Comments on: Bland movie titles: A cinematic rose by any other name http://blog.newsok.com/projections/2011/02/17/bland-movie-titles-a-cinematic-rose-by-any-other-name-2/ Just another Blog.newsok.com site Wed, 08 May 2013 14:43:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Casey http://blog.newsok.com/projections/2011/02/17/bland-movie-titles-a-cinematic-rose-by-any-other-name-2/#comment-49 Casey Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:16:26 +0000 http://projectionsmovieblog.com/?p=2229#comment-49 It’s a shame there’s no comments on this, because as I see it, movie titles seem to be more bland and uninspired than any time I can remember. Even franchise or popcorn movies don’t really seem to even bother anymore, and it’s not like 20 something or more years ago they exactly went out of their way to come up with titles that bent your mind then, so now they’re just being really lazy.

I totally agree about the example given of “The Fighter”…it should be illegal to name a movie something so bland and forgetful, and it’s especially tragic if that movie is something that’s worth seeing.

I can’t understand what would motivate this trend, as you would think advertisers would indeed want the title to stand out in order to garner attention, but alas, we’re still left with tons of one-word, very descriptive but not creative titles.

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