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Movies with unbelievable titles

posted 8 years ago by janX9 (446)
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Ever hear of those movies with such crazy titles, you can't believe they're real movies? Tell me some 😃

I've seen most of these.

Billy the kid VS Dracula
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Zombie Strippers
Zzyzx road
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Cold dog soup
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
The last time I committed suicide
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl
Evil bong
Poultrygeist: night of the chicken dead
Frankenhooker
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8 heads in a duffel bag
This is not a movie

[–] godewey (16472) 8 years ago

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Yeah, that's the real title.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 8 years ago

But usually referred to as Marat/Sade, at least when it was the Broadway show from which the film was made.

[–] godewey (16472) 8 years ago

I just watched this last week.
Interesting movie.

[–] Orestes97 (100) 8 years ago

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0274518/?ref_=m_fn_al_1
The obvious answer

[–] Apis (1624) 8 years ago

^^ lol

I once watched a movie called Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. https://moviechat.org/tt0311361/Jesus-Christ-Vampire-Hunter. It was as bad as it sounds.

[–] godewey (16472) 8 years ago

Spanking the Monkey

[–] actionkamen (23176) 8 years ago

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

Is this a movie title or yet another short-lived self-proclaimed King of Westeros?

[–] R_Kane (15828) 8 years ago

I Know Who Killed Me

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter

The Night We Never Met

[–] actionkamen (23176) 8 years ago

eXistenZ' (1999)

What is this? A movie title by a 13 years-old?

[–] R_Kane (15828) 8 years ago

It's the title of the fictional video game on which the narrative of the movie is based, so it would obviously appeal to boys with undescended nutsacks.

[–] janX9 (446) 8 years ago

One of my guilty pleasures.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 8 years ago

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

What is an Eck? What does Sever even means? Why are those even need to be mentioned in the title? Are those some names of ballistic missiles?

Let's make some other titles using this formula:
Combat: Prips vs. Kismet (Hmm, not bad.)
Terminal: Gons vs. Stepav
Primacy: Quiks vs. Nomad
Dynamic: Vrets vs. Crumpy
The possibilities are endless!

No wonder the movie flopped.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 8 years ago

Ecks is the name of one of the film's protagonists, Sever is the name of the other. Really not cryptic at all.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 8 years ago

Okay it's not cryptic. Still a unbelievably bad movie title though. It's the combinations of several things...

First, the character's names are not well-known. And then, to make them as if they are describing the other random word put before them, i.e. the "Ballistic" word.

If they are then it will be a fine title. For example, let's make some more titles still using the same formula but changed into famous character names:

Catastrophic: Kong vs. Godzilla
Ragnarok: Thor vs. Hulk
Election: Trump vs. Hillary (ha!)

Those are okay. But, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever? Two random names describing another random word... the blind leading the blind.

In fact, "Ecks vs Sever" itself is a better title. Even though we don't know anyone of them we can still understand correctly that it was some dude or thing (robot or something) vs another dude, or thing. Adding "Ballistic" just made it more unclear.

[–] MinaVladimir (4086) 8 years ago

Manos: The Hands of Fate. Because manos means hands in Spanish. So... Hands: The Hands of Fate...

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. At least there's no false advertising here.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. That one's down to the book author, though.

I Am Here.... Now. The four dots in the ellipses get me every time (or Breen was going for an If.... homage. Or I don't know grammar as well as I though).

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

So that's the "bed" movie you listed in the Emoji movie game. Yeah, no wonder I was stuuuumped LOL!!!! 😂😂😂😂

[–] MinaVladimir (4086) 8 years ago

Damn it! I gave it away lol But it is simple, if you know what it is.

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

True, if you know what it is lol.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 8 years ago

Lol @ Hands: The Hands of Fate 😂

[–] Apis (1624) 8 years ago

I actually watched that movie to see what the fuss is about. (It held the title of The worst movie of all times). It is BAD.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 8 years ago

So... it's just bad? And not the worst?

[–] Apis (1624) 8 years ago

Not anymore. It held that title for quite some time, but now it's #5 from the bottom. Four other movies are officially worse.

The title holder of the worst movie in the world at the moment is this one: https://moviechat.org/tt4458206/Code-Name-KOZ

[–] R_Kane (15828) 8 years ago

A three-dot ellipsis means something has been omitted from between the words on either side of the ellipsis. A four-dot ellipsis at the end of a sentence means that the end of the sentence has been removed. The four dots comprise an ellipsis and a period.

[–] MinaVladimir (4086) 8 years ago

Ah, I see. That was very helpful, thanks!

That title still bothers me though.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 8 years ago

Always a pleasure to meet someone who also appreciates correct use of language, Mina. May I ask where you live? Your English is excellent. Apropos of which: This movie didn't have a bad title at all, but the print advertising for it created an uproar. The movie was Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds." Hitch, also, was a stickler for good grammar, so the ads read, "'The Birds' Is Coming," which was correct form, because the movie is a singular noun, so its descriptive verb must also be singular! Almost everyone thought the phrase was wrong!

Given his droll sense of humor, he probably also did it to piss a lot of people off.

[–] MinaVladimir (4086) 8 years ago

Thanks for the compliment, R_Kane! I'm from Bulgaria.

I can see how people would've been bothered by it, if they didn't know what the ads were referring to precisely. Was it a bit of old-timey viral marketing? But if you know what it is, I can see a lot of amusement being drawn from the uproar.

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

Are you trying to temp Ben LMAO?!?! 😂😂😂😂