Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
A Clockwork Orange
I’m not seeing how Pulp Fiction’s title is anything short of wholly descriptive.
Someone mentioned Happiness. That seems to come close tonwhat you’re looking for, although I guess it could be deemed ironic.
As a child, I was disappointed to discover that * Watership Down * included no sinking ships. Just a bunch of rabbits.
The Black Hole was not what I was expecting…
Or with Deniz Tek.
Only the first scene of Fargo takes place in Fargo, N.D. Virtually all of the movie takes place in Minnesota.
“O Brother Where Art Thou” doesn’t really seem to fit anything in the movie.
A movie called “The Aristocrats” that sounds anything but noble.
Oh, but wait: using your logic upthread, you should have been completely aware of the plot since it was a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Tennessee Williams three years before the movie came out. :rolleyes:
So Gandhi is perfectly descriptive, but The Babe is not? I’d say both are equally famous to the average American.
A friend of mine almost refused to see Wag the Dog in the theater with me because she assumed it was a kid’s movie. You know, about a dog named Wag. :smack:
Especially for Americans. It came out when I was a kid, and I thought the title was simply a random selection of words, like “A Telephone Indiscriminate”… it was only much later that I learned it referred to a wind-up toy.
The Brown Bunny
I’m in Big Brothers & when I took my Lil Bro to Super-8, I had to explain it was not going to be about a team of eight super-heroes.
For the OP, tho the book explains the title perfectly, it takes some deep thinking to figure out why the movie was titled A Clockwork Orange.
That movie should have been called “You’d be better off watching paint dry for 2 hours and then a few minutes of redtube…the blowjob scene isn’t worth it”
I shoulda known… :smack:
Oh- one mentioned above - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
When that was announced, Mom had forgotten that The Raiders of the Lost Ark’s main character was named Indiana Jones. So she thought that was the tackiest title imaginable for a film about Jim Jones & the Peoples Temple tragedy.
Was your disappointment rapidly replaced by terror?
That was the most awfully boring movie, hands down, ever. One hour and forty minutes of a man driving, in real time, across America.
I’ll admit I don’t find The Babe a good example for this thread. But clearly a lot of people disagree with my examples as well.
Curse of the Cat People is about a little girl lost in a fantasy world–that does not involve anthropomorphic felines. Yes, it is a sequel to Cat People, which concerns exactly what you would think, but people expecting a straight-up return of the monster(?) from the first movie are in for a surprise.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: If you didn’t know it was Chinese, you’d think this was a prequel to Madagascar with animals making wisecracks at each other