{"id":23180,"date":"2013-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/23180\/betroit-because-we-couldnt-come-up-with-a-more-creative-title"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:39:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:39:38","slug":"betroit-because-we-couldnt-come-up-with-a-more-creative-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/23180\/betroit-because-we-couldnt-come-up-with-a-more-creative-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Betroit: Because We Couldn&#8217;t Come Up With A More Creative Title"},"content":{"rendered":"Now, getting over the fact that Betroit is the worst movie title I&#8217;ve heard since Alvin &#038; The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2381656\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">IMDB<\/a> thus far gives this movie a pretty apathetic rating of 5.7 over 10.<br \/>  <br \/>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LIXpCDNo224\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>  <br \/>  <br \/>  Currently <a href=\"https:\/\/lb.cineklik.com\/movie\/betroit\/showtimes\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">showing<\/a> in several cinemas in Lebanon, Betroit follows the stories of three families in two locations&#8211;Beirut, Lebanon and Detroit, Michigan. (Hence, the fabulous title).<br \/>  <br \/>  It&#8217;s meant to be a look at the often-at-odds relationship between the U.S and the Arab world, and follows the issues of domestic abuse, love, and the differences in culture. Which almost makes the movie&#8217;s title a little more bearable. Almost.<br \/>  <br \/>  Sigh. I kinda wish they called it &#8220;Detrut&#8221;.<br \/>  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, getting over the fact that Betroit is the worst movie title I&#8217;ve heard since Alvin &#038; The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, IMDB thus far gives this movie a pretty apathetic rating of 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":452743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[338],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-23180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wtf","tag-wtf"],"authorship":[176],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Betroit: Because We Couldn&#039;t Come Up With A More Creative Title<\/title>\n<meta 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