Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Weird Best Buy Turn Your Cell Phones Off Commercial

I get it. We need to turn our cell phones off, not talk, not let our babies breathe, etc. just so we don't disturb our fellow movie goers in the theaters. Apparently, there commercials are to show us the way in the common courtesy not taught to us by our parents.

Except, that it doesn't work because people still talk, still use their cell phones, and still let their babies cry uncontrollably in movie theaters... sometimes while these theater silence advocacy commercials run!


Here's one I've never seen before:
http://youtu.be/etCrRJOwpTU

Hey, that's great and all, because Hong Kong style wire martials arts is totally not played out. But, irregardless, do you really think you're going to suddenly teach social etiquette to someone who has no regard to others around them? Most of these silence perpetrators have a long history of not knowing when to shut up. I'm pretty sure they're not going to learn their lesson via a one minute video of Chinese guys flying around on wires.

I guess this sequence is bad ass. It looks like they took a lot of time and money to make it. But, it's such a throw-away reason to do it. It's like, "oh, I painted you this picture so you can use it to advertise that there is a new bus route between these two cities. Oh, by the way, my name is Rembrandt, and I signed it." In the end, nobody gives a shit that Best Buy sponsored this common courtesy ad because the only people NOT on their cell phones while this ad is running are the ones who know not to be on their cell phones in the first place.

1 comment:

  1. It's the kids these days, they don't know how to sit still for 2 hours without checking. And if yell at someone in a theatre, you'll get a meat thermometer to the neck.

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