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Super Bowl commercials thread
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And others here in the 1st half of the game. Way to many animals in the commercials. Its not cute/funny like it used to be.
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But really this commericals have been pretty weak overall. The Jerry Seinfield Acura commerical wasnt horrible and Bud Light just had an ok one HERE WE GO!
PHEW!!! Great ending to a great game, and the right team won! 
As for the commercials, they continue a downward trend that started a few years ago. I would say the M & M commercial and the one with the dog in the horse race "showboating" at the end (I don't even remember the product) were the two best. The Doritos commercial with the baby in the bungee seat stealing the Doritos from the bully was decent too.
I also liked the Pepsi Max commercial which was a bit of a sequel to that great Pepsi commercial from years back where the Coke guy steals a Pepsi from the Pepsi freezer and thousands of Pepsi cans spill out! So when this Coke guy wins the life supply of Pepsi Max, and Regis shows up, that was pretty good. Not as good as the original, but probably one of the top 5 of the night.
I kind of liked the Oikos Greek yogurt commercial too. Stamos's girl finally got fed up with his teasing her and not allowing her to taste the yogurt!
As for the commercials, they continue a downward trend that started a few years ago. I would say the M & M commercial and the one with the dog in the horse race "showboating" at the end (I don't even remember the product) were the two best. The Doritos commercial with the baby in the bungee seat stealing the Doritos from the bully was decent too.
I also liked the Pepsi Max commercial which was a bit of a sequel to that great Pepsi commercial from years back where the Coke guy steals a Pepsi from the Pepsi freezer and thousands of Pepsi cans spill out! So when this Coke guy wins the life supply of Pepsi Max, and Regis shows up, that was pretty good. Not as good as the original, but probably one of the top 5 of the night.
I kind of liked the Oikos Greek yogurt commercial too. Stamos's girl finally got fed up with his teasing her and not allowing her to taste the yogurt!
Bud Light really errored this year going with a more serious ad campaign and coming with just one humorous commerical. And that one had a great set up but just died as they could not figure out a good payoff.
Give me Bud Light's kitchen "makeover" commercial from last year that won the Ad Meter for best commercial:
You didn't do anything. You just added a case of Bud Light."
"EXXXAAACCCTTTLLLYYYYY!!!"
Serbiansniper34
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOrBUeVCqqw
Does anyone think that the host looks like former Mo. St player Will Creekmore?
Does anyone think that the host looks like former Mo. St player Will Creekmore?
tornado
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but isn't that odd - the whole purpose of the commercial is to catch your attention and burn the product indeliably into your mind and your memory..
...and yet you watched the commercial and were actually DISTRACTED by it such that you didn't even notice what was being advertisted!!!
A different ad caught my eye and I never could quite figure out what was up - When I saw the aging Clint Eastwood in the Detroit commercial - I immediately thought it was quite odd as it seemed to be promoting the bailout and how well it worked...
Now, I see I was not the only one who thought this commercial was a cheap attempt ("it's America's halftime" - meaning we need four more years of whatever..) to promote the President's re-election..
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation...olitics-in-clint-eastwoods-super-bowl-ad.html
FlyingSpaghettiMonster
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http://jalopnik.com/5882874/only-an-*****-would-think-chryslers-clint-eastwood-ad-was-pro+obama
Jalopnik disagrees with you. My favorite part: "Anyone on the right or the left who thinks the ad was pro-Obama or pro-Republican are demonstrating exactly the bullshit false divides Eastwood warns against in the ad. That's right ??” you *****s are actually the problem."
I wasn't a fan of the commercials or the half-time show. The game was great. It was one of the best Super Bowls I have watched. I watch for the game; the commercials and half time show are there for a different demographic.
tornado
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regardless - everyone knows where Eastwood stands politically and the America's halftime reference is quite clearly an attempt to promote four more years
..as that link shows - even ultra FAR-left liberal Michael Moore saw the ad for what it was ...a promo for Obama no matter how hard some try to pretend to deny it
..as that link shows - even ultra FAR-left liberal Michael Moore saw the ad for what it was ...a promo for Obama no matter how hard some try to pretend to deny it
+1
This one ended up being my favorite with the yogurt commercial showing John Stamos getting headbutted coming in 2nd.
Really????
"A one-time mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., Mr. Eastwood voted for Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election and every Republican candidate since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, tempted only once to vote for a non-Republican: the independent presidential candidate Ross Perot in 1992, he told the Los Angeles Times newspaper in November 2011."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...s-super-bowl-ad-not-pro-obama/article2329391/
I saw nothing wrong with this advertisement.
tornado
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Maybe -- who really knows what's going on in others' minds....and how do we really know how others voted? And people do change so no matter what he said back then how do we know what he feels now?
