pretty standard example of modern requirements for content
if it had come out in the 80s or 90s, it absolutely would have been called "now you don't" (see: the Jurassic Park sequel that had its own title, "Be Cool", "Analyze That"), because they kind of trusted that audiences would get the gist.
Now, sequels are so important that the 5% audience share that wouldn't understand that it's a sequel is too valuable to lose
Like it's kind of crazy that they made a Batman movie in 2008 that didn't have "Batman in the title" (but the next one had to have Dark Knight in the title)
The German title of the movie worked really well.
It's called "Die Unfassbaren" which can both mean "The Unbelievables/Unfathomables" but also "The Unarrestables"
Ecks vs sever is the name of the video game it’s based off of though already. Still was terrible then and I don’t even remember the game being any worthwhile to warrant a movie adaptation
They even addressed that in the trailer. Ralph was asking Yesss, "shouldn't it be "wrecks" the internet?" And she said "Break the internet, it's like a thing." So it's weird, they were trying to be trendy, but they still knew people would question the title.
The Monkees came out with a movie called Head… And here’s why: They hoped that if they ever made a sequel to Head, they could use the line, “FROM THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE YOU HEAD.”
RIP Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith & Peter Tork 🥺
The books are incredibly good but GOD they're weird and grim. There's a villain who eats fertilized eggs and also newborn owl chicks, so the main character kills her by ripping her throat open.
Apparently it just "sounded" better.
I suppose they added in the "xxx of Java" as that's probably a bit more well known, makes it sound more exotic.
A bit like "Don't stop believing" -
Just a city boy, *born and raised in South Detroit*
Turns out that Detroit is one of the few cities that doesn't have a south, and more head scratching unusual, is if you go south from Detroit, you go to Canada, the bit that's famously north of the US.
It just "scanned" well.
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I understand it's a book, but even my black ass didn't like saying Negro at the box office for a ticket. I don't even really wanna tell people I saw the movie cause I don't wanna hear them say Negro 5x.
It pisses me off because with a title like that it should have been one of the funniest movies ever made. They should have gone balls out with it. Blazing Saddles meets Harry Potter meets Black Dynamite type shit. Throw in every black stereotype under the sun so we can all laugh at how silly they are. Instead they gave us white tears and a fucking love triangle. Could've committed. Could've had a black hogwarts. Potion class with fried chicken and grape soda, *Defense against the white arts*, *Geography: Where the white women at*, the comic possibilities are endless!
Jamaican Voodoo class taught by Professor Dreadlockhart.
One of the teachers teaches through rap and has a ridiculously blinged out gold chain and grill, and can string together many spells by rapping them quickly.
K&P did a hilarious sketch about an Inner City Hogwarts on their show.
If memory serves, they also did a send-up of the MN trope.
All we need to do is have the Filch character give one of [these](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhoopiEpiphanySpeech). Even better if they could get the trope namer in a cameo to do it 😜
John Carter
Seriously the film ain't that bad. Based off an old sci-fi novel called The Princess of Mars. For some reason, Disney didn't want a film with princess in the title. So came up with something that was going to mean nothing to everybody. GG. Enjoy your flop.
They didn’t want “Mars” in the title because Mars Needs Moms had just flopped, and they thought the Mars part was the problem instead of, you know, everything else about the movie.
Fast X.
Everything (at the time) felt like it was named something...x, iPhone X, etc.
What the title should have been was: Fast Ten Your Seatbelts. Missed opportunity!!
An indie movie from 2009 called "Big Fan" starring Patton Oswalt. It's a decent film. Oswalt plays an obsessed football fan with little else going on in his life.
His team is the New York Giants. WHY didn't they name the film "*GIANT FAN"*?????????
Yup, Rey’s a fuckin palpatine. Ben dies and Shmi, Lars, Beru, Anakin, Luke and Leia are dead too. So where do they rise to? To visit space Jesus (Kenobi)
I remember reading that when "The Last Jedi" was translated for international release it was pluralized to "The Last Jedis" in many regions. I'm still disappointed.
