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Both of those career ads were a bit off... on about an Indian salesman with seven kids and the other about pandas with bad asian accents. What was that all about?
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I thought the Etrade baby ones were about 10 times better than the VAST VAST majority of the commercials
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We were laughing for about 5 minutes after the talking shirt stain commercial. Like, the whole room.
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I liked the one with the Godfather-esque car grille scene. I don't remember what kind of car is was for, so it was a poor commercial, though still funny.
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I liked the Wall-E trailer. Cute. It was slow at work so we got to watch a lot of the commericials, and one of the guys watching was like "What's the Disney movie that's based off of that movie from back in the day?"
And I was like "Wall-E?"
"Yeah! They made it into a cartoon, but it had those movies from back when I was a kid about the robot."
Me - "...Brave Little Toaster?"
Girl - "I LOVE that movie."
Guy - "No! Not Brave Little Toaster, the one about the robot who becomes an American."
Me - "Johnny 5? Short Circuit?"
Guy - "Yeah that! They made it into a cartoon."
Admittedly, I didn't see the similarity before, and the eyes DO look like Five's, but, other than that it's absolutely different. Still I thought it was funny.
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I thought that the Prince Caspien and Leatherheads trailers looked interesting. None of the others really really seemed all that great to me.
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Sacrilege! Short Circuit was Tristar Pictures/20th Century Fox. How dare they hint that it was a Disney movie?!?
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Well, they used to have Number Five on display at the Disney-MGM Studios...I imagine that lead to some people drawing the wrong conclusion.
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quote:...the one about the robot who becomes an American.
I love how it's not "a robot who comes to life" or "a robot who learns to love" but "a robot who acquires American citizenship." Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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Anybody else annoyed by the IronMan commercial? I mean why bother spending all that ad money if they ain't gonna tell folks where to buy the suit?
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quote:...the one about the robot who becomes an American.
I love how it's not "a robot who comes to life" or "a robot who learns to love" but "a robot who acquires American citizenship."
They may have been referring to the sequel, Tom. It was so forgettable other than Five getting citizenship that many people have merged the two films in their memories.
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quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: Admittedly, I didn't see the similarity before, and the eyes DO look like Five's, but, other than that it's absolutely different. Still I thought it was funny.
According to Andrew Stanton, WALL-E's design was inspired by one of the robots seen on the Jawa Barge in Star Wars.
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quote:Originally posted by Pegasus: I liked the one with the Godfather-esque car grille scene. I don't remember what kind of car is was for, so it was a poor commercial, though still funny.
It was for an Audi, some new kind of luxury, but I don't think they actually named the model shown. It reminded me of a terminator, though.
I liked the lizards doing Thriller. It was some Sobe product.
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I'll bet The Godfather one was a hit with anyone who knows about the R8. Even with advertising there are probably few people who will get an R8 who don't already know about it.
I think the commercials this year were a bit of a let down. That's alright because the game more than made up for it.
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quote:Originally posted by Pegasus: I liked the one with the Godfather-esque car grille scene. I don't remember what kind of car is was for, so it was a poor commercial, though still funny.
It was an Audi. I guess the commercial didn't do it's job. I loved the headlamps on that car.
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I got what the Audi commercial was referencing, but the commercial didn't work at all for me. Some people seem to think pop culture references are automatically funny . . . and I suppose it was, but I didn't see any reason to consider buying this car from that commercial.
I loved that Oboe commercial too.
I hated the Sales Genie ads.
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quote:Originally posted by ricree101: Am I seriously the only person who thinks that Iron Man looks like it's going to be terrible?
Oh, by no means! You can't visit any of the various comics boards without hearing about how it'll suck. But that happens with every movie-based-on-a-comic. With the possible exception of Road to Perdition!
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The firebreathing guy was a budlight commercial. I liked the Will Ferrell Bud light commercial. Huh, the one I just googled up was different from the one I remember.
Did the "pull my finger" ad get played anywhere else or was that really only the Maryland lottery?
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If they would only make funny commercials all year round.
Advertisers complain that people skip commercials, yet they have one time a year where people actually download and watch the commercials after the event.
It isn't that hard to be creative...why can't they do it year round.
And as BlackBlade said, that was an awesome game.
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I think the parade balloons ad was my favorite too, Mig. The other ones the group enjoyed were the etrade baby (particularly the clown ad), the Rocky Clydesdale, the oboe ad, and Will Ferrell.
We had a large international crowd at my house - the majority had never seen an American football game before - but apparently everyone 'round the world thinks clowns are creepy.
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I liked the Career builder one "Follow your heart", but that may have had more to do with my personal situation at work. If it weren’t for that, it would have been a little disturbing.
Shaq as a horse jockey was the only one that demanded a rewind for others to see at my house.
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I can't wait for this movie. My kids are really excited also. It's fun to hear them say Wall-E like he does.
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The Amp commercial guy was Donkeylips! That's actually what one of my friends announced right when the commercial came on. "It's DONKEYLIPS!"
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quote:Originally posted by pooka: I already forgot about the go.daddy ad. But I guess I can look at breasts under cloth any time I want. Yep. Still there.
*laughs like a 12 yo boy*
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quote:Originally posted by Pegasus: I liked the one with the Godfather-esque car grille scene. I don't remember what kind of car is was for, so it was a poor commercial, though still funny.
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