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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? ###  Overture Films 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 ## 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?!”_ Suggested fix: A hyphen ### 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.”_ Suggested fix: An apostrophe ### 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? 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