For the uninitiated (and those who may have forgotten), a couple years back I started collecting all the weird mispronunciations, mistakes, and malapropisms that customers use when trying to tell us poor, helpless movie theater employees just what show they want to see. At the beginning of each year, I then post all these misnames for the enjoyment and enlightenment of others!
Unfortunately, since I started working up in the projection booth exclusively partway through last year, I don't have as many new ones as I would have been able to get otherwise. But that hasn't stopped me from collecting as many as I could, and hopefully what I've got is entertaining enough to make up for it.
Misnames have been alphabetized according to real movie name for your protection. All new misnames have been bolded for the convenience of those who have already read the old lists.
Enjoy!
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1408
1409
28 Weeks Later
Quarantine
300
The Spartan 300
Aeon Flux
Areo Flux
Axion Flux
Xenon Flush
Akeelah and the Bee
The Spelling Bee
Apocalypto
Acopalypto
Are We Done Yet?
Are We Gone Yet?
The Astronaut Farmer
The Astronaut Farmer's Wife
Balls of Fury
Balls of Furry (I didn't know furry porn had finally hit mainstream! Why didn't someone tell me?!)
Barnyard
Barnfest
Because I Said So
Because I Told You So
Because I Say So
So I Told You So
Just Say So
As Good As It Gets
She Told Me Things
The Benchwarmers
The Benchers
The Black Dahlia
Black Dahleelah
Dalilia
Bridge to Terabithia
Road to Terabithia
Bridge to Terabithity
Brokeback Mountain
Broadback Mountain
Breakback Mountain
Casino Royale
Monte Carlo
Children of Men
City of Men
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Narinia
Nareena
Nadia (A very popular misname, it turns out . . . too many people watching daytime television, I suppose.)
Nautica
Nirvania
Narinal
Neera
The Tales of Narnia
The Secret of Narnia
The Witches of Narnia
The Chronicles of Nottingham
The Lion, the Witch, and the Warlock
Marivnia (The best part about this one is that the customer started off by saying "It starts with a 'MUH' sound . . . ")
The Narnicles (Kat told me that her dad said this one, and then a customer said it to me not a day later.)
Click
The Click House
Cloverfield
Copperfield
Crank
Crash
Curse of the Golden Flower
Curse of the Golden Dragon
Derailed
Deceived
Disturbia
Disturbable
The Terrible
Dreamer
Dreaming
That Horse Movie
Eight Below
Eight Under
Nine Below
Eighteen Below
Sub-Zero
Snow Dogs
Epic Movie
Eptic
End of the Spear
End of the Sphere
End of Fear
End of the Road
The End of His Spear
End of the Sword
Edge of the Sword
Point of the Sword
Tip of the Spear
The Shield
Spears
The Family Stone
The Stone Family
Flags of Our Fathers
Days of Our Fathers (The newest soap opera coming from ABC this fall!)
Iwo Jima
War of the Worlds
Freedom Writers
Freedom Riders (The fellah said this twice, very clearly both times, almost as if he wanted to make sure I didn't mishear the misname.)
Friends with Money
People with Money
Money Talks
Friends with Whatever It Is
Fun with Dick and Jane
(Because of space restriction on our tickets, the name of this movie was printed out as simply "Fun with Dick".)
Dick and Ann
The Dick & Jane Show (Coming to CBS this fall!)
The Adventures of Dick and Jane
See Dick Run
Run Dick and Jane
Georgia Rule
Georgia Rules (Hells yah, it does!)
Ghost Rider
Ghost Writer
Night Riders
The Motorcycle One
Glory Road
Road to Glory
Glory Days
Some Kind of Glory
Good Night, and Good Luck
Hello, and Good Night
A Good Year
A Good Life
Hannibal Rising
Hannibal Lecter
The Hills Have Eyes
These Hills Have Eyes
Hitch
Hitched
Hutch
The Holiday
American Holiday
Hostel
Hostile
Ice Harvest
Thin Ice
The Ice Man
The Illusionist
The Impressionist
The Inside Man
Inside Job
Inside Out
In the Land of Women
In the World of Women
I Think I Love My Wife
I Think I Like My Wife
The Marriage Movie
Jarhead
Jughead (Yah, I'm sure the marines would appreciate that.)
