I like the ads. The production values are generally very high, and they're either funny or very mock-worthy.
But I can see the same man-vs-ram Mountain Dew commercial on TV at home....
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Fred Pete - Jul 19, 2005 10:10:47 am PDT #1160 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
bon bon - Jul 19, 2005 10:15:21 am PDT #1161 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Friday's isn't so cheap that $50 would last long. Unless that's just the Special Manhattan Pricing. I went in one a couple of years ago, and was SHOCKED. We left and went to a pub.
It is the SMP. When I went there not only was it overpriced, our waiter smelled, the place was dirty and dingy, and there was a belligerent drunk at the bar who was arrested as we ate. All the chain restaurants in Manhattan seem to be dirtier than their counterparts elsewhere and dirtier than Manhattan restaurants in general. Why not try to blend in, eh?
I was walking the the Olive Garden the other day and noticed their entrance has "Bienvenuto!" on the door. Who do they think they're fooling?!
beekaytee - Jul 19, 2005 10:19:21 am PDT #1162 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
something to do besides talk to the person they came with.
Soooo. If I go to a movie by myself, can I get into the special, I-don't-need-to-avoid-intimacy, showing?
Kathy A - Jul 19, 2005 10:20:05 am PDT #1163 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Heh. All I have to do is mention the words "Olive Garden" to my very Italian SIL, and she starts to gag.
Anne W. - Jul 19, 2005 10:23:21 am PDT #1164 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I'm not even the tiniest bit Italian, and the words "Olive Garden" make me queasy.
Tom Scola - Jul 19, 2005 10:24:53 am PDT #1165 of 10002
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Olive Garden is a parody of an Italian restaurant. The one time I went there I kept expecting to see an organ grinder with a monkey.
Jesse - Jul 19, 2005 10:25:06 am PDT #1166 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
When I went there not only was it overpriced, our waiter smelled, the place was dirty and dingy,
34th Street? That was the one I walked into, and out of. NAST.
though that doesn't apply to the slide show of Coca-Cola bits and movie trivia and local ads that play in my theatres between all the movies.
I don't mind those slide shows, because you can talk through them AND they give you something to talk about. "Man, look at that nose job!"
-t - Jul 19, 2005 10:30:17 am PDT #1167 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The slide shows are fine, because they don't have blaring soundtracks. That's the part I don't like.
Wasn't the first ad (not trailer and not slide) shown in movie theaters a Michael Jackson Pepsi spot? Possibly the one that set him on fire? I remember seeeing that before something, but the aspect ratio was wrong and everyone was squooshed.
bon bon - Jul 19, 2005 10:30:25 am PDT #1168 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
34th Street? That was the one I walked into, and out of. NAST.
Oh yeah. We'd just gotten out of the Loews and that seemed the only place to eat in that neighborhood. I was just saying to Bob last night while we tried to navigate 36th St that I hated that nighborhood so much-- crowded, but with nothing to recommend it.
I dislike commercials before movies, but they do keep costs down. I guess I don't even mind "The Twenty." Oh, and, I still heart Inconsiderate Cellphone Man. "Marty, you're a Joker!" Saw Huebel last night-- he's brunet now but still adorable!
Scrappy - Jul 19, 2005 10:32:37 am PDT #1169 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
They've had ads in European cinemas since at least the '80s.