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Author Topic: Is Midnight Meat Train the worst title ever? Shane Cooper Expert Film Handler Posts: 232 From: Little Rock, Arkansas Registered: Jun 2004 posted 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?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 03-09-2008 05:03 PM                        I'd have to consider "Three on a Meathook." Louis  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 03-09-2008 05:05 PM                     "Pootie Tang". I think that was the name of the film several years ago...  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 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?  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Shane Cooper Expert Film Handler Posts: 232 From: Little Rock, Arkansas Registered: Jun 2004 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-09-2008 11:10 PM                     When you have blood in your chocolate it might be a sign you have colon-rectal cancer.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-12-2008 07:25 PM                     Honeydripper?  |  IP: Logged Shane Cooper Expert Film Handler Posts: 232 From: Little Rock, Arkansas Registered: Jun 2004 posted 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!  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 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  |  IP: Logged

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