# Movies with perfectly descriptive titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344 "2012-10-10T18:59:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/21 "2012-10-10T20:38:30Z")
**Attack of the 50 Foot Woman** ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/22 "2012-10-10T20:38:37Z")
Mr. Mom ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/23 "2012-10-10T20:44:06Z")
Debbie Does Dallas ---
**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:** [October 10, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/24 "2012-10-10T23:02:28Z")
[Film](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_(film)) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/25 "2012-10-10T23:05:48Z")
TimeCop! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/26 "2012-10-11T00:51:55Z")
**Four Weddings and a Funeral** There certainly were **The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade** Long-winded, but completely accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/27 "2012-10-11T00:53:26Z")
**8 Heads in a Duffel Bag** , yup, that’s the plot. ---
**Author:** ![Postariti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Postariti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Postariti)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/28 "2012-10-11T11:33:36Z")
I think if you released **Star Wars** now, there wouldn’t be enough wars to justify the title. But at the time, it was amazing to see that much wars up in the stars. Science fiction movies back then generally didn’t give you any wars in the stars at all. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/29 "2012-10-11T11:50:26Z")
> [@Postariti](#): > > I think if you released **Star Wars** now, there wouldn’t be enough wars to justify the title. But at the time, it was amazing to see that much wars up in the stars. Science fiction movies back then generally didn’t give you any wars in the stars at all. Not true. Just last night I watched **War of the Satellites** from 1958. There was also **War of the Planets** (1966) (this was also the title of the Castle films release of _This Island Earth_) **Battle of the Worlds** (1961) [Battle of the Worlds (1961) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054950/) There were other films depicting space battles, but not giving it in the title, like **The Phantom Planet** and **The Mysterians**. **Star Wars** was arguanly the first big-budget mainstream space war movie since **This Island Earh** over twenty years earlier. ---
**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 11, 2012, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/30 "2012-10-11T12:09:25Z")
[Blue](http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0106438/) ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/31 "2012-10-11T12:48:37Z")
**The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t But Then Was**. **The Exorcism of Emily Rose** **Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle** ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/32 "2012-10-11T13:51:59Z")
[Shoot em up.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465602/) with Clive Owen. A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman’s baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/33 "2012-10-11T13:59:42Z")
_Lesbian Vampire Killers_ is pretty descriptive. And one which somehow got nominated for the unclear titles thread - _Pulp Fiction_. It’s exactly what it says on the tin. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/34 "2012-10-11T14:13:24Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > **Attack of the 50 Foot Woman** Anything “Attack of the” is probably good for this thread. I’ll throw in [Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080391/), because the exclamation mark just adds that little bit more info. Edit: the title is even better in other languages. In Brazil, it was _O Ataque dos Tomates Assassinos_. The Germans were petrified by _Angriff der Killertomaten_. Italian even makes it sound like quite a tasty appetiser: “Yes, I’ll have the bruschetta and my wife would like the _Pomodori Assassini_”. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/35 "2012-10-11T14:54:39Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Anything “Attack of the” is probably good for this thread. I’ll throw in [Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080391/), because the exclamation mark just adds that little bit more info. > > Edit: the title is even better in other languages. In Brazil, it was _O Ataque dos Tomates Assassinos_. The Germans were petrified by _Angriff der Killertomaten_. Italian even makes it sound like quite a tasty appetiser: “Yes, I’ll have the bruschetta and my wife would like the _Pomodori Assassini_”. How well does “Puberty Love” translate? Did they dub it, or use subtitles? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/36 "2012-10-11T15:11:31Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > **The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t But Then Was**. You know, I almost posted that one, but I remembered Lisa saying, “this couldn’t have less to do with Christmas!” ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/37 "2012-10-11T15:12:00Z")
_There Will Be Blood._ It took its own time, all the way to the final scene, but it did in fact live up to the title. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/38 "2012-10-11T15:18:30Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > [Shoot em up.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465602/) with Clive Owen. > > A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman’s baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen. The fact that you had to explain the plot makes me think that you didn’t quite understand the OP. The title does not make me think of maternity. _The Englishman who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain_ is very descriptive, but I had to watch the movie to get what it was really about. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/39 "2012-10-11T15:23:30Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > The fact that you had to explain the plot makes me think that you didn’t quite understand the OP. > > The title does not make me think of maternity. > > _The Englishman who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain_ is very descriptive, but I had to watch the movie to get what it was really about. That part of the plot description is actually kinda irrelevant. The movie is, literally, an excuse for shooting in all possible ways. **Shoot 'em Up** is, in fact, a “shoot 'em up”, with few frills. Similarly, the 3D novie **Comin’ at you!** is a 3D movie that finds excusesd to, well, simply throw things at the audience. That’s its _raison d’etre_. The plot (bandits in a faux-spaghetti western) is pretty much irrelevant to the joy of having bullets, spears, vegetables, and a baby’s bottom coming out of the screen at you. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-perfectly-descriptive-titles/637344/40 "2012-10-11T15:25:31Z")
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