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If Movie Titles were truthful.....

posted 5 years ago by AmeriGirl26 (12248)
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One thing that always annoys me is when the titles of some films just don't mesh well with what the movie's really about. One-word movie titles are the worst, particularly if it's just one of many words that could have been used in the movie's title. It's especially annoying if the movie's from a franchise, but doesn't mesh at all with the others in the series. I'll give some examples below:

Frozen - just call it the frickin' "Snow Queen" already, they did it in Norway
entire Twilight Series - "Bad Acting in the Woods"
Jurassic Park sequels - "Dinos Eat the People, Parts II-V"
Crash - "Racism in L.A."
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - "Old and Tired Money-Maker"
Reign of Fire - "Dragons Burn Everyone Up"
Aliens 3 and The Last Jedi - "This is What a Shitty Multi-Million-Dollar Fanfic Looks Like"
Mockingjay: Part 1 - "Two Hours in a Bunker"
K-Pax - "Kevin Spacey Faking Being An Alien"
Independence Day 2: Resurgence - "2-Hour Money-Making Snore-fest"
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens - "Rehash of 'A New Hope' with a Girl."
Epic - "Awesome Rehash of 'Fern Gully'"

Feel free to add to these, particularly if it's a universally disliked film with a lousy title.

[–] HolyEngines (39) 5 years ago

death at a funeral: why you should never carry hallucination bills in a valium bottle to a funeral

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12248) 5 years ago

There's actually a film called that?

[–] Wint3rFir3 (6911) 5 years ago

Bad Acting in the Woods covers a lot of movies though, let's be honest.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12248) 5 years ago

Are you kidding? First off, Kristen Stewart is basically Hayden Christiansen with tiny boobs. Second, Honest Trailers nick-named her "Fish-Face," due to her staring stupidly up at her co-star with her mouth hanging open all the time. I can't STAND it when characters do that. Second, the guy playing Edward didn't do a very good job either. He made Edward out to behave like an emo goth without the black clothes and eye makeup, whereas the Edward in the book was playful and clever, though even he brooded once in a while.

And yeah, there's probably a lot of B-rated horror flicks that take place in forests with inexperienced or talent-less actors involved, but that's not the point of this thread.