Writing Wrongs: 10 Movie Titles with Bad Grammar For all the considerable resources that go into marketing Hollywood movies, it would seem that scant attention is paid to checking the grammar and punctuation of film titles. Case in point, the new Star Trek, whose title omits a punctuation mark that not-so-subtly changes the meaning of the words. TIME copy chief Danial Adkison and copy editor Douglas Watson offer their professional judgment on some other suspect movie titles. Star Trek Into Darkness The movie in which a celebrity goes on a long hike in the middle of the night. Suggested fix: A colon Star Trek: Into Darkness Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Who Framed Roger Rabbit Is it really O.K. to ask a question and not put a question mark at the end. Suggested fix: A question mark Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Law Abiding Citizen Some citizens the law can abide; others it cannot stand. Suggested fix: A hyphen Law-Abiding Citizen Honey, I Shrunk the Kids This is not the movie you thunk it was. Suggested fix: Remember past participles? Honey, I've Shrunk the Kids Two Weeks Notice Two weeks notice what? Can a week (or two) really notice anything? Suggested fix: An apostrophe Two Weeks" Notice The 40 Year-Old Virgin "At first glance an "s" appears to be missing: The 40 Year-Old Virgins. But that can't be. Who would make a movie about 1-year-olds? And in what kind of world would it need to be specified that these 1-year-olds are virgins?! The 40-Year-Old Virgin The Ladies Man The apostrophe is needed to make clear that although this man may think he possesses the ladies, in fact they possess him. The Ladies" Man Hollywood Pictures An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn Sometimes it really helps to use punctuation otherwise no one can tell where one thought ends and the next one begins it's such a nice day today I think I'll go read a modernist novel or something oh look there goes a seagull. Suggested fix: A colon and some commas An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn My Big Fat Greek Wedding Without the comma, we can't tell if it's a wedding that's larger than life or a ceremony of Hellenic sumo wrestlers. Suggested fix: A comma My Big, Fat Greek Wedding Eight Legged Freaks A movie about eight freaks who have legs? Is that what makes them freaks? Don't a lot of people have legs? Eight-Legged Freaks