Enough is enough. Now they're whoring out "A Christmas Story"

[JR]

Apparently there is no shame any more.

Plus, it's a lousy ****ing commercial.

Pox on Cingular

 

[joe]

"It's smiling at us."

 

[imjustagirl2]

Fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

You'll run the bill up.


Usually see this 3-4 times per day on TV down here. It's horrid.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Show me how a piggie eats!

 

[D-3 Fan]

I find the commercial amusing. Much like the ex-solider who renovated the house in the movie just recently.

I want to go there and see where the lamp was at in the living room. That would be my Christmas gift this year.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

I like Jean Shepherd and I like the movie as much as anyone, but it's not exactly like a commercial is blaspheming something from Scripture.

Shep's radio work and the movie were commercial ventures, after all.

 

[kingcreole]

Um ... Fra ... Geelee

That must be Italian!

 

[roxraidersfan]

You'll shoot your eye out!

 

[qtlaw]

"oh, fu..............k."

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

I find the commercial amusing. Much like the ex-solider who renovated the house in the movie just recently.

I want to go there and see where the lamp was at in the living room. That would be my Christmas gift this year.

The amusing part of it gets lost after you've seen it for the 50th time in a day.

 

[D-3 Fan]

I find the commercial amusing. Much like the ex-solider who renovated the house in the movie just recently.

I want to go there and see where the lamp was at in the living room. That would be my Christmas gift this year.

The amusing part of it gets lost after you've seen it for the 50th time in a day.

I don't mind Hank. My goal this Christmas is to get my three-year old niece to watch it ad naseum like she does with Home Alone. If she can say "You'll shoot your eye out," I'll die a happy uncle!!

 

[hondo]

Oh, please, take a ****in chill pill. It was a cheesy movie to begin with.

 

[Chi City 81]

Oh, please, take a ****in chill pill. It was a cheesy movie to begin with.

Ebenezer Scrooge, everybody!

 

[hondo]

Oh, please, take a ****in chill pill. It was a cheesy movie to begin with.

Ebenezer Scrooge, everybody!

Well, it was. And I love it. Watch it every time it's on. But don't get all high and mighty on us here.
It's like the people who got all huffy because Nike made commercials using Beatles songs, forgetting for the moment that there had been commercials that used songs from Mozart, Bach and other classics.

 

[JR]

Hondo misses the point as usual.

There's a big difference between using the William Tell Overture as theme music to The Lone Ranger and screwing around with a cheesy but significant Christmas movie to sell a phone service.

And if it were at all creative or witty, they may be forgiven but the ad is pathetically stupid, second-rate and clunky.

We have been conditioned to accept whatever crap corporate America dishes out.

 

[TigerVols]

The NYT rips off another SJ thread...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/business/media/27adcol.html

 

[Ace]

Oh, please, take a ****in chill pill. It was a cheesy movie to begin with.

In defense of hondo, A Christmas Story was directed by Bob Clark who also directed Baby Geniuses 2 and the Porky's movies.

So it's not like Robert Altman's or David Lean's visions are being corrupted.

Love the movie, though. Watch it every year.

 

[mpcincal]

Oh, please, take a ****in chill pill. It was a cheesy movie to begin with.

In defense of hondo, A Christmas Story was directed by Bob Clark who also directed Baby Geniuses 2 and the Porky's movies.

So it's not like Robert Altman's or David Lean's visions are being corrupted.

Love the movie, though. Watch it every year.

I don't know how many of you know this, but A Christmas Story actually owes its existence to the original Porky's.

As the story goes, Bob Clark had been trying to sell ACS to numerous studios and got turned down by every one. Then the guy makes Porky's and out of nowhere, it turns into a big box-office hit. The studio, of course, has dollars signs in its eyes and says it wants a sequel, so Clark tells them, "OK, I'll do it, but first you have to finance this other project I've been wanting to do."

And the rest is history.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

I hear they're using the Flintstones to sell kids' vitamins, too.