Worst Movie Titles Ever

Lonely Are the Brave

We Bought A Zoo

Boom!

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

X, Y, and Zee

We bought a zoo is the worst, most infantile movie title. I think Death becomes her is a great title...though I'm wondering if it possibly gives the plot away just a bit.

Prints of Tides

[quote]Death Becomes Her

That is an excellent play on words based on what actually happens in the movie.

You're a wacko.

Scent of a Woman

Freddy Got Fingered

Stop! Ot My Mom Will Shoot

Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead

Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Earth Girls Are Easy

MY Stepmother Is An Alien

The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants

R7 I think "Rich Zombie Bitches" would have been a better title.

Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever

Die Another Day

Quantum of Solace

No Time to Die

Tomorrow Never Dies

Octopussy

Never Say Never Again

A View to a Kill

Goldeneye

Hasn't aged well.

Dude, Where's My Car?

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

The Hollywood Reporter has a list of the worst titles ever (see link).

All is Lost, or that Robert Redford movie.

Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo is on that list.

I think that’s an instant classic.

Also: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar

THR has no taste.

"Death Becomes Her" is one of the all-time great movie titles.

The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. Doesn’t flow easily.

The Astronaut's Wife

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. It was a good movie, but that was a terrible title.

Nope is the most stupid title ever

Holes sounds like porn

The Cook, the Wife, the ...etc.

And the movie was hilarious

Captain Phillips

Saving Mr. Banks

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Sully

A Man Called Otto

Blacula

Or is it Blackula

R23 when my brother was 12 he rented The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover because he assumed (idk why) that her lover was a woman and there’d be lesbian sex in it. He was very disappointed when the lover was a guy and that we saw so much dick.

I want disappointed, it was the first penis I’d seen in a movie.

It was a weird movie, though.

“Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean,” but to be fair, it’s straight from the play it’s based on. At least half of these bad titles come from the original novels and plays.

Earth Girls Are Easy

Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?

Billy the Kid versus Dracula

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Earth Girls Are Easy was a fantastic camp classic with a perfect title.

“Trog”.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!

Daddy’s Dyin: Who’s Got the Will?

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Not Without My Daughter

Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

Confessions of a Teenage Dramaqueen

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (I wasn’t expecting the ending to this one)

Passion Fish.

Gold Diggers- The Secret of Bear Mountain.

Sadly, it wasn’t about what I thought it would be about.

La La Land

$. With goldie Hawn and warren beatty Gas-s-s-s. A roger corman pic

Sorcerer

Nuts

That one yes, r44. In my French class we read it as La Dynamite.

"Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain" is an awful title

Dawson's 50-Load Weekend.

For a moment I thought this said "Worst Movie Titties Ever" and I was wondering why we would care ...

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

The Last Mimzy

Bird on a Wire

Monkeybone

Repo! The Genetic Opera

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea

R34, I remember a snarky reviewer calling it "The Unbearable Longness of Watching".

Mars Need Moms

The Human Stain.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Love Actually

The Postman Always Rings Twice

As R27 noted, many listed are names from books. Titles are rarely changed for a movie version of a book. Or is that the joke?

The Man With Two Heads

Glengarry Glen Ross

Whether for the novel or the film, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" is such an intriguing title.

I think The Postman Always Rings Twice is a great title

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

I Dismember Mama

I Spit on Your Grave

Rat Pfink a Boo Boo

I kind of love "I Dismember Mama"

“The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.”

Yes, i know it was supposed to be a ridiculously bad title.

Oh for fuck's sake, for the umpteenth time....Smilla's Sense of Snow

“ Bram Stoker's Dracula”

No he’s not, retard, he’s Bram Stoker.

How soon they forget.

C.H.O.M.P.S

C.H.U.D.

Yeah but at least it's fun. Attack of the Mushroom People was boring and had nothing to do with Bonnie Franklin's haircut.

[quote] Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. It was a good movie, but that was a terrible title.

That was the title of the original book, but they shortened it to “Fried Green Tomatoes” for the film

I have to say the most disappointing title was "The Member of the Wedding."

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad

‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ is bad, but

‘I Still Know What You Did Last Summer’ is atrocious

Throw Mama From the Train

The Wizard of Gore

Scenes from a Mall

To be fair, Mama from the Train 🚂 was first one of the worst hit song titles. Thank you, Patti Page.

[quote] ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ is bad, but ‘I Still Know What You Did Last Summer’ is atrocious

And then there was the second sequel, "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer."

