Monday, October 27, 2008

War, Inc (Movie or Reality)

War, Inc. is a political and advertising stratgies that takes place in the near-future. Cusack plays Brand Hauser, American private corporation run by a former U.S. Vice President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the warn-torn nation offers, the corporations CEO hires Hauser a corporate assassin who is hired by the Tamerlane Corporation to kill the middle-eastern oil minister in the recently “liberated” Turaqistan. The Tamerlane Corporation has just completed the first ever fully corporate armed invasion of a sovereign country, and Hauser is sent in with the cover story that he is preparing the Tamerlane trade show to promote the company’s interests in the post-war country.

One of his main duties at the show is to help organize the very public wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff) who is a national pop star and super-skanky sex icon. And while I’ve never cared much for Hilary Duff, she seems like a totally different person when you see her playing the slutty, half-naked seductress. The movie itself is quite entertaining, and very funny. There’s absolutely tons of situational and ironic humor. Like the fact that all the tanks have advertisements attached to them. Or that the headquarters for the head boss of Tamerlane is a bunker under a Popeye’s. And everything is just way over the top. Like the soldiers, who act as though hopped up on way too much caffeine and who just scream and shoot everything in sight. I could go on and on about the humor. But the idea behind this movie, is this actually going to happened, is large corporation will be so big to the point they influence government, and persuade other countries to keep having wars because it's good for business. This movie might be very humor but it actually touches really good points behind this humor, and we can see some it actually happening........I recommend you watch it.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Coca Cola - Rats Mission



This Coca-Cola ad one of the funniest and creative ad I saw for soft drink. I like the idea for having rats creating vegetable costume to sneak in the fridge. But this is not the end, after sneaking in the fridge, the rat finds out that he is not the only rat wear a vegetable costume to get Coca-Cola. Then the commercial change to Hollywood scene, because all 3 rats will have to fight to get what they want. The idea was pretty fascinating. As I always noticed, European commercials are more interesting and well done than American's commercials.