April 22, 2008 by Craig
As a rule, the quality of a movie is inversely correlated with how long it takes to explain the entire plot. That’s why I stay away from movies with titles like Volcano, Inferno, Titanic, and Snakes on a Plane.
From Dilbert Blog.
I’m trying to think of counterexamples and thusfar can’t. Perhaps some of my more movie-centric friends can find an example.
Update: Haha, one of Adams’ posters points out that that should be directly correlated, not inversely correlated. -1 to Adams for writing it and -1 to me for posting it.
Well … firstly Titanic was good. But: if you’re going to ding movies that use proper-names for their titles then you doom all well-named biographies. I think that’s a problem.
It also depends on how much reading into it you’re going to do. Think of the legions of viewers who were horrified by Alien. Think of the joyous chill we felt when Cameron made Aliens. We knew *everything we had to* right away: there were more of them.
-Marco
Comment by Marco — April 22, 2008 @ 1:22 pm