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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 12:54 AM
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Most unimaginative mainstream film titles?
The first two that come to mind for me are

What's the Worst That Could Happen? and It Could Happen to You.

Probably among the most boring and unevocative titles of recent memory. Hell, I'd be surprised if you even remember the films that they're attached to.


I'll add Requiem for a Dream, which has always struck me as being a hopelessly pretentious title, not to mention that it's directed by that Pi guy. :puke:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 12:56 AM
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1. M. Night ShamafuckifIcanspellit's new one is "The Happening"
You know, to differentiate it from all of those movies where nothing happens. :shrug:
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 12:57 AM
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2. Nice!
Sounds like you and I are among the few people not entralled by his genius. I salute you!
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 01:00 AM
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4. I thought the first one was okay, not great but okay.
But he does the same thing, with the twist at the end, every time. And the twists don't even make sense, like why would aliens who can't be touched by water go to a planet full of it, or how would a preserve of rustic good-old-days people manage to keep themeselves effectively hidden in the modern era- somebody'd Google Earth that shit in twenty minutes.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 05:00 AM
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19. there's no twist in the new one n/t
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 01:49 AM
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12. He ranks just below Michael Bay on my list of people who should never be on the set of a film ever.
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cemaphonic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 04:25 AM
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18. At least Bay seems to understand that he's just a commercial blow-em-up hack artist
Night carries around that pretentious I-am-such-a-brilliant-filmmaker air.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 10:48 AM
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28. Very true. That probably makes Shyamalan worse.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 12:57 AM
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3. but it's "His first R rated film!"
worst tag line ever.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 01:01 AM
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5. no kidding, what's that about?
:wtf:
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 01:09 AM
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8. that's all that got, not a good sign.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 01:02 AM
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6. Somebody posted that it's about killer plants?
Sounds like a SciFi Channel Original Movie.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 01:10 AM
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9. some of those scifi channel original movies or hilariously bad funny.
i guess the earth gets sick of our shit so the plants fight back and release some toxin that gets all up in our house and we kill ourselves.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 01:11 AM
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10. Plants are all up in our house with disease?
:scared:
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 01:13 AM
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11. is mknight shamalamdingdongs world---yes.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:01 AM
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14. why wouldn't they just call it THE SUICIDE VIRUS?
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 01:06 AM
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7. "Firefly." Most in-need-of-a-Viagra film title ever.
That titled sucked.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 08:58 AM
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23. Which wasn't so much called "Firefly" as it was called "Serenity." My brain wasn't working
when I typed this.

It's still a bad title, though.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 01:58 AM
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13. working titles for films are almost always more interesting: for example...
UNTAMED HEART was originally called BABOON HEART because the protagonist got a baboon heart transplant as a kid and it made him fragile.

Studios seem to pick bland names so when the movie gets to video, people might rent it because they confused it with something else.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:03 AM
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15. the guy who directed SIDEWAYS & ELECTION did a comedy about abortion called...
CITIZEN RUTH.

The studio must have thought the topic was radioactive because not only did the poster and title give no clue to the content, you could watch the trailer and almost not get it either.

And it was the best movie that nobody saw.
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 11:29 AM
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32. I LOVE that movie!
My lover bought me a copy because he said that when we rented it he'd never seen me laugh so much. I do think the ending is a bit of a cop out, though.

Khash.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 07:48 PM
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35. the ending is necessary for the theme: they care more about the issue than the person
So they don't even notice when she walks away.

The only person who properly understood her and gave her free choice was Harlan, the biker guy.

The story was based on a real life case, and something similar happened with Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/01/21/mccorvey.interview/
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 07:58 AM
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38. Yeah
Harlan is the only one who comes out of that movie looking good. Everyone has an agenda and uses her. His agenda is for her to make her own choices and not be used by either side. So maybe the ending wasn't a cop out since it doesn't come down on either side.

I love the confrontation with her mother (who is in RL).

"What if I had aborted you?"
"Then I wouldn't have had to suck your boyfriend's cock!"
"Don't bring that up again, it's ancient history"
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:10 AM
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16. "A Night to Remember"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_to_Remember_(film)

I mean, come on, you make a movie about the sinking of the fucking Titanic, and the best you can come up with is "A Night to Remember"?!? What would these guys have named a movie about the nuclear annihilation of the planet: "Quite a Prickly Situation"?
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 05:01 AM
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20. it was the name of the book n/t
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 05:41 AM
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22. That doesn't really make it any better.
Lots of books that get made into movies get a name change, to make them more enticing to a mass audience. In any event, it's not a particularly exciting name for a book about that particular subject, either.
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:52 AM
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17. I Know Who Killed Me
Oh wait,

It was the SCRIPT that was unimaginative.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 05:03 AM
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21. She Hate Me
it's just irritating
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 09:05 AM
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24. Naughty Schoolgirls 7.
After six movies, they couldn't even come up with something new?

Some people just have no creativity.
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 10:27 AM
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25. Primal Fear
which was actually really good, but the title is all wrong.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 10:40 AM
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26. "If Only"
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 10:44 AM
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27. You took mine.
Edited on Mon Jun-16-08 10:44 AM by Zavulon
Requiem for a Dream was as pretentious as its title. One of the ten worst movies I've ever seen.

"Here's a handful of characters you couldn't possibly give a shit about. Now make sure to weep as their lives spin out of control."

I really wish you could sue makers of shitty films for time lost.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 10:50 AM
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29. Casual Sex?
because they added the ? onto the end because they worried about reaction from religious types.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 11:04 AM
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30. The Greatest Game Ever Played
I think it was about some US Open in the early 20th Century. Sort of a misnomer because I thought it was going to be about the 1958 NFL Championship between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants, which is often referred to as "The Greatest Game Ever Played."

Still, it doesn't sound all that imaginative.
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Carnea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 11:15 AM
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31. Here is my short list (Now with commentary)
Herbie: Fully Loaded: there is an irony that a movie about an apparently drunk Herbie starred Lohan
The Human Stain: EWWWWW
Phffft! : WTF?
Two Mules For Sister Sarah : Worst porn film evah...
The Divine Secrets of Ya Ya Sisterhood: They actually hospitalized men who saw this in the theater for estrogen poising.
Feeling Minnesota : Cold?
Freddy Got Fingered : Ironically the title is the least disgusting thing about the movie
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever: Not just is the movie awful and the title awful but Ecks and Sever are on the same side ... Dumb asses.


Oh and here is where I cribbed some of the titles http://www.mutantreviewers.com/rmovietitles.html
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:27 PM
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33. Those are all great choices. I'd only add...
Edited on Mon Jun-16-08 03:28 PM by Kutjara
...another thing that makes "Ballistic" lame: they can't even spell "X". ;)

That and the fact Antonio and Lucy look more embarrassed to be in the movie than any actors I've ever seen.
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:30 PM
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34. "Something To Talk About"
Edited on Mon Jun-16-08 03:35 PM by Drum
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114496/

Also: "He Said, She Said"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102011/
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 08:02 PM
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36. Dude, Where's My Car?
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deucemagnet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 08:14 PM
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37. Snakes on a Plane
I wonder what that movie was about?
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