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  • Sporting
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    We both greatly enjoyed Lost In Translation.

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  • 3 Colours Red
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    It's a schtick that only works when other funnier people are around him and he's forced to raise his game a bit. Therefore it can't work in serious roles at all.

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  • jwdd27
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    Other people seem to have a deep love for Bill Murray basically acting as himself in every movie he does. Oh look, he's doing something funny but he looks miserable, how hilarious! Leaves me totally cold.

    And Lost in Translation was utterly dire, don't think I made it past halfway through.

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  • Patrick Thistle
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    I watched a pre-release cut of Lost in Translation and thought it was boring dire bollocks. The way other people talk about it I think the film must have been heavily edited in the few weeks before it went on cinema release. Either that or people really love boring dire bollocks.

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  • The Awesome Berbaslug!!!
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    I can't find Kenny Dalglish's japanese whisky ad anywhere. Only articles referring to long dead videos. It was glorious.

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  • Various Artist
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    Isn't the opening premise of Lost In Translation that Bill Murray's character is off doing one of these commercials for a Japanese whisk(e)y? So it's lucrative, 'out of sight' so doesn't really matter how he comes off doing it (and his star is fading regardless back in the US so what the heck) but fundamentally soul-destroying and part of a more general dislocation he's experiencing – thus setting him up for encountering Scarlett Johansson's character and all that goes along with that.

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  • 3 Colours Red
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    I see what you mean but I was referring to this strange naivety that they seem to have about "oh, no-one will ever see them outside Japan, so it's OK that I strip myself of every last bit of dignity I have", whereas some underpaid researcher with a satellite dish the size of an Olympic swimming pool is getting all these on tape ASAP in the hope that a few million people may find them vaguely amusing.

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  • Jah Womble
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    Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View Post
    Has that ever really been true? Shows like Clive James on TV and Carrott's Commercial Breakdown were dragging them out decades ago, and you can find pretty much all of them on YouTube.
    Those shows were on, what, thirty years ago? My point was that Japanese commercials aren’t really visible in the way that de Niro’s are - ie, every bloody ad break here. I’m sure that ‘that’ (apart from the wedge, obviously) is a big part of the appeal for yer major names that make them.

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  • Patrick Thistle
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    The ads with Darren Gough and Shane Warne for Advanced Hair Studio bring a new meaning to the phrase "wooden acting".

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  • 3 Colours Red
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    Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post
    any dodgy commercial a major star makes in Japan is likely to stay there.
    Has that ever really been true? Shows like Clive James on TV and Carrott's Commercial Breakdown were dragging them out decades ago, and you can find pretty much all of them on YouTube.

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  • Patrick Thistle
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    I wonder if the unknown actor who plays the director lists working with Robert De Niro on his acting CV?

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  • Patrick Thistle
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    Yeah that De Niro ad is basically just a shit pun with Robert used as a cheap prop. At least they didn't insist on him saying his line from Taxi Driver.

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  • Sporting
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    Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post
    Surely if you’re pissed, the last place you need to go is the pub?
    Cheap drinks alone at home; a couple or so more expensive pints down the boozer with mates and conversation.

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  • Jah Womble
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    Surely if you’re pissed, the last place you need to go is the pub?

    Originally posted by WOM View Post
    Jalopnik did a piece about a week ago on big stars that did car commercials - usually in Japan. It's not a big mystery: you make a piss-pot of money for a day's work with a nice trip thrown in to boot. There's really no downside or brand-damage to consider. And you can't dismiss the flattery of being courted for the gig.
    That’s as maybe, but any dodgy commercial a major star makes in Japan is likely to stay there. I’m not sure whether the same can be said about the UK.

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  • pebblethefish
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    I have Googled "sloping dentists" but it didn't help. In my efforts to win I am going to look to see if I have any food channels on my Freeview, than watch them during Pudding Hour.

    Edit: that related to the sloping dentists thing from a page ago. Which you can probably tell anyway. I'm pissed, I need to go to the pub.

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  • Gangster Octopus
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    The early eighties Madness adverts for Honda appeared on their singles' video collection tape.

