Worst movie title?

:smiley: I would love to see them try, though.

ETA: It just occurred to me that you only need to move one letter to get a film title appropriate for another genre, Prick Up Your Arse.

No, it really wasn’t a decent movie by any stretch of the imagination. I wish I’d been saved from it by the bad title. The sands of time did right to cover up this one.

No, the plan for nine movies came after the original Star Wars became a phenomenon of Western civilization. It wasn’t even designated as “Episode 4” until long after its release.

BTW, I’m not a big fan of Eps. 1 to 3, but “Attack of the Clones” is supposed to be a silly title reminiscent of the silly, but highly entertaining, serial adventure films of the Good Old Days ™.

Fair enough. I only heard one recommendation, and nothing specifically bad about it that I can recall.

Re: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Not true. It’s a gorgeous movie to look at. I saw it for the first time in German; couldn’t understand a word and it was great.

The only real problem is the way Gwyneth Paltrow decided to play her role. It cried out for a fast-talking, His Girl Friday type of performance, but Paltrow decided to be all pensive and fragile. (At least, I assume it was deliberate on her part, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen her play a really confident role.) Strange, too, because her mother could have nailed that part.

No cite, but I once read that that is no coincidence. The wording of the title was deliberately chosen to sound rather like, “Prick up your arse”.

The Wikipedia article on the film says much the same.

I’ve been lurking for ages and this is the thread that finally made me sign up to post.

3 favorites…

  1. “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood” Ugh. :mad:

  2. “Playing By Heart”. The title itself isn’t horrible, it’s merely so boring as to be totally forgettable. But what puts this on my list is that the title was originally going to be “Dancing About Architecture.” What? The producers appear to have realized just in time what a staggeringly incomprehensible title they were about to thrust upon the world. Can you imagine the arguments? “Hey honey, do you wanna see the new Angelina Jolie movie about line-dancing?” “Yuck. Why don’t we go see that new Sean Connery film about the construction business instead?”

  3. This Is Spinal Tap. How many millions of dollars have been lost in rental fees when legions of stoned college kids went to Blockbuster only to give up and get something else after ten minutes of scouring the S section? “Dang it, Spinal Tap must’ve been rented out again. How come it’s never here?” :smack:

Just go see the (superior) original, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, instead.

Not sure about the worst ever, but here are a few guaranteed not to have you racing to the box office:

serious:
Turtle Diary
The Belly of an Architect
Two Mules For Sister Sarah

silly:
Eegah
Rat Pfink A Boo Boo
Cannibal Women In The Avocado Jungle of Death
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter (presumably a prequel to the aforementioned, richly deserved, assassination)

Reminds me: when I was a lad we drove by a theater and the marquee read “This Building Is Condemned”. I had no idea it was a movie title (early Robert Redford, I think).
Anyhew. I guess my own nomination would be: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

I’ve got a couple:

Gleaming the cube - there was no gleaming, there was no cube.

Every which way but loose - bears no relation to anything in the film.

I’ve never seen The Abyss, in large part because I can’t help mentally adding *-mal *to the title.

And that reminds me – there was a drive-in out in the middle of nowhere, and people often mistakenly turned off the highway at the road before the one they were supposed to turn at. They put up a sign at that intersection, advertising the current film and advising people not to turn yet.

A friend who wasn’t familiar with the setup was taken aback the day we drove by and the sign read “VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED – DON’T TURN HERE!”

Actually, the problem with the movie was that it was written, directed and produced by a software engineer, rather than by actual filmmakers. That’s why it came across not as an bona fide movie but rather as a two-hour cutscene - and not a particularly good cutscene, either.

Not likely, but it IS by the same guy who gave us Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula.

No joke.

::hijack::
Actually, the first time I saw it, I felt the same way. Something compelled me to watch it again, and I discovered something interesting–it really is a comedy!
A very dark one, but a comedy nonetheless. I’ve since seen it at least 10 times, and it’s easily on my 10 best list.

(! really came in to mention Hieronymous Merkin but was beaten to it. :mad: )

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I mean WTF?

Se7en. Yikes. Seven would be acceptable, but a 7 instead of a v is neither big nor clever. Somewhere, someone is trying to sell a script for Ei8ht.

Numb3rs would be an honorable mention if only it were a movie.

All of the Star Wars films have bad titles. It’s only because we’re accustomed to them that some don’t sound so bad anymore.

I remember, back in 1979, when we learned that the sequel to “Star Wars” wasn’t going to be called “Star Wars 2” (which is what everyone expected), but “The Empire Strikes Back.” I vividly recall lots of groaning and eye-rolling from friends when they heard this. This title seemed impossibly dumb to us, and suggested that the next film would be embarrassing and childish.

Don’t forget the drive-in movie version of that title: Closed for Winter (sometimes known as Closed for the Season).

I was just in a movie theatre yesterday and noticed a marquee for an upcoming movie called The Bucket List.

Man, that is a bad, bad title.

I hate punny titles. Example: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank