What are the best movie titles ever?

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What are the best movie titles ever? And they cannot have anything to do with how good the movie eventually was. The kind of title where you just say, "Wow, I have to see that film."

A few to start:

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
The Sweet Hereafter
The Last of the Mohicans
Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Drop Dead Fred
Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead
Octopussy
 
The Shawshank Redemption(just kidding)

1. P.S Your Cat is Dead
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
3. Terminator
4. Night of the Living Dead
5. Fight Club
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Sin City
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. Kill Bill
10. Die Hard
11. The Day the Earth Stood Still
12. Harold and Kumar goes to White Castle
13. Dude, where's my Car?
14. Don't be a menace to south Central while drinking your Juice in the Hood
15. How to loose a guy in 10 days
16. Interview with a Vampire

Those are some quick ones I can think of, without knowing what those movies are about I'd say base on the title someone would want to see them.

I've read alot of books that says a great title for your movie can do wonders, it's a major part of marketing.
 
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Remember I'm talking about the titles, and not the actual movie.

300
Full metal Jacket
Brave Heart
Sin City
Ruthless People
Once Upon A Time In America
Good Fellas
Death Of A Salesman
Cat On The Hot Tin Roof
Stormy Weather
Batman Forever (Just the title, not the move)
Never Die Alone
Almost all of the early James Bond titles
Farris Bueler's Day Off
Red Dawn (Wolverines!!!!)
Lost Boys
 
Also:

One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
Dr. Stange Love or: How I stopped worrying and love the bomb
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence

And soon to be released, starring Brad Pitt:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
 
Man bites Dog
The Good the Bad & the Ugly
Aquirre, wrath of god
Borat: Cultural learnings of America for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
A Woman under the Influence
the cook the thief his wife and her lover
Close encounters of the Third Kind
The Eagle has Landed
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the Eighth Dimension
Valerie and her week of wonders
 
Super Trooper said:
Simple.

"Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia"

Classic Sam Peckinpah at his best.
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I feel like renting this film base on that title alone, Great One! Did the film suck?
 
Switchblade Romance
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Planet of the Apes
Evil Dead
Boondock Saints
The Conformist
Resevoir Dogs
Eraserhead
 
I tried not to repeat, sorry if I did.

in no particular order:

Amores Perros
Three Burials of Melqiades Estrada
Santa Clause Conquers the Martians
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Fight Club
Eyes Wide Shut
12 Angry Men
(and in the same vein) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Conversation
The Maltese Falcon
Cool Hand Luke
Run Lola Run
Payback
Pulp Fiction
Pirates of the Caribbean
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

and I'm spent.
 
Oh I thought when I opened this it was best title sequences... which btw would make a great thread.
 
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
Don't Torture a Duckling
Killer Klowns from Outer Space

I'll look through the movie collection when I get home and see if I can come up with some more.
 
A few foreign entries:

My Life as a Dog
Fvcking Amal
City of Lost Children
Scent of Green Papaya
The Human Beast
Wages of Fear
Spirit of the Beehive
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I also like simple, evocative titles:

Jaws
Repulsion
Frailty
The Collector
Delicatessen
The Earthling


And I'll throw in:

101 Ways (The Things a Girl Will do to Keep her Volvo)
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself ...
Night of the Iguana
 
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