Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Amber & Remakes

Imagine my surprise this morning when, on the way out of the Bedford Park subway station, I noticed next to the ad for this product which involuntary caught my eye (for obvious reasons)...



...an ad for this.

That's right: Shannon Dougherty has stolen my movie name, a crime almost on par with stealing a baby name. It was bad enough when Lita Ford stole it for her song, but to name your cheesy soon-to-video action move after the "definitive, apocalyptic, nihilistic, science-fiction film noir of all time" is really cheap and unnecessary. Can't you think of your own movie name? And I love gay spies, but come on!

How could you hope to compete or rob prestige from this?


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just to be clear, there's no connection between the bock and the Kiss Me Deadly?

ALH said...

Dear Kevin,

Thank you for your point of clarification. The only relationship between the bock and Kiss Me Deadly is that they were featured on adjacent ads in the subway station. And, the fact that neither of the current versions are likely to be very good.

Sincerely,
ALH