Annoying film and group names

[Over The Hill]

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.

Yes the little uuankers

 

[jefmcg]

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.

Yes, that was the name of the play. I think it does make sense; no one is going to get confused by a play title, but unfortunately it very ambiguous as a movie title.

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

I believe that was what the book was called in the US, so you can blame the publishers for that one.

 

[rugby bloke]

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

I believe that to be their default setting ...

 

[Dave 123]

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?

It's not just you, you pendant.

 

[Over The Hill]

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.

Don't get me onto the French spelling of anything!!

 

[fimm]

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...

I thought both of those were renamed for the American market only?
EDIT: TMN to jefmcg
(I was also going to confidently state that "Licence to Kill" was the title of an Ian Flemming Bond novel, but a spot of research on Wikipedia informs me that I am totally wrong - it was in fact the first Bond film not to be based on one of the books. I do recall the phrase "licence to kill" on the blurb on the back of one of my father's copies of the books, though.)

 

[Markymark]

It was originall written as VV. W came later.

 

[jefmcg]

Yes the little uuankers

Now I think about it, of course it's simpler than that. The "VV" drew your eye and made you think about it. Is it a film you are likely to have seen (or even been consciously aware of) if it was just called "The Witch"? I suspect there were no ticket sale from you either way.

Interesting you got the title wrong. I googled "The Witches" it and couldn't find it - just older movies and plays. Google "VVitches" and up it came. If it had just been called "The Witch" I would never have found which film you meant.

Two Weeks Notice is another one. Yet another Hugh Grant rom com, or yet another Sandra Bulllock rom com. And apparently not a very good example of either. But get a grammar error in the title, and people remember the title more than a decade after they've forgotten the film.

 

[Spinney]

Two Weeks Notice is another one. Yet another Hugh Grant rom com, or yet another Sandra Bulllock rom com. And apparently not a very good example of either. But get a grammar error in the title, and people remember the title more than a decade after they've forgotten the film.

TMN to me!

 

[jefmcg]

TMN to me!

That was why I mentioned it. You are my example.

(I've never seen it, and don't remember caring about the title)

 

[AndyRM]

Personally I like neat graphic/typographic quirks that give you an idea of the film.

At least it shows some thought has gone into the design.

There are loads of posters/titles which could have been more cleverly crafted. There's a designer who's done a few but I can't remember his name off the top of my head.

 

[AndyRM]

Oh yeah, this was the original theatrical poster for Seven:

The stylisation came in the opening credit sequence, close your eyes around 29-33 seconds and you can happily watch an excellent film

 

[Milkfloat]

It could of course be that there are at least 3 other films called 'the Witches', this is unique and therefore easily protected.

 

[Tim Hall]

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

Like this?

ARTHUR:
Revoked?

HIG HURTENFLIRST:
Yeah. K-I-L-L-E-D. Revoked. But instead, I think I’ll suddenly take a liking to ya both.