Aug 4 2008 'Flash of Genius' Trailer Would Be Better with Catchier Title, Such as...

Well, there's this now: a movie where Greg Kinnear dramatizes the life of Bob Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper who was involved in a huge legal battle with Ford and Chrysler after they stole the plans. It looks like your typically melodramatic ("To me, it's the Mona Lisa" is a line), inspirational, based-on-a-true-story fare, but what really bothers me is the title. "Flash of Genius"? I know that was the name of the New Yorker story that served as the film's basis, but really, that's the best we can come up with for such a quirky real-life tale? Where are the ridiculous puns? How about one of these titles?

- The Wipe Stuff
- Mr. Wiper Goes to Washington
- Where There's a Windshield, There's a Delay
- Who'll Stop the Rain? Or Wipe It, Intermittently?
- Greg Kinnear's Wipe ("Wipe" is written in bold red letters)
- Hypothetical Histories: What if Greg Kinnear Invented Intermittent Wiper Blades Then Car Companies Stole Them so He Had to Go to Court?
- Greg's Blades
- Kinnear Window
- Kinney

And if this doesn't end with Greg Kinnear returning a bittersweet wave to a set of moving wiper blades, followed by giant wiper blades coming from the bottom of the screen and wiping to credits, they've made a second fatal error.

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