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Good movies with bad titles.

posted 5 years ago by samoanjoes (58601)
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Inglourious Basterds
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Edge of Tomorrow
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
The Shawshank Redemption

[–] Redsfan001 (6218) 5 years ago

Remo Williams : The Adventure Begins (1985)

This was a better than average action movie based on a book series.

The problem is most movie fans never heard of the book. Most people never met anyone named Remo. I think the name alone hurt ticket sales.

[–] samoanjoes (58601) 5 years ago

I"ve never even heard of the movie never mind the book.

[–] Redsfan001 (6218) 5 years ago

Don't read anything about it, just watch it.

Good 1980's action movie 8/10

[–] Iffy762 (1334) 5 years ago

That's funny, we almost watched that tonight, but I told my husband it sounded stupid. He went to bed instead.

[–] Redsfan001 (6218) 5 years ago

Kind of takes the training story line parts of Karate Kid (1984) and takes it into a adult world.

But more of a guy movie, no romance.

[–] snepts (11123) 4 years ago

It's pretty dumb, and that's the only charm it has.
I loved it back then but I don't think it holds it's charm today.
But still a fun watch if you relax and take it for what it is.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

It was called Remo : Unarmed and Dangerous here in the U.K. Great film.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

American Beauty. What a random title.

In fact, I'm so tired of all the "American" movie titles... American Gangster, American Horror Story, American Pie, American Sniper, and so on and so on.

American Animals however is the most ridiculous. The movie was about amateur thieves trying to steal a book titled 'American Animals.' So if the precious book was instead, say, 'History of Belgium' then the movie would be called 'History of Belgium' too? So silly.

[–] samoanjoes (58601) 5 years ago

I don't mind American Beauty, but I agree that there are too many movies with "American" in the title.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) 5 years ago

February (2015)

So bad that they later re-released the film and called it ' The Blackcoat's Daughter '

[–] samoanjoes (58601) 5 years ago

The rename is so much better.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

A Hard Nut to Crack (Polish title for Die Hard)

[–] samoanjoes (58601) 5 years ago

What do they call The Nutcracker?

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

A cracked hard nut

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

A Crack to Nut Hard

[–] creolefemme1 (280) 4 years ago

Dirty dancing

[–] snepts (11123) 4 years ago

The Fountain.
Whenever I see mention of The Tree Of Life, I immediately think of The Fountain.
I don't think there were any fountains in The Fountain, but there was a tree of life, at least as how I see it.

[–] moviechatterer (16326) 4 years ago

Seven Psychopaths was a bit of a misleading title

[–] samoanjoes (58601) 4 years ago

At least there were seven of them.

[–] moviechatterer (16326) 4 years ago

I'm not sure there were because at one point it said "This guy is #2 and #6 " or something similar :)