Spoutblog has listed what it considers the ten best movie titles of the last ten years. They are:
- All About My Mother
- Amores Perros
- The Perfect Storm
- Shanghai Noon
- Adaptation
- Bad Company
- National Treasure
- Shaun of the Dead
- 2046
- There Will Be Blood
The only ones I really agree with are
All About My Mother and
There Will Be Blood. I would add
Children of Men, Babel,
The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God...Be Back by Five. I may even throw in
Dancer in the Dark and
Y Tu Mama Tambien for good measure.
What say you? Agree? Disagree? What titles would you add to the list?
Comments
I read somewhere where somebody liked the title SNAKES ON A PLANE. The only problem there is that the movie is so God-awful, that you don't even want to grant it that. LOL!
But I must disagree on SNAKES ON A PLANE. I LOVE it! It's one of my favorite guilty pleasures.
Other candidates might be C.R.A.Z.Y., A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, The Conversation, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, Kill Bill, M, No Country For Old Men, Pulp Fiction, Requiem For A Dream, Sideways, 2:37, 8 1/2, Anatomy of a Murder, Apocalypse Now, Back to the Future, Good Night and Good Luck, A History of Violence, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Transamerica, Blue, Red, White, 300, The Butcher Boy, Closer, Dial M for Murder, Elephant and... many more.
God, there are so much good movie titles; I had not realized that until now.
National Treasure and Bad Company? Now, I know it's easy to list off 10 great movies as examples of movies with good titles and to say nay to worse movies based solely on their "worseness," but both of those are really generic titles.
Anil - last 10 years.
And I'd give SOAP one of the spots, easily, regardless of its badness.
I kind of like the titles that draw out themes in a film...
for example, i would choose "Cider House Rules"
I also like the tile "The Prestige" because it simply doesn't mean anything until you watch it.
I also like Ratatouille, In the Valley of Elah, Thank You For Smoking, The Constant Gardner, Fever Pitch, & The Motorcycle Diaries to think of a few.