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.
I saw it when it played on tv. Mostly because Heather Menzies was in it and I was thirteen years old.
Mt suggestion is This Film Ia Not Yet Rated.
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
Firewall, 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!
Point being, it’s not an “affectation,” its a standard usage.
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
"The Airgap Quandary"
A somewhat uneven but underrated film, although the occasional cameo by Harvey Weinstein has not aged well.
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins seemed a bit optimistic about the possibility of a franchise
Black Snake Moan
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)
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)…
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.
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
I actually really liked that movie and recommend it. And the title is entirely accurate within the story.
I didn’t want to strangle Hugh Grant so I consider it a success.
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.)
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.
Being John Malkovitch?
Women Wrestlers vs. the Aztec Mummy strikes me as a film that probably isn’t very good.