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September 03, 2003

Movie titles that were picked first?
Posted by Jess in Day to Day

Have you ever watched a TV commercial of a movie, or a preview, and see a movie with a title that's so appropriately convenient, you have to wonder which came first, the plot or the title?

I thought of this when Matt and I recently saw a preview for a movie called "Cabin Fever", in which a group of teenagers head to the woods for a camping trip, and end up battling a flesh-eating virus.

I can just see some screenwriter sitting around one night, thinking, "hmmmmmmmmmm... ha ha ha, they'll be in a CABIN, and get sick, FEVER, get it, get it, ha ha ha!"

(This is all regardless of the quality of the movie. I've never seen it. I'd actually be incredibly impressed if someone crafted a great movie out of a working title. Which could happen all the time for all I know!)

Here's some more I could think of with extremely convenient titles... you be the judge:

Daddy Day Care
Cabin Fever
Shallow Hal
Legally Blonde
RoboCop
TimeCop

Any others you can think of?

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Comments

Well, I can see WHY they come up with lame titles. Heck, I'm too tired right now to even try to remember other dumb titles. Seems I heard years ago that Jobs & Wozniak were trying to come up with a name for their new computer and decided that if they couldn't think of anything by morning, they'd just call it 'Apple'. Maybe that's just legend, I don't know. But sometimes fatigue leads to dumb names.

Hmmm...but I *do* seem to recall where I've still got some chocolate-covered espresso beans! :-)

Posted by: Joe Litton at September 3, 2003 10:13 PM

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