10 Most Awkwardly Titled Movie Blockbusters In Recent Memory
6. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
A common thread in today's blockbuster-heavy marketplace is for sequels to go darker, and JJ Abrams' follow-up to his 2009 reboot went so far as to place the idea front-and-center in the title. Another common occurrence is for sequels to adopt subtitles rather than add numbers, and this is where the title gets awkward. So awkward in fact, that the reveal sparked a grammatical war on Wikipedia. Yep, things got pretty serious... In the age of movie titles that feature unnecessary colons and subtitles, it came as a surprise that Stark Trek: Into Darkness wasn't the movie's official moniker. Abrams himself has admitted that the choice of title was 'odd', and the title is deliberately ambiguous and open to interpretation as to who, and what, it relates to. The creative team have also admitted that they deliberately wanted to avoid the use of numbers, roman numerals or colons in the title so may have inadvertently backed themselves into a corner when naming the thing.
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