BLOGS
It would have been 10, but the Super Bowl ads were generally unimpressive this year as a whole (blame the economy or something!), but there were some exceptions. The one thing that was a little different this year, at least to me, was the insane barrage of NBC promotion. Of course the network that has the Super Bowl is going to promote its own content and everything, but is it always that much self-promotion? It felt like every other ad was a Heroes, Chuck, MacGruber or that people-whose-asses-fell-off-watching-30 Rock thing. Anyway, the list below is the best of the non-movie trailer-y/NBC content as we saw it. (See Moviefile for the best trailers, and we're ignoring the NBC stuff completely.) Enjoy having to watch a commercial before watching a commercial! Yay capitalism! The award for most depressing thing I've ever seen that also made me laugh:
The Statham, driving a car no one can afford right now like a bad ass:
Alright, a lot of people probably hated this, because it is pretty obnoxious, but I don't know -- an animatronic koala getting punched in the face just really works for me:
The Budweiser commercials are a Super Bowl staple, but this year's Clydesdales spots just really didn't do it for me for some reason. Probably because they were obvious and cloying, particularly the one where the horse's grandfather immigrates to America from Scotland and has all this adversity and then realizes his mission in life is to pull a carriage for drunk St. Louis people, like wow! That is a better life! Anyway, this Bud Lite spot had a guy falling out of a building, so it wins:
This Monster.com moose's ass thing. We've all been there, bro:
Finally! A truck I can set on fire while hauling 10 tons of whatever up a steep corkscrew in the sky! This one's admittedly terrible, but I do so want to set a truck on fire and drive it up a corkscrew, so in the list it goes.
This one's juvenile and also obvious, but what makes it special is the incredible commitment to the gag in these guys' faces -- they are really selling it! It's truly commendable:
And lastly, Conan's Swedish Bud Lite commercial, which may be the greatest Super Bowl ad in the history of Super Bowl ads:
What were your favorite and least favorite ads? Sound off below, then check out the best movie trailers!
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