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UPDATE: 'Saw' franchise jumps the shark with title change

Posted Friday, July 9, 2010 at 4:22 PM Central
Last updated Monday, July 12, 2010 at 3:28 PM Central

by John Couture

What's that saying about not messing with a good thing? Yeah, it seems that in Hollywood, the reverse is true. If something's going good, tinker with it until you break it. And for Lionsgate, I think they just broke the Saw franchise.

According to Shock Till You Drop, Lionsgate has turned its back on the simple sequential, roman numeral titling of its movies for the sucktastic Saw 3D: The Traps Come Alive.

That's right, not Saw VII or the equally lame Saw VII 3D, which was the working title of the picture. Nope, it's officially called Saw 3D: The Traps Come Alive. Everyone knows how I feel about 3D and let me just say for the record that I really hate it when they put it in the title.

I can almost forgive that short-lived (thankfully) fad in the 1980s when all third movies were named, and filmed in, 3D (Friday the 13th 3D, Jaws 3D, etc.), but I call EPIC FAIL on the seventh movie of a franchise being re-tooled with the moniker of 3D.

At best, it warns potential audience members that the film they are about to see is presented in crappy 3D. At worst, it screws up generations of horror fans who will almost certainly try cramming it in between Saw III and Saw IV.

And don't even get me started on adding the subtitle. We all know that the Friday the 13th franchise went downhill after Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter when the absurdity of killing the franchise was greater than the desire to at least uphold the integrity of the fourth installment's title. Did we really need Jason Takes Manhattan or Jason X aka Jason in Space?

But Saw 3D: The Traps Come Alive isn't the first movie to come along with a terrible title. Oh no, it's simply the latest. This got us thinking (not too hard mind you, it is Friday after all) and we put together this list of our top 10 worst movie titles of all-time*.

  1. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
  2. Freddy Got Fingered
  3. Saw 3D: The Traps Come Alive
  4. Gigli
  5. To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar
  6. Pootie Tang
  7. Leonard Part 6
  8. From Justin to Kelly
  9. Santa Claus Conquers The Martians
  10. Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

Given that it's late on a Friday, I'm sure we missed plenty of horrible movie titles. Tell us which ones we missed.

UPDATE: Keep those terrible movie titles rolling in, it seems that you're having a field day with this one. On a more topical note, it seems that Shock Till You Drop talked with the producers of the latest installment and the official title will be Saw 3D.

It seems that much like the Blu-ray art above, "The Traps Come Alive" will appear only as a tagline and not a part of the actual title. I don't know, I still think it's a pretty craptastic title.