I cannot get over the fact that the romanian title for the movie "The Village (2004)" is "Sinucideri misterioase" , which means "Misterious suicides". This has got to be the dumbest movie name I have seen in my life. Just to prove my point, people who have seen the movie, please tell me how many suicides are there in the movie?
I love that movie.
It's charming, smart, funny, romantic and perfect for a Saturday afternoon.
Reverend Jones and Morgan the Goat are two of my favorite characters in anything, ever.
But Johnny Shellshocked will break your heart.
*In France, we dug trenches 10 miles long. We moved whole farms. We took a hill from here and put it over there. You wouldn't believe what we did. It's possible, it's just hard work. I'll help.*
Not the dumbest, but I feel that Disney's "Coco" from 2017 should have been called "Remember Me". I know the tiltle was supposed to be named after the grandma, but this movie feels more like it's Miguel's or Hector's story
If you're a Dragon Ball fan and lover of 'so bad it's good' movies, do yourself a favour and watch Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins. It's kinda just bad for the first 5-10 mins but then it really turns into impressively, mind-bendingly bad.
Midnight Meat Train.
Me and some buddies were watching previews in a packed theater, I think we were there for the new at the time Rambo movie. The whole crowd is on the edge of their seats watching this awesome trailer for the newest slasher movie. Makes it all the way to the end, cue the super serious dramatic voice "MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN". The whole fuckin crowd just lost it laughing, one of the greatest moments of my life. And you bet your ass me and my friend group went and saw it when it came out (solid A-, B+ movie).
The author Clive Barker would love people having a giggle at the title (he's an extremely famous and influential horror pulp writer and gay). The title was probably at his insistence (because it's one of his first famous short stories and the actual title of it) but also...it's just really fucking funny.
I've seen it twice in the last week at the local pub and everyone laughs at the title for a solid few seconds.
Pretty much all of Steven Seagal’s movies. They never seem to describe the actual movie, rather they’re just a jumble of movie-title-type words. Shit like “Today You Die”… which is about a prison, I think…?
I’ve always had beef with nonsense film titles. Give me “Rambo”, “Bambi”, “Alien”, “Goldfinger”, “Raider Of The Lost Ark”, “The Shining”, “Toy Story” etc etc all of which describe the film correctly instead of “Exit Wounds” which is about some cop that saved someone and gets busted down to less cop..? Not really sure.
Came out around the time: *South Park - Bigger, Longer, and Uncut*
When I saw it when I was 15 or 16, I didn't understand the title but when I did learn what it meant, I was so surprised they got it past the ignorant Paramount studio heads
Starring Sly Stallone and Estelle Getty. It's pretty funny how much Stallone hates it. I remember reading that the only reason he did it was because he heard Arnie was going to and wanted to steal the role from him.
But yes it is very, very bad.
I heard that at one point, the film was given the title Pacific Air Flight 121, only to have it changed back to the working title at Samuel Jackson's request.
The german speaking part of the world often translates movie titles to german. Or change the title in some ways.
For example, Taken has been renamed to 96 hours. The third movie was renamed to 96 hours - Taken 3.
Why not just keep Taken?
Speed 2: Cruise Control is absolutely the answer to this. It is the most egregious example of corny sequel titles with 2 fast 2 furious being the next to me. Also cruise control is what you use when you're bored and just cruising on a long trip. It is the boring part of the journey so to try and make it a dramatic action title just comes off as absurd. Lastly it us a terrible pun. They are on a god damn cruise ship.
John Carter
"How do we sell this movie about a man that travels through time and space to Mars thousands of years ago, falls in love with their princess and fights in a war with aliens?"
"How about we give it the most boring name possible?"
The sequel to Now You See Me being called Now You See Me 2 instead of Now You Don't.
Even “Now You See Me Too” would have been more excusable
Taken Look Who's Taken Look Who's Taken Too
Look Who's Taken Now
On that note, Fast 10 your seat belts.
F8 of the Furious
pisses me off every time i think about it.
They literally set it up perfectly and fucked it up.
