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RE: Clunky Titles - 28/2/2012 8:28:58 PM   
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RE: Clunky Titles - 29/2/2012 12:20:48 PM   
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RE: Clunky Titles - 29/2/2012 12:24:43 PM   
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RE: Clunky Titles - 29/2/2012 2:49:35 PM   
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RE: Clunky Titles - 29/2/2012 2:59:22 PM   
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Isn't that the point though?

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RE: Clunky Titles - 29/2/2012 3:00:44 PM   
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Isn't that the point though?


Probably. You couldnt even pay me to watch it though.

Edit: In fact looking at it its an obvious conglomeration of the name of the films its supposed to be parodying.

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RE: Clunky Titles - 29/2/2012 3:03:34 PM   
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Isn't that the point though?


Probably. You couldnt even pay me to watch it though. [:D


That, along with. White Chicks, are two films I really hope i never have to watch.

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RE: Clunky Titles - 29/2/2012 4:56:45 PM   
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RE: Clunky Titles - 29/2/2012 6:18:52 PM   
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Cradle 2 the Grave is a weird one. I new someone who thought it must be a sequel to a film called Cradle.


I was about to post this one but thought I'd double check just in case someone already did. Phew.

Plus, a lot of Steven Segal films have clunky titles. I mean, Half Past Dead? Piss off


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RE: Clunky Titles - 29/2/2012 6:41:20 PM   
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I was thinking about films that you like/love that are almost perfect but have clunky titles. For example; I love Nolan's first Batman, but I always thought the title Batman Begins sounded...I don't know..off?! Seeing as it took quite a bit from Frank Miller's Batman: Year One, I thought that name or simply Year One (seeing as The Dark Knight doesn't directly say Batman) as a better title.

Same with Apocalypse Now. I think it the title of the book it takes influence from would have sounded better, Heart Of Darknesss.

Any other great films with clunky titles that could be renamed?!


But Apocalypse Now is loosely based on Conrads Heart Of Darkness,so I could see why the change in title was a naccesity.
Funnily enough Batman Begins only took out the mob aspect of Batman Year one,everything else was conjecture of other Batman related sources.

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RE: Clunky Titles - 2/3/2012 5:54:17 PM   
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RE: Clunky Titles - 2/3/2012 6:18:48 PM   
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I guess there is a element of something which sounds a bad title when you first hear it which then becomes a good one once you have seen the film and reliases how great it is. For example Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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RE: Clunky Titles - 2/3/2012 7:25:00 PM   
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beat you to it, man

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RE: Clunky Titles - 2/3/2012 7:26:29 PM   
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 The Seeker: The Dark is Rising.

Shit title. Worse film.

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RE: Clunky Titles - 3/3/2012 1:20:24 PM   
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Quantum of Solace
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Phantom Menace
The Sin Eater
Rise of the Planet of the Apes


All the prequels had rubbish names. Attack Of the Clones, Revenge Of The Sith...they sound like 1950's b-movies


I don't mind those title themselves - it's the whole "Star Wars: Episode n...." part that I find very clunky. The chapter titles would have been fine on their own, as were those of the original trilogy.


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Have they seriously switched to that title? Sounds more like a tagline than a title!

I think all the best titles have been mentioned now, although perhaps Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is worth a mention (cracking film, just a cumbersome title!). Maybe Inglourious Basterds too.

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RE: Clunky Titles - 3/3/2012 6:13:47 PM   
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I guess there is a element of something which sounds a bad title when you first hear it which then becomes a good one once you have seen the film and reliases how great it is. For example Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.


I'm mostly just annoyed that they ditched the original title which I felt was better: The Guardians of Gahool
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beat you to it, man



Oops, my bad

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RE: Clunky Titles - 3/3/2012 10:25:21 PM   
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What's so clunky about Last Tango in Paris?


Nothing a little butter won't sort out.

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RE: Clunky Titles - 3/3/2012 10:30:56 PM   
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What's so clunky about Last Tango in Paris?


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RE: Clunky Titles - 3/3/2012 10:56:04 PM   
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 The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants. The moment I saw that title I thought "No way am I going to waste my time on that." And then they made a bloody sequel! Go figure.

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RE: Clunky Titles - 4/3/2012 12:16:19 AM   
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 I've never liked the title : Star War:Attack Of The Clones,funnily enough I didnt like the film either (who did?).



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RE: Clunky Titles - 4/3/2012 1:18:57 AM   
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RE: Clunky Titles - 6/3/2012 10:09:04 PM   
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RE: Clunky Titles - 8/3/2012 1:27:39 PM   
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'the dark is rising'
'licence to kill' -the original title 'licence revoked' was no better.
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RE: Clunky Titles - 8/3/2012 4:39:55 PM   
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 Skyfall is rubbish isn't it?

That's two rubbish titles in a row now.

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RE: Clunky Titles - 8/3/2012 5:45:25 PM   
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RE: Clunky Titles - 8/3/2012 6:31:39 PM   
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Skyfall is rubbish isn't it?

That's two rubbish titles in a row now.


Yep.
Sounds like a Sci-fi Alien blockbuster movie or a Documentery about Sky-diving.

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RE: Clunky Titles - 8/3/2012 6:34:45 PM   
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'licence to kill' -the original title 'licence revoked' was no better.
'the dark knight rises'
'skyfall'



License To Kill is a great title, I fail to see how TDKR is clunky, same for Skyfall.

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RE: Clunky Titles - 8/3/2012 6:38:41 PM   
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Burn After Reading.
It wasn't until I said "2 for Burn after Reading" in the cinema when the girl said "it's "Reading" as in looking at a book, rather than Reading the place down south."
Yes, sometimes I can be that dumb.




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RE: Clunky Titles - 9/3/2012 10:11:09 AM   
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 I thought Batman Begins was an ok title until I realised it's roughly the equivalent of Superman Starts.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close quickly became Extremely Loud, I could never remember the rest.
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RE: Clunky Titles - 9/3/2012 10:17:38 AM   
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Burn After Reading.
It wasn't until I said "2 for Burn after Reading" in the cinema when the girl said "it's "Reading" as in looking at a book, rather than Reading the place down south."
Yes, sometimes I can be that dumb.



brilliant!

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