Severely Mis-named Movies

[Fat Hippo]

Do non-sensical translations count too?

The German version of Escape from New York is called "Die Klapperschlange", which means "The Rattlesnake". Aside from having absolutely nothing to do with the movie other than the lead having a snake tattoo, it isn't even a rattlesnake. It's a cobra...

Every time I'm in Germany I make a point to walk into an entertainment store to peruse the dvd section... Always the highlight of my trip

No offense, but when you call Die Hard 'Stirb Langsam'...

Yep, German movie names are consistently terrible, sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's a little sad. I mean, they turned "Made in Dagenham" which was a pretty decent and not altogether dumb movie, into goddamn "We Want Sex!" which was a one-off joke in the movie, and the new title only serves to make it look like an incredibly low-brow comedy. Not to mention both the titles are English, they just decided to make it dumber.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Dragonball: Evolution. It's a disgrace of an adaption.

It doesn't deserve to have the Dragon Ball name. Should be called... Shitball Evolution.

 

[Lilani]

Rise of the Guardians has got to be the most cripplingly generic name they could have come up with for a movie about Jack Frost, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Sandman, and the Tooth Fairy fighting against the Boogeyman to keep him from taking away all the hope and dreams of children in the world.

 

[faefrost]

John Carter. I mean seriously they couldn't use the better known more common names for the series. A Princess of Mars, or Warlord of Mars? As it is it sounds like any generic Tom Cruise movie. John Carter vs Jack Reacher!

 

[EyeReaper]

Well, the first I thought of was Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Needless to say, he doesn't fight the entire world, that would be silly. I'm also still not sure why they titled the movie after the second book, I guess Scott Pilgrim's Precious little Life just didn't roll of the tongue well enough.


Ooh, and O brother, Where art thou? its a retelling of the Odyssey during the great depression era. I don't recall the searching of brothers in it at all.

 

[McElroy]

To this day, no one knows why Fracture was translated to Murtumaton ("unbreakable") in Finland. The alternative title to the second Captain America movie is Captain America: Return of the First Avenger which got a bit cumbersome, I gotta say.

 

[Kinitawowi]

As always, The Simpsons does it best.

Also, Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different. A clip show, meaning it was completely the same...

 

[Narfo]

Here's an infamous example: Pearl Harbor.
A piss-poor, cheesy romance that has only a token connection to the infamous attack that brought the U.S. into World War II. Hell, two-thirds of the movie don't even take place in the Harbor or Hawaii.

 

[Almack]

Mine would have to be a movie called "Snowpiercer" the basic premise is that humans tried to artificially cool the planet the attempts went haywire and now the world is basically a snowball earth with the last humans stuck on a train and it was clear that they just had no idea what else to call it so they went with what sounded cool.


P.S that movie is AMAZING a definite must watch...so good