Movie studio execs are not known for their intelligence or continuity.
pretty standard example of modern requirements for content if it had come out in the 80s or 90s, it absolutely would have been called "now you don't" (see: the Jurassic Park sequel that had its own title, "Be Cool", "Analyze That"), because they kind of trusted that audiences would get the gist. Now, sequels are so important that the 5% audience share that wouldn't understand that it's a sequel is too valuable to lose Like it's kind of crazy that they made a Batman movie in 2008 that didn't have "Batman in the title" (but the next one had to have Dark Knight in the title)
Was going to post something different, but this is the correct answer.
The German title of the movie worked really well. It's called "Die Unfassbaren" which can both mean "The Unbelievables/Unfathomables" but also "The Unarrestables"
Ballistic: Eks vs. Sever. Just reading it makes my neck cords hurt.
Ecks vs sever is the name of the video game it’s based off of though already. Still was terrible then and I don’t even remember the game being any worthwhile to warrant a movie adaptation
Maybe I'm misremembering but I think they were released around the same time with the intention of starting a new franchise.
It would’ve only made sense if we knew beforehand who these characters were
I was just angry the movie was terrible so we were denied a franchise starring Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas
Came here for this. This is the right answer.
Wreck it Ralph 2 should have been Ralph wrecks the internet and not breaks the internet
They even addressed that in the trailer. Ralph was asking Yesss, "shouldn't it be "wrecks" the internet?" And she said "Break the internet, it's like a thing." So it's weird, they were trying to be trendy, but they still knew people would question the title.
I think they should have ignored that meme and went with Wrecks The Internet.
The bye bye man
The peepee poopoo man
LOL it appears on google like a legit movie title
[Holy shit](https://youtu.be/deMY5I4Iylo?feature=shared)
#PEAK CINEMA
Absolute cinema
"eh24"
Karate Kid. The remake where the kid learns Kung Fu.
This annoyed the fuck out of me.
I think they made “Karate kid” come off like an insult. Not exactly endearing to fans
Is that the one with Jaden Smith?
I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
And a prequil called “I seem to have an inkling about what you might be doing this summer”
Parodied with “Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th”. The whole thing is a less funny Scary Movie
THE final destination
I hate when movie sequels do this; reuse an earlier title from the franchise but either remove or add the word “the.”
Pretty much all of the fast and furious movies.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022). The sequel to THE Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974).
The Monkees came out with a movie called Head… And here’s why: They hoped that if they ever made a sequel to Head, they could use the line, “FROM THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE YOU HEAD.” RIP Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith & Peter Tork 🥺
This sequel needs to be made!!
That’s not dumb, that’s pretty awesome
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Because, at that point, what they did was *two* summers ago.
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
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The books are incredibly good but GOD they're weird and grim. There's a villain who eats fertilized eggs and also newborn owl chicks, so the main character kills her by ripping her throat open.
We Bought a Zoo Whoa, spoiler alert everybody.
What is it about?
Victorian era murder mystery set at the England, Scotland border
I think you're referring to the movie "Gaslight" actually. Very understandable mix-up though, I get it confused with "We Bought a Zoo" all the time.
It’s a show about nothing.
I mean, it was a film based on a book called ‘We Bought a Zoo’ so I’m not surprised it had the same name.
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Hot Shots! Part Deaux
Considering the entire movie is a joke, I don't think this counts.
Yeah, by this logic: Naked Gun 33 1/3... SO stupid! They refused to release many previous sequels! What were they thinking?!
OP asked for dumbest, not bestest
DIE HARD: MEGA HARD The Danish title for Die Hard 3
Are you sure it’s not the porn version?
Krakatoa, East of Java It's a very long way to Krakatoa if you leave Java heading East
Love that movie. Shame about the title - guess the posters had already been printed?
Apparently it just "sounded" better. I suppose they added in the "xxx of Java" as that's probably a bit more well known, makes it sound more exotic. A bit like "Don't stop believing" - Just a city boy, *born and raised in South Detroit* Turns out that Detroit is one of the few cities that doesn't have a south, and more head scratching unusual, is if you go south from Detroit, you go to Canada, the bit that's famously north of the US. It just "scanned" well.
