When titles disappoint

They’re still alive today.

Right. They are living with Tupac and Elvis, I bet.

“Here You Come Again” - Dolly Parton

The title Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince made me think that the revelation of said individual would be pretty weighty and meaningful. But when it happened, it felt almost like an aside, like a bit of fun trivia. In any case, still a pretty cool movie.

I overthought the title and came up with the spurious theory that (former) King Edward and Wallis Warfield Simpson’s son (if they had one} could illegitimately called the half blood prince.

While living in the Stuart Woods apartment complex in Herndon, Virginia, I came across a paperback written by an author using the pen name of Stuart Woods. It unsurprisingly had no link to my apartment complex, and turned out to be a warning not to purchase any more books from this author.

I’ll bet they really brought in the crowds when their name was on the signs and marquees.

The movie “Zombeavers” had far less nudity than I expected from that title.

I’ve got one.

The new movie Barbie is about a doll and not Klaus Barbie.

I wasn’t disappointed with the title of the movie ‘Killing Zoe’ after I watched it, but I was perplexed, because-- spoiler for a 30 year old (jeez, really?) movie-- Zoe was very much alive at the end, and it’s not like anyone had been actively trying to kill her, despite being a bank robbery hostage for much of the movie.

I suppose you were also perplexed by John Dies at the End.

(I for one was relieved!)

It’s been awhile since I saw that, but IIRC, I was perplexed by a lot more than the mere fact of the title :grin:

When I first heard about the film Mountains of the Moon (1990) I assumed it was science fiction. By the time I got around to watching it, I knew it was about John Speke and Richard Burton and their explorations in Africa, so I wasn’t actually disappointed.

You must’ve really been shook up by The Last King of Scotland

On the Basis of Sex, a biographical legal drama film based on the life and early cases of Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

You are not the first person to make such a mistake.