When we talk about how good or how crappy a movie really is, of course, we usually talk about the actual content. As the marketing department will always tell you, though, the packaging does make a difference in sales. Let's give some examples of great titles. Mind, the movie itself doesn't have to have been any good; in fact, it's funnier if the title was great but the movie sucked.
I'll start off the thread with one of the best titles I ran across just recently at
www.archive.org, which has a lot of old educational films and the like available for download. (It also has "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians." Woo hoo!) The title was for a Red Cross film about various kinds of accidents and personal disasters in the 1930s, and how to administer first aid.
The title: "Why Not Live?"
Now there's a great title that says everything worth saying about this film right up front. Maybe YOU don't care about your life. Maybe if a car ran over YOU, you'd just lie there and let yourself bleed to death. On the other hand, maybe you DO actually care about that pathetic so-called life of yours, and you have a lunch date to keep. So, why not learn how to bind up your wounds so that you'll survive as you wait for the paramedics to arrive? "Why Not Live?"