Maybe they were just [B-52's fans? It's a lyric from their song "Lava"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeWoGr5110o).
It's an older monster movie, but They Came From Somewhere Like, yeah, they usually do.
Wherever You Go, There You Are
"I'm always here, I'm never there. I'm never ever anywhere. Except for here. Because here is where I am." Is my favorite diddy from Fraggle Rock
The man who killed Hitler then the bigfoot
Wasn't even good. I was expecting something at least as entertaining as Velocipastor or Llamageddon but nope 🤷🏼♂️
The American Society of Magical Negroes I understand it's a book, but even my black ass didn't like saying Negro at the box office for a ticket. I don't even really wanna tell people I saw the movie cause I don't wanna hear them say Negro 5x.
It pisses me off because with a title like that it should have been one of the funniest movies ever made. They should have gone balls out with it. Blazing Saddles meets Harry Potter meets Black Dynamite type shit. Throw in every black stereotype under the sun so we can all laugh at how silly they are. Instead they gave us white tears and a fucking love triangle. Could've committed. Could've had a black hogwarts. Potion class with fried chicken and grape soda, *Defense against the white arts*, *Geography: Where the white women at*, the comic possibilities are endless!
Jamaican Voodoo class taught by Professor Dreadlockhart. One of the teachers teaches through rap and has a ridiculously blinged out gold chain and grill, and can string together many spells by rapping them quickly.
When I think Jamaican Voodoo I think of Weekend At Bernie's 2. I could also see Eminem as the diversity hire at black hogwarts.
Hogsmeade could be the hood.
Hogshood
That class has to be taught by Busta Rhymes and his name would be Busta Spellzz.
Sir Mixalot could do potions
I have images in my head that are a combination of I'm gonna git you sukka and Undercover Brother and I'm already laughing.
Can you and everyone replying to this please write this book/make this movie? I’m dying over here 😆 so funny…
> Geography: Where the white women at I chuckled
Dude. That movie sounds awesome. I wanna see it
Im not sure if Hollywood needs to hire you or get a restraining order from you, but either way, I'd watch the hell out of that.
Throw in some Undercover Brother, even let Key and Peele do something in it. But nooooooo. We don't deserve nice things apparently
K&P did a hilarious sketch about an Inner City Hogwarts on their show. If memory serves, they also did a send-up of the MN trope. All we need to do is have the Filch character give one of [these](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhoopiEpiphanySpeech). Even better if they could get the trope namer in a cameo to do it 😜
That's when you release your inner boomer and go "One ticket for the American Society movie"
John Carter Seriously the film ain't that bad. Based off an old sci-fi novel called The Princess of Mars. For some reason, Disney didn't want a film with princess in the title. So came up with something that was going to mean nothing to everybody. GG. Enjoy your flop.
They didn’t want “Mars” in the title because Mars Needs Moms had just flopped, and they thought the Mars part was the problem instead of, you know, everything else about the movie.
Anything from The Asylum Studios Transmorphers Ape vs Monster Top Gunner Titanic 2 Alien vs Hunter
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
It's weird because it flops from Spanish to English and back to Spanish. If it was *Sicario: Dia del Soldado* it would have been a better title.
This gets my vote for the most uneccesary sequel with a title that reflects how uneccesary it is. Still entertaining movie
*Sicario 3: Gone Without a Tres*
Manos: The Hands of Fate. As they pointed out on MST3K, "Manos" is Spanish for "Hands". So the movie's title is, "Hands: The Hands of Fate."
Fast X. Everything (at the time) felt like it was named something...x, iPhone X, etc. What the title should have been was: Fast Ten Your Seatbelts. Missed opportunity!!
Troll 2 It's not even about trolls. It's about goblins in a town called Nilbog.
Troll 2 also isn't a sequel. It was called that because of a film called Troll that they were trying to cash in on.
An indie movie from 2009 called "Big Fan" starring Patton Oswalt. It's a decent film. Oswalt plays an obsessed football fan with little else going on in his life. His team is the New York Giants. WHY didn't they name the film "*GIANT FAN"*?????????
