Film titles that are just people's names.

[Helen Back]

I hate it when the title of a movie is just the antagonist's name. This tells you nothing about the plot or genre or anything that would make me consider watching it.

Erin Brokovich
Morven Callar
John Wick
Constantine
Zoolander ("Is it about a wildlife park? No thanks.")
Pocahontas ("What the heck is a 'Pocahontas'?")

Hollywood - stop it!

 

[DotCommunist]

Che does what it says on the tin

 

[D'wards]

Mesrine

 

[trabuquera]

I have a sense of festering feminist injustice that where men's names are the title they're more likely to include an adjective, surname, or rank or status marker (John Wick, etc) ..... whereas women's names in titles are common as muck, even in the classics (Rebecca! Gilda! Frida! Emma! Hannah! Lore! etc etc etc) and far less likely to include a full name or an adjective or any more detail at all. Because all women are basically interchangeable while men are special and individual something something something?

(I'd be happy to be proved wrong on this one, btw.)

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Annie Hall
Elvira Madigan
Anna Karenina

 

[Pickman's model]

mr holmes

 

[Pickman's model]

caligula

 

[Pickman's model]

orlando

 

[Supine]

Rambo

 

[Pickman's model]

zelig

 

[Pickman's model]

nicholas nickleby

 

[lefteri]

I have a sense of festering feminist injustice that where men's names are the title they're more likely to include an adjective, surname, or rank or status marker (John Wick, etc) ..... whereas women's names in titles are common as muck, even in the classics (Rebecca! Gilda! Frida! Emma! Hannah! Lore! etc etc etc) and far less likely to include a full name or an adjective or any more detail at all. Because all women are basically interchangeable while men are special and individual something something something?

(I'd be happy to be proved wrong on this one, btw.)

Lenny
Buster

But you're probably right

 

[Pickman's model]

dr zhivago

 

[Sea Star]

i feel that at least if the film is named after a real person it is meaningful - not like when its a fictional character that means fuck all to anyone.

 

[Sea Star]

nicholas nickleby

Dickens!! Stop!!!!

 

[Magnus McGinty]

i feel that at least if the film is named after a real person it is meaningful - not like when its a fictional character that means fuck all to anyone.

((Pinocchio))

 

[Pickman's model]

Dickens!! Stop!!!!

still just a person's name, as, just a name

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Oliver Twist

 

[Maharani]

Cheech and Chong

 

[Fez909]

Almost all super hero films.

Batman
Superman
Etc

 

[Fez909]

Harold and Maude

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Edward Scissorhands

 

[trabuquera]

Barry Lyndon

 

[Fez909]

Rocky Balboa

 

[DaveCinzano]

I hate it when the title of a movie is just the antagonist's name. This tells you nothing about the plot or genre or anything that would make me consider watching it.

You could say that about practically any title that wasn't “the antagonist's name” (or indeed, the protagonist's or anyone else's name).

Does Cry Freedom really tell you more than Biko, without knowing some of the context already?

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I, Daniel Blake

 

[Pickman's model]

Harold and Maude

when harry met sally

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Kes

 

[Pickman's model]

captain blood

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Babe