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Putting together this list was more thought-provoking than you ’d think . There are almost as many unlike ways for a title of respect to go wrongly as there are for movies to go wrong , and so we opted for an educational smorgasbord : no two motion-picture show on this leaning are bad in quite the same manner twice
To be light , we ’re not really concerned in the " so - bad - they’re - good " rubric likeAttack of the Killer TomatoesandThe Incredibly Strange fauna Who block up Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies!!?Unless , that is , they were aiming for " so - spoilt - they’re - good " and still fell into the " so bad they ’re tough " ingroup .
40. Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
There is precisely one time in the history of moving-picture show that " The Sequel " was a funny subtitle for a sequel , and that was whenAirplane IIdid it in 1982 , simply because no one had done it before . Since then , titling your piece of work " Anything 2 : The Sequel " is like shorthand for"Maybe if I put some kind of caption in here citizenry wo n’t realize how uninspired I … oops too tardily they did . “The pun was in all probability meant to save expression , but it just end up making it tough , peculiarly since the producer were so proud that they used it as the tagline too .
See also : The upcomingAlvin and the Chipmunks : The Road Chip , with its roadkill connotations;Halloween H20 : 20 Years Later , which has nothing to do with water , pep pill 2 : Cruise Control , for its two phrase that do n’t go together at all ; and2 Fast 2 Furious .
39. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
In case you overleap it , the latest trailermore or less confirmed this ’ll find .
38. Blackmale
Yes , the picture show does involve blackmail and a black male , but that does n’t really make calling itBlackmalea secure melodic theme . Racial insensitiveness might get a go if this movie were from earlier in film account . ( there are film titles from 1898 and 1904 that use the N - Holy Writ in some pretty shivery setting . )
Plus , the " blaxploitation " pictures of the seventies and episodic revivals also had plenty of claim questionable to innovative ears -Blackenstein , Scream Blacula Scream , Soul Man , Coonskin , The Black Godfather , Disco Godfather , The Black Gestapo , Black SamuraiandBlack Mama , White Mama . ButBlackmalecame out in 2000 and manages to be both offensiveandboring .
37. $
Credit lead to this 1971 flick for proving that a rubric does not have to be long to be dead perplexing . How do you say that ? " hard currency ? " " Dollar sign ? " " Cha - ching ? "
The UK marketed this typical heist film asThe Heist(not particularly imaginative , but hey , it arrive the job done ) and in the US , sometimes , asDollars , but even Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn near the superlative of their popularity had an acclivitous struggle selling American audiences on a movie that was represent by an unutterable symbol of its own choosing , much like The Artist Now Known Again as Prince during hisreallyweird full point .
36. Bride of Killer Nerd
Killer Nerdmight have been a semifinalist for this list but the sequel title really puts it over the top . The whole swot - revenge fantasy epitomized byRevenge of the Nerdsreached its sell - by engagement in the previous nineties , as technical school geniuses take up to make mad kale and arrive at more king . We ’re certain there are still plenty of big dense yobbo in school picking on the impertinent kid , but the rise of cyberbullying , to say nothing of existent flock shootings , makes the estimation of a " killer nerd " sorely unfunny today .
The sequel ’s canonical joke , that har - har , someone might tie a nerd!,doubles down on the whole ugly great deal .
35. Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
farseeing titles can occasionally be fantastic , especially when they sort of tell us how to shorten them , likeBorat : Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of KazakhstanandDr . Strangeloveor : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb . But it takes a really heavy championship thought to justify our patience , and when you require us to take characters like " Hieronymous Merkin " and " Mercy Humppe " severely , you– oops , we ’re running out of room–
See also : The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent , 30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , Do n’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood .
34. Curse of the Queerwolf
In the filmmaker ' defense , this is another of those titles that got big with age … well , actually , it was always pretty bad . But at least the flick made the homophobes thebadguys , despite a title that more or less coalesce queerness with being a haired , freakish monster that prowls the metropolis late at Nox to feast upon flesh .
It also leaned on the form of stereotypical humor that madeWill and Gracelook likeThe L Word , but you know , we could n’t gestate that enlightened an approach to sexuality in … 1988 ? waitress , have a go at it that , yes we could and this picture show is terrible .
33. Death Bed: The Bed That Eats
The idea of our household item turning into ( or always really being ) possessed devil is a solid source of horror : what ’s scary than something coming for us in our house , when we are at our most vulnerable yet think we are good ? But being a " death bed , " in addition to the dreadful paronomasia , sounds really inconvenient .
Once you ’ve eat on your owners , you pretty much have to wait until somebody forestall on the house and sells all the contents to people who do n’t handle that the honest-to-goodness householder died under mysterious context , and does an evil entityreallyhave that kind of time ?
32. Don’t Worry, We’ll Think of a Title
" Oh , wait , no we did n’t ! Ha ha , attend at us , our movie has no title of respect ! It ’s like our movie is running around naked ! We ’re so wacky ! await at how wacky we are ! This is the sort of loco and insane that makes for enjoyable funniness , not at all the sort of earthy incompetence that think it ’s a dependable musical theme to tell people nothing at all about a pic before showing it ! "
Wait , we kind of lose the character motive there . Let ’s try again:“Don’t worry your pretty little point , moviegoers ! We know having a title that is n’t a claim just mishandle YOUR LITTLE head , but it ’ll be fine . We ’re just TOO RAW , TOO REAL for you!“Closer ?
31. eXistenZ
Random capitalisation of uncommon varsity letter gets old pretty Quick … so Quick that eVen one eight - missive rubric ca n’t really get away with it . The ' 90s get word a lot of this vociferous cap contumely , from all the net companies that tried to make themselves cooler by calling themselves eSomething or iWhatever ( we still do n’t know if you should call it " eBay " or " EBay " when beginning a sentence ) to the chat way conversations in the main all in lowercase or ALL IN UPPERCASE .
eXistenZ , a movie about VR , is probably trying to channel some of that with its claim , only with redundant - jittery " Z " zpellingz .
