Can anyone come up with a title of a fairly mainstream movie - ie, not some wacky indie flick - that's longer than The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford?
Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967)
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies! (1964)
And my favorite long movie title -
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1967)
Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D (in 1991)
That's the actual title of the play, but I'm not sure it counts as the title of the film, which is generally known as Marat/Sade and is so listed at IMDb. Not an easy question to resolve.
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, or, How I Flew From London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
and there was something else that struck me as both more recent and more obvious, but between now and then....
I also had the (mis?)fortune to be involved in a stage production of Marat/Sade a few years ago. Stressful stuff on us in the tech crew, especially ending the show with a liquid accelerated fire in the middle of the riot at the end...
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1966) How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967) The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968) Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969) Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969, Anthony Newley's infamous ego vehicle) The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World (1970) Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1971) Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) Bon Voyage Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back) (1980)
And don't forget all those movies about those rings and that lord of it.
Also, Fred Astaire sang a song in Royal Wedding called "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life?"
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics
Crystal or Ash, Fire or Wind, as Long as It's Love
Summer Night, with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Bandit
The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain
Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat
Gas! -Or, It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze
The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie
Carry On... Up the Khyber or The British Position in India
Carry on Abroad or What a Package or It's All in or Swiss Holes in the Snow
Carry on Doctor or Nurse Carries on Again or Death of a Daffodil or Life Is a Four-Letter Ward - A Bedpanorama of Hospital Life
Carry on at Your Convenience or Down the Spout or Ladies Please Be Seated or Up the Workers or Labour Relations Are the People Who Come to You When You're Having a Baby
Carry on Loving or It's Not What You Feel, It's the Way That You Feel It. or Two's Company but Three's Quite Good Fun Too. or Love Is a Four Letter Word or It's Just One Thing on Top of Another
Carry on Matron or from Here to Maternity or Familiarity Breeds or Womb at the Top or the Preggars Opera
Carry on Up the Jungle or the African Queens or Stop Beating About the Bush or Show Me Your Waterhole and I'll Show You Mine
I knew there was another one I was trying to think of, way back in message #9... And I just saw it again, relatively recently (within the last six months, I think.)
Another Demonstration of the Cliff-Guibert Fire Horse Reel, Showing a Young Girl Coming from an Office, Detaching Hose, Running with It 60 Feet, and Playing a Stream, All Inside of 30 Seconds (1900)
It should be noted that it takes longer to read the title than to watch the film.
That's only if you take an overly literal interpretation of the idea that "the title is as presented onscreen". The other descriptors are clearly not part of the film title, and are presented as the titles attempting to find a single word to describe Ripley. None of the descriptors appear on screen with any of the others, and the only one to stay onscreen for more than a flash was "Talented". The title is clearly The Talented Mr Ripley - it's the title of the original book, and presented as such on the script, on all the posters, the soundtrack album, the VHS and DVDs, etc.