tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16669458.post1824857642288462362..comments2023-12-21T07:50:40.293-04:00Comments on Why Advertising Sucks: Face it, sometimes you're homicidal.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16669458.post-62119939082567224802008-01-28T18:03:00.000-04:002008-01-28T18:03:00.000-04:00Well, I honestly think that there are wonderful fi...Well, I honestly think that there are wonderful films that can provide loads of great inspiration when daydreaming of going postal. Here are my faves, in no particular order:<BR/><BR/>1) Do you see? From Red Dragon. Picture it. You have your ugliest client, strapped down in a wooden chair, naked, but of course. You run a slideshow of the original ads and then the revised ones, usually all fucked up. You scream: this is what we told you to do. This is what you did, fucking it up. You scream. DO YOU SEE? Click. DO YOU SEE? Brilliant.<BR/><BR/>2) Ricky-Oh. Anything in this movie will do the work. Cut the intestines and choke them with the bloody guts? Punching so hard you break the ribcage and scream? Japan has it going on.<BR/><BR/>3) Hannibal does it best. Just open up their brains, sautee with a little bit of virgin olive oil, open up a nice bottle of red wine. I wonder... what goes with client's brain? Or with CEO's brain? Food for thought. Pun intended.<BR/><BR/>4) Apocalypse Client. I love the smell of napalm in a client's scrotum. Smells like victory. Kudos for Coppola for such army style violence.<BR/><BR/>5) Godfather. Yes. Send in Vito Corleone's guys to do the work, just pay the bill at the end. Much more cleaner, you don't get your funny creative tshirt stained with old blood. Sicilians. You gotta love them.<BR/><BR/>Kudos for a great post, mein friend. Long live daydreamed violence.Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12417082595224989963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16669458.post-72068514376229863002008-01-27T18:14:00.000-04:002008-01-27T18:14:00.000-04:00“Cheers” caps off the carnage nicely.“Cheers” caps off the carnage nicely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16669458.post-79380263678867191402008-01-25T13:04:00.000-04:002008-01-25T13:04:00.000-04:00Back when I was working in the biz (as opposed to ...Back when I was working in the biz (as opposed to this housewife bullshit I'm doing now) we creatives would enjoy playing Call of Duty during our lunch break. I always wished they would create a version of the game that was more modern. Well, whatdaya know... they did. Now you can play Call of Duty with modern weapons and scenarios. So, since a large part of their consumer base works in advertising, why don't they create an "Advertising" mod? You, of course, are a copywriter or art director. You're given various weapons to choose from... sniper rifles (my favorite), shotguns, chainsaws, weedeaters, or maybe just a ballpoint pen. Then, you walk through a map of a typical agency... kill other plagiarizing creatives in their cubes, find that fucking Creative Director who gave you a bad review ("Bad Hand Skills, yet you're a copywriter) and shoot her fat, red-headed face with a Colt 45 automatic, then go across the hall and hack an AE to death with a machete, or go upstairs to the conference room and wipe out the entire meeting (clients, your CEO, etc) with the BFG from Doom. Then, when you go back to your desk, you see 7 job starts that are due by noon (two with dictated concepts that the now dead Creative Director wanted) so you stab yourself in the eye with an old rapidograph.<BR/><BR/>Now, THAT's a cool game.TexanInHippielandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10019206943678741962noreply@blogger.com