"… a true story"
“… my daughter …”
“Danielle Steel’s …”
“… com/net”
"the … code/enigma/secret/whatever"
Any title containing u$eless!? punctuation. A special place in hell is reserved for "What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?"
Which did I miss?
III (or any higher number)
It used to be **Stephen King’s . . . **, but Frank Darabout has rehabilitated things somewhat.
Actually, I in a movie title may be an even worse sign.
vs.
Wedding (with a few exceptions, this screams Chick Flick)
The King and I was awesome! (Also, I really liked Startup.com, but I think that one is an exception to the trend).
Any movie title that includes the director’s cut is like a man wearing a rubber duck and a tutu.
And yes, What the &^*()! Do We Know does indeed have a special place in hell.
Daniel
Actually, any movie that starts with Author’s Name’s is guaranteed to not only suck, but have almost nothing to do with the author’s actual work, although sometimes they get some pretty production design.
Exhibit A: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Exhibit B: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
So much for Henry V, then.
but “V” isn’t a number…
Generally a colon ( : )in the middle of a title is a bad sign. Combine it with “vs.” and you get Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever.
Hah, I hadn’t read that thread, but I was aware of the general view of that film here 
It’s the only film I can remember that made me run the gamut from amused via bemused to pure bile-spitting outrage.
or Malcom X.
And awful American History X.
I guess American History 101 would be way worse than X.
It came from…
Ocean’s 11 is out? I thought it was alright. 12 and 13, however, are a different story.
Call it **Seven ** and I might be interested. Call it **Se7en ** and I’ll wonder when the studios decided to get their titles from emo MySpace users.
Revenge in the title is an ill omen:
Jaws: The Revenge
Porky’s Revenge
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Return of ______, or _____ Returns, are both red flags. That’s not a hard-and-fast rule, mind you, but far more often than not it’s a tipoff to the craptacular.
But any movie with the word Boogaloo in the title is guaranteed gold, baby, gold!
Yeah, David Fincher was a MySpace fiend back in 1995.
This is exactly what I was going to say. It’s a pretty blatant admission that the distributors don’t think the film is good enough to draw audiences on its own, so they hang a famous name on the title.
Compare:
Carrie
The Shining
The Shawshank Redemption
Stephen King’s Dreamcatcher
Stephen King’s Storm of the Century
Stephen King’s Tommyknockers