Sometimes you wonder what playwrights were thinking when they titled their work. I'll start with the 1962 film (yes, from a play)
FIVE FINGER EXERCISE
Octopussy
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 28, 2018 3:12 AM |
Free Willy
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 28, 2018 3:13 AM |
Fanny by Gaslight
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 28, 2018 3:14 AM |
Play It As it Lays
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 28, 2018 3:15 AM |
QUACKSER FORTUNE HAS A COUSIN IN THE BRONX.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 28, 2018 3:16 AM |
Freddy Got Fingered
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 28, 2018 3:17 AM |
"There's a Girl in My Soup"
Sexist claptrap.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 28, 2018 3:18 AM |
The Men Who Stare At Goats
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 28, 2018 3:19 AM |
NO starring Gael Bermal Garcia
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 28, 2018 3:20 AM |
The Iceman Cometh
Comes a Horseman
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 28, 2018 3:21 AM |
Leonard Part 6
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 28, 2018 3:21 AM |
The very worst film title ever as to be “Can Heironmyus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?”
And, yes, I spelled every word exactly as the film did.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 28, 2018 3:22 AM |
A Good Day to Die Hard
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 28, 2018 3:23 AM |
Inglourious Basterds (sic)
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 28, 2018 3:24 AM |
I was just about to post that stupid title R12. I think Joan Collins late ex-husband Anthony Newley had something to do with that mess of a film.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 28, 2018 3:24 AM |
Fire Down Below
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 28, 2018 3:24 AM |
The Neverending Story
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 28, 2018 3:25 AM |
Fitzwilly
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 28, 2018 3:25 AM |
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 28, 2018 3:25 AM |
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Curse of the Queerwolf
Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title starring Richard Deacon of The Dick Van Dyke Show fame.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 28, 2018 3:26 AM |
How about a novel?
"Embrace the Serpent" by Marilyn Quayle
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 28, 2018 3:27 AM |
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL “PUSH” BY SAPPHIRE
SSSSSSS. yet another film about a monster snake, actually a snake-man
Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE
Step Into Liquid, a surf movie, if you can believe that!
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 28, 2018 3:31 AM |
The Chumscrubber
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 28, 2018 3:31 AM |
WTF were they smoking?!.. The Haunting in Connecticut 2: the Ghosts of Georgia.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 28, 2018 3:33 AM |
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
The Day After Tomorrow
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 28, 2018 3:36 AM |
R15, he wrote, directed and starred in it, and Joan Collins plays a character named Polyester Poontang in the movie.
I know it was the sixties, but there’s still no excuse.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 28, 2018 3:39 AM |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 28, 2018 3:48 AM |
The Pope Must Diet!
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 28, 2018 3:51 AM |
R12, you misspelled Heironymus.
The Hudsucker Proxy is a wretched title.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 28, 2018 4:00 AM |
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 28, 2018 4:03 AM |
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 28, 2018 4:05 AM |
"Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?'
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 28, 2018 4:06 AM |
The Man with the Smallest Penis in Existence and the Electron Microscope Technician Who Loved Him
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 28, 2018 4:08 AM |
Riding in cars with Boys
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 28, 2018 4:09 AM |
Gayn*ggers From Outerspace
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 28, 2018 4:10 AM |
The Terror of Tiny Town
Little Women
Little Men
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 28, 2018 4:10 AM |
Howards End
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 28, 2018 4:12 AM |
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 28, 2018 4:12 AM |
The Member of the Wedding
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 28, 2018 4:13 AM |
Mars Needs Women
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | July 28, 2018 4:21 AM |
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 28, 2018 4:21 AM |
Some of these titles aren’t bad - just long.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 28, 2018 4:30 AM |
Free Willy
Me and Him (about a man whose penis talks to him...)
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | July 28, 2018 4:33 AM |
I agree with r43. Long titles are not necessarily bad titles.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 28, 2018 4:33 AM |
The Black Hole.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 28, 2018 4:50 AM |
The Hudsucker Proxy is absurd and just plain stupid.
Be My Guest also known as Sing & Swing, a ridiculous 1965 UK comedy with David Hemmings and Steve Marriott later of the Small Faces and Humble Pie.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 28, 2018 4:59 AM |
The Big Red One
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 28, 2018 5:07 AM |
Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August. The actual title of the original Italian version of the Lina Wertmüller film.
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | July 28, 2018 5:16 AM |
The Lair of the White Worm
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | July 28, 2018 7:28 AM |
R29 & R48, I refused to see The Hudsucker Proxy with my friends because the title viscerally repels me. It became a matter of principle to avoid it on cable or DVD or whatever format the kids are viewing motion pictures in this day and age.
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 28, 2018 1:58 PM |
[quote][R12], you misspelled Heironymus.
So did you, r29.
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 28, 2018 2:02 PM |
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
I love a few of the titles mentioned: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 28, 2018 2:03 PM |
Heller in Pink Tights
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 28, 2018 4:00 PM |
This one did, however, co-star Emily Yancy. She played Irene Molloy in the Pearl Bailey company of "Hello, Dolly!" Her performance on the cast album of "Ribbons Down My Back" is my favorite.
For what any of that is worth.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | July 28, 2018 4:11 PM |
BLACULA is a wonderful clever title! An all black cast of Dracula was a great idea, yet I see some white women in the poster. I saw Blacula many years ago, I thought there was an all black cast.
William Marshall had a great speaking voice, think he did Shakespeare.
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | July 29, 2018 1:20 AM |