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Where are the Movie Trailers?
The Superbowl is a great source to see what movies are coming up this summer. While site like YouTube may have these trailers already online, most people still turn to the Superbowl ads with their Teaser Trailers for movies that are coming soon to the box office. Or atleast we were hoping that would be the case.Unfortunately, advertising agencies (like most people in the field of offline commercial marketing) seem to think that if we want to find this information, we should go to the Internet. While the Internet is a good source to find previously aired advertisments, it is no subsitute for the 30 second movie trailer in high definition on the small screen.
The results for this years advertising were less than desirable, although the winner for the advertisements would have to be the Bud Light Squirrel. (Who doesn't love squirrels?).
Many ads that I wanted to see were AWOL. There was suppost to be ads for this summer's block busters. They weren't there. There were suppost to be ads for Microsoft Vista. They weren't there.
Most of the ads were the ads that people ususally see when there is no Superbowl. The Superbowl ads are suppost to be new advertisements, not the old ones. The high cost of adversting by the NFL certainly must have scared off the pennywise ad agencies and the miserly movie promoters. (Not to be an anti-semetic person, but Mel Gibson is right. You Hollywood producers need to splurge a little and stop being a bunch of anti-non-semetic misers. SPEND SOME MONEY ON ADVERTING YOUR MOVIES! OY!)
Pregame was Orwellian. No really it was. It might not be the drab environment like in the Apple 1984 commercial, but "One people, One Will, ...", but it was still Orwellian. The Circ de Sol (sp) appearance was more like a colorful kaliedescope to make it more appealing.
Prince was awesome, although, I don't think he liked being in the cold rain. I think a couple fireworks went off by accident, never the less, no F-bombs and no coordinated "malfunctions".
I really wanted to watch the game elsewhere, but since the temperature is a less-than-balmy 20 degrees, it was too icy and too cold to go down to the local pub.
Labels: movies, rage, thevirus, wtf
posted by Bushido Hacks 2/05/2007 12:47:00 AM
