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Banned Xbox Commercial

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:50 am
by Hamster

Re: Banned Xbox Commercial

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:32 am
by Morkulv
Haha, thats funny. :D I can see why they banned it though.

Just like the first XBox-commercial.

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:41 am
by Fenrir
Actually i think i saw this at first i was like wtf and then i saw it was for xbox360. I think it was on G4 or something

Re: Banned Xbox Commercial

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:46 am
by Figarou
I'm suprised that commercial is banned.


Compare that to this one from Nintendo.

http://www.lookatentertainment.com/v/v-1824.htm

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:45 am
by Akela
I really liked that first comercial, but that Nintendo one... is that real? I think it's hilarious.

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:48 am
by Terastas
I guess I can see why they'd ban it. They certainly went over the top with the cinematics and the stunt falling. . . The guy on his cell phone made it funny though.

As for the Nintendo commercial. . .

Umm. . .

Well. . .

No comment.

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:25 am
by Timber-WoIf
lol that xbox commercial had me weak. the dude on the phone... I'll have to show that around...

the nentendo was pretty wrong....

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:15 pm
by Hamster
That Nintendo one......uhhh.....

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:41 pm
by Terastas
Just saw the commercial with the water balloons this morning. That one was much better.

Re: Banned Xbox Commercial

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:06 pm
by Fenrir
Figarou wrote:
I'm suprised that commercial is banned.


Compare that to this one from Nintendo.

http://www.lookatentertainment.com/v/v-1824.htm
I saw that one too. Was it banned?

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:27 pm
by Anubis
why!? they are not morbid or what ever they are just plain wierd!

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:55 pm
by Fenrir
i dunno....because they can?

Re: Banned Xbox Commercial

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:31 pm
by Akela
Fenrir wrote:
Figarou wrote:
I'm suprised that commercial is banned.


Compare that to this one from Nintendo.

http://www.lookatentertainment.com/v/v-1824.htm
I saw that one too. Was it banned?
You are practically begging for a sarcastic response, but I shall refrain :roll:

Yes.

Bang!

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:44 pm
by Scott Gardener
I thought the X-Box commercial was no worse than many that are being aired. For that matter, it's pretty obvious that no one is actually getting hurt; we see the person falling off the edge being saved by a bungee cord. We see a lot of other commercials that say or imply real violence.

Heck, we see at least one commercial out there where a guy gets crushed by a gigantic beer can just for being a gentleman contacting his wife instead of an obnoxious guy out running around, and a guy getting thrown across a locker room because he eats a sensible diet. The takehome message of these ads, if they aren't about violence per se, is that men are supposed to be like the obnoxious football jock in the eighties teen movies.

(For the record, most football players aren't that way, any more than cheerleaders being ditzes or werewolves bloodthirsty mindless beasts or basketball stars.)

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:59 pm
by Searif
Anubis wrote:why!? they are not morbid or what ever they are just plain wierd!
if people would acully break out in play gun fights like that I would pull a fingure gun on a guy anytime :lol:

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:48 pm
by Vuldari
Searif wrote:
Anubis wrote:why!? they are not morbid or what ever they are just plain wierd!
if people would acully break out in play gun fights like that I would pull a fingure gun on a guy anytime :lol:
I don't quite get why that X-box one was banned. The Nintendo one is in terribly bad taste, but that play gunfight one is AWESOME.

I've totally done that with my friends before. (Granted, we were all about 9 years old at the time, but still...)

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:10 pm
by Searif
Vuldari wrote:
Searif wrote:
Anubis wrote:why!? they are not morbid or what ever they are just plain wierd!
if people would acully break out in play gun fights like that I would pull a fingure gun on a guy anytime :lol:
I don't quite get why that X-box one was banned. The Nintendo one is in terribly bad taste, but that play gunfight one is AWESOME.

I've totally done that with my friends before. (Granted, we were all about 9 years old at the time, but still...)
:lol: nice vul, meh we all need to have fun at times and I do agree, nintendo's new commericals are of bad taste

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:27 pm
by Vuldari
A really annoying thing just happened. I think it may have been related my my sneaky actions, but it's frustrating none the less.

I was backtracking the loop holes in the HTML code of the website hosting the X-box commercial so I could save the video to my hard drive, when Firefox crashed...or something. When I started it up again, all of my settings and bookmarks were gone. (I had ALOT of bookmarks) Now I will have to try to find all of those websites again...and some I will likely completely forget the existannce of.
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...on the bright side, I DID manage to illegaly snag the video clip off the website.
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:29 pm
by Lupin
Vuldari wrote: I was backtracking the loop holes in the HTML code of the website hosting the X-box commercial so I could save the video to my hard drive, when Firefox crashed...or something. When I started it up again, all of my settings and bookmarks were gone. (I had ALOT of bookmarks) Now I will have to try to find all of those websites again...and some I will likely completely forget the existannce of.
You might want to try closing and re-opening firefox again. Sometimes it starts up in 'Amnesia' mode like that.





(backing up is still a good idea though)

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:48 pm
by Aki
Those videos are awesome.

Love the 360 one. They shouldn't have banned it. Thats just...awesome!

I wish people would actually do that. Would be funny. :lol:

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:25 pm
by Shadow Wulf
I loved the xbox commercial, :lol: that shouldnt have been banned, I mean its not like kids dont see voilence in movie commercial anyway.

Re: Bang!

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:31 pm
by Black Shuck
Scott Gardener wrote:For that matter, it's pretty obvious that no one is actually getting hurt; we see the person falling off the edge being saved by a bungee cord.
I noticed that too!

I thought the Xbox one was awesome! I'd do it too if people would actually play along :lol: There wasn't any blood or anything and the guy on the cell phone made it hilarious.

That Nintendo one was kinda wrong though...

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 12:06 am
by Akela
It's hard for me to put in words but I can easily see how the X-box commericial was banned. Firstly there wasn't an X-box in the whole commercial and I can literally imagine that people literally WOULD fight for a 360. It's almost as if the director was just releasing his inner child.

I never knew the Gameboy Mini doubled as a... *gasps*sex toy.

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 5:13 am
by Morkulv
The Nintendo-commercial isn't funny IMO.

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 4:28 am
by Veruth
Vuldari wrote:A really annoying thing just happened. I think it may have been related my my sneaky actions, but it's frustrating none the less.

I was backtracking the loop holes in the HTML code of the website hosting the X-box commercial so I could save the video to my hard drive, when Firefox crashed...or something. When I started it up again, all of my settings and bookmarks were gone. (I had ALOT of bookmarks) Now I will have to try to find all of those websites again...and some I will likely completely forget the existannce of.
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...on the bright side, I DID manage to illegaly snag the video clip off the website.
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Odd, I did the same thing and it worked fine. Either you are not doing it the same way I am, or it's just some random crapout