Belated Superbowl Thoughts

I didn’t live blog the commercials this year because we had friends over watching the game and I didn’t want to sit there typing the whole time.

Glad I didn’t. The commercials were a serious letdown this year. Where were the Budweiser Clydesdales? Where were the commercials that had you saying, “How’d they come up with that?”

Was it a total washout? No. The Snickers commercial that had Willem DaFoe transforming into Marilyn Monroe was inspired. The Helen Mirren anti-drunk driving commercial was brilliant. And everything else memorable was in the comic book realm: The Ant-Man vs. Hulk over a Coke ad, and the Turkish Airline commercials featuring Lex Luthor and Bruce Wayne (Remember when everyone bìŧçhëd about Ben Affleck as Batman? Remember how the bìŧçhìņg stopped once they actually saw him in the trailers? Good. Now remember that next time you want to bìŧçh about something in advance.)

As for the game, I hate to admit it, but I actually paid attention to it when the heavily favored Panthers lost. I will say this: Cam Newton is being excoriated for walking out of the subsequent press conference. I’ve no idea why. If he felt he couldn’t sit there and talk to people about something that was clearly crushing to him, then by all means, get the hëll out of there. Much better to say nothing than say the wrong thing. Smart move on his part.

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11 comments on “Belated Superbowl Thoughts

  1. I, for one, want to know what the democratic and republican candidates for president are going to do on day one to protect this country from PuppyMonkeyBaby. It’s clear that this current administration helped bring it about. Thanks, Obama. ;/

  2. The Doritos ultrasound commercial was my favorite and Puppymonkeybaby gave me nightmares.

    I thought the ‘Super Bowl Babies’ commercial was kind of strange. It did, however, make me wonder what event lead to my existence.

    I’m not comfortable actually asking my parents, so I checked Wikipedia. Apparently my parents were celebrating Woodward & Bernstein’s first Watergate article being published in the Washington Post. Huh.

    I wonder if next year will feature ads with ‘Jack Daniels Babies’ or ‘CSI Was A Rerun Babies’.

    1. The Super Bowl Babies commercial reminded me of a 2014 Spanish language commercial by Hyundai that I think was better. It showed a couple arriving at a hospital and finding it full of women going into labor… nine month after the World Cup. If you search Youtube for “Hyundai 2014 FIFA World Cup #BecauseFutbol” you can find a version with English subtitles.

  3. You don’t understand feetball.

    He was supposed to stay and emotionally bleed all over the place for the further entertainment of the Roman populace in the Coliseum.

    Even better if he had a compound fracture and he was actually bleeding.

  4. I’m not a football guy, or a sports guy at all, really. But from people I’ve spoken to about it, the idea is that Newton’s a “big showboating baby who can’t take the loss like an adult” (that’s a direct qoute from one of my supervisors). This is apparently compounded by previous behavior that also marks him as a showboat.

    So I expect it’s the jibes of folks whom he has previously annoyed, finding further reason to be annoyed with him.

    I’d never heard of this dude before yesterday, myself…

    1. There’s a lot of Broncos (and NFL in general) fans who have willfully forgotten that moment in their zealousness to go after Newton.

      And to follow up on Gray64’s post: Newton has/is being called all kinds of things for his history of ‘showboating’. And yet, this is the NFL, where guys do little dances for making a sack when their team is down 30.

      Double-standards indeed.

  5. Cam is catching grief for not sticking around to answer why he didn’t try to recover the ball he fumbled.

    When I saw the first Kevin Hart commercial, I sighed. I don’t think he’s funny. Then I saw puppymonkeybaby, (funkymonkeybaby?) and thought, “šhìŧ, now he’s got two commercials out.”

    Not trying to be racist, he just leaves me cold…

  6. I can remember when everybody bìŧçhëd about Michael Keaton as Batman. Until they saw him in the trailer.

    (He’s still my favourite Batman, by the way.)

    1. For the record, my “bìŧçhìņg” about Affleck didn’t stop when I saw him in the trailers. Those trailers confirmed what I already knew: that, after never having been entertained or engaged by any of his performances, this would be no exception. The pouty “rage face” in the first trailer made me laugh. Everything else makes me roll my eyes.

      To be fair, his casting – while enough of a deal-breaker to keep me from seeing the movie – is not the only problem I have with it. But, it’s all about personal tastes. And, it’s sad…I should be jumping for joy for Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad, but everything I’ve seen convinces me more and more that the DC movieverse is not for me.

      –Daryl

  7. I was happy when he was announced as Batman. I even liked him in Daredevil the first time I saw it! I haven’t seen it since. I was not familiar with Daredevil and I liked how they handle the “soundwave view”. I did not like the playground scene with Electra. I heard the Director’s cut is better than the theatrical release. I have it on Blu-Ray and Digital Copy but I haven’t watch it yet (I have a problem I know).

    It looks like this new Batman is partially based on The Dark Knight Returns and the initial advertising of this movie wanted to play up the VS part of the movie. The second trailer seems to point more to a traditional “we meet for the first time, we fight, then we are friends and we work together to beat the villain” type of story.

    I do not liked Luthor on the trailer but that may be my own bias against the character (I do not like Osborne on Spider Man either). I am bored of the millionaire bad guy.

    I’ll watch the movie even though I had issues with Man of Steel. I did not connect emotionally with any character and I prefer Superman versions were his father is alive because the Jonathan-Clark relationship has always been my favorite aspect of the Superman character. There is something about a character with Superman’s power occasionally flying to a farm in Kansas for a chat with his dad because he is struggling trying to decide how to handle a complex situation were the right thing to do is not obvious.

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