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i wish i could veto commercials.
there are some that i can deal with watching. i know good advertising when i see it. but there are a lot of commercials that i can't stand seeing. i gotta change the channel. or i'm just disgusted by the severe aesthetic deficiencies. a major problem is the shitty spokesmanship [see extra, bernie&phil's]. but one wrong line or look can wreck a good ad, too. [the burger king office ads are great, but the punchlines in a couple of them are wincingly executed.] poor editing or misuse of programming tools to present material also bothers me, because - in a lot of cases - the commercial could be much better if done properly, for example: the hp picture commercial to the tune of the cure's "pictures of you" was a masterful ad; the computer technology was used artfully within its potential, and it's a good song, though i never thought i'd hear it in a commercial, which brings me to my next thing. good songs sold out meaninglessly. prime example - led zeppelin's cadillac ad. steppenwulf plugging the new chevy... "revolution". commercials that try too hard also piss me off. black and white slow-mo commercials for genital herpes cream, allergy medication, magic sex jelly. no good. i don't wanna watch annoying people pitching things... take that lady who gets so excited about the citibank cards... please. commercials for shitty bands. I DON'T WANT THE LINKIN PARK DVD BOXSET. loooooong infomercials for things i don't fucking need. the idiotic animated characters. the fake fun. the shitty jingles. the wrong shot selections. the wrong fonts. the wrong voiceover. the wrong timing. the same fuckin thing as every other crackpot commercial... which makes the good ones out there all the more valuable. the "obey your thirst" marketing is well played, and the commercials are clever enough. volkswagen has some good ones... see 'the square series -> bug' or 'the good mood trail'. the honda commercial with the heads of the people who look like their cars. most sprint commercials. snapple commercials. the verison commercial where the guy smashes his roommate's computer. at least a few of the mastercard commercials. [seeing the red sox in the world series WOULD be priceless.] i'm far too cynical to think of anything else that i like off the top of my head. but now i'm gonna smoke a cigarette, and try to clear my head of the junk television keeps pumping into it.
there are some that i can deal with watching. i know good advertising when i see it. but there are a lot of commercials that i can't stand seeing. i gotta change the channel. or i'm just disgusted by the severe aesthetic deficiencies. a major problem is the shitty spokesmanship [see extra, bernie&phil's]. but one wrong line or look can wreck a good ad, too. [the burger king office ads are great, but the punchlines in a couple of them are wincingly executed.] poor editing or misuse of programming tools to present material also bothers me, because - in a lot of cases - the commercial could be much better if done properly, for example: the hp picture commercial to the tune of the cure's "pictures of you" was a masterful ad; the computer technology was used artfully within its potential, and it's a good song, though i never thought i'd hear it in a commercial, which brings me to my next thing. good songs sold out meaninglessly. prime example - led zeppelin's cadillac ad. steppenwulf plugging the new chevy... "revolution". commercials that try too hard also piss me off. black and white slow-mo commercials for genital herpes cream, allergy medication, magic sex jelly. no good. i don't wanna watch annoying people pitching things... take that lady who gets so excited about the citibank cards... please. commercials for shitty bands. I DON'T WANT THE LINKIN PARK DVD BOXSET. loooooong infomercials for things i don't fucking need. the idiotic animated characters. the fake fun. the shitty jingles. the wrong shot selections. the wrong fonts. the wrong voiceover. the wrong timing. the same fuckin thing as every other crackpot commercial... which makes the good ones out there all the more valuable. the "obey your thirst" marketing is well played, and the commercials are clever enough. volkswagen has some good ones... see 'the square series -> bug' or 'the good mood trail'. the honda commercial with the heads of the people who look like their cars. most sprint commercials. snapple commercials. the verison commercial where the guy smashes his roommate's computer. at least a few of the mastercard commercials. [seeing the red sox in the world series WOULD be priceless.] i'm far too cynical to think of anything else that i like off the top of my head. but now i'm gonna smoke a cigarette, and try to clear my head of the junk television keeps pumping into it.