10 Movies Ruined By Their Title
4. The BFG
Though on paper a Steven Spielberg-directed adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved novel The BFG should've been a stone cold smash hit, it was actually a massive commercial flop, and many swiftly blamed its poor box office performance on its title alone.
In a classic case of clinging over-slavishly to the source material, Spielberg's film retained the title of the original 1982 novel, no matter that many modern audiences have no idea what the hell a BFG actually is.
Fans of Dahl's novel will of course know that it refers to the "Big Friendly Giant" (Mark Rylance), but given that The BFG's popularity as a novel has declined somewhat in recent years, it surely would've been smarter and safer to simply call Spielberg's film "The Big Friendly Giant."
That would've quickly dealt with any potential confusion and also avoided the association with the weapon of the same name from the Doom video games, where it serves as an acronym for "Big F**king Gun."