# Stupidest Thread Ever. My Opinion on a Movie Titles. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 9, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542 "2001-08-09T03:41:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/21 "2001-08-10T06:13:12Z")
I prefer movie titles that reveal immediately in which town it’s set, such as Hell Comes to Frogtown or Chopper Chicks in Zombietown ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2001, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/22 "2001-08-10T06:32:00Z")
_Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down_, and _Mondo Trasho_ are favorites of mine. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/23 "2001-08-11T04:27:06Z")
_Eating Raoul_ _Big Trouble in Little China_ _The Hudsucker Proxy_ _An American Werewolf in London_ _Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid_ _A Fish Called Wanda_ _Cannibal: The Musical_ which leads me directly to: _South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut_, which gets bonus points for making Jack Valenti and the Motion Picture Board of America look like a bunch of knobs. ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/24 "2001-08-11T05:15:04Z")
- Silence of the Lambs\* Cool damn title. GREAT movie, at least in my opinion. - Steel Magnolias\* Loved it. Live(d) it. _Terms of Endearment_ Talk about a tear-jerker. Ok…let’s not. Ok! Two of the three are all chick flicks!!! I can’t help it! I love these movies. And yes, I love this movie title, too, only I read the book and never saw the movie: _They Only Shoot Horses, Don’t They?_ Totally cool title. Awesome book. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/25 "2001-08-11T06:16:58Z")
The title Children of…rocks, IMO. 🙂 Thought it was going to be this huge epic thing, but anyways. Also… _Ssssssssssssssssssss_ okay that’s prolly too many s’s, but better too many than too few. Imagine when it was out in theatres? “Dad, I’m gonna take the car out with my girlfriend to see a movie and then perhaps go all the way. But perhaps I’ve said too much.” “I don’t know, son, someone needs to feed your spinster aunt whom we keep locked up in the basement, and your mother and I want to go out. What movie did you have in mind?” “Sssssssssss.” [Dad, believing his son has turned into a snake creature, screams and leaps out thirty story window, leaving son free for the night] ---
**Author:** ![Rossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@Rossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rossarian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/26 "2001-08-11T06:24:18Z")
What about **Surf Nazis Must Die!** That’s a good one. 🙂 Or there’s **Manos: The Hands of Fate**. Heh, that’s a classic. ---
**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/27 "2001-08-11T07:46:55Z")
2nd vote for ‘Hell comes to frog town’ ‘The Music of Chance’, cool title, very cool movie. And, SilkyThreat, it’s ,‘They shoot horses, don’t they?’ ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/28 "2001-08-11T12:02:23Z")
“I Dismember Mama” gets my vote, hehehe… ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/29 "2001-08-11T12:26:22Z")
_Don’t be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood_ was a pretty stupid movie title. Too long also. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/30 "2001-08-11T14:43:38Z")
**You Can’t Cheat An Honest Man** **The Santa Clause** **Mr. Smith Goes To Washington** and I’ll include **Moonstruck** simply for the reason that it kept John Patrick Shanley’s original title, rather than give in to Cher’s desire to call the movie, **Moonglow**. ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/31 "2001-08-11T15:51:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by warmgun \* > \*\*And, SilkyThreat, it’s ,‘They shoot horses, don’t they?’ \*\* You are quite correct. I have no idea why I added the word “only”. Couldn’t have been the fourth glass of wine. Nah…must have been something else. ---
**Author:** ![urban1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d07c76/32.png) [@urban1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/32 "2001-08-11T16:14:45Z")
How about _ **Will Heronimous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Hump and Find True Happiness?** _, at the time, the longest movie title ever. An early x-rated pic and not a very good one. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/33 "2001-08-11T22:11:35Z")
**What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?** gets my vote for most evocative title. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/34 "2001-08-11T23:04:46Z")
I had said **A Clockwork Orange** , but I guess my post was somehow misplaced during the great hacker invasion. Ah well. ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/35 "2001-08-11T23:58:35Z")
**Attack of the Killer Tomatoes** How could anybody not want to see a movie with such a title? ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/36 "2001-08-12T00:04:16Z")
Just to point out that the last three movie titles mentioned each contain fruit. ---
**Author:** ![Opus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/858c86/32.png) [@Opus1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opus1)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/37 "2001-08-12T04:10:17Z")
Toss in my vote for the cheesy Tori Spelling TV movie _Mother May I Sleep with Danger?_. ---
**Author:** ![Chum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/38 "2001-08-12T04:50:03Z")
I really like **Dream for an Insomniac**. It’s a decent movie, too. And I’ll second **A Clockwork Orange**. ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Rubin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billy_rubin/32/3622_2.png) [@Billy\_Rubin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Rubin)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/39 "2001-08-12T04:53:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Schadenfreude \* > \*\*Just to point out that the last three movie titles mentioned each contain fruit. \*\* Isn’t a tomato a vegetable? Jus’ wunnerin’. My vote goes to “I spit on your grave” but “Manos: the hands of Fate” is also good, as is “Monolith Monsters”, a movie where giant rocks try to take over the earth. I’m really not kidding. b. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542/40 "2001-08-12T05:32:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Billy Rubin \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Schadenfreude \* > > \*\*Just to point out that the last three movie titles mentioned each contain fruit. \*\* > > Isn’t a tomato a vegetable? > > Jus’ wunnerin’. > > \*\* The tomato is a [fruit](http://www.tomato.org/about/index.html). Ever try **Fried Green Tomatoes**? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thread-ever-my-opinion-on-a-movie-titles/75542.md?page=3)