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[sodamntired]

The Best Ads On Television

 

 

and the ads are so good, ABC is developing a sitcom around them.......

[Gomo]

I heard about this. It's too bad that the show is basically going to be one huge advertisement, but we'll all have to watch it just because everyone else we know will watch it and it'll be a topic of discussion, or something like that.

[soundless_space]

A sitcom? Hm.

[Some Random]

they're gonna ruin my favorite commercials by making a sitcom outta them. grr.

[soundless_space]

It'll take all the fun out of them. I don't think it will last very long.

[garsk]

yeah... i didn't find them funny, and after the second one, it was just a long running joke that wasn't funny anymore

[Hyphnip]

damn ABC! when was the last time they did anything remotely good?

[Sparq]

I preferred the Capital One visigoth horde ad, and the Bud Light Institute ad with the vikings.

 

Sitcom sounds like a terrible idea.

[Gomo]

It'll get water cooler conversations going. It's something everybody knows and I'd bet lots of people will tune in, at least at the beginning.

[HoboFactory]

Problem is, when making a show or a movie, it never works when you're drawing from a source that doesn't have that much substance to it. It's the same reason why movies based on videogames aren't really any good. Besides, how tiresome would it be to watch episode upon episode of the cavemen being bothered by the Geico slogan in some form or another?

[Some Random]

i love that new capitol one ad with the bankers infestation.

[Ruettiger]

Problem is, when making a show or a movie, it never works when you're drawing from a source that doesn't have that much substance to it. It's the same reason why movies based on videogames aren't really any good. Besides, how tiresome would it be to watch episode upon episode of the cavemen being bothered by the Geico slogan in some form or another?

There are many video games that would make great movies if they'd stick to the actual story lines. Resident Evil is a perfect example of what NOT to do.

[sodamntired]

Problem is, when making a show or a movie, it never works when you're drawing from a source that doesn't have that much substance to it.  It's the same reason why movies based on videogames aren't really any good.  Besides, how tiresome would it be to watch episode upon episode of the cavemen being bothered by the Geico slogan in some form or another?

There are many video games that would make great movies if they'd stick to the actual story lines. Resident Evil is a perfect example of what NOT to do.

no no no, i love Resident Evil.

 

I think you meant to say

 

 

Super Mario Brothers or Street Fighter

Edited March 6, 2007 by sodamntired

[Matt]

It's kind have like taking TV shows from the seventies and adapting them for the screen.

[HoboFactory]

Problem is, when making a show or a movie, it never works when you're drawing from a source that doesn't have that much substance to it.  It's the same reason why movies based on videogames aren't really any good.  Besides, how tiresome would it be to watch episode upon episode of the cavemen being bothered by the Geico slogan in some form or another?

There are many video games that would make great movies if they'd stick to the actual story lines. Resident Evil is a perfect example of what NOT to do.

Sure, some videogames have more substance than others, so I suppose some lend themselves better to making movies from, but it's rare and it's still probably not a good idea and something of a lose-lose situation. If you follow the plot of the game closely in a movie, then "if you've played the game, you've already seen the movie" so why bother watching the film at all? I liked the storyline of the Half-Life games, but I probably wouldn't want to see it as a movie if it was all just the same stuff happening, only in a somehow more cinematically-appropriate fashion.

 

At the same time, if the film deviates from the plot of the game excessively, then the people who would most likely see it (fans of the game) would be disappointed and complain that it was nothing like the game.

 

It would probably be even harder if you're basing a show or a movie on a commerical, because, a commerical is guaranteed to have little substance for basis, and you have to take a joke, a joke with the same exact theme mind you, and somehow build a season of 30-minute episodes focusing on it.

[saturnine]

hooray for capitalism.

[cloudburst]

the show will be awful i think

[bishopx]

The show will blow...and we'll long for the commercials

[Crusader]

encino man, anyone?

[garsk]

no, dear god no.

[sodamntired]

The show will blow...and we'll long for the commercials

i know, just like that god-awful peice of shit Simpsons movie. why did they even try? *sarcasm off*

 

i say wait until the show comes on to judge it. i think it looks kind of funny.

[bishopx]

I'll give it a shot...I just hope they use the song from the airport commercial for the theme...