Are you getting tired of films with one-word titles?
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Is anyone here getting tired of the one-word titles for movies like Enchanted, Princess, Up, Cars, Bolt, etc. etc. Now Ratatouille makes sense, but all these other films with one-word titles are driving me nuts!
What are your thoughts on this?
Well, as long as it relates to the film somewhat, then I think it’s okay. Sometimes it’s cool to have longer titles (especially when they’re exagerrated, such as the full version of Borat) but no, I guess I’ve never really noticed much of a trend of one-word titles.
I’m fine with it - some films are lucky they can sum their movie up in one single word. 
I agree with FONY, and it’s great for marketing too.
Sometimes it can grow just a tad bit redundant to have only one word titles. Because when I first thought of Enchanted… I thought “Uh, Ella Enchanted?”. And it can be kinda off-putting in a few ways.
Sometimes it can be good. But very rare do I see many single title movies catching my eyes. There are a few that tend to be, well I don’t really know how to put it to words, but it’s just something peculiar about them.
Not saying that the movies are bad in general. They can be quite impressive. But the title itself just leaves much to be desired. Because I don’t just want to watch a movie and not actually knowing more about it from just a simple one word title. Even the synopsis on the back of a box/case/etc leaves much to be desired.
I’d rather not be spoiled. But I just want to know what I’m about to experience from this particular film. You know what I’m saying, right?
I agree with bawpcwpn. Actually, there are many very successful one-word movies out there.
Jaws
Titanic
Fantasia
Shrek
Twister
Psycho
Goodfellas
Casablanca
Braveheart
Even if you put a “The” in front of it, it doesn’t kill it.
The Godfather
The Graduate
The Matrix
The Shining
The Terminator
etc.
However, I have noticed that Pixar’s now done four one-word movies in a row…
Okay, what about Up? That’s pretty annoying title, in my opinion, but the movie will most certainly be great. The title stinks, though.
They might as well be…
Toys
Bugs (omg they actually almost did that! 
)
Toys 2
Monsters
Fish
…you get the idea.
LOL, you forgot to mention Ratatouille was almost named Rats! 
The only way I’d find it annoying is that it’s simplistic and doesn’t sound so extraordinary, but the movie itself makes up for it, usually.
Well that depends on what word you use to make the title. Jaws, for example, is a more extraordinary title because it’s a bit more poetic than Shark.
wow, I guess the one-word titles really didn’t bug me, because this topic never even occurred to me.
I can see how movies about a certain type of animals having the name of that animal type could be annoying though. like a movie about rats being named Rats! But I really dont’ know if i personally would mind so much. I never had anything against the title Cars.
They don’t bother me much at all.
Up?
I don’t mind one word titles. A title is a title. NO matter how big or small.
OH NO! Not you, too! 
xDDD Great, I have to see it now.
haha i was going to say this sounded familiar…
What about long movie titles too, do they annoy people? 
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D (<— this is the longest one EVER)
Dude Where’s My Car?
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Don’t Tell Mom, The Babysitter’s Dead
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Some of them sound like real sentences lol.
Some of them are real sentences rofl.
Well, if a title becomes to long for people, you can always come up a nickname for it. Like the Narnia movies for me become Narnia Wardrobe and the onther one becomes Narnia Caspian. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle just becomes White Castle.
Well, as long as the long ones are accurate, I guess it’s okay. But it’s like Borat- no-one ever calls it ‘The Cultural Leanings of…’ and so on. 
It’s less annoying than something like the Golden Compass. Because obviously there’s a compass in that film. NOT.