Monday, July 16, 2007

The HA ha moment for today

I just heard the funniest thing in a commercial a few minutes ago.

In an ad for Transformers there was a critic's quote stating that it was "the most original film this year".

Anyone else find that funny?

7 comments:

Burbanked said...

Yes. That's actually kind of hilarious.

Perhaps the critic actually wrote that it was the "loudest and not in a good way, most incomprehensible and shot all shaky/crappy movie of the year" and his editor simply chopped it down to the pullquote.

MC said...

Well, just the fact that a movie based on a cartoon that already had a movie out 2 decades ago being called the most original movie this year... it is so wrong on so many levels.

Burbanked said...

In a similar bit of marketing copy irony, take a look at the poster recently featured at This Distracted Globe.

Mayren said...

I totally concur. That ad is moronic to me. Just because the teeny boppers don't know who Transformers are, doesn't mean the rest of us have suddenly contracted Alzheimer's disease.

sheesh. i'm not that old and I remember!

MC said...

Burbanked: That is pretty good.

Mayren: Perhaps the critic in question doesn't remember it though. Only way I can believe the quote.

J.D. said...

I know! I know! WTF?!?!?! HAHAHAHA!!!!!!

MC said...

I wonder if I can find a review for Gus Van Sant's Psycho that calls it the most original movie that year. Now that's a challenge.