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  • WOM
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    Jalopnik did a piece about a week ago on big stars that did car commercials - usually in Japan. It's not a big mystery: you make a piss-pot of money for a day's work with a nice trip thrown in to boot. There's really no downside or brand-damage to consider. And you can't dismiss the flattery of being courted for the gig.

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  • Jah Womble
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    Well, that might explain it to an extent, yes.

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  • ursus arctos
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    If reports here are to be believed, his ancillary businesses have been bleeding tens of millions for a while and have been absolutely destroyed by the pandemic.

    He seems to be very highly leveraged and not at all liquid.

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  • Jah Womble
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    Originally posted by WOM View Post
    It's big, big money for not a whole lot of work.
    If it exceeded 500k, I'd be surprised.

    I mean, yes, that's a lot of dough, but we 'are' talking de Niro here - which clearly needs to take into account both the 'loose change'-aspect and his reputation.

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  • 3 Colours Red
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    Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View Post

    However back in the other direction "Mr Muscle" was the male super hero coming to the rescue of stereotypical housewives who weren't scrubbing the worktops hard and fast enough before their husbands got home, or whatever.
    Wasn't that the later, badly dubbed CGI, unironically named Mr Muscle though? The original weedy version seemed to be living alone.

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  • Benjm
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    Once they have got over the conscience and cringe factors it is, as WOM suggests, money for old rope. The perception of licensing music for ads has also changed in recent years. Once bands used to agonise over it, as with the New Order Sunkist episode. Now, as other income streams have dried up, bands do it and aren't judged harshly because only megastars and veterans who made their pile back in the good old days can afford to dismiss such offers out of hand. I don't know whether Hollywood stars have lost their traditional means of earning to the same degree though.

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  • Walt Flanagans Dog
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    Originally posted by Benjm View Post
    The Niro ad is especially painful because the script seems written to hedge against viewers not realising who he is.

    I had imagined that he does all the crap, both ads and films, to raise cash for his hotel and restaurant empire but his net worth is supposedly something like $500 million (pre-Covid). The fee for something like the Niro horror can't be that significant a sum to him unless his philosophy is just to grab as much as possible while he can.
    He's far from the only one (though certainly one of the biggest) - the bar for stooping to shill for any old shite seems to have disappeared in recent years in Hollywood.

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  • Walt Flanagans Dog
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    Originally posted by Various Artist View Post
    Whereas in the UK for some years it's, erm, leaned the other way for some time – it's always the men who are utter clueless clodhoppers when anything even remotely 'domestic' is involved, stumbling from one minor crisis to another in a state of sort of radiant incomprehension, until their better half flits into the picture to tidy it up for them with the aid of New WonderProduct! etc.. Which I guess ties into the stereotype evinced by your second paragraph there.

    I think this may well have fallen foul of more recent advertising laws however, where nobody can be presented as failing at a task simply by virtue of their gender... which must've meant scrapping an awful lot of advertising campaigns right there.
    However back in the other direction "Mr Muscle" was the male super hero coming to the rescue of stereotypical housewives who weren't scrubbing the worktops hard and fast enough before their husbands got home, or whatever.

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  • Various Artist
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    Originally posted by Sporting View Post
    In Spanish adverts, experts on the right kind of cleaning product to use in showers, dishwashers and washing machines are invariably men - technicians appearing in kitchens as if by magic - while the "useless" females look on in awe and relief at being told what they've been doing wrong.

    Of course, accepting that men can know something about household chores is, from my merely anecdotal evidence, a step too far for far too many women of my acquaintance.

    The ads are still rabidly sexist, though.
    Whereas in the UK for some years it's, erm, leaned the other way for some time – it's always the men who are utter clueless clodhoppers when anything even remotely 'domestic' is involved, stumbling from one minor crisis to another in a state of sort of radiant incomprehension, until their better half flits into the picture to tidy it up for them with the aid of New WonderProduct! etc.. Which I guess ties into the stereotype evinced by your second paragraph there.

    I think this may well have fallen foul of more recent advertising laws however, where nobody can be presented as failing at a task simply by virtue of their gender... which must've meant scrapping an awful lot of advertising campaigns right there.

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