Imaginative Film Titles...

I often lament how lazy Hollywood's writers are, as partly evidenced by film titles. Examples of their apathy...

Casino
The Heist
Bad Santa
Bad Teacher
The 40-Year-Old Virgin

So lets hear some examples to the contrary.

 

"Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead"

"8 Million Ways To Die"


2 very good movies that are also proof short titles are a function of marketing and not apathy. Both were box office busts when they came out.


Also, never saw this but probably fits:

"The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain".

 

good ones for varied reasons:

die hard
snakes on a plane
the good the bad and the ugly
reservoir dogs
pulp fiction

 

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

 

Titanic . It should have been more IMAGINATIVE like Ramonza said and called. Boats, Hos and Ice Bergs.

 

The Termnitaor. How UNimaginative. It should have been called. The cyborg from the future who is sent back in time to kill an unborn leader of a future human resistance.

 

No strings attached - should have been called Your date better suck your dick.

 

Your Titanic response was hilarious...but you should have quit while you were ahead.

Good, the bad and the ugly is a great title.

 

What about that one, I dont know the whole name, but something about not being a menace to South Central.

I quite like, "Tears of the Sun," &, "Road To Perdition."

 

haha Damn Sly you're right. Now if I only had a hot tub time machine! :doh:

 

clockwork orange
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
ET
fargo
up

 

Great shout with A Clockwork Orange, but isnt Up as unimaginative as could be?

 

Culteral Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

 

yeah, i'm jsut trying to think of good ones. and you need to be imaginative in a way to think of a good one.

 

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

 

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

 

The above are both real films, the latter is ridiculously funny, the former received a hysterical treatment from MST3K

 

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

 

Maybe it's imaginative in it's simplicity. Perhaps you're mistaking the number of words in the title for "imagination".

"Up" is really a metaphor for the movie and not self-explanatory. It was a risky choice. They could have called it "Old Man And A Boy" or "The Balloon House", or "Helium".

:nono:

 

Or "An old man and a boy in a helium filled balloon house".

 

I like how you put that together. Coming soon to a theatre near you.

 

Very imaginative and un-lazy:bears:

 

Hang My Gallows High. no idead if it's imaginative, but it is badass.

 

Honestly, I think you're giving it too much credit, but that's just my take.

 

What would you rather they call it?

Wow me!

 

I don't think it was anything more complicated than laziness, ala, "Bad Teacher," & movies along those lines.

You oay obviously read more into the title.

 

:bears:

 

The Shawshank Redemption
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Silence of the Lambs
American History X
The Green Mile
Inglourious Basterds