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... for the new movie "The Cat in the Hat" staring Mike Myers... er... or was it for the refreshing 7-Up rip off, Sierra Mist... uhm... or maybe it was for that tasty Pringles rip off, Frito-Lay Stax?
It's as if the words "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college." were going though my mind. My fragile mind can't handle it. I... am going to... explode.

Advertising 3 products in one commercial would be awesome if it ment there were two less commercials in that commercial break... but it doesn't. No, instead I, Joe Consumer, get 3 crappy products shoved into my brain at the same time. It's just another heap of anoying added to the already enormous pile that is advertising.

Am I the only person who feels this way?
Forgive me if my first rant was a little weak...

Kaos

Then try not to think of all the hidden product placements on the TV and movies that your are subconciously subjected to.

krwlz

What?

Cynthetiq

hmmmm i'm not sure I follow 100% but you should read the Mass Media thread... http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...ighlight=media

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empu

If it makes you feel any better, Sierra Mist and Frito-Lay Stax are both Pepsi products.

Fearless_Hyena

ok and on top of how commercialized it looks like that that movie is, aren't those characters grotesque as hell??

i'm lookin for a better word than 'grotesque', too, but i can't think of any that fits better, i mean...mike myers as the cat in the hat just looks scary as hell!!!! if i had any kids i am sure that character would freak them the hell out!!! he looks like a damn evil clown !!

scary stuff, dr. seuss is surely turning in his grave....

Phaenx

I just want the "va va voom" guy in the Panasonic flat tv commercial to go away.

And by go away, I mean I want to punch both the actor and the marketers who thought of this idea. Violently I mean, I'd sprint over to them and start a reverse "wind mill" uppercut to the actor and then kick a few marketers in the face or something before unleashing my fists of fury with a 95 punch combo on someones adams apple.

The actor could go free after admitting he is a woman since he isn't really at fault and I can't blame him for wanting the money, but for the next half hour I'd unleash a glorious display of power unlike anything the world has ever known. And then I'd rob them, just to add insult to injury. Who's with me!

I know what you're thinking, but it only lasts for a moment or two before I realise I don't know martial arts, and don't enjoy spending time in jail. Anyways, I really don't like that commercial.

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lordjeebus

I don't really care about commercials b/c I can just hit mute and read the newspaper or get a snack or poop or something. If they want to merge commercials, go ahead -- I'm not watching.

I am far more disturbed by the movie's terrifying portrayal of the Cat in the Hat, as Fearless_Hyena has already pointed out. I saw a picture at the post office (WTF?) and freaked out.

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guthmund

I was lucky enough to have a spoon in my hand, so I shoved it up my ass....I figured if I have to experience this kind of pain, then I want to be the one inflicting it.”

Oprah calls this "empowerment"

Lewis Black.....good times....good times.....

I forsee a future where every thirty minute block of television will be not 22 minutes of actual show but 22 minutes of commercials. Commercials jam packed with different ads for different products all in one spectacular ad that will seem like a television show unto itself.

Will Joe choose the Pringles or Doritos for his afternoon snack? Which will go better with his Alternative Lifestyle and allow him to "amp it up" "to the max" while drinking flavorful M-Dew X-Treme? Will Meg choose the windbreaker from Old Navy for her date with Ian or opt out of autumn wear altogether and instead where a short cropped tee from Banana Republic? They'll go fantastic with her new capri pants.

Advertising can only survive as long as we pay attention to it and assign a level of importance (or "cool") to the overpriced, overhyped pieces of substandard worksmanship.

Once we recognize and ignore the constant barrage of trend, they're words become fury...signifying nothing....

Now, I need a drink....

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Mephisto2

We used to have a "Cat in the Hat" book in our house when I was a kid. Damn thing frightened the shit of out me.

That "monster" (didn't look like any feckin' cat to me) was just too bloody freaky.

I swear to God, the first thing I thought of when I saw the poster for this movie the other day was "Eww... that's kinda scary". And it was just a poster. Of a hat. With nothing else. And I'm 34.

SHUDDER

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Jam

i like advertisements.. theyre entertaining... for the most part, tho i really dont see how its possible to get worked up over it... it is simply stimulation too two senses... sight and sound... and niether of those would hurt, unless you get siezures from blinking things, in which case.. then i can see getting worked up over it

Fearless_Hyena

shit i just saw the trailer and the 8 year old kid in the movie is using a palm pilot!!!! WTF!!!!

ARTelevision

When I was growing up there was LIFE, the magazine.

I once read a book called "Life, the Movie", by Neal Gabler.

Nowadays, we are definitely living in Life, the commercial.

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