Comments on: Watch: Controversial Christopher Guest Directed Super Bowl Spots For Groupon

By: Christopher Bell

Christopher Bell — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:08:46 +0000

I can\’t believe people are still saying \”epic fail.\”

By: goldfarb

goldfarb — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:08:46 +0000

these are great…
the writing and the tone of all three of them make it pretty obvious what the intention is…the Hutton one is paced poorly, but the flippant tone of the dialog and delivery keeps it from being in bad taste…

those who are objecting to these ads are just more examples of over-sensitive, entitled idiots…

By: ufoclub1977

ufoclub1977 — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:08:46 +0000

I just saw the Cuba one, and was wondering what they were going to say about how whales could be saved or exactly what threat they were going to address, then it turned into a Groupon ad, and it seemed like a parody of what an advertising agency would think is funny… because it wasn\’t actually funny, it was more like a parody of what was supposed to be funny but fails to be funny and then turns the market against the client that asked for an ad campaign…. as they say…. EPIC FAIL! This wasn\’t in a comedy movie about an inept ad campaign… it really was the ad campaign… now that\’s kind of funny. But not like they intended.

By: Mr. C

Mr. C — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:08:46 +0000

I think the Timothy Hutton advertisement is just written in such a way that it digs its own grave when talking about \”the people of Tibet are in trouble\”. Since we are talking about people that really puts a human face on it coupled with the fact that we see so the CU shot of the Tibetan man which makes you more empathetic to their plight and at that moment you really aren\’t in the mood for a joke nor is there enough levity within the scene to make you shake loose that sad empathy built up in the first half of the ad.

The Cuba Gooding one is great and the Hurley one isn\’t so bad but it is still has a more abrupt transition. The punch line is much better for this ad however and I think it successfully pulls the viewer out of any distress about the state of our rainforest.

One ad poorly crafted ruins the rest of them. Maybe if the Hutton one had been the last one seen the premise for the ad would have carried on and made that one less of a shock.

Mr. Chicago

By: Jt

Jt — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:08:46 +0000

Elizabeth Hurley…I really do love the site, but the editing sometimes is terrible.