Movie Titles People Always Get Wrong

[Paroxysm]

I know people who think Gravy Train was called The Dion Brothers.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Really?

Yep. That one really had me scratching my head too. It took us about 10 minutes of discussion before we knew what movie he was talking about.

 

[Donnie Darko]

My dad, having never seen either film series or read the books, used to constantly refer to Lord of the Rings as Harry Potter. I remember two years in a row, when Two Towers and Return of the King came out, him saying "Do we really need another Harry Potter movie?" Eventually it became clear that he was doing it to mess with me, and it worked.

Some more:
-an old man I used to know told me he wanted to go see "Big Fat Momma," meaning Big Momma's House
-"White Girls" for White Chicks (but really, who cares?)
-when I was a really young kid, I called all things Star Wars "Jedi"
-I was going to see a movie however many months back, and some woman (probably in her 40s or so) was taking her teenage son to a matinee, and she asked for "the movie with the boy on the computer" (The Social Network)

 

[Rowsdower!]

Some others I've heard... they really are pretty easy mistakes to make, but you know, whatever...

I Am Four (I Am Number Four)

127 Days (127 Hours)

Winter Bones (Winter's Bone)

Pandora (Avatar)

that movie with the owls (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole)

...that last one was one of mine. I could never remember the name of that movie.

 

[redhawk23]

First Blood is always ALWAYS calle Rambo.

I also know a lot of people that think LotR: The Two Towers is called The Twin Towers.

 

[Ipodman]

I have a friend that thinks it's X-Man and Watchman...

 

[bullets]

First Blood is always ALWAYS called Rambo.

That's true .

How Stella Got Her Vagina Back

Always get that one mixed up.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

First Blood is always ALWAYS calle Rambo.

lol, yeah, when he was sitting with his notepad trying to think up a name for the fourth movie, after a few hours Stallone must have just went 'fug it, they are just going to call it 'Rambo' anyway.'

 

[obin_gam]

Batman (Batman The Movie)
Batman (Batman Returns)
Batman (Batman Forever)
Batman (Batman and Robin)
Batman (Batman Begins)
Batman (The Dark Knight)

 

[Catman]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Ninja Turtles)

I've always referred to them as Ninja Turtles or THE Ninja Turtles. Do we really need the "teenage mutant" part? It's like Power Rangers. Do we really need to say Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers? Isn't "Power Rangers" just enough? What about Animaniacs? Do we have to call it Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs?

First Blood is always ALWAYS called Rambo.

That's because Sly Stallone got punched in the head too many times during Rocky IV. He started out fine. The was First Blood and Rambo: First Blood, Part II. Then, suddenly, we get Rambo III. THEN we get plain ol' Rambo. WTF, right? This is the only franchise where half the titles don't make any sense. That's why it's just easier to say Rambo 1, 2, 3, and 4.

 

[HighFivingMF]

The Nightmare Before Christmas/A Nightmare Before Christmas

My old music teacher called it "Nightmare Before Elm Street"

 

[steintym]

Superman (Superman: The Movie)

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Star Wars)

The Lost World (The Lost World: Jurassic Park)

I saw both Raiders and Star Wars back when they were originally in the theaters and when they were called Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars.

To this day, I still refer to them as Raiders and Star Wars. When I talk about the movie Star Wars, I'm talking about A New Hope.

I have a feeling others from my generation that grew up when these movies were out, probably do the same.

 

[Catman]

I just call them:

Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi
Raiders, Temple, and Crusade

 

[steintym]

^ Same here when I refer to the rest.


I also agree with others, the Rambo movies (and I love them) have the most screwed up titles.

First Blood
Rambo: First Blood Part 2
Rambo 3 ?????
Rambo ?????

 

[JAK®]

Not movie related, but my mum knows somebody who says "Like a bridge over troubled water" instead of "That's water under a bridge"

 

[Tacit Ronin]

The Watchmen (Watchmen)

 

[WarBlade]

The Star Wars one irks me a little too. I just call it "Star Wars". It never needed a title update, much less one that turned the first instalment into "Episode stinking IV".

I have a new one: "Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon" is listed on my release schedule at work. Maybe I should send an email to head office with the suggested correction. t:

 

[Ipodman]

For a long time I thought it was A Nightmare on Elm's Street (because of the way it's said)

 

[Catman]

That's better than the real title.

edit:

i'm talking about WarBlades' Transformers comment.

 

[Ipodman]

Yea "Dark of the Moon" doesn't make any sense...

 

[Alchemyst]

Final Fantasy: Advent Children (Advent Children or Final Fantasy 7: The movie)
X2: X-Men United (X2 or X-Men 2)
X-Men: The Last Stand (X3 or X-Men 3)
Blade Trinity (Blade 3)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (Honey I Shrunk the kid)

 

[Drizzle]

that movie with the owls (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole)

That's actually an improvement.

One that I'm guilty of myself is saying "Rocky 6" instead of "Rocky Balboa".

 

[JeetKuneDo]

No proof, but I always assume people get Monty Python and the Holy Grail wrong.

 

[Rowsdower!]

That's because Sly Stallone got punched in the head too many times during Rocky IV. He started out fine. The was First Blood and Rambo: First Blood, Part II. Then, suddenly, we get Rambo III. THEN we get plain ol' Rambo. WTF, right? This is the only franchise where half the titles don't make any sense. That's why it's just easier to say Rambo 1, 2, 3, and 4.

You're right, but I always thought it would have been funny if the First Blood sequels had been called Second Blood, Third Blood and Fourth Blood.

But probably by the time you get to fourth blood, you've killed the guy, so maybe they could have just gotten away with calling it "Death."

 

[jacobed]

Everyone I know calls The Social Network the facebook movie.