watch it: “Qwest – Every Movie”
“All rooms have every movie ever made in any language anytime, day or night.”
advertising
is $1 too much to ask?
Do you get as much enjoyment out of FlickFilosopher.com over the course of a month as you get out of a single can of Coke? If you don’t, then what are you doing here?
retro ads: a whole buncha 1980s Kenner ‘Star Wars’ toys commercials
My brothers and I were forced to play with the kids across the street because they had a Landspeeder, and we didn’t.
retro ad: 1980s Crazy Eddie commercial
If you lived in New York in the 1980s, you could not have escaped the ads for Crazy Eddie, an electronics and home appliance chain…
watch it: strange ‘Back to the Future’-themed ad from Argentina
No one seems to know what this ad from Argentina is selling, but it’s got Doc Brown and the time-traveling De Lorean, so it’s all good.
retro ad: hilariously sexist 1960s Folgers commercial
Women who can’t make coffee are bad wives, and bad people all around. It’s a basic fact.
retro ad: 1950s Pepsi commercial with James Dean
Apparently this was James Dean’s first paid work as an actor…
retro ad: young Russell Tovey in a bizarre 1990s Heinz ketchup commercial
This might be the weirdest ad for anything I’ve ever seen.
watch it: when Japanese bubble gum girl bands go weird
Watch the video before you read further.
question of the weekend: Are the London riots this week the inevitable consequence of consumerism, and are we likely to see more such unrest?
In at least one shop that was being looted, the looters took the time to try on clothes. That’s much more like shopping than it is like looting…
