20 Ludicrously Long Movie Titles You'd Probably Never Watch

10. Who Is Harry Kellerman And Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)

KellermanWhat The...? Another of the more famous titles on this list, Who Is Harry Kellerman... was a rare miss from Dustin Hoffman, who starred as Georgie Soloway, a mentally deranged rock music composer with a yearning hunger to find out who Harry Kellerman is, and why he's ruining Soloway's life. In a twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan, it turns out Soloway and Kellerman are one and the same, and Soloway is a few sandwiches short of a hamper. The stream of consciousness style was a bold, and probably brave decision, and the film earned a Best Supporting Actress nod for Barbara Harris, but it's never actually been released on DVD, which tells you exactly what you need to know about it. Is It Any Good? Not at all. The film was panned on release, and still deserves the same response, even if the agenda was admirable and the concept intriguing. To make something so unlikable with Dustin Hoffman has to be an achievement however, and an Oscar nod for such a poor film is either a sign of genius or the usual ravings of the Academy unchecked.

9. The Saga Of The Viking Women And Their Voyage To The Waters Of The Great Sea Serpent (1957)

Viking WomenWhat The...? Another example of the Fit Everything In The Title school of thought that evidently informed a number of titles on this list, The Saga Of The Viking Women... was made by legendary director and producer Roger Corman well before he learned about restraint (which he has subsequently forgotten about again more recently, if Sharktopus and Prianhaconda are anything to go by) and using the limited resources available in the right manner. Is It Any Good? It's very kitsch, but there's just not any real quality: the budgetary concerns are plainly obvious, and while some have called it a cult classic, Corman himself says he learned lessons on never attempting to make a large scale movie on a small scale budget because of it, which suggests he wrote it off as a mistake.
 
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