# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/62 "2003-07-25T16:16:31Z")
I want to know what happened to _Rambo II_ 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Fish42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4da419/32.png) [@Fish42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish42)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/63 "2003-07-25T16:16:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tengu \* > \*\*In light of this, it occurs that Rambo III is just a really stupid title. \*\* To be fair, the logical title of “Rambo II: First Blood, Part 3” isn’t much of an improvement. (Although “Rambo II: Electric Boogaloo” would’ve kicked ass.) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/64 "2003-07-25T16:21:10Z")
Saw another one last night on my cable guide that should be mentioned, for stupid colon use if nothing else: **Adrenalin: Fear the Rush**. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/65 "2003-07-25T17:00:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Torque \* > \*\*My addition: **Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things**. \*\* Watch it there, Hoss. You’re treading on sacred ground. I have to go with **The Yin and Yang of Mr. Go**. The only thing stupider than the title is the movie itself. ---
**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, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/66 "2003-07-25T17:08:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Torque \* > \*\*Saw another one last night on my cable guide that should be mentioned, for stupid colon use if nothing else: > > **Adrenalin: Fear the Rush**. \*\* If you really want to explore [colons…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=197054&highlight=colon) ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/67 "2003-07-25T18:00:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fish42 \* > \*\*(Although “Rambo II: Electric Boogaloo” would’ve kicked ass.) \*\* Dammit, now I’m going to be sitting here at work giggling like a schoolgirl all day. . . “Rambo II: Electric Boogaloo” heehee!. For worst movie title, it’s a tie between “Teen Wolf Too” and “The Jerk, Too”, if only for using the same stupid homophonous device (I imagine some imbicile producer giggling madly and pissing himself, muttering “Two…too…shit, that’s comedy!”). ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/68 "2003-07-25T18:14:55Z")
**snug the joiner** I too have seen “Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women”. However you should have put certain plot elements in the SPOILER BOX otherwise, you give the whole movie away by explaining who the mysterious women are, how they got to the island, etc. Now you’ve ruined it for people who wanted to watch this for the first time. LOL And other Message Board Dopers, is that the best you can do with stupid movie titles? These are probably all Troma related but how did you folks miss these? Sorority Babes In The Slime-Ball Bowl-A-Rama [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0096142](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0096142) Fatso Goes Nutzoid (originally titled Zeisters) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0092285](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0092285) Cannibal Women In The Avocado Jungle of Death [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094834](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094834) Surf Nazis Must Die [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094077](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094077) and just thinking in a non-Troma vein there’s Shoot Loud, Louder…I Don’t Understand [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0061008](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0061008) Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114660](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114660) Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085935](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085935) And Bakhesh, you thought “Seabiscuit” was a stupid title? LOL ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/69 "2003-07-25T18:15:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bakhesh \* > \*\*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 \*\* A Brit calling other peoples’ food unappetizing? Sorry. Fried green tomatoes are a classic southern dish and are actually pretty tasty even for a northerner. [Recipes](http://southernfood.about.com/library/weekly/aa071201a.htm). As for titles, how about all those Johnnys? I’ll see your **Johnny English** and raise you a **Johnny Chicano** , a **Johnny Spain** , and a **Johnny Frenchman**. Or how about **Johnny Bagpipes** **Johnny Rambo Tango** **Johnny Skidmarks** **Johnny Minotaur** **Johnny Shortwave** **Johnny Peer’s Clown Face** **Samurai Johnny Frankenstein** or that alltime silent classic **Johnny Get Your Hair Cut**. All courtesy of IMDB. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/70 "2003-07-25T18:48:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wolf\_meister \* > **Cannibal Women In The Avocado Jungle of Death** Heh. That’s actually in my rental queue at Netflix. But just because I used to know one of the Cannibal Women. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/71 "2003-07-25T19:47:06Z")
I guess “Stupid title” means something different to me, but my nomination would be **Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl** Umm, why would you add “The Curse of the Black Pearl” onto what was already a perfectly good title? “Pirates of the Caribbean” by itself is a fine title. It was utterly pointless to add that onto the title. It’s not even technically correct; the curse in the movie was a Curse of the Aztec Gold. The ship wasn’t cursed, and wasn’t the source of the curse. ---
**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, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/72 "2003-07-25T19:48:48Z")
> [@](#): > > The 3 in 3-D is the sequel number, I believe. Wasn’t the third Jaws movie Jaws 3-D? Yes, it is. The movie is also in 3-D. And I was saying that Game Over is also a sub-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, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/73 "2003-07-25T19:52:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Umm, why would you add “The Curse of the Black Pearl” onto what was already a perfectly good title? “Pirates of the Caribbean” by itself is a fine title. According to the IMDb, the title was originally just _Pirates of the Caribbean_. The sub-title was added in the hopes that a sequel would be made, and judging from how well the movie has done, that seems a possibility. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/74 "2003-07-25T19:59:01Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. > [@](#): > > 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. That was the idea, but in the end the movie got pushed back so many times that the game ended up being based on a very early script. The story was so screwed up in relation to the movie that the game takes the premise of a prequel to the movie. To complicate matters a sequel to the game was made that was based on the movie. So a rough draft gets turned into a game and then the movie is totally different and that gets turned into a game. Who says Hollywood (and the video game world) is out of ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/75 "2003-07-25T20:49:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RickJay \* > \*\*I guess “Stupid title” means something different to me, but my nomination would be > > **Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl** > > Umm, why would you add “The Curse of the Black Pearl” onto what was already a perfectly good title? “Pirates of the Caribbean” by itself is a fine title. It was utterly pointless to add that onto the title. > > It’s not even technically correct; the curse in the movie was a Curse of the Aztec Gold. The ship wasn’t cursed, and wasn’t the source of the curse. \*\* Because it’s a Curse that belongs to the Black Pearl. Like I am my father’s son, or the son of my father, it is the Black Pearl’s Curse, or Curse of the Black Pearl. ---
**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, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/76 "2003-07-25T21:02:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marley23 \* > \*\*According to the IMDb, the title was originally just _Pirates of the Caribbean_. The sub-title was added in the hopes that a sequel would be made, and judging from how well the movie has done, that seems a possibility. \*\* **Pirates of the Caribean II: Curse of the Electric Boogaloo!** ---
**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, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/77 "2003-07-25T23:23:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by towel2 \* > \*\*krush groove \*\* I’ll see your _Crush Groove_ and raise you a _Gleaming the Cube_. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-titles/190591/78 "2003-07-25T23:46:36Z")
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