# Worst movie title? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180 "2007-11-20T14:36:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/61 "2007-11-20T20:09:55Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] Lately I’ve been laughing at the title of **P2** , which is named for the parking garage in which it’s set. It’s funny because: … b) it’s the same name as a famous banking/Vatican scandal, which would probably be a much more interesting movie [/QUOTE] When I first heard of it I actually thought "Cool! The only movie to really address these Illuminati-esque guys was _Godfather 3_ (and I don’t think they ever used the name). When _Tears of the Sun_ was advertised I thought it was interesting because in some mythologies gold is the tears of the sun (to the Incas it was the sweat of the sun while silver was the tears of the moon) and I thought it was a treasure hunt movie, but no such luck. I won’t say worst, but among my least favorite names for movies are **Eat Drink Man Woman** **The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford** (which was actually a great movie, the title was just too 'novel-'ish) A play that became a movie: **The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of The Marquis de Sade** , bka _Marat/Sade_ for obvious reasons **I Could Never Have Sex with Any Man Who Has So Little Regard for My Husband** I think they went with just _Frankenstein_ in the end, but for a while the 1994 take was touted as _Francis Ford Coppola & Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein_ ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/62 "2007-11-20T20:11:53Z")
**[To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0114682/)** – not only is the title way too long to fit on a marquee, it conjures up the image of people passing pithy post-its back and forth for 2 hours. It’s the kind of title that’s so pretentious, not even Leonard Maltin would watch it. I don’t even know what the movie’s about, and I never want to find out! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/63 "2007-11-20T20:12:51Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] Ugh. Still, the title isn’t quite as bad as the movie itself, and it does give you a very accurate impression of the pretentious, irredeemably horrible piece of trash a viewer will be confronted with if he ever sits down to watch this disaster. Worst movie I’ve ever seen. [/QUOTE] I saw bits and pieces of this one (_Hieronymous_ etc.) on cable one night and stopped watching when star/writer/director Anthony Newley had a nude scene, something I never wanted to see. It takes a special kind of egomaniac to think the audience wants to see _him_ naked when he’s co-starring with his wife, a young Joan Collins. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/64 "2007-11-20T20:19:26Z")
Posts #61 and 62 are repeating things from the first page of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/65 "2007-11-20T20:53:13Z")
[Single White Female](http://imdb.com/title/tt0105414/). I saw the trailer for this film when it originally came out. The movie seemed like a passable stalker-thriller, but once the title flashed up on screen the entire theater audience burst out laughing. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/66 "2007-11-20T20:57:27Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] The other day I saw an article on this on [msn.com](http://msn.com) which I can’t find now which was pretty generic, but rightly chose **Mr. Magoriums Wonder Emporium** as worst ever- I assume they excluded grade-Z films with purposefully moronic titles. [/QUOTE] When I first heard the title, my reaction was, “Wow, how fortunate he is that his name rhymes so well with his chosen business. Just imagine how boring the movie would be if his name was Mr. Snafeteria, or Mr. Kepartmentstore.” ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/67 "2007-11-20T21:10:07Z")
There is a German movie called _Funny Games_ (which I rather liked) that … is not at all what its title suggests. ---
**Author:** ![Elret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Elret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elret)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/68 "2007-11-20T21:15:13Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] [Single White Female](http://imdb.com/title/tt0105414/). I saw the trailer for this film when it originally came out. The movie seemed like a passable stalker-thriller, but once the title flashed up on screen the entire theater audience burst out laughing. [/QUOTE] I’m so slow… I don’t get this one either. What’s so funny? ---
**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:** [November 20, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/69 "2007-11-20T21:19:32Z")
By all rights, _The Squid and the Whale_ should have been a crossover between _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_ and _Moby Dick_. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/70 "2007-11-20T21:23:01Z")
_Naked Lunch_. [Bart] I can think of two things wrong with that title. [/Bart] ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/71 "2007-11-20T21:24:39Z")
Never much cared for _Good Will Hunting_ ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/72 "2007-11-20T21:32:38Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus] Never much cared for _Good Will Hunting_ [/QUOTE] Agree 100%, it is the height of stupidity when a movie gives a character a stupid name so it can use that stupid name as part of a stupid title- another example, a movie called \*\*Have Plenty \*\* which stars a character whose last name is “Plenty” solely for the sake of the “clever” (read: stupid) pun. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/73 "2007-11-20T21:35:44Z")
[QUOTE=Elret] I’m so slow… I don’t get this one either. What’s so funny? [/QUOTE] There’s no real catch to it, I guess it was a “you had to be there” moment, but seeing the words slashed onto the screen in ultra-high 80s melodramatic fashion. Also, bear in mind that this is supposed to be a thriller/horror movie…Do the words “Single White Female” strike fear in your heart? ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/74 "2007-11-20T21:41:55Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the Inmates of Clarendon under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade\*\* (Invariably shortened to **Marat/Sade** ) [/QUOTE] Just a nitpick, the title is really _The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the Inmates **of the Asylum of Charenton** under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade_, which makes more sense. Charenton being an insane asylum in the suburbs of Paris. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/75 "2007-11-20T21:48:19Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] Do the words “Single White Female” strike fear in your heart? [/QUOTE] Damn straight they do, and they would strike fear into yours if you’d known my first girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/76 "2007-11-20T21:49:51Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Agree 100%, it is the height of stupidity when a movie gives a character a stupid name so it can use that stupid name as part of a stupid title- another example, a movie called \*\*Have Plenty \*\* which stars a character whose last name is “Plenty” solely for the sake of the “clever” (read: stupid) pun. [/QUOTE] This happens with TV shows even more often than movies, for example: Crossing Jordan Tru Calling House, M.D. Grey’s Anatomy …and it sucks. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/77 "2007-11-20T21:50:56Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] **The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford** (which was actually a great movie, the title was just too 'novel-'ish) [/QUOTE] The whole is less than either of its parts. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/78 "2007-11-20T21:53:08Z")
[QUOTE=I’m No Saint] **Manos, Hand of Fate** [/QUOTE] This is the title of the worst movie, which is not necessarily the movie title that is the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/79 "2007-11-20T22:00:24Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] This happens with TV shows even more often than movies, for example: Crossing Jordan Tru Calling House, M.D. Grey’s Anatomy …and it sucks. [/hijack] [/QUOTE] [continue hijack] see also **Poetic Justice** , and **Jason’s Lyric** ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180/80 "2007-11-20T22:17:04Z")
[QUOTE=Terminus Est] This is the title of the worst movie, which is not necessarily the movie title that is the worst. [/QUOTE] To be really pedantic, the movie and poster give the title as “Manos” The Hands of Fate. So it looks like there’s a punctuation error (or at least a bewildering use of punctuation) in the title. That might merit a nomination in this thread even if the movie wasn’t so bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-title/427180.md?page=5)