DISCOVER--the weirdest WTF?? title changes on the IMDB
Okay, this is just a bit of fun to celebrate my fiftieth list on the IMDB. During the course of compiling them, I've been struck by just how many really well known and established titles are listed under something else that's completely ridiculous. I can't imagine why I would ever need to, but I sometimes think that if I typed in The Sound of Music and Gone With the Wind, they would come up as Running Across the Hills and Fire in the Sky.
I know the IMDB have their way of doing things, and will say with some justification that these titles are technically correct, having been given them for two milliseconds when originally released in Belgium or whatever, but some are just pedantry gone mad (I'm not referring to foreign films being listed under their foreign titles, which is perfectly acceptable, if not always consistent).
So, hoping that this light-hearted listing will be taken with the good humour it's been put together in, here are the wildest and wackiest alternate titles I've stumbled across as I utilise the IMDB. And if you guys want to insist that the 1964 pilot for Star Trek absolutely has to be dated 1986 just because that's when it got it's official release, that's fine with me... In the same way that some guys like to be spanked with table tennis bats while dressed as Little Miss Muffet, that's fine with me too. Weird... but live and let live... (which is not the alternate title for You Only Live Twice, by the way)...
Jon Abbott has been writing professionally for over thirty years about film and television for around two dozen different publications, trade, specialist, and populist, and has had two books published by McFarland. See his Amazon authors' page and his other lists on the IMDB promoting the popular culture of the 1960s and surrounding decades. They all begin with the pre-fix DISCOVER...
I know the IMDB have their way of doing things, and will say with some justification that these titles are technically correct, having been given them for two milliseconds when originally released in Belgium or whatever, but some are just pedantry gone mad (I'm not referring to foreign films being listed under their foreign titles, which is perfectly acceptable, if not always consistent).
So, hoping that this light-hearted listing will be taken with the good humour it's been put together in, here are the wildest and wackiest alternate titles I've stumbled across as I utilise the IMDB. And if you guys want to insist that the 1964 pilot for Star Trek absolutely has to be dated 1986 just because that's when it got it's official release, that's fine with me... In the same way that some guys like to be spanked with table tennis bats while dressed as Little Miss Muffet, that's fine with me too. Weird... but live and let live... (which is not the alternate title for You Only Live Twice, by the way)...
Jon Abbott has been writing professionally for over thirty years about film and television for around two dozen different publications, trade, specialist, and populist, and has had two books published by McFarland. See his Amazon authors' page and his other lists on the IMDB promoting the popular culture of the 1960s and surrounding decades. They all begin with the pre-fix DISCOVER...
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