# Big, expensive ad **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 26, 2005, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-expensive-ad/314204 "2005-07-26T12:19:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robinc308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@robinc308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinc308)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-expensive-ad/314204/1 "2005-07-26T12:19:25Z")
I hope posting something like this doesn’t break any rules, but it made me laugh - it’s nice to see an ad that isn’t afraid to poke fun at itself… [http://www.bigad.com.au/](http://www.bigad.com.au/) Now, I don’t drink the stuff, and quite frankly, by all reports, it’s rubbish, but I love the ad. Something like 20,000 computer generated extras too, which brings out my inner geek. ---
**Author:** ![EarthStone777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@EarthStone777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EarthStone777)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-expensive-ad/314204/2 "2005-07-26T12:46:35Z")
That got me laughing this morning! It’s nice to see someone using CGI for something useful for a change instead of all the movies that are so… entertaining and… fun to watch… … Well, I had the start of a joke there but it fell apart… \ ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-expensive-ad/314204/3 "2005-07-26T12:53:57Z")
That was pretty damn funny. I think they tweaked footage from Lord of the Rings. ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-expensive-ad/314204/4 "2005-07-26T13:54:01Z")
Thanks, **robin**! That’s worth bookmarking. ---
**Author:** ![robinc308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@robinc308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinc308)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-expensive-ad/314204/5 "2005-07-26T21:35:26Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > That was pretty damn funny. I think they tweaked footage from Lord of the Rings. Actually they didn’t - but it was also filmed in NZ, which explains a lot. It’s been all over the news here, which I’ve never seen with an ad before. Everyone is worked into a lather - I think cos it’s the first time an Australian company has done something like this. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-expensive-ad/314204/6 "2005-07-26T21:54:01Z")
That was great! 'Specially when they hit the fence and started falling over it. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-expensive-ad/314204/7 "2005-07-26T23:57:27Z")
I laughed. I just sent the link to a bunch of friends who I think will also appreciate it. Nice to see a good sense of humor in an ad, and I would at least buy a pint (if I were in Australia) and have a big gulp in honor of the big ad. I eagerly await a small micro brewery coming out with The Little Ad…same theme, but using three little people holding cardboard cut outs of other people. Perhaps filmed in a shopping center parking lot.