Just Like Heaven
Something Like Heaven
Heaven Something
The Heaven Movie
A Lot Like Heaven
Heaven Can Wait (This one beats the hell out of me, especially considering that this is actually the title of a 1978 Warren Beatty film that has little to nothing in common with JLH. I actually told a few people who asked for this title that they were about twenty-five or so years late.
)Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
Larry the TV Guy
Last Holiday
Last Vacation
Happy Holidays
The Last Mimzy
Little Mimzy
The Lookout
The Lockout
Lucky Number Slevin
Lucky Number Seven (No surprises there . . . )
Man of the Year
Man of the Hour
President
Match Point
Point Blank
Memoirs of a Geisha
Memories of a Geisha
Confessions of a Geisha
Geisha Girl
(What's truly shocking about this one, tho', is that not a single person mispronounced 'Geisha'.)
Nacho Libre
Mucho Grande
Nanny McPhee
Fanny McPhee
The Nativity Story
The Nativity Scene
Night at the Museum
One Night at the Museum
Night at the Mansion
National Treasure
Norbit
Norbid
Norburt
Norman
A Prairie Home Companion
Prairie Home Concessions
Premonition
Promonotion
Phenomenon
Pride & Prejudice
Vanity Fair (As much as this confused me, I think it confused the lady who said it even more. She was standing a little ways back in the line with her friends and asked them if they were going to see Vanity Fair, just to make sure she bought the right ticket. Before they could answer, she shook her head and quickly corrected herself, saying they were going to see P&P. Then, when they finally got up to the counter, she almost said Vanity Fair again! Honestly, where does a mix up like this come from?)
Prime
Pride
Pursuit of Happyness
Life Everlasting
The Reaping
Reapings
The Reaper
Robots
I, Robots (Wonder how many people were disappointed at the lack of Will Smith)
Sahara
Sierra (A misname shared with Syriana, heh.)
Saw II
Soul II
The Sentinel
Centennial
The Senteel
Sin City and Hostage
(These two are listed together because they were both called "That Bruce Willis Movie". It's very common for folks to come in and ask for a movie specifically by one of the actors in it, which usually isn't a problem . . . in this case, however, both movies were running at the same time for a while, and it was usually a fifty-fifty chance on just which one they were actually talking about.)
Smokin' Aces
Ace of Spades
The FBI Movie
Spider-Man 3
Superman 3 (I feel cheated. I didn't see Richard Pryor ski down a single roof in Spider-Man!)
Stomp the Yard
Stomping the Yard
Stomp the Ground
Stop the Dog
Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Todd Sweeny
(We also had a number of people complain and get refunds because they thought it was going to be a slasher flick, not a musical.)
Syriana
Syreena
Syriena
Sierra (Maybe they actually wanted to see Sahara?)
Take the Lead
Lead the Dance
Something the Line
Unaccompanied Minors
Unattended Minors
Underworld: Evolution
Underworld: Revolution
Underground
An Unfinished Life and Serenity
(So, I sold tickets to this nice elderly couple one day and they headed back to theater five. A few minutes after the movie had started, the lady came back up and asked me what theater their movie was in. I told her it was down in five and she just looked confused and walked back. Five minutes later, here she comes back up and asks which theater her movie is in, and I tell her number five again and she just shakes her head and says, "Oh, no . . . that's some kind of space movie!" So we finally get it sussed out that when she said she had wanted to see 'Serenity' before, what she really meant was she wanted to see 'An Unfinished Life'! Yeesh.)
United 93
Flight 93
Flight 96
Flight 63
V for Vendetta
V is for Vendetta (A small thing, yes, but horribly commonplace.)
Walk the Line
I Walk the Line (This misname is dedicated to good ol' Sir Yeahduff!)
Walking the Line
On the Line
Rock the Line
Walk the Talk
Man in Black
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Walter & Gromit
We are Marshall
(Because of space restrictions on the tickets, they printed out "We are Marsha".)
We Are Mason
Wild Hogs
Hog Wild
Without a Paddle
(Because of the space restrictions on the tickets, the name of this movie was printed out as simply "Without a Pad".)
The World's Fastest Indian
The Fastest Motorcycle
World Trade Center
Twin Towers
Two Towers
Eiffel Tower
You, Me and Dupree
You, Me and Something
Yours, Mine & Ours
Yours, Mine & Others
What's Yours and Mine
Yours, Theirs & Everybody Else's
