The best movie titles

[Writer]

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?"

[Gerry]

THE SAGA OF THE VIKING WOMEN AND THEIR VOYAGE TO THE WATERS OF THE GREAT SEA SERPENT (1958)

[Jack Corbett]

Bwahahahahaha

[Writer]

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.

[Jack Corbett]

ha ha ha ha...

That is an idiotic title. Thanks for the laugh, Writer.

[Scott]

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.

[Jack Corbett]

What about Doom: Resurrection? Does that sound good?

[DaveMunger]

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.

[Jack Corbett]

Ha ha ha ha ha...

Strange Shadows in an Empty Room

Ha ha ha ha ha...

[Mr. Hockstatter]

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.

[Jack Corbett]

Mr. Hockstatter, I agree. Bestcar chase in the second one.