Movie title confusion

[Timstuff]

Has anyone else noticed that there are a lot of movies coming out recently that have confusingly similar titles?

Up, an animated Pixar film, and Up in the Air, a live action comedy
9, an animated adventure movie, and Nine, a musical
Avatar, a science fiction movie by James cameron, and The Last Airbender, a fantasy film based on the popular cartoon "Avatar: The Last Airbender"

I think it might be particularly troublesome for Avatar, because 90% of the people I talk to know that "Avatar" is coming out when I ask them about it, but they always assume I'm talking about "The Last Airbender." When I prod them about "that movie with the blue people" I can sometimes get the gears to turn, but there's definitely confusion about which is which.

Can anyone else thing of any more examples? And do you think that cross-brand confusion amongst audiences could potentially hurt the bottom line for some movies?

 

[dark_b]

Up and 9 are good examples.

in december any Avatar confusion will end.

 

[xwolverine2]

Up and 9 are good examples.

in december any Avatar confusion will end.

not really... when The Last Airbender is in theaters Avatar would be coming out on dvd as well

 

[dark_b]

touche

 

[Laderlappen]

'A Single Man' and 'A Serious Man'

 

[xwolverine2]

every Tyler Perry movie.

 

[Laderlappen]

Also the movie Precious was originally gonna be called Push, but there was some movie with that name that came out earlier this year.

 

[Timstuff]

And it was a movie I happened to think was pretty awesome.

 

[KenK]

Also the movie Precious was originally gonna be called Push, but there was some movie with that name that came out earlier this year.

Yeah, the novel it's based on is titled Push. And I think that's why all the early promotion kept referring to it as "Push: Based on a Novel By Sapphire", until they probably just figured it'd be easier to just completely rename it.

 

[redhawk23]

Ugh explaining to people that camerons movie is not the last airbender is getting old

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

didn't james rolfe (AVGN) do a video on this?

 

[xwolverine2]

didn't james rolfe (AVGN) do a video on this?

linnkkk

 

[Timstuff]

I think his video was on chronological confusion, like "Final Destination" and "The Final Destination," or "The Fast and the Furious" and "Fast and Furious." In a way that's even dumber since one studio actually chose to cause the confusion within one franchise, even though they didn't have to.

 

[Mace Dolex]

There was a movie with Goldie Hawn in which she teaches football called Wildcats which might mislead comic readers into thinking it's the Jim Lee comic Wildcats.

 

[corby]

didn't james rolfe (AVGN) do a video on this?

linnkkk

http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?p=1456

WARNING: profanity is used

 

[Episode29]

There was a movie with Goldie Hawn in which she teaches football called Wildcats which might mislead comic readers into thinking it's the Jim Lee comic Wildcats.

Only the reeeeallly, reeeaaallly slow ones.

 

[dude stannis]

Here's hoping todays youth think Kubrick's 2001 is a prequel to Emmerich's 2012. If only so I can witness first hand the only time mass genocide will be excusable.

 

[Turtles]

The Hulk and The Incredible Hulk
Alien and Aliens
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

 

[Octoberist]

The Haunting (THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)

The House on Haunted Hill

 

[Octoberist]

The Hulk and The Incredible Hulk
Alien and Aliens
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

i don't know about these. they're either sequels or remakes but nevertheless still related, unlike '9' and 'Nine'.

 

[xwolverine2]

http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?p=1456

WARNING: profanity is used

oh lol

i thought you meant on Avatar/The Last Airbender

 

[Ipodman]

The short film from Pixar called... "Partly Cloudy" (u can find it on the UP DVD)

I think theres another animated film somewhere very recently with the same title

 

[JTStarkiller]

Ugh explaining to people that camerons movie is not the last airbender is getting old

This.

 

[Rick Random]

I think his video was on chronological confusion, like "Final Destination" and "The Final Destination," or "The Fast and the Furious" and "Fast and Furious." In a way that's even dumber since one studio actually chose to cause the confusion within one franchise, even though they didn't have to.

It's deliberate. It's made to make the audience feel that they are seeing more of the same series, like a TV show.

 

[Rick Random]

The Haunting (THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)

The House on Haunted Hill

That always gets me. And they both have awful remakes as well