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The absence of a comma between the words "bad" and "can" drove me up the wall the minute I had a look at the Good poster last night. I'm convinced that movie advertising people enjoy running copy that ignores basic punctuation because they know it irritates people like me. I think it gives them a little perverse kick. Seriously.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 12, 2008 at 6:44 PM

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Admiral82 says ...

Fuckin' assholes...

Posted by Admiral82 at December 12, 2008 6:53 PM

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Chinaski says ...

I hate stuff like that. I love the movie Into the Wild but I really hate that the poster and the dvd cover still say "Screenplay and directed by Sean Penn". That makes no sense!

Posted by Chinaski at December 12, 2008 7:25 PM

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raygo says ...

"How can it be bad if it makes people happy?" would be better.

Posted by raygo at December 12, 2008 8:16 PM

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rr3333 says ...

I believe 'Typekey' was responsible for the missing comma.

Posted by rr3333 at December 12, 2008 8:21 PM

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bluefugue says ...

I'm still pissed about the missing apostrophe in "The Ladies Man."

Posted by bluefugue at December 12, 2008 8:32 PM

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kingspiffo says ...

I wish I had been interested in seeing "Eight Legged Freaks" just so I could have refused to see it due to the lack of hyphen.

Posted by kingspiffo at December 12, 2008 9:09 PM

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longrunner says ...

They don't do it just because they know it irritates people like you. They do it because they know it irritates you. The world conspires against you. It steals your stuff. It smokes in your apartment. It punctuates willy-nilly.

Posted by longrunner at December 12, 2008 9:41 PM

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scooterzz says ...

i believe, at the end of the day, it will be longrunner ftw......

Posted by scooterzz at December 12, 2008 10:59 PM

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D.Z. says ...

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=343774>1=28101&
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081213/ap_on_en_mo/people_tara_reid

Posted by D.Z. at December 12, 2008 11:03 PM

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DarthCorleone says ...

scooterzz>> I agree. Good job, longrunner. Almost as funny as MilkMan's Bettie Page comment.

Posted by DarthCorleone at December 12, 2008 11:37 PM

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ZayTonday says ...

You know what, Wells?

I could care less.

Posted by ZayTonday at December 13, 2008 1:27 AM

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Renfield says ...

Great one, Zay. Bugs the living hell out of me as wel.

Posted by Renfield at December 13, 2008 1:38 AM

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Movie Watcher says ...

I thought it should have an elipsis.

Posted by Movie Watcher at December 13, 2008 5:49 AM

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Josh Massey says ...

I'm pretty sure the horrible grammar on the Charlie Wilson's War poster is why I didn't see it in the theaters.

"Who said they couldn't bring down the Soviet empire."

With a period at the end.

And don't get me started on The 40 Year-Old Virgin (I think they fixed that one for the DVD, though).

Posted by Josh Massey at December 13, 2008 7:21 AM

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erniesouchak says ...

I'm with you, Wells, but I doubt their agenda is that nefarious. It's probably either garden-variety illiteracy or e-mail's contribution to dumbing language down.

Posted by erniesouchak at December 13, 2008 8:36 AM

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George Prager says ...

"In a world on the brink of war. You either march to one tune or dance to another."

Posted by George Prager at December 13, 2008 2:48 PM

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BurmaShave says ...

Nothing will ever be as bad as questions without question marks.

Posted by BurmaShave at December 13, 2008 9:47 PM

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ZayTonday says ...

I haven't seen any commericals for this movie yet. Why is that.

Posted by ZayTonday at December 14, 2008 11:37 AM

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