Maybe you saw or heard about the (perhaps overly revealing) poster for Hitman, the film adaptation of the video game series which starred a deeply miscast Timothy Olyphant -- and which bombed at the box office last month? OK, maybe you didn't. Certainly you didn't see the flick. We sure as hell didn't. We've pretty much subscribed whole hog to UK critic Mark Kermode's theory about video games and movies, actually. But that's neither here nor there. Here's why we bring it up, and why we love living in the big city: because for weeks now, you can't walk past a copy of the Hitman poster in the subways without finding someone's attempt to rip out the part showcasing Olga Kurylenko's superb, barely clad backside. We'd guess they're being saved for posterior. (ZING! New York loves the booty, y'all!)

Alas, even as we speak, Agent 47 and Comrade Hottie are getting replaced by Will Smith and CGI chipmunks, so we thought we'd at least document the phenomenon before it was gone forever (see right) -- and give everyone a chance to see the original ad...

Some people say you can see some, er, secret ingredients in there. What do you think? Too racy for the subways? We're not sure. And what we mean by that is: we're investigating the matter very closely.

[image via Maulleigh's flickr page]