Out of the loop

Maybe I'm not right person to be upset about commercials, as I haven't seen one in English for over a month. I think it's pretty cool that KZJ is doing T-Mobile spots. I just don't get all this "A-list" crap that's tossed around, as most of the people on the "A-list" do voice overs for many American commericials (Gene Hackman comes to mind) or they're doing commercials for products in other countries (Leonardo DiCaprio, Madonna). So if American eyes don't see it, then they're not hypocrites? Or better yet, it's okay for a serious actress to be doing commercials so long as she's selling cosmetics? I just don't get it, and it ticks me off some. This isn't to say that a lot of these celebrity endorsed commericals aren't awful (I hear the Celine Dion Crysler ad is horrific), but hate the ad not the actor.

Stefi and Andre are still pimping T-mobile over here, and at least they make sense. Czech commercials... You simply have no idea how totally absurd they are. Oskar mobile has to be the biggest criminal when it comes to making nonsense commercials. Sometimes they pull it off, and other times they have commercials that take place in a sperm bank, and you see someone mixing the sperm of two different men. Gah!

Then there's a Staropramen "Men's camp" commericials where all the sterotypes of big beer swilling Czech men are proved true. Sometimes I miss commericals from home. How they're played over and over again until I go crazy. I actually miss that. I don't, however, miss that horrible chirstmas ad from Telus with the monkey opening the present. That one still keeps me up at night.

HRH