# Worst movie titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [February 22, 2026, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889 "2026-02-22T16:50:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/101 "2026-02-23T16:32:53Z")
_Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean_ Really? We need to repeat the name at the end? And never mind that I think of the sausage brand, rather than James Dean, which is essential to the plot. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/102 "2026-02-23T16:51:47Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > I saw this at a drive-in. It was the second feature, and not the one I went there for, which was [Bug (1975)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(1975_film)), based on the novel “The Hephaestus Plage,” about a swarm of chthonic, igniferous, and intelligent(!) cockroaches. As a teen I thought these were pretty cool, but now. . . not so much. I saw it when it played on tv. Mostly because Heather Menzies was in it and I was thirteen years old. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/103 "2026-02-23T16:52:26Z")
Mt suggestion is _This Film Ia Not Yet Rated._ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/104 "2026-02-23T17:01:27Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > George Clooney has a bunch of titles that are meaningless until you see the film: _Michael Clayton, The American, The Descendants, Three Kings._ Descriptive titles aren’t always better. Consider these: _An Unethical Lawyer_ _A Criminal in Europe_ _His Wife’s in a Coma_ _Some Soldiers Steal Some Stuff_ ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/105 "2026-02-23T17:02:17Z")
[Firewal](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408345/?ref_=fn_t_1)l, a 2006 thriller starring Harrison Ford. Terrorists trying to hack into a computer to cause mayhem only to be foiled by the firewall. So why is that a bad title, you ask? Because it wasn’t actually a firewall that halted them. It was the fact that the server was physically located elsewhere and they couldn’t VPN into it for some reason. Not a firewall/security issue - a connection issue. If they could have gotten their VPN to work, presumably they could have worked their mayhem. We thought it should have been called “_The Server’s in Witchita_”. Now _that’s_ a bad movie title! ---
**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:** [February 23, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/106 "2026-02-23T17:09:07Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Generally, but [not always.](https://www.grammarly.com/blog/punctuation-capitalization/capitalization-in-titles/) > [@Miller](#): > > “Outside” is a preposition in that phrase, and you don’t **generally** capitalize prepositions in titles. Point being, it’s not an “affectation,” its a standard usage. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/107 "2026-02-23T17:16:11Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Mt suggestion is _This Film Ia Not Yet Rated._ _An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn_ ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/108 "2026-02-23T17:30:40Z")
[Not Another Not Another Movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Another_Not_Another_Movie) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/109 "2026-02-23T17:37:51Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > We thought it should have been called “_The Server’s in Witchita_”. Now _that’s_ a bad movie title! "_The Airgap Quandary"_ > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn A somewhat uneven but underrated film, although the occasional cameo by Harvey Weinstein has not aged well. ---
**Author:** ![mtnmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@mtnmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtnmatt)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/110 "2026-02-23T17:38:05Z")
**Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins** seemed a bit optimistic about the possibility of a franchise **Black Snake Moan** ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/111 "2026-02-23T17:39:57Z")
Freejack (the meaning of the title was never explained in the film) The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain (wouldn’t fit on any marquees) Leonard Part 6 (Leonards 1- 5 never existed) I Dismember Mama (the protagonist never actually dismembers his mother) Sorcerer (it’s not a fantasy and there are no magic-users in the film) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/112 "2026-02-23T17:41:16Z")
> [@mtnmatt](#): > > **Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins** seemed a bit optimistic about the possibility of a franchise There are a stupid number of these books, many of which I read in my youth. 1980s pulp fiction with lots of dubious Asian stereotypes, but I can understand why they hoped there would be more. Maybe if it hadn’t been such a terrible film (_pace_ Fred Ward)… ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/113 "2026-02-23T17:56:54Z")
If you just went by the title and didn’t know what the movies are: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad. (what does that mean? Are there guns with clothes on?) The Naked Gun 2 1/2….Huh? The Naked Gun 33 1/3. What happened to 3 to 32? Or they are great titles if you knew what the movies are. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/114 "2026-02-23T18:01:28Z")
_Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_ _Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex But Were Afraid to Ask_ ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/115 "2026-02-23T18:11:14Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain (wouldn’t fit on any marquees) I actually really liked that movie and recommend it. And the title is entirely accurate within the story. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/116 "2026-02-23T18:19:06Z")
I didn’t want to strangle Hugh Grant so I consider it a success. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/117 "2026-02-23T19:00:11Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > _John Carter_ > > Unless you’ve read Burroughs, you have no idea what the movie is about. > > George Clooney has a bunch of titles that are meaningless until you see the film: _Michael Clayton, The American, The Descendants, Three Kings._ Do people make decisions on which movies to make entirely on the titles? I don’t. I read reviews, see trailers, and read recommendations. (Granted, some movies are best seen without spoilers, so you have to be careful but still, I rarely go in blind.) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/118 "2026-02-23T19:05:03Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Do people make decisions on which movies to make entirely on the titles? Not entirely, no. But if you are in the mood for science fiction and/or fantasy, that is certainly not a name you would look at twice. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/119 "2026-02-23T19:05:12Z")
Being John Malkovitch? ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889/120 "2026-02-23T19:19:49Z")
**Women Wrestlers vs. the Aztec Mummy** strikes me as a film that probably isn’t very good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-titles/1027889.md?page=7)