fujishig

As opposed to...

They aired a regional Jack in the Box commercial for some new garlic butter burger which looks sooo good in the commercial, but we know how that goes.

hdnmickey

But no commercials and none of those are near me. Wonder why we don't get the commercials.

hdnmickey

Posts like these remind me that Falling Down really is a great movie.

Obi-Wanma

The Hardees of today is actually a completely different chain than the one of 20 years ago. They were acquired by Carl's Jr in 1997 and the menu was overhauled to me more similar to theirs

Obi-Wanma

The Hardees of today is actually a completely different chain than the one of 20 years ago. They were acquired by Carl's Jr in 1997 and the menu was overhauled to be more similar to theirs

robin2099

Thought these were all pretty lousy. I enjoyed the Liam Neeson, Pac Man, Budweiser puppy and Pierce Brosnan ones. Other than that though I thought they were pretty awful.

hdtv00

Yea I don't know what those guys are on about Hardees or Carl's Jr is the place where food does look like the ads far more than any other chain. After that upgrade they did to their menu its like fancy diner more than fast food. Least presentation wise anyway it's still fast food.

Michael Corvin

Very true. Their burgers are fantastic these days.

The menu is completely different, for the better. However, the restaurant dining area, more often than not, still looks straight out of 1983.

RichC2

Yep, the dining rooms are still antiquated at Hardees. I haven't had lunch/dinner at one in ages, but their breakfast is awesome.

That'sAllFolks

Most of these commercials were meh. Pac Man, Pierce Bronsan and Brady Bunch were OK.

But Sorta Greg reminded just how good Bryan Cranston is in that role. And the blonde actress was great as well. I loved it. Watched it 5 times already.

PhantomStranger

The only one I thought was fun and clever was the countries drafting different animals and foods. It ended up being a commercial for avocados.

As the ratings have gone up for the Super Bowl in the past few years, the commercials have gotten lamer. It was a lot more fun when Internet companies were blowing millions on the game.

fujishig

Not only that, it was an ad for Mexican avocados! Buy California!

The F2P mobile games seems to be the new internet company. Amazing to me how much whatever-game-that-is blows on those Kate Upton commercials, much less one airing during the Superbowl. But we got that gem of a Liam Neeson commercial from Clash of Clans, so there's that. I'm surprised no Candy Crush...

bluetoast

What's funny is that a lot of those companies spend a ton of money to get people to buy shit like pistachios and avocados. But generally speaking, nobody gives a fuck what brand they buy, no matter how good the commercial.

RichC2

The Clash of Clans company made $892m in 2013 which went up to an estimated $1.8b in revenue in 2014 for Clash of Clans alone. The company has 150 employees and apparently pulls in nearly $5m/day in revenue.

fumanstan

The whole time my friends and I were saying that this year's crop of commercials were just sad and depressing and seemed to try and make us feel like bad people.

Enjoyed Liam Neeson and Ted 2 the most, kind of chuckled at the first draft ever and it was neat seeing Bryan Cranston. Otherwise it felt like a bust.

DRG

It's one thing to make people tear up over something sappy, like a puppy dog being rescued or the dad sending his daughter away for college. It's manipulative, for sure, but at least it's in a feel-good sorta way and some people eat that sort of thing up.

But Nationwide's ad was just depressing. They weren't tugging at your heart strings, they were punching your aorta in the balls. That just seems like a ill-conceived tone to try to pull off when people are stuffing their faces with hot wings and nachos.

Obi-Wanma

And it doesn't even make any sense. If something like that happens, how is insurance gonna help? Are they gonna replace your kid? Just dumb.

davidh777

Yeah, the advertising for freemium games not just in the Super Bowl but on TV on a regular basis is insane. I have no desire to play a game in which anonymous people destroy me because they spend real money on it.

They supposedly spent $40 million on the Game of War ad campaign. I wonder how much of that Kate Upton got. As an actress in those ads, she's a great swimsuit model.