I still think Michael Moore saw it the way it was intended -
"Clint, the consensus is u done a good thing standing up 4 Detroit--
& your sermon seemed 2 b a call 2 give O his "second half."
and I never denied that Clint leans conservative when money is at issue but is an avowed social liberal...
if some how you did not see this as a promotion for Obama then you're entitled to see it as you wish, but even Clint concedes it did look like it...
and his "denial" is oddly a carefully parsed non-denial -- when asked if it was a promotion for Obama - the only thing he denied was "being affiliated with the Obama campaign"!!
http://news.yahoo.com/clint-eastwood-chrysler-commercial-viewed-obama-campaign-ad-214337497.html
http://www.thegrio.com/politics/clint-eastwood-i-am-not-politically-affiliated-with-mr-obama.php
I still think Michael Moore saw it the way it was intended -
"Clint, the consensus is u done a good thing standing up 4 Detroit--
& your sermon seemed 2 b a call 2 give O his "second half."
and I never denied that Clint leans conservative when money is at issue but is an avowed social liberal...
if some how you did not see this as a promotion for Obama then you're entitled to see it as you wish, but even Clint concedes it did look like it...
and his "denial" is oddly a carefully parsed non-denial -- when asked if it was a promotion for Obama - the only thing he denied was "being affiliated with the Obama campaign"!!
http://news.yahoo.com/clint-eastwood-chrysler-commercial-viewed-obama-campaign-ad-214337497.html
http://www.thegrio.com/politics/clint-eastwood-i-am-not-politically-affiliated-with-mr-obama.php
Why would Eastwood try to lie about how he voted in a November 2011 interview? Also, Eastwood's full quote is a little more than stating that he isn't "affiliated with Obama."
Some pundits have argued that the tone seemed to favor the re-election of President Obama. Eastwood told Fox that, ???I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama. It was meant to be a message ??¦ just about job growth and the spirit of America. I think all politicians will agree with it.???
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012...s-super-bowl-chrysler-ad-not-linked-to-obama/
tornado
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who the hey cares - all I ever said was that THE COMMERCIAL was an attempt to promote a 2nd term....
Clint did not pay for the ad nor write the ad - he simply said what was scripted for him to say by those who PAID FOR THE AD...
golly lots of people likely would say whatever they're told to say if they get the kind of $$ Clint Eastwood was likely paid for that ad!!!
Willing or unwilling - Clint did the bidding of someone who wanted to promote a 2nd term for the current president
BTW - the sponsor of that ad was Chrysler - the direct recipient of over $80 BILLION in cash money given to them (& GM) by President Obama (per msnbc)-- so if you're looking for perhaps something that might even just be the appearance of a reason why Chrysler might want to help President Obama - then I'd say an $80 billion "bailout" that has yet to be fully repaid is a nice start...
Clint did not pay for the ad nor write the ad - he simply said what was scripted for him to say by those who PAID FOR THE AD...
golly lots of people likely would say whatever they're told to say if they get the kind of $$ Clint Eastwood was likely paid for that ad!!!
Willing or unwilling - Clint did the bidding of someone who wanted to promote a 2nd term for the current president
BTW - the sponsor of that ad was Chrysler - the direct recipient of over $80 BILLION in cash money given to them (& GM) by President Obama (per msnbc)-- so if you're looking for perhaps something that might even just be the appearance of a reason why Chrysler might want to help President Obama - then I'd say an $80 billion "bailout" that has yet to be fully repaid is a nice start...
Leaving Clint out of this, Chryser was bailed out by the TARP plans that were started by the BUSH administration with further bailouts from the Obama Administration. Here is a pretty even report from Factcheck.org
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/06/chrysler-paid-in-full/
Lastly unlike a lot of corporations out there, Chrysler actually paid $148 million in income taxes through the first nine months of 2011!
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...2011-net-income-of-212-million-132695213.html
tornado
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agreed - Chrysler (per your stats) earned $1.5 BILLION in PROFIT (Modified Operating Profit) through the first 3 quarters of 2011....(figures for 4th quarter N/A)
If they have paid $148 million in taxes (and we can't be entirely sure as their tax records are not available and their tax return wouldn't be due until well into 2012)
then that figure works out to an overall tax rate of 9.7% - something that makes Mitt Romney's 15% look excessive - and certainly a percentage that many of us (private & corporate) exceed in what we pay every single year of our lives!!
They still quite obviously have a lot to thank someone in Washington for...
If they have paid $148 million in taxes (and we can't be entirely sure as their tax records are not available and their tax return wouldn't be due until well into 2012)
then that figure works out to an overall tax rate of 9.7% - something that makes Mitt Romney's 15% look excessive - and certainly a percentage that many of us (private & corporate) exceed in what we pay every single year of our lives!!
They still quite obviously have a lot to thank someone in Washington for...