Maybe I'm getting old, but every TV commercial makes me want to puke. They are all so stupid and so bad that it's hard to believe a corporate exec signed off on any of them. As an actor I have appeared in almost 150 of them and, while most were comedic, most of what I did seemed to relate to what a product could do. Jesus, now they are all shit. Just look at the car commercials for one example out of hundreds. Is there a single one of them that tells you why car A is superior to cars B thru Z? One? Why the fuck should I buy a vehicle because it has a CD player in the back? Or because it somehow comes dropping from the sky onto a target? Or if a gorgeous blonde with great tits is----OK, if the blonde is included I'll buy the fucking thing, but deep down inside I know she isn't a part of the deal and I'll be pissed two hours after buying. Just to say that I find myself surfing away from all programs when the stupid commercials come on. My question? Do I represent a broad demographic or just a niche for former mental patients and drug users?
7 comments:
Your just getting old dude!
God, I love those caveman ads by Geico. Can't wait for the movie!!
I just noticed the other day...how ALL the acting, in all the shows, is just BETTER-than it was when I was growing up. It's just better! The worst show of today has better acting than the best show of yesteryear. The result of a generation growing up with tv, as opposed to inventing it. So of course commercials are going to be different, everything is.
Get Tivo...avoid the ads
Howard, you are correct, the commercials all do suck and are idiotic (and magazine ads too. Most are just plain stupid). My girlfriend works for a large holding company in NYC that owns quite a few ad agencies. She is not in marketing, but in the insurance side, so she sees pretty much all the policies and contracts, just about everything that has to do with the commercial production, concepts, etc...I mentioned to her the other day what the fuck is up with all these shitty ads on TV (and magazines) and she told me that practically all of the people who are doing "idea" work and creating these concepts are well, idiots. You probably know what kind of people I am talking about. They are all a bunch of hip, edgy, trendy, ironic clowns who believe they are the smartest people around and have "artistic vision." (In other words they don't know shit). And they all think they are Cecil B. DeMilles. Companies are handing over large sums of money for garbage because the people form the companies like Ford, or what have you also have idiots in the marketing departments. It is a synergy of morons collaborating on creating a shit sandwich and then patting each other on the back for a job well done.
Xiaoding,
Put the pipe down! How can you say the acting is better today? Better than the Jeffersons, Archie Bunker, 3's Company, Magnum PI, Hawaii 5-0 and many others? The Desperate Houseshits, Lost, that stupid show about the doctors in Seattle and other garbage is better?! You are obviously a bright guy, but I can't let that comment slide by. the only real talent today is in the cartoons, that is where the writing is. As for actors on TV, most are abysmal.
Couldn't agree more. It's the dumbest shit on TV. Well, almost the dumbest. The programs themselves are worse.
I've noticed that the percentage of time several cable channels allocate to commercials seeems to be increasing --maybe 12-15 minutes of ads per hour. Has anybody else noticed this?
Shit, I can remember when cable didn't have any commercials. That was one of the main reasons for getting it. But my dad was such a cheap bastard that he didn't get anything beyond that stupid fucking TV antenna on the chimney until about 7 years when he finally got satellite service. nNeedless to say I was moved out by then and never really got a chance to use it.
I have no idea how any of these companies gets any return on the commericals. When one comes on, I change the channel.
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