Comments on: Star Trek Movie Getting Super Bowl Commercial

By: fuerza

fuerza — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:59:55 +0000

Well, although some may be excited about the new Trek movie, many Trekkers and Trekkies are not. For those that have a fond remembrance of Kirk and Spock and the Enterprise from the TV series, you may be disappointed too. The Enterprise looks, well…freaky! That would be like Hollywood making a suspense movie about people attacking the Pentagon and all of a sudden the Pentagon is this building with 4 added levels on top. It just doesn’t look like the original. Sure, I, and everybody out there, expect them to spruce up the Enterprise, but when you go too far, then it just looks weird.

By: Closettrekker

Closettrekker — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:10:52 +0000

#105—-”Let the predictions begin!

Super Bowl XVIII: Tennesee Titans vs Phillidephia Eagles”

Oops.

By: Brett Campbell

Brett Campbell — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:04:29 +0000

112 & 113 – I guess I missed the post with that “joke” and I certainly have no desire to go look for it.

Just thought I would say that I agree with you both 1000%.

By: Brett Campbell

Brett Campbell — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:01:57 +0000

109 – Wow. Really? Product placement as early as “Wings”? I never noticed that!

I don’t remember it that well in “Back to the Future” either — apart from the Delorean (sp?), which I was never going to run out and buy.

The scene in “Terminator 2″ killed whatever appetite I might have had for Subway sandwiches.

By: John Sullivan

John Sullivan — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:09:52 +0000

Will I be able to see the commercial from inside Raymond James Stadium, or do I have to stay home and watch it on TV?

By: krikzil (aka Lixy)

krikzil (aka Lixy) — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:29:17 +0000

The Super Bowl as is money well spent. It’s not just for football fans cause these ads garner so much publicity in general. They get shown on newsbroadcasts and talked about ad nauseum.

“Those guys take NFL fandom to absurd extremes, painting themselves, dressing like Darth Vader the Raider, wearing spikes, etc.”

Thank god for them. I’ve used them as an example of Pot-Meet-Kettle on numerous occasions when some idiot at work etc starts mocking sci fi fans. Uh, do you like football? says the spider to the fly….

“Wife-beating jokes are tasteless and show a total lack of any kind of social sensitivity. ”

So true. It’s a horrible societal problem and not funny at all.

By: Denise de Arman

Denise de Arman — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:10:05 +0000

Wife-beating jokes are tasteless and show a total lack of any kind of social sensitivity. I doubt if anyone here would find it funny if I made a joke concerning a man being forced to undergo a vasectomy without anesthesia. Thank you Trek Nerd Central and ster julie for taking a stand for common sense.

By: Woulfe

Woulfe — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:50:39 +0000

I was one of the folks that called this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when.

[quote] Want to get Joe Six Pack on our side ? They’re going to have to do a Super Bowl ad [/quote]

Or something along those lines, boy was I right on the money or what ?

I’ll watch the game, well the ADs anyway, like I do every Super Bowl ;)

- W -
* Does a little dance *

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:23:52 +0000

108: Chris M: They’ll usually go straight to YouTube after the game. I am sure this site will locate the link.

By: sean

sean — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:22:47 +0000

#107

I think the earliest example of product placement in film was in 1927’s ‘Wings’. It was a plug for Hersheys, believe it or not. But I think the 80’s was when product placement really came into play the way it’s used now. I remember Back To The Future being knee-deep in it, I’ll tell you that.