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    Caveman PawsCaveman Paws Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    zimfan wrote: »
    The Super 8 trailer almost makes me cry

    it's like my childhood imagination put into a movie

    such a strange feeling

    What is Super 8 about? Aliens from Roswell escaping mid move to camp David or something?

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    My whole take on the Volkswagen Vader Kid was very simple.

    I watched it.

    I was jealous that cars didn't have auto-key-start in 1983.

    I was jealous of that kid's awesome Darth Vader costume.

    I watched it on youtube again.

    Then I realized that they didn't tell that kid to act, that's just a bunch of folks telling him:

    "Okay, Darth, you can use The Force one time today, only once. You won't know when it's gonna happen, but when it does, it's gonna be better than waffles with maple syrup in every square!"

    And then they filmed it.

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    Caveman PawsCaveman Paws Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    My whole take on the Volkswagen Vader Kid was very simple.

    I watched it.

    I was jealous that cars didn't have auto-key-start in 1983.

    I was jealous of that kid's awesome Darth Vader costume.

    I watched it on youtube again.

    Then I realized that they didn't tell that kid to act, that's just a bunch of folks telling him:

    "Okay, Darth, you can use The Force one time today, only once. You won't know when it's gonna happen, but when it does, it's gonna be better than waffles with maple syrup in every square!"

    And then they filmed it.

    I like thinking that the "kid" is really a dwarf. Who's like, 39 years old. They probably started with a real little kid but it didn't turn out how they wanted so they just re shot it with the pro actor.

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    KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    My whole take on the Volkswagen Vader Kid was very simple.

    I watched it.

    I was jealous that cars didn't have auto-key-start in 1983.

    I was jealous of that kid's awesome Darth Vader costume.

    I watched it on youtube again.

    Then I realized that they didn't tell that kid to act, that's just a bunch of folks telling him:

    "Okay, Darth, you can use The Force one time today, only once. You won't know when it's gonna happen, but when it does, it's gonna be better than waffles with maple syrup in every square!"

    And then they filmed it.

    I like thinking that the "kid" is really a dwarf. Who's like, 39 years old. They probably started with a real little kid but it didn't turn out how they wanted so they just re shot it with the pro actor.

    He's more machine than kid now- twisted and evil.

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    ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    The House "Hey kid" commercial was pretty funny. Would have been better if they hadn't just redone it last year or so with Polamalu's Hair.

    The biggest thing that annoyed me was all the Fox promos. I mean, I get they're going to advertise Idol, and the one where they kind of promote all their shows with the football tossing theme was fine, but then they had to show, like, 20 damn commercials for Glee and all their Thursday night comedies, or something, I don't even. It got annoying.

    Doritos continues to have great SB ads. Movie trailers were pretty good, PepsiMax commercial where the lady knocks out the white chick with the can had me and my girlfriend rolling, because we could see that happening to us.

    oh, yeah, and that Limitless movie looks dumb as fuck.

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    Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    The only one that made me legit laugh was the Reply All one.

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    DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited February 2011
    I didn't like a lot of the commercials this year. That "Here We Go" thing Bud Light keeps doing just keeps getting worse, Pepsi Max basically shit all over everything, and there was like, one good Doritos commercial out of the thirty they aired. Also I saw a thing that said people "eagerly anticipate" new GoDaddy.com ads, and I want to know who they are so I can slap them.

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    AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Peter Stormare is the best.

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    yeah doritos commercials this year were WEEAAAAKKKKK compared to last year

    really disappointing year for SB commercials

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I liked the two coca-cola commercials, the one with the fantasy war and the foreign legionnaire type dudes

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    GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I actually liked the NFL ad with all the TV shows reedited to show them watching the super bowl.

    When the Fonz hit that flatscreen to turn it on I burst out laughing.

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    DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited February 2011
    I remember budweiser and pepsi having good commercials in the past and now they're just not even trying

    like "fuck it, it's a beer commercial, drunks will be all over that shit if we toss in a couple ladies with big tits"

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    hey, Budweiser had one good commercial, the Tiny Dancer one

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Also yeah that imported from Detroit ad was great work.

    When I visited my cousins there last year...man its such a sad city.

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    zimfan wrote: »
    The Super 8 trailer almost makes me cry

    it's like my childhood imagination put into a movie

    such a strange feeling

    i don't understand

    your childhood imagination was an extremely ambiguous commercial about a train crashing and something breaking out of it?

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    facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    A duck! wrote: »
    facetious wrote: »
    The only one I really liked was the Bridgestone one with the chipmunk paying that dude back for not running him over.

    C-chipmunk? Really?

    Whatever it was.

    I wasn't paying close enough attention to perform clinical studies!!

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    QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I remember budweiser and pepsi having good commercials in the past and now they're just not even trying

    like "fuck it, it's a beer commercial, drunks will be all over that shit if we toss in a couple ladies with big tits"
    Pepsi and Dorito's don't actually make their super bowl commercials

    They run a contest for people to make their own and vote for the winners. Still doesn't seem to help.

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    GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    HOLD ME CLOSER TINY DAAAAANCER

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    DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited February 2011
    facetious wrote: »
    A duck! wrote: »
    facetious wrote: »
    The only one I really liked was the Bridgestone one with the chipmunk paying that dude back for not running him over.

    C-chipmunk? Really?

    Whatever it was.

    I wasn't paying close enough attention to perform clinical studies!!

