Best fucking commercial. [video=youtube;Ml54UuAoLSo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml54UuAoLSo[/video]
I kind of wish they'd somehow managed to include Al Gore in there somewhere. He's actually got a fantastic sense of humor about his enviro-nazi image: [video=youtube;3455GI_uGs4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3455GI_uGs4[/video] http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TEL8xLMS9FPtPR/HUbT7kdh3DnZef Anyway, pretty funny commercial.
It really bothered me, too. The pre-Super Bowl spots seemed more like Reno 911. This was like Cops. Too real for me, and, I would imagine, many people. I would have preferred (although they didn't ask me) a less official "Green Police". Maybe a Barnie Fife-like guy who was writing tickets. Not an omnipresent organization that had more power than the local police and have the ability to look into windows. It still creeps me out thinking about it. And, further, "Green Police" was the nickname for Orpo, the Jew-hunting organization in Nazi Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnungspolizei I didn't know about Orpo, but shouldn't Audi (a German company, after all) have? Just seems like a poorly thought-out commercial in terms of overtones, even if bits of it (and the overall concept) are humorous... Ed O.
Even though I'm pretty liberal, I'm glad to see some push back through humor about environmentalism. Any time you get a big trend like this there's always a major risk it goes way over the edge. I wish there'd been a lot more satire about our screwed up housing market back in 2006, or the way we went to war in Iraq. Satire forces us to look at these things from a different perspective, which is good for the country. That said, after reading some comments here I'm not so sure it's a great way to sell Audis.
Clean Diesel! But with freaks like Gavin Newsom and others here in LA with their fucking wack-job laws, this isn't too far off. Some cities here actually banned plastic bags already. and this: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/01/MN47122A98.DTL
What's wrong with that? They're a trash eyesore, and really pretty unnecessary. Personally, I'd rather just see grocery stores charge a premium for using them. $.10/bag. Half the profit goes to the store, the other half toward city litter cleanup.
Well, its similar to the commercial, except there is no choice. I like plastic bags, I use them for garbage bags at home. Paper ones aren't as compact.
[video=youtube;dMhzNdeb1c4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMhzNdeb1c4&NR=1[/video] That's probably a good idea.
That's because he knows his stance is crap, he doesn't live the values he espouses and his line of bullshit has made him rich.
