Favorite Film Titles

Regardless of what you might think of the movie itself, what are some of your all-time favorite film titles?

Mine...


1. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
2. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1963)
3. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
5. Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1989)
6. Hell Comes to Frogtown (1987)
7. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1971)
8. Plan 9 From Outer Space (1958)
9. Being John Malkovich (1999)
10. Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)

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1. Whatever happened to Baby Jane?

2. If...

3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

4. A Clockwork Orange

5. Laughing Gravy

6. Safety Last

7. The Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain.

8. Life is Beautiful

9. Back to the Future

10. Debbie Does Dallas


Fun thread.

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Had one in mind, glanced over to do something else and forgot it. ARGH, I'll see if I can remember it.

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There are loads of good film titles.

Here's another 10.

1. The Opposite of Sex

2. Rebel Without A Cause

3. The Man Who Wasn't There

4. O Brother Where Art Thou?

5. Raising Arizona

6. Good Will Hunting

7. Dog Day Afternoon

8. All Quiet on the Western Front

9. Arsenic and Old Lace

10. The Maltese Falcon


A Title should grab you. I don't think Hollywood puts enough thought into them. They should have something to do with the film generally, but this shouldn't be a rule. A good film title is like poetry. It says a lot in a few words.

Crappy Titles include Boiler Room, Wonder Boys, Frequency, Executive Decision, True Crime, Desperate Measures and the worst title ever... (drum roll please)...

STEPMOM... I won't see the movie on my principles that a bad title is a bad movie.

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) Russ Meyer
Django (1966) Sergio Corbucci
Quintet (1979) Robert Altman
Dirty Harry (1971) Don Siegel
Blowup (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
The 39 Steps (1935) Alfred Hitchcock
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Stanley Kubrick
Lady in the Lake (1947) Robert Montgomery
I, the Jury (1982) Richard T. Heffron & Larry Cohen
Cohen & Tate (1989) Eric Red
The Choirboys (1977) Robert Aldrich
The Dirty Dozen (1967) Robert Aldrich
Das Boot (1981) Wolfgang Petersen

Plus TONS & TONS More

• "Back to the Future"
• "Ocean's Eleven"
• "Raising Arizona"
• "The Usual Suspects"
• "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace"
• "Being John Malkovich" (good call there, Holden)
• "The Silence of the Lambs"
• "Ghostbusters"
• "There's Something About Mary"
• "The Matrix"
• "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
• "12 Angry Men"

Yeah, I know, most of them are pretty recent. Sorry. My favorites among the favorites are in bold.

Besides the ones already listed,

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
I Married a Communist


Worst:

Bad Day On The Block (AKA Under Pressure)

Number One with a Bullet (1987) Jack Smight

well most of the one's i thought of have already been said but the other day i was wondering about this new movie thats just come out called"jeepers creepers" correct me if im wrong but isnt jeepers creepers somthing little kids say? although when i saw the preview for it it seemed quite scary, who thinks of these titles anyway?

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Yes, very good one, Silver. How could I forget that? Funny, funny movie...and a great title, indeed.

bravo on the thread idea Holden! i had never thought about the title separate from the film before now, at least not consciously and i find myself being affected by my opionion of the film even now when i try to focus on the title alone.

you guys have listed some great ones.....i'll second-
Raising Arizona
Being John Malkovich
Back to the Future
The Silence of the Lambs
The 39 Steps
Arsenic and Old Lace
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
A Clockwork Orange
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia


and i'll add-

The Trouble With Harry
Detour
Stir of Echoes
The Spiral Staircase
The Blue Dahlia
Snakepit
The Glass Key
The Glass Menagerie
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Kiss Me Deadly
The Third man
The Thin Man
D.O.A.

i seem to like most of the film noir classics titles!

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Dial 'M' For Murder

Still can't think of it....

what about

Reservoir Dogs
Inventing the Abbots
The Shawshank Redemption
What About Bob?

To a lesser degree Saving Private Ryan and Apocalypse Now.

Also I agree on Good Will Hunting, Being John Malkovich, and A Clockwork Orange.

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"What About Bob?" -- good call. I thought of "The Shawshank Redemption," but I just didn't think it belonged. If they had kept the title of the book ("Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption"), though, I would've put it up there.

How about . . . (oldie) The Ten Dancing Fingers of Doctor Terwilliger?
And . . . Rocky Horror you-know-what
And . . . The last you-know-what
And . . . Dim Sum is a great title, if foriegn films count
And . . . (if foriegn films count) Eat. Drink. Man. Woman

Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Big Chill
And . . . The Summer of '42 (Or was it '42)
And what was the title of that film -- THX-323 (Got the letters & numbers wrong but you know the one i mean?)

Hey, they do that for a living. Make up names we just GOT TO see!

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Jozie

The Dr. Suess flick is called The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953), Lucas' feature debut is called THX-1138 (1970), and it is indeed The Summer of '42 (1971) which was followed by the sequel The Class of '44 (1973).

As for "The last you-know-what", no I don't. The Last Starfighter, The Last Picture Show, The Last Dragon, The Last Remake of Beau Geste, The Last of the Mohicans, The Last Flight of Noah's Ark, The Last House on the Left, The Last Days of Disco, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Last Boy Scout, The Last Days of Pompeii, The Last Detail, The Last of the Blue Devils...care to be more specific?

The Last time she'll be making THAT mistake...

My Life as a Dog is another.

I have to say, I usually am pretty satisfied with movie titles, except when I was trying to think of my favorites, all I could think of was my least favorite...so I'll put those down instead.

Braveheart: I think that movie is poorly titled, sounds cheesy.

Stepmom: I couldn't BELIEVE that one. SO stupid.

Duece Bigalow Male Gigalo: Or how EVER you spell it, it seriously bites.

Gone in 60 Seconds: This is stupid; even stupider when you think of all the movies with numbers in the title that came out around the same time.

Summer Catch: Oooooooh...it's a play on words, clever.

Some good ones:
Sixteen Candles
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
American Beauty
The Usual Suspects
Iron Giant
Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss ( if you haven't seen this movie, it's the family from A Christmas Story, on vacation. Too funny!)