# Movies with deceptive or completely unclear titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315 "2012-10-10T15:22:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/101 "2012-10-12T17:52:07Z")
As you came we’ll show you what we do. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/102 "2012-10-13T02:01:22Z")
> [@MegaBee](#): > > Was your disappointment rapidly replaced by terror? Yes, during parts of it! ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/103 "2012-10-13T03:00:56Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > **Reindeer Games**. IMDb plot description: “After assuming his dead cellmate’s identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.” > > So, there’s…deer? No, there weren’t, were there? It was a great line, but I really wanted to see how the title was worked into the movie. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/104 "2012-10-13T03:16:11Z")
> [@Miss\_Woodhouse](#): > > The Neverending Story is a case of the title making sense in the book and not in the movie. The title is a large theme of the book. It makes perfect sense in the movie, doesn’t it? He reads the story until he runs out of story and then it keeps going because he’s _in the story_. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/105 "2012-10-13T14:38:13Z")
_Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein_ (No, it was his monster, plus a couple of other monsters.) _Abbott and Costello Go to Mars_ (No, first they go to New Orleans, then to Venus.) \*Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff \* (Karloff’s not a killer, and doesn’t play one in the movie.) ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/106 "2012-10-13T20:16:05Z")
**Jaws**. 😃 The Crying Game comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/107 "2012-10-13T22:30:00Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Trainspotting Yeah, well, imagine how disappointed I was when I went to see [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closely_Watched_Trains), thinking it would be the sequel. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/108 "2012-10-15T03:16:59Z")
Oklahoma! was really about some hell-hole cultural wastela… Oh, um, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/109 "2012-10-15T13:56:20Z")
Ooooh, golf clap. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/110 "2012-10-17T20:40:05Z")
Hillary & Jackie was not about 20th Century US First Ladies. And Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice had nothing to do with the Kennedys or the Bradys. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/111 "2012-10-17T20:53:33Z")
X Men was not about boys obsessed with the alphabet. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/112 "2012-10-17T21:10:54Z")
Fried Green Tomatoes is hardly a movie about the joys of cooking the titular dish. _Hardly_. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/113 "2012-10-17T23:40:25Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I never knew that! > > **Dick**. One of my favorite movies. I tried telling my mother about it, but she wouldn’t hear it. She did the “la la la I can’t hear you” thing. My parents wouldn’t let me see _Dr. Strangelove_, probably for similar reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/114 "2012-10-17T23:50:47Z")
_The Cars That Ate Paris_ It has nothing to do with France. The Paris in the title is a fictional small town in Australia. And the title seems to imply the people in the town are attacked by cars that have come to life or something like that. Which isn’t the case. They’re just regular cars and it’s the people in the town who are attacking tourists driving through. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/115 "2012-10-17T23:53:17Z")
I also wonder how many parents dropped their kids off to see _A Boy and His Dog_, because with that title, what could possibly be objectionable about it…? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/116 "2012-10-26T02:13:59Z")
The Birdman Of Alcatraz. Stroud spent almost the whole movie in Leavenworth. And, at the end, when transferred to Alcatraz, he’s forbidden to keep pets. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/117 "2012-10-26T04:13:04Z")
I thought _Deathwatch_ wasn’t a great title for this film. > **[Deathwatch (2002) ⭐ 5.9 | Drama, Horror, War](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286306/)** > > 1h 34m | R ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/118 "2012-10-26T04:35:27Z")
[The Last Hangman](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462477/) Albert Pierrepoint wasn’t Britain’s last hangman. The death penalty continued for several years after he retired. The actual [last executioners](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Owen_Evans)in England were Harry Allen and Robert Leslie Stewart. ---
**Author:** ![williambaskerville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@williambaskerville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williambaskerville)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/119 "2012-10-26T06:20:39Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > [The Last Hangman](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462477/) > > Albert Pierrepoint wasn’t Britain’s last hangman. The death penalty continued for several years after he retired. > > The actual [last executioners](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Owen_Evans)in England were Harry Allen and Robert Leslie Stewart. Well, in the spirit of obscurist pedantry, the title doesn’t mention which country, and is accurate for at least one :- Pierrepoint was _Ireland’s_ last hangman. (Independent Ireland carried out few executions, and never bothered appointing it’s own hangman. We used to get a British one over as necessary, and Albert performed the last topping, in 1954). And yes, I know the film didn’t show his Irish activities. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315/120 "2012-10-26T20:04:19Z")
The Shawshank Redemption. What the fuck does that even mean? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-deceptive-or-completely-unclear-titles/637315.md?page=7)