Toddarino

The villain in Halloween III was into the festival of Samhain.

JTH182

lol, Doc says those exact words in the movie... I think it makes perfect sense.

Tarantino

As someone who once worked at a mall, that's just what we call people who'd go there to hang out.

DonnachaOne

Yes; Quantum of Solace is a title that makes sense, referring to Bond's smallest iota of comfort he still has from his relationship with Vesper. It's still an indefensibly stupid title.



I don't remember that from the film, but honestly, the film was far too bad to stick with me. A google search indicates that a similar piece of narration does appear in the film, so I must apologize.

obscurelabel

G.I. Jane - the title character is in the Navy; G.I.s are Army soldiers.

Any of the Thin Man movies after the first one; the "thin man" was a murder victim and had nothing to do with the rest of the films, and star William Powell was certainly not he.

A Clockwork Orange - Burgess gave several varying explanations of what this meant, but none of them are in the book or movie.

Scarecrow - it's been a while since I've seen this 1973 movie, but I don't think the title has anything to do with its content.

Troll 2 - well known for having no trolls and not being a sequel to Troll.

It's an awkward metaphor for ... something, but if I remember correctly it's mentioned in the film (the 1940s version anyway), so there is some justification for it as the title.

digidoh

The Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense. The title references the lyrics from "Girlfriend is Better", but the movie begs its title to be self-defeating.

Does that make sense?

OldBoy

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?...if you see the movie, you find out. what's up with dat?

PopcornTreeCt

It does make perfect sense. The whole point of the movie is sending Marty back to the future.

Rockmjd23

Zombies of the Stratosphere with Leonard Nimoy. They aren't zombies, they are aliens.

Planet of the Vampires - They aren't vampires, they are aliens possessing dead bodies of humans. The original Italian title of Terror in Space should have been kept.

godzilla rules

The narration is in the movie at the end. It is verbatim, but it is there.

GrouchoFan

Blade Runner, anyone? Because I sure don't know what the hell hunting replicants has to do with the things you put on your ice skates.

Abob Teff

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith ... Sith don't take revenge. They kill to prove superiority.

John Carter ... lousy sequel to Coach Carter. Made no sense.

My Other Self

This may sound trite given my username, but the term most definitely makes sense. His main goal is to get back to the future from the 50s. What's considered the present is the future from the standpoint of when the majority of the film takes place.

Quatermass

It wasn't as bad as The Iron Lady, a terrible sequel to Iron Man

RichC2

It was more of a spin off, Paltrow aged horribly between Iron Man and that.

JumpCutz

Goodfellas...those guys weren't good.

inri222

The title is referring to Adam of the Bible.

rennervision

I've often said it makes no sense the third Batman movie (which introduces Robin) is called "Batman Forever" and the next movie (the fourth - as in FORever) is called " Batman and Robin."

Numanoid

I love the series, but that always has irritated me. They even had a Thin Man radio series, still overlooking this error.

Also, I was always confused by the Stallone Rambo movies. First Blood. Fine. Rambo: First Blood, Part II. Fine. Rambo III. Huh? Surely you mean Rambo II, or First Blood III: Rambo II.

DonnachaOne

Sounds like a fair score.

DeputyDave

My dad had an interesting explanation for "A Clockwork Orange" (one of his favorite books and movies). He spoke fluent Russian (the language used as most of the "slang" in the book and movie) and was trained by the NSA in most common phrases and popular usages around the time the book was written. He says instead of the American phrase, "As clear as mud." (meaning not clear at all) Russians would say "as clear as an orange." He felt that a "Clockwork Orange" is something that was specifically built and designed to be unclear or murky.

DaveyJoe

Eyes Wide Shut? Something about being oblivious? I don't know. I like the movie though.

rennervision

I always thought a "Clockwork" Orange was referencing something not natural or organic but was instead created by man to try and behave like a normal orange.

inri222

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange


Title

Burgess gave three possible origins for the title:

- He had overheard the phrase "as queer as a clockwork orange" in a London pub in 1945 and assumed it was a Cockney expression.¹ In Clockwork Marmalade, an essay published in the Listener in 1972, he said that he had heard the phrase several times since that occasion. He also explained the title in response to a question from William Everson on the television programme, Camera Three in 1972, "Well, the title has a very different meaning but only to a particular generation of London Cockneys. It's a phrase which I heard many years ago and so fell in love with, I wanted to use it, the title of the book. But the phrase itself I did not make up. The phrase "as queer as a clockwork orange" is good old East London slang and it didn't seem to me necessary to explain it. Now, obviously, I have to give it an extra meaning. I've implied an extra dimension. I've implied the junction of the organic, the lively, the sweet – in other words, life, the orange – and the mechanical, the cold, the disciplined. I've brought them together in this kind of oxymoron, this sour-sweet word."[6][7] However, no other record of the expression being used before 1962 has ever appeared.[8] Kingsley Amis notes in his Memoirs (1991) that no trace of it appears in Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Historical Slang.

- His second explanation was that it was a pun on the Malay word orang, meaning "man." The novel contains no other Malay words or links.[8]

- In a prefatory note to A Clockwork Orange: A Play with Music, he wrote that the title was a metaphor for "...an organic entity, full of juice and sweetness and agreeable odour, being turned into a mechanism."[8]


In his essay, "Clockwork Oranges," ² Burgess asserts that "this title would be appropriate for a story about the application of Pavlovian or mechanical laws to an organism which, like a fruit, was capable of colour and sweetness." This title alludes to the protagonist's positively conditioned responses to feelings of evil which prevent the exercise of his free will. To reverse this conditioning, the protagonist is subjected to a technique in which violent scenes displayed on screen, which he is forced to watch, are systematically paired with negative stimulation in the form of nausea and "feelings of terror" caused by an emetic medicine administered just before the presentation of the films.

PenguinJoe

BRAZIL the movie doesn't even take place there.