12 Famous Movies That Were Almost Given Absurdly Bad Titles

10. "How The Solar System Was Won" - 2001: Space Odyssey

A working title presumably thought up at a point when somebody had just watched How The West Was Won, or at a time when Stanley Kubrick had taken a brief break from being one of the greatest director who ever lived, "How The Solar System Was Won" was - at one stage - the best thing that the immensely talented crew on 2001: A Space Odyssey could come up with. Not only does the title not really make any sense, but it's so ill-fitted to the actual movie that we can only remain eternally grateful to whoever decided to jettison it into the far reaches of the galaxy.
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