    I want you to make a list of animals that cut down trees

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    DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited February 2011
    I remember budweiser and pepsi having good commercials in the past and now they're just not even trying

    like "fuck it, it's a beer commercial, drunks will be all over that shit if we toss in a couple ladies with big tits"
    Pepsi and Dorito's don't actually make their super bowl commercials

    They run a contest for people to make their own and vote for the winners. Still doesn't seem to help.

    so what you're saying is that they're even lazier than I thought (pepsi, at least, I knew about the doritos thing)

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    GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    no animals cut down trees but humans

    who's the real animal?
    beavers

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    horses do it too but the government keeps that quiet

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I remember budweiser and pepsi having good commercials in the past and now they're just not even trying

    like "fuck it, it's a beer commercial, drunks will be all over that shit if we toss in a couple ladies with big tits"

    oh hey Geebs! So last night I wound up in Chicago walked from the Bottom Lounge to the Five Star Lounge. When my mom found out today at our super bowl party she freak and was amazed I was not killed.

    I mean the snow was bad sure....

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    UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
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    QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I remember budweiser and pepsi having good commercials in the past and now they're just not even trying

    like "fuck it, it's a beer commercial, drunks will be all over that shit if we toss in a couple ladies with big tits"
    Pepsi and Dorito's don't actually make their super bowl commercials

    They run a contest for people to make their own and vote for the winners. Still doesn't seem to help.

    so what you're saying is that they're even lazier than I thought (pepsi, at least, I knew about the doritos thing)
    We worked on a commercial shoot for the competition, and even though it was mostly dorito's we did some Pepsi Max ones too.

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    DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited February 2011
    Bucketman wrote: »
    I remember budweiser and pepsi having good commercials in the past and now they're just not even trying

    like "fuck it, it's a beer commercial, drunks will be all over that shit if we toss in a couple ladies with big tits"

    oh hey Geebs! So last night I wound up in Chicago walked from the Bottom Lounge to the Five Star Lounge. When my mom found out today at our super bowl party she freak and was amazed I was not killed.

    I mean the snow was bad sure....

    I don't know what any of this means aside from "Chicago," "Lounge," and "Super Bowl." Possibly "mom," also.

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    DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited February 2011
    I remember budweiser and pepsi having good commercials in the past and now they're just not even trying

    like "fuck it, it's a beer commercial, drunks will be all over that shit if we toss in a couple ladies with big tits"
    Pepsi and Dorito's don't actually make their super bowl commercials

    They run a contest for people to make their own and vote for the winners. Still doesn't seem to help.

    so what you're saying is that they're even lazier than I thought (pepsi, at least, I knew about the doritos thing)
    We worked on a commercial shoot for the competition, and even though it was mostly dorito's we did some Pepsi Max ones too.

    I hope you know this means I will hold you both personally responsible for the quality of these commercials. All of them. Not just the ones you worked on.

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    GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    you know what really weirded me out
    the whole montage at the beginning with MLK, JFK, the moon landing, Rosa Parks, the Depression
    and SUPERBOWL XLV

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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    zimfan wrote: »
    The Super 8 trailer almost makes me cry

    it's like my childhood imagination put into a movie

    such a strange feeling

    What is Super 8 about? Aliens from Roswell escaping mid move to camp David or something?

    I think it's a "Bold new re-imagining of E.T., inspired by the success of Dark Knight." Making it "gritty and realistic."

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    GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    video game tie-in video game tie-in video game tie-in

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Well I guess, was she right? I mostly only know downtown. I guess we walked from West Lake Street to Chicago Ave. The snow drifts on the sidewalks sucked ass but shes been freaking out about it.

    I assume you know more about the city then I do

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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Ubik wrote: »

    I think the core idea could've worked if they'd used fake tragedies, a la 30 Rock's sendup of similarly self-aggrandizing "celebrity philanthropy" from a few week's back.

    Using real problems as a launchpad for jokes is just kinda tacky.

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    zimfan wrote: »
    The Super 8 trailer almost makes me cry

    it's like my childhood imagination put into a movie

    such a strange feeling

    What is Super 8 about? Aliens from Roswell escaping mid move to camp David or something?

    I think it's a "Bold new re-imagining of E.T., inspired by the success of Dark Knight." Making it "gritty and realistic."

    Oh...this sounds gross

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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Bucketman wrote: »
    zimfan wrote: »
    The Super 8 trailer almost makes me cry

    it's like my childhood imagination put into a movie

    such a strange feeling

    What is Super 8 about? Aliens from Roswell escaping mid move to camp David or something?

    I think it's a "Bold new re-imagining of E.T., inspired by the success of Dark Knight." Making it "gritty and realistic."

    Oh...this sounds gross

    I'm just guessing

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Ubik wrote: »

    I think the core idea could've worked if they'd used fake tragedies, a la 30 Rock's sendup of similarly self-aggrandizing "celebrity philanthropy" from a few week's back.

    Using real problems as a launchpad for jokes is just kinda tacky.
    Eeeeeh

    the fact that they do help the charities they made fun of evens it out I think

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Bucketman wrote: »
    zimfan wrote: »
    The Super 8 trailer almost makes me cry

    it's like my childhood imagination put into a movie

    such a strange feeling

    What is Super 8 about? Aliens from Roswell escaping mid move to camp David or something?

    I think it's a "Bold new re-imagining of E.T., inspired by the success of Dark Knight." Making it "gritty and realistic."

    Oh...this sounds gross
    Skragg it is made by Speilberg and JJ Abrams.

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    GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    JJ Abrams of Cloverfield and Postal: The Movie fame?

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    TheBlackWindTheBlackWind Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    JJ Abrams MY NEMESIS!

    Also while I love Speilberg, well he greenlit the last Indiana Jones movie and I can't forgive that. Though him producing Robopocalypse might help

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