The Most Poorly Titled Movies of All Time

[GhostPoet]

I remember seeing a movie when the trailer played for it. The trailer was all dramatic, and then the title is shown. The whole theater broke out into a fit of laughter. No joke.

HAH!!
Same thing happened at my theater when that trailer showed.

 

[Ipodman]

I prefer [Franchise Title] [Movie Number]: [Subtitle]
Sadly not many franchises like to follow this method

 

[El Payaso]

That's good. Supposedly the "First Avenger" thing was just because of the negative attitude a lot of people have towards Americans right now. While I can understand that, it also makes me wonder, why make a movie about Captain America, then?

You can shy away from "the American way" with Superman. You can't do that with Cap. It just doesn't make sense.

"Captain All That Stuff"?

 

[Ipodman]

I watched Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa yesterday and the title irks me.

Luckily the third movie can be called Madagascar 3D or something, and Madagascar FOREVER is always a good name for a fourth movie.

Don't get me wrong I love Magagascar!

 

[Batmania]

Sex Lives of the Potato Men

 

[Sentinel X]

Precious: Based on the novel Push by Saphire

Why can't they just call it...I don't know....Precious?

 

[That-Guy]

Because... then you might not know it was Based On The Novel By Sapphire, which I'm sure ALL of you read multiple times!


Coming soon...

Thor: Based on The Comic Book By Marvel and Partially Based on the Norse God of Thunder

Pirates of the Caribbean 4: Based on Some Stupid Ride at Disney World

The Expendables: Based on 200 Crappy Movies Starring Sylvester Stallone and the Rest of These One-Note Action Stars

Breaking Dawn: Based on a Used Roll of Charmin

 

[Mace Dolex]

Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day, I always get these two Bond movies mixed up.

 

[Fanticon]

The Postman Always Rings Twice

 

[Alchemyst]

As much as I love the movies, Rambo: First Blood Part II comes to mind.

 

[luke1234]

salt

 

[That-Guy]

Yeah, Salt is pretty lame.

Also...

Tenderness (lamest title for a suspense thriller ever... sounds like a damned Michel Bolten song)

If... Dog... Rabbit...

 

[Mace Dolex]

Kiss Of The Spiderwoman, which had nothing to do with the Marvel superhero.

 

[Drizzle]

This is a pretty bad title that I first heard about in Entertainment Weekly some time ago. It's based on a play. It's such a long winded and ridiculous title. See for yourself:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405500/

 

[Iron_Stark]

Eat Pray Love

Step Up 3-D (actually all of those crappy movies have piss poor titles)

Fighting - Is this a movie about fighting? I can't tell.

 

[Original Spawn]

3 dev adam

 

[Homer J. Fong]

I'll categorize these:

The strained attempts to be clever by inserting a number where a word should be:
-Step Up 2 the Streets
-Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
-2 Fast 2 Furious
-the upcoming 5nal Destination

The painfully generic
-Definitely, Maybe
-The Room (The movie, however, is most certainly not painfully generic.)
-Fighting
-Moon
-Rachel Getting Married

The overlong and clunky
-Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Does ANYONE call it that?)
-the upcoming Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
-The Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans (Love the movie, though.)
-Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
-The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
-X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Also another presumptuous move, adding the "X-Men Origins" brand. Doesn't look like there'll be too many more of those, does it?)
-The House That Dripped Blood on Alex, Tommy Wiseau's follow-up to The Room. This one is actually kind of great.

Special mention must be made of the following:
-I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
-the Rambo franchise - You start with First Blood, and follow that with Rambo: First Blood Part II (not Rambo II), and then it's Rambo III, and finally the fourth film is just Rambo. Some interesting choices there.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

-X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Also another presumptuous movie, adding the "X-Men Origins" brand. Doesn't look like there'll be too many more of those, does it?)

I think they had to use "X-Men" somewhere in the title, otherwise they could lose the rights to call any further movie "X-Men: *noun/adjective/verb/number*."

 

[Doctor Jones]

You Never Know What Lies Around The Corner When You Actually Look Around It

 

[Sawyer]

Because... then you might not know it was Based On The Novel By Sapphire, which I'm sure ALL of you read multiple times!


Coming soon...

Thor: Based on The Comic Book By Marvel and Partially Based on the Norse God of Thunder

Pirates of the Caribbean 4: Based on Some Stupid Ride at Disney World

The Expendables: Based on 200 Crappy Movies Starring Sylvester Stallone and the Rest of These One-Note Action Stars

Breaking Dawn: Based on a Used Roll of Charmin

Shut up, that rides amazing.

 

[ross2287]

I'll categorize these:

The strained attempts to be clever by inserting a number where a word should be:
-Step Up 2 the Streets
-Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
-2 Fast 2 Furious
-the upcoming 5nal Destination

The painfully generic
-Definitely, Maybe
-The Room (The movie, however, is most certainly not painfully generic.)
-Fighting
-Moon
-Rachel Getting Married

The overlong and clunky
-Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Does ANYONE call it that?)
-the upcoming Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
-The Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans (Love the movie, though.)
-Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
-The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
-X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Also another presumptuous move, adding the "X-Men Origins" brand. Doesn't look like there'll be too many more of those, does it?)
-The House That Dripped Blood on Alex, Tommy Wiseau's follow-up to The Room. This one is actually kind of great.

Special mention must be made of the following:
-I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
-the Rambo franchise - You start with First Blood, and follow that with Rambo: First Blood Part II (not Rambo II), and then it's Rambo III, and finally the fourth film is just Rambo. Some interesting choices there.

That's not clever, that's just plain stupid. How am I even supposed to say that? I'm saying "Fivenal" in my head which makes me thinki of Fievel which makes me think of An American Tail.

What the hell.

 

[SPider-T0rch]

The fourth Shrek movie had like 53940 titles. I heard, "Shrek Goes Forth", then "Shrek Forever After", then "Shrek: The Final Chapter". Pick one damn title!! sheesh.

 

[ross2287]

The fourth Shrek movie had like 53940 titles. I heard, "Shrek Goes Forth", then "Shrek Forever After", then "Shrek: The Final Chapter". Pick one damn title!! sheesh.

That one is kind of clever. Would that title have had anything to do with the plot? I didn't see it.

 

[Homer J. Fong]

The fourth Shrek movie had like 53940 titles. I heard, "Shrek Goes Forth", then "Shrek Forever After", then "Shrek: The Final Chapter". Pick one damn title!! sheesh.

Shrek Goes Forth was the working title before Shrek Forever After, which is the title that actually appears in the film. But the back-and-forth between that and Shrek: The Final Chapter in all the marketing was irritating.

 

[Alchemyst]

Shrek Goes Forth was the working title before Shrek Forever After, which is the title that actually appears in the film. But the back-and-forth between that and Shrek: The Final Chapter in all the marketing was irritating.

lol I didn't know that, they could have saved themselves the trouble and called it "Shrek: The Last ****in Movie"