They are currently making an untitled third sequel. They should call it, "For a While I Forgot What You Did Last Summer, But Then It Came Back to Me."

Lorenzo's Oil

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

The Black Hole

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Now, Voyager

The Gay Divorcee

Barb Wire

Classic films that are so good that the dumb titles no longer sound dumb:

All That Jazz

Apocalypse Now

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Destroy All Monsters!

In the Cut

Death to Smoochy

I Heart Huckabee's.

Count me as another who loves DEATH BECOMES HER.

It's basically saying she looks good dead.

Like when you tell someone, "That dress becomes you."

Gigli

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

Die! Die! My Darling!

The Last Airbender

There Will Be Blood.

Sounds like a slogan ripped from a Tampax commercial except with plenty of exclamation points and dancing human tampons. Rejoice in the cleanse!

Now I'm having flashbacks of the Michigan Womyn's Festival. I miss those threads.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Ssssss. Yes, it concerned a snake, but still.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

The Pirate Movie

The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training

Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park

Her Smell.

"The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl" (2005)

Directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring Taylor Lautner

Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes.

Titles in which the protagonist gives away the movie’s premise, for instance:

So I Married an Axe Murderer

My Stepmother is an Alien

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

The Splendiferous Zeppelin Escapades of Filliam h. Muffman

Black Devil Doll from Hell

Nightbitch. That's the new Amy Adams movie. Seriously.

Baby Driver

I love ‘Love actually’, actually.

MOM AND DAD SAVE THE WORLD (1992)

Starring Teri Garr, Jeffrey Jones, Jon Lovitz, Wallace Shawn, Eric Idle, etc.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

R100 wins the thread. Every time "Her Smell" comes up as a suggested watch with that title and that picture of Scientology girl sticking her tongue out, I immediately smell hot garbage and taste salty garbage. Still haven't seen it and wont.

R110, don't speak about things you don't understand. Leave Buckaroo alone.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

A needlessly long title for a needlessly long film.

R106, I just saw an ad for that and thought of this thread

From Hell it Came

The Thing That Couldn't Die

The Shawshank Redemption

GEEK ALERT @ R112

A Clockwork Orange.

Pretty much anything with “American” as the adjective.

American Hustle American Gangster American Reunion American Sniper

I’ll give a pass to “Graffiti” and “Psycho.”

R118 The author of the novel described a clockwork orange as a person who "has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.” I don’t recall that line being in the movie, so I get why the title sounds meaningless.

Honey 🍯, I Shrunk The Kids!

Tammy

How to Make an American Quilt

Eat a Bowl of Tea

R119 what are you, prejudiced or something?

r119, agree about the "American" thing. It's so unoriginal

Finding Forrester

[quote]Honey 🍯, I Shrunk The Kids!

The film's title is an example of incorrect English grammar.

The word should be "shrank" since it's using past tense.

"Shrunk" is the past tense participle version which would require, "Honey I Have Shrunk the Kids!"

may the goddess forgive me, as this is a sacrilege beyond sacrilege, but:

I like the movie, but The Chumscrubber is a bad name.

Zero Dark Thirty

Tuck Everlasting

Milk.

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Bros.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The Bye Bye Man. Such a stupid name.

R119. What about “Beauty”?

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia

The Rural Juror

Cancelled

Licorice Pizza. I haaate that title. It annoys me so much.

Life as a House

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

Mother, Jugs & Speed

With Six You Get Eggroll

The unbearable Lightness of Being.

Because Mommy Works

What Dreams May Come

Wretched:

Co-ed Call Girl

R60 Agreed. It took many years to give it a chance as one of the best romcoms of its era because the title is so trite. I didn’t even realize it had gotten glowing reviews.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window.

No movie title needs to be that wordy.

[quote]R141 Licorice Pizza. I haaate that title. It annoys me so much.

Yes. And it makes me nauseous.

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

The people who think Licorice Pizza is an O.K. title are boomers and gen-Xers who grew up in L.A. and remember the record store. Even then, the title is dumb for being such an obscure piece of ‘70s nostalgia that panders only to elderly Angelenos.

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies

[quote] Pretty much anything with “American” as the adjective.

[quote] American Hustle American Gangster American Reunion American Sniper

[quote] I’ll give a pass to “Graffiti” and “Psycho.”

What about “American History X”?

r119 What about...

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON

The affectation of "Se7en" was pretty pointless.