Awesome. Speaking of “Oscar bait” … 
Maybe a more nuanced phrasing of the topic would be “Movies you’ve been turned off from seeing because of its stupid title”.
To refuse permanently and categorically ever to see a particular movie, no matter how interested you might be in checking it out otherwise, JUST because you find the title stupid, seems like it would require an especially… tenacious personality.
But if we’re simply talking about finding the stupidity of the title a serious disincentive to watching the movie, yeah, I bet most people have a few of those.
Nicely done. 
The joke’s on you, Goldenface. That man’s a wanted animal rapist.
Maybe not refuse, but the titles are highly discouraging:
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
I had a friend who refused to see V for Vendetta because he said it sounded like Sesame Street.
Name of the movie should have been A for Anarchy.
The premise of this thread makes no sense to me. I would never refuse to see a film that critics and audiences hailed as great due to the film’s title. But I consider myself to be a serious movie fan.
It’s true that some movies have silly sounding names, but so do some novels or plays or songs. But if the material is good, what’s in a name?
“Father Goose”
Because Being John Malkovich just sounds so awful. Even though people were telling me it was a good movie. I didn’t know who John Malkovich was or why anyone would want to be him. I’m okay with a title that tells me nothing, but one that repels me isn’t getting my $3.50
ETA: The OP invited us this way:
See, to me, that title exactly conveys the spirit of the movie. And, like you, I loved it!
Exactly this. As a former military wife, the phrase was ALWAYS Oh Dark 30. I cannot imagine why they felt they had to change something that had a long-standing history, so I refuse to watch it.
Wankers.
I remember thinking at the time that Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was an unfortunately long-winded and awkward title, especially for one based on a ride at Disneyworld. I’m glad that it didn’t keep me from seeing it, though.
To explain my earlier post, I still don’t know who Jerry Maguire is or why I should care. That’s why I thought it was a dumb title. Kinda turned me off from ever seeing the movie.
Does this aversion apply to all movies that are just a character’s name?
Krippendorf’s Tribe
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Earth Girls are Easy
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Reality Bites
Finding Forrester
Mystic Pizza
Wit
Angels in the Outfield
Gone Fishin’
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Cop and a Half
Tyler Perry’s ___________________
I have the movie S-s-s-s-s-s-s in my NetFlix cue. I want to see it, but I’d feel like a real Melvin recommending it in conversation…
(I’d love to see the marquee for a double bill of that and Roger Corman’s Gas-s-s, too!)
How about Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song?
randwill - yes - If a title is just a character’s name, and I know nothing about that character, I will probably not be interested in the movie. If I read that the film had an extraordinary cast or hear something good about the movie by chance, I might change my mind. I don’t see many movies & can’t spend extra time trying to figure out why I should care who Jerry Maguire or John Carter or Larry Crowne are.
That’s pretty dark for Sesame Street. And I watched back in the pre-Elmo 70’s era, when Grover carried a switchblade and Oscar openly sold Quaaludes to Mr. Snuffleupagus.
It’s not easy to explain, but unmemorable titles with the words Fear, Fearless, Extreme, Extreme____,Super, Super___ … not that they are guaranteed to be bad, but they are generic. Generic titles, and similarly titled movies get all mashed up together in my mind. They usually turn out to be grade C action movies with car chases and explosions.
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Oh, Vendetta, 'detta, 'detta starts with V
Hey, you know what?
“Evie” sounds like “V”
And Roman Numeral for “5” lookes like a “V”
And lots of words start with “V”, like “Villain” and “Voice” and “Vaudeville” and “Vacation”, but they’re not as good as “Vendetta”
Soooooo…
V for Vendetta
that’s good enough for me…Yeah!
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that’s good enough for me
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that’s good enough for me
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