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X-Files: I Want to Believe, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, Quantum of Solace, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . . . and now Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.
It seems the cycle of naff titles continues unbounded. I’d hate to see what these guys call their children. “Come on, Vaj. Dinner’s on the table, and [...]

The ellipsis; it is so overused and misused in screenplays it’s become a bit of a joke. It seems that somewhere along the line some writer started misusing them and everyone else, without understanding grammar, just copied. An ellipsis is used to signal the omission of part of a sentence, or (in our case) to [...]