Annoying film and group names

[Over The Hill]

Just seen an ad for a new film out called "The Witches" but all the posters write it as The VVitches (with two vees in). Right away I will not look any further and will not watch the film.
Letters are surely there to indicate the sound to make up the word.

This seems to be a progresson from the annoying use of numbers in place of letters.
The film Se7en was also on my boycott list (I just read it as "sesevenen") and in the past it was not difficult to avoid the group fiveive.

Is it just me who gets annoyed by this sort of thing?

 

[Spinney]

No, not just you!

Two weeks notice (no apostrophe) - the film wasn't brilliant either!

(Shop names like Kwik Fit also annoy me)

 

[Berk on a Bike]

(Shop names like Kwik Fit also annoy me)

 

[srw]

Orthography changes over time. It's a deliberately archaic look - back in the 17th century when the film was set, a W was often written as VV

 

[rugby bloke]

Call me shallow but I'm going to see the The VVitch based on the poster ....

One that annoyed me - World War Z. Only worked as a pun in American English and turned our to be an utterly preposterous film as well.

 

[Crackle]

I think irrational dislikes are perfectly valid and you shouldn't try too hard to educate your irrationality but run with it in a curmudgeonly and grumpy way as if the world around you is out of step with your clarity of vision. It's often hard to pull off but the key is, practise and you'll find people all over the internet trying to perfect it, often without success but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

 

[Spinney]

I think irrational dislikes are perfectly valid and you shouldn't try too hard to educate your irrationality but run with it in a curmudgeonly and grumpy way as if the world around you is out of step with your clarity of vision. It's often hard to pull off but the key is, practise and you'll find people all over the internet trying to perfect it, often without success but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

There are quite a few on CycleChat, and many of them are pretty good at it...

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Just seen an ad for a new film out called "The Witches" but all the posters write it as The VVitches (with two vees in). Right away I will not look any further and will not watch the film.
Letters are surely there to indicate the sound to make up the word.

This seems to be a progresson from the annoying use of numbers in place of letters.
The film Se7en was also on my boycott list (I just read it as "sesevenen") and in the past it was not difficult to avoid the group fiveive.

Is it just me who gets annoyed by this sort of thing?

Apparently it is a GR8 film. Ur irrationality is just that. Irrational. LOL*



*That's honestly the first and last LOL I've ever done.

 

[Arjimlad]

The letter W is known in French as double-V rather than our double-U after all...

I'd not ignore the lass just because of some old spelling thing.

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

You're missing out on a great film by ignoring Seven/Se7en...

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Orthography changes over time. It's a deliberately archaic look - back in the 17th century when the film was set, a W was often written as VV

Damn, I thought it was a new campaign for soothing cream for ladies' itchy bits

 

[captain nemo1701]

Just seen an ad for a new film out called "The Witches" but all the posters write it as The VVitches (with two vees in). Right away I will not look any further and will not watch the film.
Letters are surely there to indicate the sound to make up the word.

This seems to be a progresson from the annoying use of numbers in place of letters.
The film Se7en was also on my boycott list (I just read it as "sesevenen") and in the past it was not difficult to avoid the group fiveive.

Is it just me who gets annoyed by this sort of thing?

No, I hate that too. I suppose it's for the texting generation.

 

[jefmcg]

I think the "VV" has done it's work. Some people will be drawn to the film because of the odd spelling, some won't care, some will be annoyed, some will be so annoyed they will complain on the internet, giving the film word-of-mouth advertising that money can't buy. I hadn't heard of it until now: I'm interested, but I will wait for the reviews.

I would imagine the marketeers would be feeling very smug if they see this thread.

 

[jefmcg]

What really ticks me off is renaming of films for different markets. For instance "Airplane" was called "Flying High" in Australia, as the name was too close to "Airport" for oz trade mark rules. I'd assumed they had stopped doing this, as we are all on the internet, so as likely to see publicity for a film on a US site as a UK one. But the new Disney film Zootopia is bizarrely Zootropolis here.

(Apparently they were going to call "License to Kill" "License Revoked" but test audiences didn't know what revoked meant )

 

[Spinney]

And apparently The Madness of King George was originally going to identify him as George III, but they thought people might wonder what had happened to films I and II.

And Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone became Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone when filmed...