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You Look Like You Need a Guinness
prestidigital writes "This is a great fictional advertisement (high bandwidth) for Guinness. I say "fictional" because it is from the movie Minority Report. You may recall that Steven Spielberg is known for heavy branding in movies ala the opening scenes from Back to the Future (Burger King and Pepsi plastered all over). Well, apparently he has taken it a step further by weaving it into the very fabric of the plot in Minority Report. Cool ads if you can afford to wait for them. Lexus is good."
1st Pint :D
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(Fucking close to water)
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It'd take truly excellent advertising to get me to install quicktime.
Well I tried to watch the ad. It was there on my desktop. It starts off with a Guinness and some birds flying around in the top or something. Then, the screen goes all digitized and the soundtrack sounds like a modem trying to connect. Then, Windows tells me that QuickTime has caused a fatal error and must close.
All this because Mozilla is still downloading the file while I tried to watch it. Maybe I need to un-cap my cable modem. Or turn off Kazaa. Or just take all the pr0n out of my Kazaa folder, that seems to be over half of the traffic.
I wish I were drinking a Guinness right now, but Fat Tire Amber ain't too bad.'
Whoo Hoo! I got the Score +1 Bonus check box!
I've had 3 Guinesses this morning in the same time it took that clip to load. And that that includes settle time. ;->
Going into the store with you significant other...
"Ah! Joe Johansen! Good to see you again! We just received a new batch of KY in butterscotch, your favorite flavor, according the Basking Robbins!
We know you normally buy KY down at Big Al's Porn Shoppe on 32nd, but this store is 4 blocks closer to your home, and we know how awkward it is to get those 50 gallon drums home on the public slideway! Why not have one of our friendly clerks help you out to your car with one of the store's hand-trucks? Remember, we provide free curb service, where Big Al's doesn't!
How is Millie, your Yak, by the way? Has the infection she had responded to the Penicillin you purchased two weeks ago from Bob's Veterinary Supply? Is she still down in U-Store-It Storage Unit #15? We have a co-marketing agreement with U-Store-It, where if you buy from us today, you will get 5% off your next month's rent!
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[and on and on...]
Uh, no thank you!
Walking into a bookstore:
But, it might be neat to have tailored banner ads online. I mean, I never want to go hunting or fishing, so don't show me anything outdoorsy, but would like to see something regarding computer programming, but not games.
Click here or here.
"We need personalized ads, like Minority Report. And we need them now. I want ads like that in our malls by next year!"
Dude... that was Aquafina Classic. They're just cashing in on the nostalgia.
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Seriously, though, you don't get any points for tearing down an argument that no-one made.
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actually, it looks like he got 5...
You may be at +5 funny, but knowing some scummy marketers in my lifetime, I'd moderate this as +5 "frighteningly close to reality".
the AC
Butterscotch is not my favourite flavour
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on