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?"
THE SAGA OF THE VIKING WOMEN AND THEIR VOYAGE TO THE WATERS OF THE GREAT SEA SERPENT (1958)
Bwahahahahaha
That's got to have been an old drive-in B-movie, by the sound of it. Everything a guy could want: women with lots of hardware going out to get their scanty costumes soaked while taking on a big snake-like thing.
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That is an idiotic title. Thanks for the laugh, Writer.
You know I think they ran out of good movie titles. All the good ideas being used up. Now they have films with titles that consist of just a single syllable. Like THE RING or something like that. The titles don't come out and grab you anymore.
What about Doom: Resurrection? Does that sound good?
I heard of this movie recently, probably from some link on this board. It's just a goofy Italian Dirty Harry rip-off, but the title is SO FREAKING SCARY. I wet myself just from thinking about the title: Strange Shadows In An Empty Room.
Ha ha ha ha ha...
Strange Shadows in an Empty Room
Ha ha ha ha ha...
Mad Max. What could be cooler than that? I mean, the guy's name is Max, and he's mad. And he's the Road Warrior! Holy Crap! I'm gettin' out of the way.
Mr. Hockstatter, I agree. Bestcar chase in the second one.