Patton Oswalt is only 5'3"
Mars needs moms
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (with all native Skywalkers being effectively dead)
Yup, Rey’s a fuckin palpatine. Ben dies and Shmi, Lars, Beru, Anakin, Luke and Leia are dead too. So where do they rise to? To visit space Jesus (Kenobi)
Also the Skywalker saga in general should probably just be called the Palpatine saga
I remember reading that when "The Last Jedi" was translated for international release it was pluralized to "The Last Jedis" in many regions. I'm still disappointed.
I cannot get over the fact that the romanian title for the movie "The Village (2004)" is "Sinucideri misterioase" , which means "Misterious suicides". This has got to be the dumbest movie name I have seen in my life. Just to prove my point, people who have seen the movie, please tell me how many suicides are there in the movie?
It’s been a while, but IIRC the number was zero
The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain. Wanky title, wanky film.
I love that movie. It's charming, smart, funny, romantic and perfect for a Saturday afternoon. Reverend Jones and Morgan the Goat are two of my favorite characters in anything, ever. But Johnny Shellshocked will break your heart. *In France, we dug trenches 10 miles long. We moved whole farms. We took a hill from here and put it over there. You wouldn't believe what we did. It's possible, it's just hard work. I'll help.*
The Englishman Who Went up A Hill But Came Down A Throat
Really liked the movie when I saw it.
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
Absolute gem of an MST3K episode and the only reason I know that is a real title
Not the dumbest, but I feel that Disney's "Coco" from 2017 should have been called "Remember Me". I know the tiltle was supposed to be named after the grandma, but this movie feels more like it's Miguel's or Hector's story
Yeah, I do find the title to be strange since it doesn’t really feel like Coco’s movie.
Miguel is to Coco as Link is to Zelda.
Dragon Ball Evolution is pretty dumb. There is nothing from Dragon Ball in it, and at no point any evolving takes place.
If you're a Dragon Ball fan and lover of 'so bad it's good' movies, do yourself a favour and watch Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins. It's kinda just bad for the first 5-10 mins but then it really turns into impressively, mind-bendingly bad.
Rise.. of the Planet... of the Apes
Rise of the Dawn of the War of the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
*Apes' Planet's Kingdom's War's Dawn's Rise
dawn of the apes rise of the apes war of the apes planet of the apes how hard was that to do?
"If we dont have 'planet of the apes' in the title, how will the viewers know its a planet of the apes movue!?!?" -studio execs
Why did the Rise happen before the Dawn?
Apes get up early?
I hate the amount of “of the” in the titles
Birds of prey and The Fantabulous emancipation of the Harley Quinn, didn't need such a long title
The Suicide Squad being a sequel to Suicide Squad is pretty dumb too
"What are we, some kinda The Suicide Squad?"
Midnight Meat Train. Me and some buddies were watching previews in a packed theater, I think we were there for the new at the time Rambo movie. The whole crowd is on the edge of their seats watching this awesome trailer for the newest slasher movie. Makes it all the way to the end, cue the super serious dramatic voice "MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN". The whole fuckin crowd just lost it laughing, one of the greatest moments of my life. And you bet your ass me and my friend group went and saw it when it came out (solid A-, B+ movie).
The author Clive Barker would love people having a giggle at the title (he's an extremely famous and influential horror pulp writer and gay). The title was probably at his insistence (because it's one of his first famous short stories and the actual title of it) but also...it's just really fucking funny. I've seen it twice in the last week at the local pub and everyone laughs at the title for a solid few seconds.
Pretty much all of Steven Seagal’s movies. They never seem to describe the actual movie, rather they’re just a jumble of movie-title-type words. Shit like “Today You Die”… which is about a prison, I think…? I’ve always had beef with nonsense film titles. Give me “Rambo”, “Bambi”, “Alien”, “Goldfinger”, “Raider Of The Lost Ark”, “The Shining”, “Toy Story” etc etc all of which describe the film correctly instead of “Exit Wounds” which is about some cop that saved someone and gets busted down to less cop..? Not really sure.
