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Post by Mister Spaceman on May 27, 2021 22:09:42 GMT -5
Scream Blacula Scream is pretty great and Zombieland: Double Tap is rather clever.
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Post by berkley on May 27, 2021 23:33:23 GMT -5
I am surprised no one has mentioned The Empire Strikes Back. As a kid and a huge Star Wars fan, I loved that title and that it wasn't called Star Wars 2. I also like the sequence of titles in the Romero zombie movies-Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, then Day of the Dead. I also like Road Warrior as a title for the Mad Max sequel, though they go back to Mad Max for the third with Mad Max 3 Beyond Thunderdome. On the flipside, ones that seem painfully obnoxious to me are the Alvin and the Chipmunks sequel titles...Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and Alvin and the Chipmunks Chipwrecked. -M
As for many other fans, Empire is my favourite SW movie, but I think Lucas and Spielberg came up with some of the worst titles ever - repeatedly!
I've never liked "Star Wars" itself as a title, to start with - too vague and generic (why the plural?) and though it has the war (singular!) of the Rebellion as its setting, doesn't feel like a war movie to me, science-fiction or otherwise.
"The Empire Strikes Back": seems they were going for something that sounded like a title for a chapter of a serial - which makes sense on paper but for me doesn't make it a good title for a full-length, theatrically-released movie, inspired by the serials though it may be.
And "Raiders of the Lost Ark" has bugged me ever since I first saw it as a kid in an advertisement: what the hell is that supposed to mean? How do you raid an ark? Is it a Biblical naval battle and pirates are boarding Noah's vessel? Oh, it's the Ark of the Covenant ... which makes even less sense. You could raid the temple or the fortress in which the Ark is kept in order to GET the Ark - but you can't "raid the Ark"!! Arrrrghh!!!!
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2021 23:39:35 GMT -5
The Dark Knight.
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Post by MDG on May 28, 2021 12:59:14 GMT -5
Not sure what it means when they take the lead character's name out for the second half of the series...
The Spider Woman (1944)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
The Pearl of Death (1944)
The House of Fear (1945)
The Woman in Green (1945)
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Terror by Night (1946)
Dressed to Kill (1946)
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Post by Prince Hal on May 28, 2021 13:49:39 GMT -5
Not sure what it means when they take the lead character's name out of the take for the second half of the series... The Spider Woman (1944) The Scarlet Claw (1944) The Pearl of Death (1944) The House of Fear (1945) The Woman in Green (1945) Pursuit to Algiers (1945) Terror by Night (1946) Dressed to Kill (1946) I know. The series was obviously popular (14, IIRC), and yet Holmes's name took a powder for eight of them. Maybe Universal was simply trying to create catchy mystery/horror titles. I know that "Pearl of Death" was used to introduce a new Universal "creature," The Creeper, played by Rondo Hatton. The Creeper did reappear in a couple of B movies, but Rondo died before the character could really establish himself. Hatton suffered from acromegaly, and thus needed no gruesome make-up to loom on-screen as a frightening figure. Hatton received a kind of cinematic afterlife in the character of Lothar in "The Rocketeer."    |
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Post by GoldenAge Heroes! on Feb 4, 2024 15:55:57 GMT -5
The Wrath of Khan.  |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Feb 5, 2024 12:10:38 GMT -5
I have no interest in the film beyond the oxymoronic title:
FIRST BLOOD PART TWO
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Post by GoldenAge Heroes! on Feb 5, 2024 12:14:09 GMT -5
I have no interest in the film beyond the oxymoronic title: FIRST BLOOD PART TWOHaaahaa . . . Yes. Never thought about it actually. LOL |
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 5, 2024 21:57:15 GMT -5
Even more ironic; in the original novel, Rambo dies at the end. Author David Morrell, who wrote the sequel novel, had to put a note at the beginning, explaining that Rambo is alive because he is in the films, so ignore the end of the original novel. Could have just made it Rambo's cousin: Dack...  |
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Post by GoldenAge Heroes! on Feb 6, 2024 13:45:45 GMT -5
Even more ironic; in the original novel, Rambo dies at the end. Author David Morrell, who wrote the sequel novel, had to put a note at the beginning, explaining that Rambo is alive because he is in the films, so ignore the end of the original novel. Could have just made it Rambo's cousin: Dack... Did he really, hahaaaa, learn something new everyday. Never read Rambo II, Just the first one. That's funny stuff. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 6, 2024 14:22:28 GMT -5
Even more ironic; in the original novel, Rambo dies at the end. Author David Morrell, who wrote the sequel novel, had to put a note at the beginning, explaining that Rambo is alive because he is in the films, so ignore the end of the original novel. Could have just made it Rambo's cousin: Dack... Did he really, hahaaaa, learn something new everyday. Never read Rambo II, Just the first one. That's funny stuff. It's pretty much a novelization of the film, but with a bit more depth (such as you can, with this stuff). It's been more than 30 years since I read it, so I can't recall specifics, beyond the movie plot. The climax of that film is the ultimate in stupidity, as Rambo fires a LAW rocket, INSIDE the cockpit of a Huey, with the rescued POWs right behind the backblast. That's Tweety & Sylvester level stupidity. He might as well have sat on a tree branch and saw through it, on the tree trunk side. |
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Post by GoldenAge Heroes! on Feb 6, 2024 14:57:06 GMT -5
Did he really, hahaaaa, learn something new everyday. Never read Rambo II, Just the first one. That's funny stuff. The climax of that film is the ultimate in stupidity, as Rambo fires a LAW rocket, INSIDE the cockpit of a Huey, with the rescued POWs right behind the backblast. That's Tweety & Sylvester level stupidity. He might as well have sat on a tree branch and saw through it, on the tree trunk side. I have seen it more recently and in the film he's sitting in the pilots chair. Silly yes, I forget how far away the vets are and if they are taking cover, but it is a very cool scene in the movie. Even though its pretty nutty. But I can easily fogive it. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 6, 2024 17:39:59 GMT -5
The climax of that film is the ultimate in stupidity, as Rambo fires a LAW rocket, INSIDE the cockpit of a Huey, with the rescued POWs right behind the backblast. That's Tweety & Sylvester level stupidity. He might as well have sat on a tree branch and saw through it, on the tree trunk side. I have seen it more recently and in the film he's sitting in the pilots chair. Silly yes, I forget how far away the vets are and if they are taking cover, but it is a very cool scene in the movie. Even though its pretty nutty. But I can easily fogive it. Even without the POWs in the rear, he would set the cockpit on fire! |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 7, 2024 14:53:29 GMT -5
Even more ironic; in the original novel, Rambo dies at the end. Author David Morrell, who wrote the sequel novel, had to put a note at the beginning, explaining that Rambo is alive because he is in the films, so ignore the end of the original novel. The same thing happened with Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey two. The prose version of 2001: a space odyssey described a voyage to Saturn rather than Jupiter as in the movie, but the prose sequel stuck to the film instead of the first book. A good move, too, since Clarke needed to use Europa in his sequel's plot! Clarke put a note at the start of the book too. |
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Post by GoldenAge Heroes! on Feb 8, 2024 17:42:54 GMT -5
I have seen it more recently and in the film he's sitting in the pilots chair. Silly yes, I forget how far away the vets are and if they are taking cover, but it is a very cool scene in the movie. Even though its pretty nutty. But I can easily fogive it. Even without the POWs in the rear, he would set the cockpit on fire! I definitely got'chya! Funny stuff, great scene. |
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