But do you see what he’s getting at? I completely agree it sounds “historical”. I guarantee you calling “[anything] 2008” and you’ll have people not be interested because they’ll think “I know what happened. I don’t need to relive it. It’s old news. I’m tired of dealing with it. Move on dot org.”
I’m sorry, but you need to be more striking than that. Inside Job won an Oscar. (Granted, that has more to do with it bashing the free market than being popular, but the point is, it was popular, and the title helped that.) It let’s people know they’re going to be getting new information. People need to have a reason to watch something about a subject they think they already know everything there is to know.
I don’t think people are understanding this. Check out Tom’s post and see the comments. You have a few good ones in there, but most of them are either jokes or basically the same kind of title he’s trying to get away from.