Aliens v. Predator: The most offensive ad campaign ever?

Anyone else see these commercials promoting a midnight showing Christmas Eve of AVP2?

Words appear on a black screen: This Christmas Eve you're invited to midnight mass.

Then the letters ...acre are added.

Then some violence.

Then the voiceover: "The massacre begins midnight Christmas Eve at (theatre here)."

What? Did "Fuck worshipping the Lord, come see blood, guts and alien goo" not pass muster?

I'm not easily offended, nor am I overly religious, but that offended the hell out of me. Now midnight Mass is exploitable (is that a word? it is now) to premiere a new movie.

 

Like you really give a damn, liberal heathen.

 

Blow it out your ass, warmonger!!!

(are you heading over here to listen to Night Ranger or what?)

 

Nice to see ad execs are getting their ideas from a 20-year-old Bill Murray movie.

 

I gotta stop at E-Z Mart and pick up a case of Mountain Dew.

 

Don't forget the Corn Nuts!

 

Good god, were Corn Nuts awful. They still make those things?

 

What's the deal with Corn Nuts?

 

Alien vs. Predator reminds me of a conversation I had with my college roommate. Everyone's done this, but we'd compare mascots to see who would win in a fight between their "real" counterparts.

Being from St. Louis, he swore up and down that nothing could beat a Saint Louis Billiken in a straight fight, because it had mystical powers and could beat anything. I countered by saying anything divine, like an angel or a devil, could beat a Billiken because it wasn't of this world. I think Santa Claus could beat a Billiken.

I'd admit, however, that a Billiken could probably beat Alien or Predator.

How this relates to Christmas? I have no earthly idea.

 

As for Corn Nuts, between the taste and the breath they left you with, you might as well eat a six-day-old dead raccoon.

EDIT: WTF is a Billiken?

 

Some Buddha-looking ugly fucker. And no ... not Rick Majerus.