duran Duran song. Still, it was spoken by Christopher Walken, so it can’t be all that bad.

Maybe saving Private Ryan is the one decent thing we’d pull out of this whole God-awful mess.

I pronounce you the Fellowship of the Ring.

“And Igby goes down!” Seemed like a very random scene in that movie.

Who can ever forgive Gregory Peck for saying “Moby Dick” SO MANY TIMES in a movie with the same title? :wink:

“It’s gonna be just like The Italian Job.” groan

I was just thinking: what if when I’m writing a movie script and I can’t find an adequate title for the movie, it suddenly appears a line that may be the title?

I suspect, for example, that The Full Monthy could have been developed this way (just guessing).

Oops, sorry, it’s The Full Monty but it works anyway.

Hopefully it’ll feel less forced if it develops that way.

Thanks God that other James Bond movies don’t do that. It would be ridiculous to hear Roger Moore saying to Barbara Bach: “You are The Spy Who Loved Me, my dear”. :smiley:

Or Pierce Brosnan to drop “So you lived to Die Another Day” into the middle of the new one. That one was going to be my nomination, actually…

OTOH, when they say the title to They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, it’s absolutely perfect.

To be fair though, Point Break was already ruined.

It stuck out painfully when the title was partially said during Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. “Lock, stock, the fuckin’ lot”

For the record, I’ve only ever seen two James Bond movies - A View To A Kill, which I nominated, and From Russia With Love . . . in which he didn’t say the title out loud . . . he just used the title to . . . well . . . to autograph a picture with.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!

[HIJACK]

It’s always bugged me when the director puts his name in the title. Like:

John Carpenter’s blah…blah…blah

“Oooo…look! I created this movie! Nobody on earth could have directed this. Remember…remember…ME”

[/HIJACK]

I think that is sometimes done, Marine One, to get around legal issues. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. Maybe this isn’t the same thing, but it seems like Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” was named because the title “Dracula” was owned by some other movie studio.

On second thought, maybe this is two different issues. Maybe someone will come along to set it straight.

“So you guys are astronauts, on some kind of… Star Trek?” – Zephram Cochrane