Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
Mr. Mom
Debbie Does Dallas
TimeCop!
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.
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, yup, that’s the plot.
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
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.
The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t But Then Was.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
Shoot em up. 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.
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.
Anything “Attack of the” is probably good for this thread. I’ll throw in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!, 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?
You know, I almost posted that one, but I remembered Lisa saying, “this couldn’t have less to do with Christmas!”
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.
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.
Parenthood