Hammertime!

You don’t need to understand the language to get what this commercial is about. I think it’s about time travel. There’s this one shot I swear is taken right from Timecop.

This PSA is speaking out against drunk driving in a graphic way. The spot is well done except for the shot of the people being hit with the wrecking ball, it’s about as phony as a presidential debate. Don’t steal that joke from me Leno it’s mine, I thought of it!

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Via the Consumerist.com

The Consumerist writes that people are apparently watching commercials recorded on DVR devices more than no times. A lot more than no times. For some shows the numbers are estimated around 2 million extra commercial viewers, once thought Lost to advertisers.

The commenteers on their article probably rightly hit the nail on the head when they say its mostly a combination of people letting the program run while they leave the room, or simply forgetting they have the ability the fast forward. TV is both a passive and pacifying medium, eventually making the act of pausing and fast forwarding a chore unto itself.

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She is always sexiest before the physical assault

Naomi Campbell was kind enough to poke fun of her perceived violent persona in this ad for Dunkin’ Donuts.

From Wikipedia: ‘In 2000, she pleaded guilty in a Toronto court to a 1998 assault on Georgina Galanis, her then assistant; Campbell had assaulted Galanis with a telephone in a hotel room and threatened to throw her out of a moving car.’

…March 2005, the model was said to have slapped assistant Amanda Brack and beaten her around the head with a BlackBerry hand-held personal organiser. The star’s spokesman Rob Shuter denied the incident ever took place.’

As someone who has also been beaten around the head with a BlackBerry device, I find this to be no laughing matter.

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Did you know Thomas Edison invented popcorn?

Commercials before movies is worse than piracy, says The Movie Blog, which I found via digg.

Here is the writer-man’s all caps beef: ‘The theater industry is pulling in RECORD amounts of income from those commercials, and unlike TV (where we get a free show), WE GET NOTHING IN RETURN FOR OUR TIME SITTING THERE WHEN THE MOVIE IS SUPPOSED TO START.’

The Movie Blog goes on to shout: ‘I don’t mind theaters making money off me when I get a product, service or entertainment in return… but commercials playing at 7pm when you told me the movie would be starting is doing nothing but STEALING my time. You are taking from me without giving anything in return. HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT FROM ONLINE MOVIE PIRACY!?!?’

While ads before movies can be obnoxious, I don’t find them that obnoxious. While no one is really ’stealing’ your time, this could amount to false advertising when theaters claim a movie starts at one time, but delays the movie with ads. As long as the movie starts at the advertised time, the pre-game commercials would be no worse than the horrible slide show most theaters have running before hand.

I tend to sympathize with the theater chains, who don’t make a ton of money off the box office (that’s why they rape you at the concessions stand).

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I love this substitute teacher

The advertising for Carl’s Jr. has always been about style. Grace. Finesse. Pert Plus.

This ad is a sad departure from Carl’s Jr.’s usual display of artistic integrity. Instead of relying on the avant gaurde display of showing someone eating in a loud and disgusting fashion, they have to stoop to using dancing women to sell unrelated products. When will we learn commercials aren’t about selling things, they are about listening to people chew their food and watching them spill chili on their shirts and then lick it off.

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