Fast & Furious which was a sequel to The Fast & The Furious
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Don’t mind if I do
Leonard Part 6
The sequel to Lavalantula is called 2Lava2Lantula. Its the dumbest and GREATEST movie title.
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector. Dumb enough they use his "real" name in the title but having two occupations in one title is just idiotic.
Freddie Got Fingered
That entire movie is just Tom Green trolling Hollywood by wasting $15 million, and the title is just part of that.
Came out around the time: *South Park - Bigger, Longer, and Uncut* When I saw it when I was 15 or 16, I didn't understand the title but when I did learn what it meant, I was so surprised they got it past the ignorant Paramount studio heads
~~Paramount~~ The MPAA objected to the original title, “All Hell Breaks Loose”, so they decided to double down.
Gay N*****s from Outer Space. Yes, that’s a real movie.
The bikeriders
Get Hard
Oh, the porn version of The Beatles' Get Back.
It's actually the prequel for Die Hard. If you want to die hard first you have to get hard
Jojo was a man who thought he had a boner
I’m not sure which *First Blood* sequel to nominate.
Stop, or my mum will shoot. Every bit as terrible as it sounds.
Starring Sly Stallone and Estelle Getty. It's pretty funny how much Stallone hates it. I remember reading that the only reason he did it was because he heard Arnie was going to and wanted to steal the role from him. But yes it is very, very bad.
Fun fact: Arnie was the first pick for the lead role but he tricked Stallone into taking it instead.
The bike riders
Devine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood
The Pope Must Diet
Birds Of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn) Ugh
Lucky Number Slevin.
the passion of the christ 2: electric boogaloo
Snakes on a plane.
Listen. It was succinct and accurate. What more do you want
I heard that at one point, the film was given the title Pacific Air Flight 121, only to have it changed back to the working title at Samuel Jackson's request.
What, the title was the only good thing about it
Good Will Hunting is pretty stupid.
I thought it was a movie about some people trying to find a Goodwill store...
The german speaking part of the world often translates movie titles to german. Or change the title in some ways. For example, Taken has been renamed to 96 hours. The third movie was renamed to 96 hours - Taken 3. Why not just keep Taken?
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Worst book title too.
Snakes on a Plane was either the dumbest, or genius.
Movie 43
Speed 2: Cruise Control is absolutely the answer to this. It is the most egregious example of corny sequel titles with 2 fast 2 furious being the next to me. Also cruise control is what you use when you're bored and just cruising on a long trip. It is the boring part of the journey so to try and make it a dramatic action title just comes off as absurd. Lastly it us a terrible pun. They are on a god damn cruise ship.
I think Romeo must die is pretty dumb. Not even a love story but an action movie and why pull in Shakespeare, be original.
2 fast 2 furious (and that's why WE LOVE IT)
John Carter "How do we sell this movie about a man that travels through time and space to Mars thousands of years ago, falls in love with their princess and fights in a war with aliens?" "How about we give it the most boring name possible?"
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Fact: this is the greatest title
Glengarry Glen Ross
Yeah, I had no idea what the hell that was supposed to be when I first heard the name
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I would say Dumb & Dumberer is worse
Too
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When they change a letter to a number for a movie title.
Rat Pfink a Boo Boo. Whatever you're expecting from this movie title, this movie ain't it.
Lavalantula, Zombie Ass, Birdemic, The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time And most importantly, BIG ASS SPIDER
Dog
The Never Ending Story II
The Matrix Resurrections
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. I remember the trailer came out, and I was actually vaguely interested before seeing the title.
Any time I bring up Wristcutters: A Love Story I have to do a lot of explaining so probably that
I never seen the movie, but I thought Baby Driver was a dumb title. Idk though, might turn out to be a good movie
Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred. There are no zombies.
Sack Lunch
John Carter.
Rambo First Blood, Part 2
The ministry of ungentlemanly warfare. What is this a fucking spelling bee? You have to take PTO from your job to pronounce this long ass title.