Fresh Question #57: Funkiest Movie Title

[Nightwing]

Gentlmen and ladies, it's New Fresh Question time. Sit right back and I'll tell a tale.

For whatever reason (forgive the cynicism, but it's most likely money) there are like a billion movies out there! And they all need titles. Oh those loveable scamps of the human race, always loving to name things. Anyway, crappy money-driven movies are bad enough, and sometimes titles are just as bad. So I was wondering:

What is the dummiest and/or funniest movie title you have ever heard??

At one point, Nightwing didn't have a Fresh Question. Then he thinks for a while, and comes up with one. This is the story of How Nightwing Got His Groove Back. THIS is that story. Pfft! Hehehehe, no no I'm kidding about the groove part. I have no rythem.

[Jaguar]

The movie title that is now the pseudo-title of this board.
Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Come on, already.

[The Dork Knight]

I agree with Breakin' 2 - Electric Boogaloo

- The Dork Knight

[Conekiller]

Don't be a Menace to South Central while Drinkin your Juice in tha Hood.




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[Morpheus]

Blacula.

[The Gunnshuu]

Pootie Tang

[Spastic Minnow]

Pootie Tang
:eek:

Gunny Shuu, you're a baddy daddy lamatai tebby chai!

Titles I don't like are ones that are completely generic and forgettable, the most recent has to be Denzel's Out of Time. I've seen previews for that movie a dozen times but I never remember the title (I had to look it up again just now) or what the heck it's about (but I'm pretty sure it's not about time travel which would make sense), it might be a decent movie but I have no idea. At least with Dude, where's my car? you know what you're getting and remember it.

[Enrique]

i don't like titles that follow the formula (verb + proper noun) such as:

get carter
get shorty
saving silverman
saving grace
chasing amy ...

just a peeve of mine...

[TimTwoFace]

I hate titles that involve sequel numbers, colons, and hyphens way more than they should. For example:

STAR WARS: EPISODE ONE - THE PHANTOM MENACE
-Yeah, it says what the story is all about and such, but come on, the first three movies didn't have such long "official" titles.

LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER - THE CRADLE OF LIFE
-Do we really need to have Lara's name in the title at all? It's really redundant, and as far as I know, it was never in the title of any of the games, either.

LEGALLY BLONDE 2: RED, WHITE, AND BLONDE
-Did anyone find this ditzy but patriotic title the least bit clever? I sure as hell didn't.

TOO WONG FU, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING, JULIE NEWMAR
-Errrr, this was just way too long for a title for a movie.

Just some examples. For movie names, especially for movie series', I'd like to see a simple but effective title for sequels, ones that hopefully don't have a number in them. James Bond is probably a great example of this, even though some of the titles are cheesy - but they're all memorable. The way I see it, there should be two parts to the title - have the franchise name (let's say, STAR WARS) and a following subtitle linked by either a colon, hyphen, or short phrase to indicate that it's a different movie than its predecessor - but don't make it too long. For example:

STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE
STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI

Or even other series' have done this pretty well...

BATMAN
BATMAN RETURNS
BATMAN FOREVER
BATMAN & ROBIN
(and then all the animated movies)

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE

THE MATRIX
THE MATRIX RELOADED
THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS

LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING

Etc, etc, etc...Harry Potter, Die Hard, and many other multi-part series' have done a good job with this system, too. In fact, the only series' that work well by only featuring numbers for sequel titles (off the top of my head) are Back to the Future and the Godfather movies. :p Often the quality of the movie makes a long, boring title get overlooked. :)

-Tim

[Xfox]

I'm sure there's a ton out there. The titles I can think of that are bad-

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Operation Dumbo Drop
Analyze That (So is there going to be a sequel called Analyze the Other Thing?)
2 Fast 2 Furious
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot

Overly simplified ones annoy me too-

Someone Like You
Anywhere But Here

[Mynd Hed]

I think my personal favorite has to be a fictional movie-within-a-movie: Chubby Rain. (-:

(Ten Pop Culture Points to whoever can name the reference.)

[JDuncan]

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

[Lonestarr]

I think my personal favorite has to be a fictional movie-within-a-movie: Chubby Rain. (-:

(Ten Pop Culture Points to whoever can name the reference.)

The movie that Bobby Bowfinger was making in Bowfinger.

I remember a line in The Onion's review of Dude, Where's My Car?: "From Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla to Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, it's a safe bet that if the title makes you laugh, the movie won't."

Other silly movie titles:

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (can't believe this hasn't yet come up)
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (likewise)
See You Next Wednesday (can anyone name this reference?)

[Spastic Minnow]

In the same line as Tim's gripe.

I have to admit I've always been a little annoyed with the titles of
Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear and Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult. Not just because of the silly numbering but because the first movie was named The Naked Gun, From the Files of Police Squad! Really, the sequels never should have been numbered at all! The Naked Gun was the title of the first movie the others should have simply been called The Smell of Fear and The Final Insult with a Police Squad! postscript.

[shogunthethird]

B-movies and Troma pictures sequels are great places to go for wacky titles
fr'instance

Cannibal women in the avocado jungle of death
Amazon women on the moon
Toxic avenger 3: the last temptation of toxie
Class of Nuke-em high part 3: the good, the bad, and the subhumanoid
Killer Klowns from outer space
Scream if you know what I did last friday the 13th

[mobo85]

i don't like titles that follow the formula (verb + proper noun) such as:

get carter
get shorty
saving silverman
saving grace
chasing amy ...

