Dumb/Bad/Uninteresting movie titles

Halloween: H20

I get it, 20 year anniversary of Halloween, but its so stupid to say and read and I just think of water


Child's Play---Most people just call it Chucky. Child's Play is so boring and if you didn't know about the series or Chucky , you'd instantly think it's a children movie

 

The Accountant

 

Any sequel that re-uses the exact title of the original movie. Halloween, Vacation and the upcoming Scream. What a detestable and irritating new trend.

 

I nominate *any* movie that takes its title from a popular song. I dislike that trend.

 

Brand name awareness. Doesn't bother me.

 

Can't Buy Me Love was a great movie though and made sense given the story.

 

Snatch

 

That's so funny. Can't Buy Me Love was one of the first times the trend started to bug me.

 

I thought ' Cinderella Man ' was a poor title for a movie about boxing.

 

News Of The World

 

I dislike these nonsense name movies. Jack Reacher etc

 

The Net.

I thought the movie was about volleyball.

 

There are some movie titles that are so generic and unrelated to the plot that I have to look them up. For example: Primal Fear, Light of Day, and She's So Lovely.

 

A famous boring movie name story was changing the name of the excellent Tom Cruise Defeats Aliens movie from Live Die Repeat to Edge of Tomorrow. Dumb move.

 

The german title of "Meet the Fockers" (itself already a lame title imo) is "Meine Frau, ihre Schwiegereltern und ich" which translates to "My wife, her parents in law and me". Because that damn film was so successful here, a lot of similarly godawful made-for-TV schmaltz movies as well as international theatrical films have this "My... her/his... and me" kind of title and it never fails to annoy me.

 

I thought the Liam Neeson film "Cold Pursuit" was pretty good...and, funny, and deserved a better title than....., "Cold Pursuit"!

 

You know the title of the film has failed when you liked it, then a month later you're struggling to remember what it was called.

 

On the flipside, I dislike titles that blandly and broadly describe the movie in the simplest, most generic terms, perhaps to facilitate understanding in foreign markets or simplify translation. I’m thinking of stuff like Horrible Bosses and Identity Thief.

 

ALL the R-rated comedies of this century (a 'golden era', some would say!) had bland titles:
-"Role Models"
-Wanderlust"
-"We're The Millers"
-"Office Christmas Party"
-"Bad Words"
-"Booksmart"
etc.,etc.

 

Ehh, I thought that was a fairly clever title, as it riffed off the common saying that uses "child's play".

You could say "Halloween" sounds like the title of a kiddie movie as well. It's less creative than "Child's Play"!

 

That's another one that seems at least semi-clever to me, as it plays off the notion of being in "hot pursuit"!

 

This one:

or, this one:

 

Of course, "Cold Pursuit" had nothing to do with those movies. But they establish that "hot pursuit" was a common phrase, so "Cold Pursuit" is... well, at least a little clever!

 

Yeah, Child's Play works for me, too.

 

You could add just about any Steven Seagal movie.