Movies you refuse to see because of its stupid title

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@RealityChuck

And once you see the movie, you’d realize the title was perfect, and is one of the great titles in film.

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain is just such a movie.

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever fits the bill. Not sure if anyone mentioned it yet.

[Loach]

@Annie-Xmas

The Shawshank Redemption is one of the stupidest movie titles ever for one of the best movies ever.

Would you feel better about the original title(Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption)?

[tdn]

@Blaster_Master

This isn’t an absolute rule, since there are two obvious exceptions, but films where the title is just the name of the main character. One exception is If it’s a historical person, it’s telling me something about it by saying it’s about J Edgar Hoover or Lincoln or whoever. I still think they should put a bit of effort into it, and either give it a subtitle or give it another title and make “The so-and-so story” the subtitle.

Nixon: The Man Who was Trusted by Young People

[KneadToKnow]

My current aversion is to Travels with my Aunt, which has been sitting on my DVR for nearly a year waiting for me to give a damn.

@RealityChuck

And once you see the movie, you’d realize the title was perfect, and is one of the great titles in film.

Concur, hard.

[zamboniracer]

“Zero Dark Thirty” annoyed me because not once during the movie did they explain what the frickin title meant. Maybe it is a common military term but being a life long civilian I don’t care about common military terms. The damn military confuses even a simple thing like telling what time it is, for pete’s sake.

[bup]

@DCnDC

Silver Linings Playbook - one of the dumbest titles I’ve seen in a while.

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole - um, no.

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - they sure do.

Fun with Dick and Jane - I doubt it.

eXistenZ - seriously?

I’ve retitled these movies so you can enjoy them.

***Hawt Jennifer Lawrence

A Movie to Sleep through While Your Kids Learn Bullshit About Believing in Themselves

Dance Marathon: First Blood

Jim Carrey Gets Fired

Tron Meets The Matrix and Shit***

You’re welcome.

[GuanoLad]

A Good Day To Die Hard is a stupid title, and as the reviews are crap that compounds my initial plans of not bothering.

I also thought Quantum of Solace is a stupid title, but I saw the movie anyway. Can’t recall if they justified the title in any way, though. But that’s James Bond for you, having some of the worst titles ever.

Gangster Squad sounds like something a 9 year old would make up.

Rise of the Guardians. I am getting bored with titles with “Rise” in them, actually.

[Loach]

@zamboniracer

“Zero Dark Thirty” annoyed me because not once during the movie did they explain what the frickin title meant. Maybe it is a common military term but being a life long civilian I don’t care about common military terms. The damn military confuses even a simple thing like telling what time it is, for pete’s sake.

Its slang for “Too fucking early in the morning, can’t they wait till the sun comes up for Christ’s sake?”

[KneadToKnow]

@bup

Hawt Jennifer Lawrence

Concur, hard.

Damn, she was jiggly in that movie.

[well_he_s_back]

Hmm - just realized I never saw Jerry Maguire partly because of the lame title. and that was before I came to despise Tom Cruise’

[Procrustus]

Being John Malkovich

[MacSpon]

@GuanoLad

I also thought Quantum of Solace is a stupid title, but I saw the movie anyway. Can’t recall if they justified the title in any way, though. But that’s James Bond for you, having some of the worst titles ever.

That one’s a title from an actual Ian Fleming Bond story, and one of the few Fleming titles that hadn’t been used yet. Though the film didn’t exactly have a lot in common with the original short story.

I believe the rationale for the film title is Bond achieving a certain amount (a quantum) of solace for the death of Vesper in Casino Royale.

[VinylTurnip]

@bup

Tron Meets The Matrix and Shit

Alternate title Hawt Jennifer Jason Leigh, although it’s Cronenberg so you do have to watch her cuddling with an electric kidney and stuff.

[TonySinclair]

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

I have no idea whether “Sapphire” insisted on that title, but that’s how it looks, and it looks really bad.

Edit: oh, also that Traveling Pants of the Ya Ya Sisterhood. Jeez.

[Laggard]

Threat Level Midnight

[KneadToKnow]

@TonySinclair

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

I have no idea whether “Sapphire” insisted on that title, but that’s how it looks, and it looks really bad.

And it sounded even worse being said over and over again that night at the Oscars.

Also: previous thread

[Infovore]

It was years before I finally saw *Fight Club *because I hated the title so much. My loss, though–I loved both movie and book when I finally got around to them, and Chuck Palahniuk became one of my favorite authors.

I concur about *Precious, Etc. * No, thanks.

[TBG]

@cjepson

I have to ask – would you seriously refuse to see a film that was nominated for nine Academy Awards just because you don’t like the title?

I would seriously refuse to see a film that was nominated for nine Academy Awards because I tend to hate that sort of “oscar-bait” type of crap. If it had a silly name too? Oh yeah, avoid it double forever.

[Yookeroo]

@DCnDC

Yours?

None. People refuse to see movies because of their titles? How bizarre.

[cmkeller]

well he’s back:

Hmm - just realized I never saw Jerry Maguire partly because of the lame title. and that was before I came to despise Tom Cruise’

I don’t get it. How is the name of a person (likely a character, even more likely the main character of the movie) a stupid title?

my contribution:

To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar