Are movie titles really fair game?

Wow. If you could only see through your computer screen and truly picture the excitement as I write about the next movie coming to a/perture. How often do you get a movie that is so socially relevant and buzzed about like Fair Game? Throw on top of that the film is celebrating its 15 year anniversary of proving that Cindy Crawford was just a pretty face and Billy Baldwin had more up his sleeve than Sliver....wait a second, Lawren's trying to tell me something. What do you mean there are two movies called Fair Game? Isn't there some sort of rule that once a movie reaches a certain level of awesomeness, no one else can use that name? I'm working on a script right now, then. My movie is going to be called Star Wars. I can almost hear George Lucas's lawyers stampeding across the central United States to ring my doorbell right now.

Well, putting that minor embarrassing confusion aside, it does appear that the 2010 version of Fair Game is actually more socially relevant, given the hubub around this whole WikiLeaks thing, and a far superior movie (2010 - 80%, 1995 - 13% on Rotten Tomatoes...ouch). Naomi Watts plays outed CIA operative Valerie Plame, revealed by officials looking to discredit her husband Joe Wilson (not the "YOU LIE" one, but a former diplomat) played by Sean Penn. Yeah, I guess that cast is better than Baldwin-Crawford. Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post is a fan of how the story is told, more of a look at the toll Valerie's work takes on their marriage and home life instead of a blow 'em up spy affair, that director Doug Liman is more well known for (The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith). In her own words..."Quality-starved audiences should flock to it, if only to ensure more of them get made." Methinks Ms. Hornaday would not have said the same about the previous one. Trailer below: