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Posted by Shane Cooper (Member # 2510) on 03-09-2008, 01:56 AM:

So I saw a trailer for the movie Midnight Meat Train, which bills itself a horror/thriller. It was in a full auditorium for The Bank Job, and most people seemed to be taking in the trailer without incident. However, when the name Midnight Meat Train was spoken by that guy that does all of the horror movie trailers, the entire house busted out in laughter. One person even made some lewd comment about having a midnight meat train for someone.

Is this the worst title ever?

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 03-09-2008, 03:24 AM:

It's at least the foregone winner of worst movie title of 2008.

Midnight Meat Train sounds like it could be a title of a Jeff Stryker movie.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 03-09-2008, 10:59 AM:

I had the same reaction when I saw a TV trailer of this dog a few weeks ago. The title made me think it just HAD to be a comedy.

Posted by Louis Bornwasser (Member # 3063) on 03-09-2008, 05:03 PM:

I'd have to consider "Three on a Meathook." Louis

Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 03-09-2008, 05:05 PM:

"Pootie Tang". I think that was the name of the film several years ago...

Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 03-09-2008, 05:24 PM:

I thnk the new James Bond film has a pretty bad title: Quantum of Solace. What is that anyways?

Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 03-09-2008, 07:54 PM:

Quantum of Solace

Sounds like a place where Superman would go when if he wanted to think about something. [Big Grin]

Posted by Shane Cooper (Member # 2510) on 03-09-2008, 11:06 PM:

Let me also throw out for consideration Blood and Chocolate. That p.o.s. got a similar response last year.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 03-09-2008, 11:10 PM:

When you have blood in your chocolate it might be a sign you have colon-rectal cancer.

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 03-10-2008, 12:44 AM:

That's a pretty damn bad name.

Though I remember when an old coworker was building up a set of trailers and immediately came up to be laughing and handed me the one titled "Skinwalkers." Just an awful name.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 03-10-2008, 08:09 AM:

Here's a trailer story with a laugh. The very first trailer I ever spliced into a show was a brand new print and still had the (protection) leaders intact. Having never seen a new trailer before, or a lab ID sticker, I commented to my mentor that the trailer looked very long to run only a minute. The label read:

Gone in 60 Seconds

This was 1975.

Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 03-12-2008, 07:25 PM:

Honeydripper?

Posted by Shane Cooper (Member # 2510) on 03-13-2008, 09:31 PM:

Okay, I stand corrected. The worst title may be "Teeth".

Yahoo! Movies - Teeth

...and they ain't in her mouth folks!

Posted by John Lasher (Member # 968) on 03-15-2008, 12:09 PM:

My $.02: "Love in the Time of Cholera"

Why not "Romance in the Time of the Black Death"
"Affection in the Time of Measles"
"Amour in the Time of Chicken Pox"
"Sex in the Time of Cit-- No no no