I hate when a movie title is someone's name.

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy!

'Amelie' is not the real title. It's the English one.

The french original title is 'Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain' (The amazing destiny of Amelie Poulain)

You may be right about it being light on imagination but damn, there’s some fine films in that list of yours. Harry Brown, Barton Fink, Annie Hall, Logan and Amelie in particular are favourites of mine and honestly I can’t imagine any of them with different titles. I don’t really think a more descriptive title would make any of those films more memorable than they already are either.

Good thread though 👍

It doesn’t bother me at all when a film’s title is a persons name but I thought these great blaxploitation films are worth a mention:

Shaft
Cleopatra Jones
Coffy
Hammer
Jackie Brown
Truck Turner
Willie Dynamite
Dolemite
Mandingo
Petey Wheatstraw

I would make the point that films with titles like this tend to be no good. Of the list you gave the only exceptions are Ray and Rambo, and Annie Hall. In general one word titles mean the film's overcommercial junk. The reasoning is the masses are so dumb they can't remember titles of more than one word.

Michael Clayton was awesome doe

I was just thinking... you must consider Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron-Man, Thor, etc. just as lazy. Yes? And Superman II twice as lazy.

Also... the original title for Amelie is "Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain". The literal translation is "Amelie Poulain's Fabulous Destiny" so on this, I have no choice but give it to you... the translators REALLY got lazy !