7 Words That Only Bad Movies Have in Their Titles

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You can tell a lot about a movie from a single word in its title, and that's lucky, because one is exactly how many words your potential audience is willing to remember. Some words in movie titles always fulfill your expectations. Words like "Rambo" or "anal." But there are certain words that make a promise of awesome and never, ever deliver. I went through every word and every movie that has ever existed and found the seven best examples.

Notes on Statistical Data:

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These figures are based on the exact number of unique films a determined lunatic could own featuring specific words in their titles. Keep in mind that movie titling is not an exact science. Movies are constantly being renamed and redistributed, and 60 to 70 percent of all movie names are designed to trick idiots. As any kung fu enthusiast can tell you, one Bruce Li or Bruce Le film without vampires can be sold as Bruce Lee vs. Dracula, Fist the Vampire or Bruce Lee's Tits and Bats 2: None of Those Things. If you're really unlucky, you may end up getting all three of those same films in one box set.

In addition to duplicates being thrown out, I eliminated documentaries and short films. Japanese cartoons weren't included, since they were all named with a word blender and exist only to dissolve the viewer's genitals. In your face, already bullied innocents! I also left out titles that were intentionally silly. I didn't need wackiness clouding my data, and I was dealing with enough irony deciding whether a Steven Seagal film should be considered Awesome or Garbage. Speaking of, I of course accounted for the accidentally awesome in my data.

"Cop"

There's a reason there are 150 movies with the word "cop" in the title. They fight crime during the day and jump out of ladies' birthday cakes during the night. That should make a great movie, but look at these alarming "cop" title numbers:

7 Words That Only Bad Movies Have in Their Titles

For every insane idea any filmmaker has ever had, someone in Hong Kong has added the word "cop" to it and made it with a quarter of the budget and 30 times the stuntman casualties. As they said in Supercop, "Super cops in Hong Kong are cheap and plentiful like commodities in supermarkets." That's mostly because I don't think they know what that word means. Hardly any of their "cop" movies are about policemen. Shit, even my knockoff Zyprexa came with an instructional video called Laser Cop Precinct.

SAMMO HUNG BURGER COP AKA: DON'T GIVE A DAMN DIGITALLY RESTORED AND REMASTERED

Oh, that makes sense. I guess in Cantonese the word "cop" really does translate to "Don't give a damn."

The problem with giving magical powers to cops is that cops have regulations to follow. And if for some reason they don't, then that is the focus of your movie. It makes no sense to have a cop that can turn corpses into puppets, be a dog ghost or teach kindergarten. They'd be fired the second the chief found out about it. This kind of dislogic leads to movies like Scanner Cop, where he can explode brains with his mind but fights the one guy whose brain can't explode.

Oh, you thought I was kidding?

"Beast"

With movie titles like The Beast With a Million Eyes and Attack of the Beast Creatures, the word "beast" never had a chance. They cast Frasier to play the superhero with that name, which was basically just an expensive way to call comic book nerds gay.

FILMS CONTAINING THE WORD BEAST: AWESIME: GARBAGE: 11 trCTS VIRKEK 2E FI18 KUSEY BEAST Isl SHAE HAUNTE 174 ERAM HiM4en sdentie Ferormt Unn ond Grare

These numbers include all 34 versions of the most overmade film in history, Beauty and the Beast. Why did we need this movie 34 times? Well, the moral of the story is that women can see the good in an ugly man's heart and fall in love. But the other side of that coin, ugly ladies, is that even an actual donkey monster can do better than you. That's a truly insane moral to get pounded into our brains by so many different movies. My theory is that a vast conspiracy of ugly men control everything, and the fact that I have no proof can only mean I'm far too handsome to be let in on it.

Is there one that also includes the word "cop"?

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Yes.

"Cyborg"

You know a word is in trouble when it's the name of the only bad Jean-Claude Van Damme movie.

FILMS CONTAINING THE WORD CYBORG. AWESIME: GARBAGE 12 KERSCLIS TIGANI THSI YBORG AMERICAN SOLDIER CYBORG FRI 0000% IRONIC MARGIN CHANCE OF CYBORG GO

Is there one that also includes the word "cop"?

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Yes.

"Future"

Everyone knows the future will be great. Sex androids, jet packs, fewer pandas ... it sells itself. But it's bad form for a movie about the future to name drop right in the title. In fact, when you're naming a science fiction film, it's better to just find a couple words that have nothing to do with the plot and use those. Blade Runner has hardly any blades, and most people drive. Twelve Monkeys doesn't have anywhere near that many monkeys, and Troll 2 isn't a sequel or about trolls. And if that didn't blow your mind, wait until you see these "future" title statistics:

FILMS CONTAINING THE WORD FUTURE AWESOME: GARBAGE: 1 BANIIE FUTURE ERNHAPOT BAV FUTURE 61 WAR TO TUREFURC tAADIDE TG UTJ YOR The TheHunterfromtheFut

Putting "future" in your title is lazy, and anyone doing it probably took a few shortcuts in the script as well. I'll show you what I'm talking about with this scene from Future Force.

