Thursday, February 10, 2005

Confused

Okay. Is it just me, or is that new Mastercard commercial, like, a blatant rip-off of one of the coolest movies ever, Swingers? Even the characters' names ("Mike" & "Nikki," I believe) are the same.
For those of you who don't know, the commercial bears a striking resemblance to a scene in the movie where John Favreau calls a girl he just met in a bar earlier and leaves several awkward messages on her answering machine, getting cutoff by the machine several times...
I would hope to God that someone, somewhere, got permission to do that... and even if... somewhere, someone made a shitload of money to be completely unoriginal.
They probably coulda got me to suggest it for a lot less. ;)

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