Best movie title ever?

degsie · 18-02-2021 2:24pm #1

Come across this one recently:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11505692/

Anyone else come across other 'interesting' titles?

18-02-2021 2:31pm

Back to the Future

Mr Crispy · 18-02-2021 4:35pm

"The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot" is easily my favourite from recent years. Haven't seen it, mind.

thewolfisloose · 18-02-2021 4:40pm

Google search the following:

Name of space movie made in 1992

Homelander · 18-02-2021 4:43pm

Mr Crispy wrote: »

"The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot" is easily my favourite from recent years. Haven't seen it, mind.

Actually a really good movie with Sam Elliot that's not really anything like the title suggests even though both those killings are genuinely part of the movie. It's a strange one, I expected a nonsensical schlock-fest and found a slow-burning drama, but it's a solid flick.

18-02-2021 4:43pm

Deepthroat.

Mr Crispy · 18-02-2021 4:44pm

Homelander wrote: »

Actually a really good movie with Sam Elliot that's not really anything like the title suggests even though both those killings are genuinely part of the movie. It's a strange one, I expected a nonsensical schlock-fest and found a slow-burning drama, but it's a solid flick.

Cheers. I had heard it was decent alright, and Elliot is always watchable.

18-02-2021 4:44pm

Plan 9 from Outer Space.

banie01 · 18-02-2021 4:47pm

thewolfisloose wrote: »

Google search the following:

Name of space movie made in 1992

Dafuq!

How did this piece of ephemeral knowledge come your way?

Dades · 18-02-2021 4:48pm

Aliens

Does what it says on the tin. Like Alien - but more of them.

mikhail · 18-02-2021 4:57pm

Great one-word titles are pretty hard to beat, like Jaws, Alien, The Godfather*, Parasite, etc. A few more complex that stand out to me as kind of eye-catching in one way or another:

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
Blade Runner
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Taking of Pelham 123
Joe's So Mean to Josephine

*The "The" doesn't count!

fryup · 18-02-2021 7:04pm

Octopussy

back in the pre-politically correct times, when Bond was tongue in cheek innuendo

MfMan · 18-02-2021 10:44pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Plan 9 from Outer Space.

I've long hated Braveheart for it's predictability and cliches, plus my disdain for much of Gibson's post Mad Max Hollywood work. I've always wanted to call it Plan 9 from the Outer Hebrides.

Some movie titles can carry a good deal of meaning, e.g. The Killing Fields,
some very little bearing on the context of the movie, e.g. Chinatown

CastorTroy · 18-02-2021 11:01pm

It's a short film but:
The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon

fryup · 18-02-2021 11:05pm

thewolfisloose wrote: »

Google search the following:

Name of space movie made in 1992

:eek:

and who funded that? The Trump Foundation?

Zaph · 18-02-2021 11:09pm

fryup wrote: »

:eek:

and who funded that? The Trump Foundation?

I'm not sure what's more shocking, the title or the fact that it was made as recently as 1992.

19-02-2021 5:45pm

"Rebel without a cause"

Ramasun · 19-02-2021 5:49pm

mikhail wrote: »

Great one-word titles are pretty hard to beat, like Jaws, Alien, The Godfather*, Parasite, etc. A few more complex that stand out to me as kind of eye-catching in one way or another:

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
Blade Runner
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Taking of Pelham 123
Joe's So Mean to Josephine

*The "The" doesn't count!

I was thinking of this one.

DrumSteve · 19-02-2021 7:25pm

Die Hard 2: Die Harder.

Character Building · 19-02-2021 7:27pm

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

subpar · 19-02-2021 7:31pm

Any Which Way But Loose

bladespin · 19-02-2021 7:33pm

Welcome to the boom!

Great title, rubbish movie.

FortuneChip · 19-02-2021 9:28pm

Jaws. It doesn't need more, it doesn't mess around. JAWS.

Serendipity. It's just a lovely word.
Equilibrium. Same reason.

Things We Lost In The Fire. Never saw it, but it sounds poetic.

mad m · 19-02-2021 9:33pm

Spaceballs.

