The title is a pun in Spanish. The word “colera” in Spanish means the disease, cholera, as well as “rage.” So it’s love during a cholera epidemic as well as love during tumultuous times in history.
As far as bad movie titles go, can we submit TV movies? Because my favorite bad movie title belongs to the Lifetime movie “Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?”
If not, I vote for “Freddy Got Fingered”
I always hate when they make a sequel to a movie and they just add onto the original movie’s title. **I Know What You Did Last Summer ** the sequals are;
**I Still Know What You Did Last Summer ** & I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer.
Snakes on a plane is a good title, straight to the point no thinking required. I cant wait for the sequel with a worse name.
Anyone seen Snakes on a Train?
When ever i hear Schindler’s List I’m reminded of the Ricky Gervais joke;
I hear American History X was a good movie. I didn’t bother seeing it, though, since I’d never seen the first nine.*
(*Joke shamelessly stolen from… can’t remember where.)
Of course, they didn’t invent the “A New Hope” title until some time later.
“Star Wars Episode II: The Attack of the Clones” is surely the worst title ever, isn’t it? It’s even worse than “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever.” It’s too long, and sound retarded.
I also never understood why the original movie was called “Pirates of the Carribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.” There’s no need for the addendum, because it was the first movie. Just “Pirates of the Caribbean” would have been fine, with additional titles for the sequels.
No, but now I want to.
Inside Monkey Zetterland- a way too self important art house film written/directed/produced by/starring Steve Antin. Only redeeming part was Katherine Helmond as his mother.
I remember paying cash money to see Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? in a movie theater because it featured nudity in a non-porn movie, which was fairly rare at the time.
It was awful. Batman would not have been prepared for this.
Nonetheless, it won an award.
A WRITING award, from the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain in 1970.
Perhaps the awards committee couldn’t understand it either, and thought that made it so avant garde it was cool. Believe me, it wasn’t.
The only outstanding thing was Milton Berle as The Devil, aka Goodtime Eddie Filth
In fact, the character names may have been enough for the writer’s guild.
Joan Collins is Polyester Poontang.
Other characters are named:
Mercy Humppe (of Course)
Filigree Fondle
Trampolena Whambang
Maidenhead Fern
Miss Hope Climax
Rivals only Skidoo! in overwrought inanity starring a bunch of big stars who should have known better.
I particularly dislike Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever because it sounds like it’s almost a pun.
I keep thinking it’s a joke that I’m just not getting: “Hmmm. Could it be ‘X versus Ever’? Or some variation on ‘Sex’ and ‘Ever’? Be funny, dammit!”
Back in the 80’s, one of the first breakout indie features was a black comedy called Eating Raoul. Funny film, but the morons made the Big Twist the title! Can you see a movie marketing meeting and some pinhead pipes up, "I know, instead of The Crying Game, let’s call it She’s Got a Penis!
Has anyone mentioned Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever yet?
Ah, but that’s the genius that would’ve been missed out on.
Having just “Pirates of the Caribbean” implies a one-off, and then the sequels sound like sequels. having all three fit the same format makes it sound like an ongoing series, the first anticipating its continuation. There was a decision made to change the title partway through production to its extended chapter-like form once they saw what a great movie they had emerging.
Also, it’s so much more intriguing a title when it implies such classic swashbuckling adventure as cursed pirates. For those unfamiliar with the ride (and outside of the US there are many such people) it added the right amount of detail to make the movie worth paying attention to.
Sorry to ruin the thread, guys, but the winner is Monsturd.
Although a close runner-up is Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. The title itself made me completely uninterested in what was apparently a decent movie that has since been covered up by the sands of time.
Well, I know what I’m doing with my camera over winter break.
I, for one, loved the fact that such a surreal movie had such a clear and simplistic title.
It’s actually a pretty fitting title, in the context of the movie. It sounds dumb. But American History X is an unofficial high school history class about why it’s a bad idea to be a Nazi in LA.
I have an authoritative answer from Movie Facts and Feats (1980), by Patrick Robertson, page 182:
You sure about that? Cause didn’t George Lucus write 9 star wars movies? And after being rejected from a heap of movie studios only finally picked him up and said they would do 3 so he did 4,5 & 6.
I could be wrong with this, but its what I have been lead to beleav for many years.
If thats what its called then i would see the movie. but with a title like the crying games it just sound like to much of a chick flick.
Let us not forget that annual double feature at all the drive-in theaters in Michigan (at one time anyway):
Closed For The Winter -and-
See You In The Spring
Oh I see. I sort of thought that was the point, that something so innocuous and every day turned out so horribly wrong but I see what you’re saying.
Oh, right, I think they mentioned that when it first came on. 
Truly inapposite, however. Holmes was a gentleman.
Not to mention that characters in the Sherlock Holmes stories were actually, you know, characters–interesting fictional people with personalities that consisted of more than their squabbles or sexual tension with the main character.
Another vote for Prick Up Your Ears, if only for the awkwardness it posed to marquee title-changers everywhere. There was no polite way to abbreviate it if your sign was too short.