Along with “Billy The Kid vs. Dracula” and “Jesse James vs. Frankenstein’s Daughter”.
Bubba Ho-Tep
Dead Poet’s Society
As Harrison Ford said at the time, they might as well have added “…in Winter.”
They almost called it “The Naked Gun 33 1/3: Just for the Record” but decided not enough people would get the joke.
(Also, the first movie would have been called “Police Squad” if not for potential confusion with another 80s comedy film series with “Police” in the title.)
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Great movie of course, but pretty meaningless title. And any title that requires counting on your fingers to make sure you’re saying it correctly is a failure.
I used to be annoyed at the unimaginative addition of a number also, but now, decades after a series has completed, if it wasn’t numbered I have no idea of the correct viewing order.
The Fast And The Furious, Resident Evil, all the Marvel films, they’re very creative with their titling, but completely unhelpful for watching in order fifteen years after release.
And even if you figure it out, you have to decide whether to watch them by release date or chronological order.
This place definitely needs a “like” button.
True, but you can simply Google the series and get the order that way.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
When was that a movie?
1987, apparently. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (TV Movie 1987) - IMDb
When it comes to long movie titles, it’s going to be hard to beat anime movie adaptations of Japanese web novels (some of which do get picked up by publishers) where the entire concept is given in the title like some 18th century English novel. They also tend to be isekai crap, so generally not even a good movie.
A formidable 7.7 rating on the Internet Movie Database. An all-star cast including Ben Kingsley, Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, and Lucy Liu…
But the studio somehow greenlit the excruciating title
Lucky Number Slevin.
Goalie’s Anxiety at Penalty Kick
Last American Virgin (with classy tagline “see it or be it”) (“Forty Year Old Virgin” being only slightly more tolerable)
Trash Humpers
Bride / Seed of Chucky
Wermer Hertzog Eats His Shoe
Porky’s
Oh Heavenly Dog
My problem with Plan 9 is that before social media (and Seinfeld) made it famous, people always got the title wrong, and called it “Planet 9.”
At Midnight I Will take Your Soul
another flick from same Brazilian slasher hack Jose Marins - “This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse”
Why??
I think I would rather people participate in this conversation.
For unwarranted numbers, there is always Leonard Part 6