Gas film. Starred John Candy

omega42 · 19-02-2021 9:36pm

return of the killer tomatoes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Killer_Tomatoes)
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Be_a_Menace_to_South_Central_While_Drinking_Your_Juice_in_the_Hood)
Spaceballs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceballs)
π (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film))

fryup · 19-02-2021 10:32pm

FortuneChip wrote: »

Jaws. It doesn't need more, it doesn't mess around. JAWS.

how about JAWS 2 ?

blackvalley · 19-02-2021 10:36pm

Snakes on a Plane.

Harry Palmr · 19-02-2021 10:37pm

Deep...breath

Dr Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

waynescales1 · 19-02-2021 10:48pm

The Tree of Wooden Clogs is a nice one if you bear in mind the film itself.

19-02-2021 10:54pm

3 billboards outside ebbing missouri

And a good movie

notdarkyet · 19-02-2021 11:00pm

Reservoir Dogs

Tony EH · 20-02-2021 3:30am

There's a whole host of Italian giallo movies that have, fascinating and lurid titles that are often the best thing about the film. Such as 'All the Colours of the Dark', 'Seven Deaths in a Cats Eye', Black Belly of the Tarantula', 'Don't Torture a Duckling', 'The House With Laughing Windows' and 'Short Night of the Glass Dolls'.

Although, probably the best Italian title I ever heard was a 70's movie called 'The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain'. Often shortened to 'A Night Full of Rain', for obvious reasons.

Dynomutt · 20-02-2021 3:58am

neutral bystander · 20-02-2021 10:36am

The Full Monty was a good title

neutral bystander · 20-02-2021 10:41am

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

neutral bystander · 20-02-2021 10:42am

Don't tell Mom the babysitters dead.

Littlehorny · 20-02-2021 10:43am

Planet of the Apes . Considering this film came out in the 60's it must have fried a few peoples heads with the concept of it.

neutral bystander · 20-02-2021 10:44am

Dog Day Afternoon

neutral bystander · 20-02-2021 11:24pm

Drop Dead Fred.

fryup · 21-02-2021 8:05pm

Dades wrote: »

Aliens

Does what it says on the tin. Like Alien - but more of them.

yes if they called it Aliens 2

people would have been thinking "ah sure there's only two of em this time"

Capt'n Midnight · 22-02-2021 1:02am

fryup wrote: »

yes if they called it Aliens 2

people would have been thinking "ah sure there's only two of em this time"

it was pitched as ALIEN$

FortuneChip · 22-02-2021 12:16pm

fryup wrote: »

how about JAWS 2 ?

Nah, that's overkill

Corvo · 22-02-2021 3:17pm

A day browsing about Movie Magic I recall seeing a video titled "Womb Raider" in the naughty section.

BorneTobyWilde · 22-02-2021 3:21pm

GhostBusters

wositelec · 23-02-2021 7:33am

Definitely "Stay Tuned " with John Ritter and Jeffrey Jones, altough it isn't popular or famous. However, there is many movies, which I like, for example "Blues Brothers" and "Blues Brothers 2000". And many, many other :-)

Quantum Erasure · 23-02-2021 7:45am

Jaws 4: The Revenge

Quantum Erasure · 23-02-2021 8:00am

The year of living dangerously

What's eating Gilbert Grape?

El Gato De Negocios · 23-02-2021 3:02pm

Some of the p0rno parody titles are pretty damn inventive.

E3 (instead of ET) : The Extra Testicle
Edward Penishands
Shaving Ryan's Privates

Ash.J.Williams · 23-02-2021 3:05pm

freddy got fingered

Zaph · 23-02-2021 3:06pm

wositelec wrote: »

Definitely "Stay Tuned " with John Ritter and Jeffrey Jones, altough it isn't popular or famous. However, there is many movies, which I like, for example "Blues Brothers" and "Blues Brothers 2000". And many, many other :-)

We don't mention the abomination that is Blues Brothers 2000 in polite company.

Ash.J.Williams · 23-02-2021 3:06pm

bladespin wrote: »

Welcome to the boom!

Great title, rubbish movie.

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