Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Movie Titles With Colons in Them: Bad Idea

I have never seen a good movie with a colon in the title. Or any punctuation, for that matter, except an apostrophe. It always seems to me that a group of marketers got together in a room and tried to settle on one title, but could only narrow down the possibilities to two, and as a compromise they put a colon in there. Roger Ebert has a list of movie cliches and rules, and that should be in there: Movies with punctuation in the title always suck.

Also sucking is any movie with the producer's name in the title, as in Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon. Or the writer's name.

3 comments:

Matt P. said...

You didn't like "Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon"???

WHO'S THE BADDISS'?

SHO' NUFF!

Mark said...

It does have its charms, I guess

Anonymous said...

Men in Tights?