what??!!

[orangerful]

So, I saw the commercial on Cinemax for the Star Wars marathon. It's horrible. (if you don't believe me, here, you can suffer thru it).

I had heard it was bad but this is...this is sorta painful. First - Star Wars already HAS awesome music, why even bother trying to throw pop music in? Star Wars is an ageless thing and slapping Coldplay in the background feels like they are trying to target some random demographic or something.

Second - wtf does this song have to do with star wars???? If you were going to pick a crappy Coldplay song, at least pick a FAST one!!! What is this sad, mopey, blah song?

Cinemax marketing - pop music is great for showing off your fall line-up but don't waste your time and ours with commercials like this one. Plus, it's star wars! If you run it, they will come! It's not even like you have to promote it that much!

Comments

[duncatra.livejournal.com]

I like that song, but that commercial just screamed 'lame fanvid' to me.

[duncatra.livejournal.com]

BTW, here's a way better Star Wars/popular music mashup/commercial. At the very least, it's fucking funny.

[sideflip1.livejournal.com]

i haven't watched it yet (at work) but just reading what you wrote about them using coldplay already tells me it's gonna suck. nothing against coldplay. i just don't listen to them really and combining coldplay and star wars? i'm with ya, WTF?

p.s. haha love that you have a "wtf" tag.

[mlle-chosette.livejournal.com]

Ick. That is just... weird.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

oh that was HILARIOUS! And it must have taken some time and effort to create!

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

it's painful to watch, truly.

and yes, I needed a "wtf" tag - there are just too many instances in life that can only be summed up in those three little letters.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

it feels very...forced (no pun intended...well, maybe a little)

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. I could only get about halfway through that before I just had to stop. What the shit is that?? If you hadn't told me it was a commercial, I would have assumed it was just another poorly executed fanvid! I'm not even going to touch in the crappy concept itself...the timing and sound editing are terrible >_

[mlle-chosette.livejournal.com]

Hee :-)

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

yeah, I can see the board room meeting:

"Hey we got star wars to run, what music should we use in the commercial?"
"uuuum, doesn't star wars already have --"
"COLDPLAY MAN! I LOVE COLDPLAY!"
"wtf? who is this person? Star Wars already has fabulous --"
"Wonderful suggestion Miss Paltrow, we'll look into it..."
*headdesk*