Titles that fooled you

Cafe Society
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What has had a title that lead you to think it was something different from what it turned out to be?

To begin with: I thought the video game HALO would be about HALO parachute jumping: High Altitude, Low Opening. The soldier jumps from a plane going high enough to avoid at least visual detection and drops like a sack of potatoes until pulling his ripcord at the last possible second. I thought the game would be a special forces action game like SOCOM with the added gimmick of the parachute drop to begin each mission.

Instead, it was set on a ringworld.

So, which titles (of anything) have fooled you?

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I had no interest in seeing Fight Club because I assumed it would be a really stupid macho beat-em-up movie. When I came across it on HBO, I was stunned to find that it’s a really intelligent macho beat-em-up movie.

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Almost forgot: Anyone who mentions Snakes On A Plane in this thread is entitled to a dopeslap. :wink:

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Ok, that ‘anyone’ is now you [dopeslap]Derleth[/dopeslap]

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Arr, the laws of irony be a cruel mistress.

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Yep. Worst advertising ever.

Slaughterhouse Five sounds like a bad horror movie.

The Princess Bride sounds like a “chick flick.”

Good books/movies all.

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When my Dad said that his favourite book was Slaughterhouse Five I had in my head something like The Goonies, or Stand By Me. Y’know, a group of misfit kids have some adventures and come of age one unforgettable summer. I love those stories.

Slaughterhouse Five amazed me, and Vonnegut is now one of my favourite authors ever. But it sure was disconcerting reading for a while!

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Naked Lunch.

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When I was 12 I bought a book called “Bat Boy of the Giants”. I thought it would be a boy with batwings that hung our with really big people. Instaed it was about baseball.

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I thought for sure **Good Will Hunting ** was going to be about someone tracking down prey to benefit the needy or something.

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[Nelson]I can name two things wrong with that title![/Nelson]

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Prison Break. “Gee, let’s make a show more complex and unrealistic than the idea of God, then give it the simplest title possible.”

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We recently rented Glory Road. My mother was reluctant because she thought it was a war movie, and she didn’t need more war stuff right now.

I wanted to rent it because I correctly remembered that it was the movie about Texas Western, Basketball, and racism.

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Heh, I went to the movies at random one night a few years back and the movie I picked was Woo which my brain happliy decided must be a new John Woo movie. It’s not, it’s a chick flick starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Tommy Davidson.

And I sat through the whole thing.

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I shrieked when I was told Keanu Reeves would be starring in the movie Constantine. Hey, I’m a wannabe classicist – I didn’t know it was a freakin’ comic book!

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Happiness. Well, I knew it was more quirky than that going in, but not quite that “quirky”.

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Kindergarten Cop. Don’t let the child-crayon-handwriting font in the title fool you; this ain’t no kid’s flick.

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Babe. The movie had nothing to do with babes.

As it turned out, neither did Babe 2: Pig in the City.

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When I first saw the title, I expected something about a tough-guy Vietnam veteran traveling to a parallel universe, having lots of hot sex, and sword-fighting against Cyrano de Bergerac. Boy was I disappointed.

(Actually I read some reviews, so I knew what to expect before entering the theatre.)

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In a famous case, Terry Rakolta misinterpreted “Married With Children.”