+100.
Full agree. This latest round of caveman commercials are way overthought, unfunny, and just…sad. What does this dopey manbaby have to do with anything - unless you saw the original set of commercials back in the day, you wont get it - heck, I barely understand the irritating situations he’s in today.
Same here. I despise Wicked- now, I have to admit I have only read the book- but the book makes Baums classics into complete travesties- the Wizard- good guy? Harmless bungler? Conman? Nope- he is a Hitler figure.
I have been told in the musical they tone that down, and that’s good- but still I am not interested- and each the constant ads make me more irritated.
I’ll bet you didn’t like that Oz -ish TV show from a couple of years ago where the Tinman looked like Indiana Jones.
I do not remember that. You can have fun with Oz- a Barnstormer in Oz (book) does just that, and i am fine with that. But dont take it out, shit on it then wipe your ass with what remains. Return to Oz was also pretty good as a film. I watched one Oz take off years ago on some cable channel and it was- tolerable, but not good. I voted “meh”.
Yeah, they only work for the few people (insurance ad fans?) who remember the “plot” of some decade-old commercials, and remember that the caveman was insulted by Geiko. I had to rack my brain for a while…
Okay, that sounds so horrible that now I’ve got to see this! Anyone have a link?
I watch way too much YouTube and really should get an ad blocker. I actually got pissed when I went to open a vid and an LL Bean commercial with an autotuned “just for you, just for you, just for you…” came on. It triggered me for some reason.
It’s not a great commercial, it’s not a horrible commercial. I think the car is real. But if it is, it’s not a very good custom job.
I wonder why they wouldn’t just use a restored Mustang. It’s not like they would have to pay Ford royalties.
The car just looks odd, but what takes me out is she’s driving a convertible with long hair that is loose and not covered or tied back. As a person who once had long hair and a convertible, that just doesn’t work.
I think they purposely modified the head/tail lights to make it look like a more generic car and not “advertise” for Ford without their permission. They also obscured the galloping pony on the grill. Sorta like when the words on a bottle of soft drink are obscured if it is part of some other advertisement, but anyone who’s paying attention knows it’s a Coke bottle.
I hope the members of WAR got big royalties, because this ad ruined the song. It’s not that they re-wrote the lyrics (I know they had to do that), but that the vocals are awful. “Get it goin’ slowerrrrrrrrrr.” Yeesh.
Yeah, I don’t like that either. (But the distortion/revisionism made the author piles of cash, so there you go.)
I hear the movie makers/performers are annoyed by the fact that people sing along with the songs in the movie theater. I guess that’s a bit of schadenfreude.
I did kinda like Oz the Great and Powerful where Oz does start out as a scoundrel.
I’m guessing that someone at the ad agency was concerned about angering Ford, but didn’t want to put in the work to find out what parts of the Mustang are trademarked (the pony defineitely, the grille likely, but does that include the lights or the distinctive features on the sides?), so they just covered the whole thing.
And who in the hell puts lipstick on before eating??
I had a friend freaky into the musical, but I haven’t seen it. It did lead me to read the book, which I found interesting in a “what if” kind of way. But I find that author’s writing awkward and dreadful.
I plan to see the movie, but I don’t need refrains of poorly done vocals blaring at me.
That sounds like the SyFy miniseries from more than a few years ago. Tin Man was a type of cop. It was a sort of revisit the world in the distant future. I didn’t care for it.
The most recent SyFy series was a twisted retelling. The tornado was an experimental portal, Oz was a janitor who rose to power in Oz by trickery. The witches were constrained from witchcraft by him, lest they unleash “the beast”. Tinman was a boy who has a fall from a great height, and Ozma starts out
as a boy, being hidden by a spell.
I watched it, but it got tiresome, though there was a nifty twist or two.
I hated Wicked as a book, liked it as a musical, but remember very little about it. I won’t be going to the movie.
Yeah, that idea doesn’t really violate what Baum wrote. A scoundrel may well work as a showman (and even admit to being a humbug).
I suppose we’re stuck with the Wicked commercials at least through Thanksgiving weekend, as that period is a big marker for movie-receipts success. (It would be interesting to know how much they’ve spent on the marketing.)
I have heard the Musical Theatre production is fantastic, but ever since I moved from Hollywood, I havent seen many Big Plays. But we agree on the book- a total travesty.
Just makes me hate it more.
Can someone let WeatherTech know that women own vehicles now? So far I’ve been treated to two holiday commercials showing only men enjoying these special automotive floor mats. The only woman shown using their products is looking forward to installing some mat under the sink in the kitchen. 
IT IS THE TWENTY-FIRST 
CENTURY, WEATHERTECH. Do better.
Not really a commercial, but a promotional still image keeps popping up that shows Elphaba and Glinda next to each other, gazing up at something. One of Glinda’s eyes appears to be crossed… Is this a plot point, or did someone screw up in Photoshop?
What’s with the Black guy in the blue jumpsuit who appears in the corner of Best Buy commercials? Is he supposed to be someone I’m familiar with? I don’t understand what his function is.