Here’s the latest promo for AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead! It doesn’t really tell us much about the show but it’s always fun to watch bad things happen to Los Angeles.
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Here’s the Promo for Fear The Walking Dead!
So, as you probably heard, AMC is doing a spin-off of The Walking Dead. It’s going to be called Fear the Walking Dead, which is not exactly the greatest title that I’ve ever heard.
(Seriously, Fear the Walking Dead sounds like it should be the title of a low-budget, Asylum-produced mockbuster version of The Walking Dead...)
But, despite that imperfect title, Fear the Walking Dead is still highly anticipated by Walking Dead fans. (Is Chris Hardwick going to host Talking Fear?) Apparently, it’s going to be a prequel, dealing with the early days of the zombie outbreak and maybe it will even offer up some clues as to why it all happened in the first place. Even better, it’s going to take place in Los Angeles so we won’t have to deal with any dodgy accents.
Here’s the first promo for Fear the Walking Dead. It aired last night during the Walking Dead‘s season finale. It really doesn’t tell us much about the show itself but, at the same time, it does have a nicely ominous feel.
Here’s Yet Another TV Spot for Avengers: Age of Ultron!
Is it May 1st yet?
Heroes Reborn — The Super Bowl Ad!
And finally, here’s one final Super Bowl preview to share with all of you. Now, I have to be honest. I never watched Heroes. That guy who was always screaming in the commercials got on my nerves. I did however enjoy bugging Dazzling Erin by continually saying, “Save the cheerleader, save the world” during the entirety of the show’s run.
Awwwww …. good memories.
Anyway, in the form of a 13-episode miniseries, Heroes is making a comeback on NBC and a lot of people online are excited about it. Me, I’m still trying to get caught up on Agents of SHIELD…
Minions — The Super Bowl Ad!
Here’s the Super Bowl Ad for the movie that I am predicting will probably be Arleigh’s favorite of 2015, Minions! Swing those pants!
Trailer: 24: Live Another Day
Was it just me or did the Super Bowl commercials kinda sorta suck this year? I mean, I expect the game to always be long and boring but I can usually count on seeing at least a few memorable commercials. Howevever, with a few notable exceptions (mostly involving puppies and horses), this year’s crop of commercials were just boring. You could tell that advertisers were going so out of their way to keep things positive that they forgot that commercials also need to be interesting.
However, there was one commercial that seemed to excite everyone on twitter and that was a brief 49-second commercial for the return of 24. Judging from this commercial, Jack Bauer is back and he’s as violent as ever. And, apparently, he has some issues with the British.
Scenes I Love: Old Spice
I think this might be the first time for “Scenes I Love” that I’ve chosen from something other than a film, tv show or video game. But then again the scene I’ve chosen this time around surpasses any attempts to shoehorn it into a particular label or genre.
The latest “Scenes I Love” comes courtesy of Old Spice. It has starring in the scene the person who I believe is not just the most interesting man in the world (sorry old Dos Equis Man), but probably the most awesome one out there. I believe him to be the human form the Almighty takes when walking amongst the humans the Almighty created was required (sorry Morgan Freeman). This scene is just awesome and why I love it. There’s nothing much else to say.
If you don’t think this to be scene as not being awesome then you just don’t have it and will never have any of it and people will know.
A Guilty Pleasure — The Above The Influence “We About To Go Get Twisted” PSA
We’ve been talking a lot about guilty pleasures here at the Shattered Lens. Most people, when they hear the term “guilty pleasure” assume that the term applies only to film and the occasional episode of Ringer. However, I would argue that there are wonderful guilty pleasures all around us. You just have to be willing to look.
One of my favorite guilty pleasures is watching anti-drug PSAs that feature either incorrect or nonexistent slang. As an example, allow me to offer you this little gem from the whole Above The Influence anti-drug campaign. In this one, a student in a diner learns that choosing not to get “twisted” guarantees you a free meal.
I love this commercial almost as much as I love the “A.J” Broadview Home Security commercial and that’s saying something!
“Don’t You Forget About Me” — The Psych Version
Okay, so basically this is just a commercial for a show that I don’t watch but it’s just so adorable that I had to feature it. The show, by the way, is called Psych and it’s on the USA network. I know a lot of people who love this show but I’ve honestly never seen it, largely because I always forget just where exactly the USA network is located on AT&T U-verse.
But if I do end up tracking down the USA Network and watching an episode, it’ll be because of this commercial. Seriously, it’s just so adorable!
The New Absolute Worst Freakin’ Commercial Of All Freakin’ Time
The Jeep people can breathe a sigh of relief because their little Marxist propaganda film is no longer the worst freakin’ commercial of all freakin’ time. No, the title has been stolen by another.
As you watch this commercial, just remember that it’s an advertisement for Citibank that was made after the federal government bailed out them out. So, if you’re an American citizens, chances are that you paid for this commercial.
Okay, there’s so much about this commercial that is just soooo wrong.
The guy narrating the commercial has a truly annoying serial killer-style voice. Seriously, he sounds like Dexter should be dumping his corpse over the side of a boat.
The woman playing the mother is a terrible actress as evidenced by her notably “enthusiastic” reaction to whatever it is that she eats at the local “deli.”
There’s also this whole idea of Turkey — which has one of the WORST human rights records on the planet — serving as some sort of 21st century version of post-World War I Paris. It’s nice of Citibank to let us know that actually, there’s little difference between Istanbul and Queens.
Also, don’t you just hate the faux casual way that their son is all like, “So, I just decided to send them their old seats from the stadium…” I mean, get over yourself.
But ultimately, this commercial fails for one big and obvious reason and there’s a very important lesson here. This commercial’s failure is ultimately all about casting.
We’re specifically given two bits of information in this commercial. First off, we’re told that the narrator’s father has moved to Turkey because he was “transferred” there by whatever soulless corporation it is that he works for. And we’re also told that his father celebrated his “30-year anniversary” in Turkey.
And I guess that would all be good and well except for the fact that his father appears to be about 130 years old in the commercial. Seriously, his company should be paying him a pension as opposed to sending him off to live in one of the most oppressive countries ever. His wife only appears to be 120 but that still means that she was probably in her 90s when she gave birth to her smug little mass murderer of a son. He owes her a lot more than just some nasty, germ-filled seats from “the old stadium.”
You know what would have made this commercial a lot more effective and enjoyable? If the seats from the old stadium had arrived with a few dozen bags of hash taped to the back of them. And then we could have watched that 130 year-old man try to smuggle them back to the United States just to then get caught right before boarding the flight back home.
Call it Citibank Express.
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