favorite 2011 superbowl ad?

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AGDee

Detroit= discovered in 1670
Chicago= discovered in 1672

Wait, how can you discover something that isn't there?
Detroit:

There, in 1701, the French officer Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac, along with fifty-one additional French-Canadians, founded a settlement called Fort Ponchartrain du Détroit, naming it after the comte de Pontchartrain, Minister of Marine under Louis XIV. France offered free land to attract families to Detroit, which grew to 800 people in 1765, the largest city between Montreal and New Orleans.[17]

Chicago:

During the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, who had taken the place of the Miami and Sauk and Fox peoples. The first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, is believed to be of African and European decent.[16] In 1795, following the Northwest Indian War, an area that was to be part of Chicago was turned over by some Native Americans in the Treaty of Greenville to the United States for a military post.
In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in the War of 1812 Battle of Fort Dearborn. The Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi later ceded additional land to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were eventually forcibly removed from their land following the Treaty of Chicago in 1833. On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of around 200 at that time.[17] Within seven years it would grow to a population of over 4,000. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4, 1837—the same day that Martin van Buren was inaugurated as President (succeeding Andrew Jackson).

Detroit still wins.


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[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by agzg

Copycats.

Detroit was the Paris of the Midwest and Chicago didn't have shit on Detroit until the after the 1950's.


Article slamming the Chrysler Ad.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/...s_20110209/?ln

[cheerfulgreek]

I liked the VW one where a weevil beetle was trying to avoid predator insects.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I liked the VW one where a weevil beetle was trying to avoid predator insects.

ahhh yeah...with Black Betty playing in the back...yep!

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

ahhh yeah...with Black Betty playing in the back...yep!

[Sadfly]

Didn't/still don't know what Eminim looked like.

Loved Darth Vader, the one where the girl is accidently knocked bench, the old folks home.

Disappointed in the Clydesdale ad.

[ms_gwyn]

Going to go with Eminem/Detroit/Chrysler, what put this ad over for me is because I think Lose Yourself is such a powerful song...its about passion ... so yea, Loved It

Darth Vader/Kid ad...

[thetaj]

The Darth Vader VW commercial was soooo cute. But I seriously enjoyed the Groupon Tibet commercial hehehehe

[honeychile]

Overall, I thought this year's commercials mostly a fail. The only two I liked were the Tiny Dancer one and the one for all of the NFL fans, using tv characters through the ages.

[Beryana]

I actually liked how Motorola basically used a 1983/4 Apple add for their tablet. i also really thought the House commercial which was a spoof of the Mean Joe Green/Coke ad was great!

VW/Audi and Goodrich were really cute too. Overall, though I really wasn't all that impressed by the commercials. I haven't watched the Super Bowl in years (for the game or the commercials) and the commercials did nothing. . .I also thought there were WAY too many movie previews.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by Beryana

I actually liked how Motorola basically used a 1983/4 Apple add for their tablet.

YES! Motorola used Apple's "1984" Super Bowl ad against itself! It's totally true - Mac is the new IBM/Microsoft. It was a brilliant ad, for those who were paying attention. Unfortunately I think not enough people were probably paying close enough attention.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

YES! Motorola used Apple's "1984" Super Bowl ad against itself! It's totally true - Mac is the new IBM/Microsoft. It was a brilliant ad, for those who were paying attention. Unfortunately I think not enough people were probably paying close enough attention.

I liked that one. We called the Apple users "iBots" here.

[MysticCat]

Finally watched them online. (I didn't pay attention to any commercials Sunday night.)

The only ones I really liked were the Darth Vader/VW and the Bridgestone Reply All commercials. Otherwise . . . meh.

[CutiePie2000]

I thought the Audi was a brilliant piece of camp and satire. "Escape the confines of old luxury"....awesome tagline.

There was some funny details in there I loved it when the old guy grabs the (now extinct) dodo bird to prop the gate up, and the "hounds" are these expensive, chi chi high end long-haried, beautiful dogs.

"Lancaster...it's a trap"...ha ha ha. And all of the language that the actors used was perfect: The lady with the face pack on: "Scandalous!" and the parting shot: "I've been hoodwinked!!". HA HA HA HA...awesome.

[Shelacious]

I've just looked at the VW, Audi, and Chrysler commercials, as I'd forgotten that we were supposed to be paying attention to commercials during the SB (damn you TiVO). So I liked the Beaver one the best, followed by the Chrysler--that was an awesome commercial.