# Stupidest Movie titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591 "2003-07-24T12:30:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/42 "2003-07-25T04:06:06Z")
**Dewey** : Actually, _Ballistic: Ecks v. Sever_ was based off a video game. Which probably explains a lot about the movie. Incidentally, I’m a huge video game geek, as are all my friends, and none of us had ever heard of the game before the movie came out. I don’t know that it would have been possible to find a more obscure property to make a bad film out of. As for _Neverending Story 2_, I don’t see a problem with it. The story is never-ending, therefore it should have an infinite number of sequels. The stupid part is that there was never a _Neverending Story 3_, because without it, the story pretty much ends, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/43 "2003-07-25T05:46:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by h.sapiens \* > \*\* “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer,” which was released a year after the first movie should have been “I Know What You Did the Summer Before Last” \*\* I remember someone suggesting that if they had enough sequels, it would eventually devolve into, “Hey, you know what you did a few summers back? (taps head, nods knowingly.)” ---
**Author:** ![Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/44 "2003-07-25T05:49:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\*It should be written into law that EVERY movie that has at least one sequel should be subtitled “:Electric Boogaloo” \*\* Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life: _Electric Boogaloo._ If the Lara Croft movie had any more colons, they might as well just send a telegram. LARA CROFT STOP TOMB RAIDER STOP CRADLE OF LIFE STOP ---
**Author:** ![IcicleFuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ba8739/32.png) [@IcicleFuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IcicleFuzz)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/45 "2003-07-25T05:50:31Z")
I once watched an old horror movie called **The Man Who Changed His Mind**. About as terrifying as it sounds. One movie which crops up occaisionally on a TV station here which is notorious for screening soft porn is **Nude For Satan**. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/46 "2003-07-25T05:59:09Z")
**Rambo II: First Blood** So what was that red stuff in **Rambo**? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_the\_CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_the\_CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_the_CC)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/47 "2003-07-25T06:02:21Z")
Goats. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/48 "2003-07-25T06:07:44Z")
On the new release shelf: **Flossin** I have no effing idea what this movie is supposed to be about (it appears to be of the ghetto-happy benjamins-makin’ big-pimpin’ ilk), but the title has to be the _stupidest_ one I’ve ever seen. Is this some sort of slang I was unaware of? It makes me think of trips to the dentist’s chair, a place that isn’t cool and that I would not like to be at for 90 minutes. (thinks: Maybe that’s why I never finished **Novocaine** …) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/49 "2003-07-25T06:08:54Z")
> [@](#): > > If the Lara Croft movie had any more colons, they might as well just send a telegram. LARA CROFT STOP TOMB RAIDER STOP CRADLE OF LIFE STOP LOL. I’ve had similar thoughts about the new Spy Kids movie. _Spy Kids: 3-D: Game Over_. If you’re making a sequel, either give the a movie a number or giving it a fucking sub-title. Movies titles this summer (since they’re all sequels) are turning into fucking essays. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/50 "2003-07-25T06:21:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*As for _Neverending Story 2_, I don’t see a problem with it. The story is never-ending, therefore it should have an infinite number of sequels. The stupid part is that there was never a _Neverending Story 3_, because without it, the story pretty much ends, doesn’t it? \*\* There was, in fact a Neverending Story III. And, apparently, two different TV series. And, Andrew T, that series goes: First Blood (1982) Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) Rambo III (1988) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/51 "2003-07-25T06:22:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tengu \* > \*\*First Blood (1982) > Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) > Rambo III (1988) \*\* In light of this, it occurs that Rambo III is just a really stupid title. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/52 "2003-07-25T06:25:34Z")
> [@](#): > > First Blood (1982) > Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) That’s a lot of (first) blood, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/53 "2003-07-25T07:54:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > Actually, _Ballistic: Ecks v. Sever_ was based off a video game. Which probably explains a lot about the movie. Incidentally, I’m a huge video game geek, as are all my friends, and none of us had ever heard of the game before the movie came out. I thought the idea was to have the game and the movie released simultaneously. Still, the lack of pre-release hype for the game was a major screwup. ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/54 "2003-07-25T09:56:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday \* > \*\ ***Bakhesh** , I probably came off snarky when I didn’t mean too. Your example of a stupid title just seemed funny to me. Like **CalMeacham** , I’m old enough to remember when references to Seabiscuit were still common in popular culture on this side of the Atlantic, and there was recently a popular book of the same name on which the movie is based. Maybe no title is really stupid if you just know where people are coming from. \*\* No offense taken Rube. Like I say I was completely oblivous to the horse. Why are horses given such stupid names? I long for a race horse called Geoff. One more I want to add. Fried Green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe. It may just be the unappetising concept of eating green tomatoes ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/55 "2003-07-25T11:25:52Z")
Of course _Die, Darkman, Die_ is just the German-dubbed version of the classic _The, Darkman, The_. ---
**Author:** ![refusal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@refusal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/refusal)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/56 "2003-07-25T12:16:42Z")
I’d nominate the American dance movie **Shag** , or rather whoever chose to release it in Britain without changing the title. Hopefully, post-Austin Powers, the mistake would not be repeated. Others which seem really dumb titles are: **China 9 Liberty 37** (apparently a western); **They Call Me MISTER Tibbs** (another stupidly-titled sequel); **99 and 44/100% Dead** (which I’m told meant something at the time); and anything like **The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck** , which is the sort of title that makes you lose the will to live before you’ve even seen the movie. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/57 "2003-07-25T12:18:02Z")
I nominate _The, Darkman, The_ as the new worst title ever. ---
**Author:** ![towel2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@towel2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/towel2)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/58 "2003-07-25T14:29:58Z")
krush groove ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/59 "2003-07-25T14:36:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\*It should be written into law that EVERY movie that has at least one sequel should be subtitled “:Electric Boogaloo” \*\* **Return of a Man Called Horse: Electric Boogaloo!** 😃 **Fellini’s Satyricon II: Electric Boogaloo!** This has possiblities! ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/60 "2003-07-25T14:50:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by refusal \* > …\*\ ***99 and 44/100% Dead** (which I’m told meant something at the time)\*\*… “99 and 44/100% pure” was an advertising slogan for soap, which of course raised the questions (a) pure what? and (b) so what’s the other 56/100%? > [@](#): > > _Bakhesh_ > … **Why are horses given such stupid names? I long for a race horse called Geoff.** … Racehorses’ names sometimes reflect their parentage. Seabiscuit’s sire was Hard Tack. Both names refer to sailors’ rations. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/61 "2003-07-25T15:57:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marley23 \* > \*\*LOL. I’ve had similar thoughts about the new Spy Kids movie. _Spy Kids: 3-D: Game Over_. If you’re making a sequel, either give the a movie a number or giving it a fucking sub-title. Movies titles this summer (since they’re all sequels) are turning into fucking essays. \*\* The 3 in 3-D is the sequel number, I believe. Wasn’t the third _Jaws_ movie _Jaws 3-D_? And **TWDuke** , obviously, the other 56/100th of Ivory Soap is soap. The 99 and 44/100% purity must be air. That’s what makes it float. I guess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591.md?page=4)