What's the title for our purposes for this movie? Is it Red or RED? Keep in mind that those letters are an acronym for "Retired, Extremely Dangerous".

I voted for RED. The rules tell us to "Check capitalization of the title." Acronyms aren't always completely capitalized (like Benelux -> BElgium NEtherlands LUXembourg), but that's when the abbreviation and the unabbreviated words share the exact same meaning. Red is a colour and RED is the abbreviation/acronym.

When it is currently in the system as Red




It's R.E.D. with reguards to the movie.

Now would a different name be given just based off a different poster ?

I've seen both 'Red' and 'RED' in relation to the film. As it stands for Retired Extremely Dangerous - it should really be 'RED', but several places have it listed as 'Red' including the back cover of several DVDs of the film.

I'm really unsure as to which is correct. It would appear either is valid.

Also, Surfeur, your poster appears to contradict itself.
It states the film is 'Red' and then says what that is an acronym for!

I wonder, how to they do it for languages where the words "retired", "extreamly", and "dangerous" do not start with R, E, and D respectively?

I agree with Yves on this one. Additionally while Red is an acronym in this case, there are also no included punctuation marks of any kind such as M*A*S*H, also an acronym. So the answer would seem to Red.

BTW we do not use posters to determine the name of a movie, nor do we even use the actual filmed title. We have two choices for determing the title; the front cover and the credit block on the back if there is a question...that's it. Read the rules.

First off, the posting of a theatrical movie poster has absolutely zero bearing on this conversation. We've never taken the title from a movie poster, I'm not sure why it was referenced or why it was posted to tell the truth (not trying to be a d**k, just saying). We've never taken the title from a movie poster (and I would say especially a movie poster produced outside the film's original country of origin as our purposes would have it) so that shouldn't have any kind of effect on what's entered at all.

Second, which specific profile are we talking about here? Because I keep seeing references being made to the fact that there's no punctuation, so that has to be clear evidence that it should be Red. Well... my profile has clear and defined punctuation and clear and defined capital letters. So much so, that the DVD Title in the system is entered as R.E.D. while the original title contains RED:



Since this is an actual copy of the blu-ray that's profiled in the system, I own it, am looking right at it, not a movie poster, I'd say to me the decision is pretty clear.

R.E.D.

Quoting Grendell:

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Correct option is not in the poll. R.E.D.

And just precisely how do you come up with that. It isn't on the fron cover nor the back cover. Are we now making data up? Please read and conform to the Rules, there are TWO specified locations from which we can determine the title of a given film for Contribution. Imagination is not one those locations, that is a local thing.