Imaginative Film Titles...

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  1. Ramonza Soliloquies

    Ramonza Soliloquies "Twinkle Toes" McJack

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    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.
     
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    "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".
     
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    good ones for varied reasons:

    die hard
    snakes on a plane
    the good the bad and the ugly
    reservoir dogs
    pulp fiction
     
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    Titanic . It should have been more IMAGINATIVE like Ramonza said and called. Boats, Hos and Ice Bergs.
     
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    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.
     
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    No strings attached - should have been called Your date better suck your dick.
     
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    Your Titanic response was hilarious...but you should have quit while you were ahead.

    Good, the bad and the ugly is a great title.
     
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    eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
     
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    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."
     
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    haha Damn Sly you're right. Now if I only had a hot tub time machine! :doh:
     
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    clockwork orange
    one flew over the cuckoo's nest
    ET
    fargo
    up
     
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    Great shout with A Clockwork Orange, but isnt Up as unimaginative as could be?
     
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    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.
     
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    The above are both real films, the latter is ridiculously funny, the former received a hysterical treatment from MST3K
     
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    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:
     
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    Or "An old man and a boy in a helium filled balloon house".
     
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    I like how you put that together. Coming soon to a theatre near you.
     
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    Very imaginative and un-lazy:bears:
     
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    Hang My Gallows High. no idead if it's imaginative, but it is badass.
     
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    Honestly, I think you're giving it too much credit, but that's just my take.
     
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    What would you rather they call it?

    Wow me!
     
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    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.
     
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