I remember Entertainment Weekly poked fun at this once, and wondered what other popular films would be called if they followed this formula: Star Wars would be Killing Darth, The Sting would be Playing Pool, etc. (I must admit this formula works sometimes; Finding Nemo by any other name would be...different, I guess.)

[shogunthethird]

let's not forget
Saving Middle-earth
Slinging webs (Spider-man)
Swashbuckling dead (PotC)
Milking Franchise (Star Trek: nemesis)
Sucking ass (any J-lo movie)
and my personal favorite

Morphing Robots: (Transformers: the movie)

[Carolina Red]

"Rat Pfink A Boo Boo" is a very unusual title. Although there's a story behind it - apparently the person who made the promotional stuff for the film when it came out made a massive typo, and the name stuck.

It's also done by the same person who did that film that was mentioned about the people who became zombies.

"The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" is an unusual title too.

[GMB]

I have to give it up for this odd voodoo movie from the 30s: Love Wanga. It really sounds like just about anything but voodoo, honestly.

Also, I cast a vote for "Blood Freak." Perhaps the best movie ever made about a dope-smoking Vietnam vet who eats LSD-laced turkey and becomes a bloodthirsty mutant turkey who is saved by Jesus.

No, really.

And of course, perennial favorites, Nude On The Moon (I'm told it's about a lack of clothing on a planetary satellite but with a title like that you just can't tell, really) and The Fearless Vampire Killers or Pardon Me, But Yoru Teeth Are In My Neck.

[Mynd Hed]

I just remembered one that I'm surprised no one has mentioned before:

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

[The Lizard]

The Lion King 1 1/2



-The Lizard :D

[GMB]

I can't beleive I forgot two of the all-time classic funky movie titles.

For you 007 fans, I give you Thunderball and Octopussy.

They almost sound like a crippling condition, don't they? Remember, with your help and your donations, there is hope for a cure, ladies and gentleman.

And yes, I realize you can include Goldfinger on the list. But you can cure that by diligently washing your hands after you're done in the restroom.

[JOKESONU]

You can't beat troma


Teenage Catgirls in Heat (and no it wasn't a porno)
Bikini Bandits Experience (pretty much was a porno and wasn't troma)
Night Of the living Bread
Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters
Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town
Cannibal the Musical
Maniac Nurses find Ecstasy
Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell
Angel Negro
Buttcrack
Decampitated
Girls School Screamers
Killer Condom
Psycho a go go
The first turn on
Squeze Play
Satans sadists
Angels Wild Women
Go to hell
Rowdy Girls
Viral Assassins
Vegas in Space
Eve's Beach Fantasy
Beware Children at Play
Blood sucking freaks
Savage Abduction
Surf Nazi's must die

Then they have something called

Doggie Tales


you have to give Troma Credit though.

At least you know exactly what your buying just by reading the title

[Conekiller]

I'm still surprised they got away with "Goldmember"

"Hellboy" just for those religious types to be piceting it in the streets for over use of a "curse word" in an advertisement. and blaspheny. That and he don't look like no boy to me.

[fxmatt]

I would say it definatly has to be

Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D


It is a hilarious movie! They took the original Night of the Living Dead (which did not have a copyright), wiped out the sound and used their own dialouge and sound. It has a very big cult following.

[Morpheus]

That is the movie with the longest title ever.

My Empire Alminac says so...

[Bird Boy]

"I'm Gonna Git You Suckah"

I still laugh everytime I see that DVD... :D

-BB

[BabySealClubber]

The Fish that Saved Pittsburg
I was a Teenage Zombie for the FBI
Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill
I Spit on Your Grave
Dr. Stangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worring and Love the Bomb)
A Girl, A Guy and a Gob
Sgt. Kubukiman, NYPD
Howling 2: Your Sister's a Werewolf
Gigli ("gig-lee? oh, geel-lee")

[StarScream64]

Throw Mama from the Train - the title alone gave me more than a few ideas. <_< >_>.
There was a DTV release a few years ago of an animated movie called Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: the Secret of the Ooze - any movie with the word "ooze" in it sounds funny as it is. While we're on this one, add Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the list.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - all I remember is the title and the cheezy cartoon show.
Attack of the 50-foot Woman
8-legged Freaks
I just saw these listed today:The Return of Mothra, and The Return of Mothra 2 - just a tad bit redundant, don't you think? http://forums.toonzone.net/images/smilies/rolleyes.gifAnd, uh, numerous movies that I've seen listed (note that:LISTED) on less than noteworthy stations *sneezeplayboysneeze*.

[photorp]

OK , its a book but it would make a great movie title - I give you
" Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers " ;) . - maybe another Sentai show?
Heck , put Amy Jo Johnson in it and i'll watch it! :)

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,

Most recent one I can think of is Cheerleader Ninjas (http://www.cheerleaderninjas.com/), which sums up everything you need to know about the movie right there in the title. I'm tempted to get this movie just on general principle.

Shaolin Soccer is pretty goofy, too.

-- Ed/Ace