David Carradine's garage door clicker has one button on it. That one button opens both his car's trunk and his prosthetic hand's case. What kind of user design is that? Even in the darkest of futures, I imagine there will be a couple times when you need a prosthetic hand and an open trunk independently of one another. And it seems like the editor was making a special point to show that the same button is used to levitate the hand, pilot it through a junkyard and punch a man in the dick over and over and over. This film should give special thanks to German measles for infecting the prop designer's mother during pregnancy.

I'm as optimistic as anyone, but I find it really wishful thinking that mankind's future will ever include this interaction:

7 Words That Only Bad Movies Have in Their Titles

Is there one that also includes the word "cop"?

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Yes.

"Robot"

FILMS CONTAINING THE WORD ROBOT. RWESOME. GARBAGE a 4 Fyrat FDBDT WARL 2-D ROBOT: TESMUMMY IRLL CYECNRS ROB RORLILT MONSTERS RCAUS IRONI MARGIN BOHO

There's a legitimate reason Hollywood makes awful movies with the word "robot" in the title. They're doing it as a preemptive strike in our inevitable war against the machines. After Robot Jox, Robot Holocaust and Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy, every organization with "robot" in the title is going to sound stupid and corny. So thank you, bad pop culture. Because of you, when the first Robot Council forms, we're going to be laughing too hard to hear it demand our surrender. And if the robots turn out to be benevolent, it's not going to be any better. We'll laugh just as hard at the Robot Cancer Institute and Robots Against Drunk Driving.

Is there one that also includes the word "cop"?

7 Words That Only Bad Movies Have in Their Titles

Almost, but it's a pretty sweet almost.

"Karate"

The focused offensive power of "karate" makes it both the fastest way to destroy bricks and the absolute worst choice for a safe word. For instance, screaming "karate" during sex is how seven of my girlfriends lost the use of their legs, and I was only watching for two of those. Yet despite those promising karate statistics, almost every "karate" movie sucks.

7 Words That Only Bad Movies Have in Their Titles

7 Words That Only Bad Movies Have in Their Titles
The standout of the 39 bad "karate" films is Slaughter in San Francisco, which was released under the names Yellow Faced Tiger, Karate Cop, Chuck Norris: Karate Cop and Chuck Norris vs. The Karate Cop. The cop doesn't do karate in any of them, so 25 percent of its alternate titles are racist, and the rest are wrong. Still, its only love scene is as close as many of us will ever come to being unwilling hosts to Chuck Norris' penis.

Is there another one that also includes the word "cop"?

JEFF WINCOIT CINIHIA ROTMROCK CHUCK NORRIS KARATE RON MARCHINL DAVID CARRADINE COP Martial Law. AT Its Most KARATE Lethal DON WONG KARATE COF 1 cte HO

Oh my God, yes.

"Ninja"

Most foreign action movies get the word "ninja" added to them when they come to America. Yet strangely, when we export our own "ninja" movies, we change that word to "warrior" or "fighter." Probably because "American Ninja 3" is how you tell a stranger to suck your balls and asshole in Japan. Whatever the reason, America has ended up with more "ninja" films than any other nation, and you might want to think about that before you fuck with us, terrorists.

FILMS CONTAINING THE WORD NINJA: AWESOME: GARBAGE: 4 178 Diii re THE OE BLAZING NINA NINA MARGIN TERMINATOR CHANCE OF IRONIC 0000% E ERROR. BEING GO

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No one has done more for the genre than Richard Harrison. He and madman director Godfrey Ho made 20 actual movies with the word "ninja" in the title, and Richard can't pronounce it. Each one is chopped together from multiple films, but the plot is always the same: A team of good ninjas and a team of bad ninjas hate each other until one side delivers a final death challenge to take place in a public park. If you're a beginner ninja looking to try this, here's how it's done: Courier over a cheap statue or a talking robot to your enemy's office, then follow it up with a call. That's it, although if you kick total ass, consider answering this call on your Garfield phone. Read that last sentence five times and you still won't be ready for this:

These movies might not be critical successes, but they're very educational. They show that a true ninja is more than vanishing and throwing stars. It takes witty banter and a headband that has both a picture of and the word "NINJA." I'll show you what I'm talking about with this dramatic scene from Ninja: Silent Assassin.

SHIT! KNOCK COME IN. KNOCK SOMEBODY SENT THIS FOR you. SIR. YOu CAN GO. NINJA CHALLENGE. OH... SHIT.

Wmja

You'll never be as anything as Richard Harrison is Ninja.

Is there one that also includes the word "cop"?

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Of course ther -- hold on, wait. No? No? There are ninja condors, cheerleaders, robots and thunderbolts, and there isn't a movie where ninjas are cops? My God, is there any single way in which ninjas aren't unstoppably mysterious!?

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Seanbaby invented being funny on the Internet at Seanbaby.com. Ninjas challenge him on Twitter.For more, see 4 Unintentionally Hilarious '90s Teaching Methods or If Men's Magazines Were Way Manlier.

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