anti-speeding commercial (graphic)

[superjohn]

There should be a version for texting!!  ARGH!!  If I get behind one more 16 y/o texting!    

Worse yet though..a 16 y/o who drives behind me while texting!!

Those were so f'd up!!  I couldn't NOT watch!!

D*mn!  

Now there's World of Warcraft for the iPhone so you can also worry about a 16 y/o behind you driving while smiting a troll.

Back on topic, I agree wholeheartedly that the general public should realize driving is hard, requires skill and attention, and should be taken very very seriously. I however disagree with the whole "Speed Kills" angle. Every time I hear "speed was a contributing factor to the accident" I do the automatic translation to "we don't want to say the driver was a stupid dipshit that we should never have licensed, but we need to juke our stats to prove that our artificially low limits are just and need strong enforcement so we may fine (and therefore create revenue from) these evil evil people"

Saying speeding is the problem is too simple. The problem is much much greater and the solution is even more complex. Saying that though would be....shall we say....unpopular.

[PizzaMonster]

+1   

Hey SuperJohn.  I think that's what I was trying to say.  But I kinda turned it into a rant.   

[erkishhorde]

There should be a version for texting!!  ARGH!!  If I get behind one more 16 y/o texting!    

Worse yet though..a 16 y/o who drives behind me while texting!!

Those were so f'd up!!  I couldn't NOT watch!!

D*mn!  

The one with the kid that walks into the street is kinda like an anti-texting bit. Although he's not driving, the inattention to his surroundings still factors in.

I admit that some of the stuff that happens is totally random and almost never happens but I still thought it was good enough to post. I felt kinda empty after I watched it and just thought it was something that should be passed on. I don't know why but something made me watch it a few times. The opening bit with the guy that hits the little red SUV and worries more about his own car first said a lot to me.

[Monsterlover]

I had a hard time with the couple that got pinned against the brick wall.

[GLantern]

Looks like I am going to disagree with the general consensus.  I think people need to see this shit.  I'm tired of assholes yammering on the cellphone while yelling at their kids in the back seat.  People need to see what results from their inattention - people aside from the ones cleaning up the mess.  We see plenty that's way more graphic than the video shows. 

+1 this is stuff everybody should see

[El Matador]

I'm gonna be an insensitive asshole here and and say that that video was make the beast with two backsing stupid. It was idiotic and detracted from the message that it tried to get across. Before anyone gets all worked up about it these are my reasons:

1- The video was made up of many other ad campaign videos. It tried too hard to bring across too many points. The viewer is left with no one particular message other than: if you get in or around a car YOU WILL DIE

2- An anti-speeding video where most of the accidents were not speeding related?

3- that GOD AWFUL SONG. Damn that is a bad song. I mean, shit, it made me want to take a drill to my ears to make it stop.  The only reason I kept on watching was to make this comment

4- The overly dramatic tone. The music and the filters make it a little *too* gaudy. It makes it even almost comical. The soap-opera feel that it has detracts from the realism that the original ads tried to convey, making it hard for the viewer to relate and make a connection to the events portrayed.

5- the absurdity of some of the scenes. I seriously laughed at the one with the teenagers texting each other.

6- It drags on forever. Yes, we get it already! There are only so many brains splattered and children with sad faces we can see before we become de-sensitized to them.

[junior varsity]

I thought it was clear that it was a compilation of several ads. Commercials aren't 4:00m long. That kind of nullifies your drags on forever / overly dramatic tone points. As I understand it, the originals were just a quick clip inserted between other commercials to catch people off guard. Like the over-dubbed song, it wasn't originally like that. That's also why the anti-speeding stuff isn't cohesive with the rest of the segment, wasn't meant to be. It was separate. Notice there are several "pinky" bits at the end, as though they were not originally together, but part of a larger ad campaign.

[Holden]

I thought it was clear that it was a compilation of several ads. Commercials aren't 4:00m long. That kind of nullifies your drags on forever / overly dramatic tone points. As I understand it, the originals were just a quick clip inserted between other commercials to catch people off guard. Like the over-dubbed song, it wasn't originally like that. That's also why the anti-speeding stuff isn't cohesive with the rest of the segment, wasn't meant to be. It was separate. Notice there are several "pinky" bits at the end, as though they were not originally together, but part of a larger ad campaign.

So essentially someone compiled it all and put it on youtube to satisfy his macabre fetish?

[El Matador]

So essentially someone compiled it all and put it on youtube to satisfy his macabre fetish?

But with a cheery soundtrack!

[junior varsity]

i thought it was just a mashup of the th!nk style ads.

does nobody know what i'm talking about when i say Th!nk ads?

[Got Duc]

I like the new Heineken ad better.

100% more happier.

That is all

Feel free to go back to talking about this ad.

[erkishhorde]

i thought it was just a mashup of the th!nk style ads.

does nobody know what i'm talking about when i say Th!nk ads?

It's a euro thing but I've seen them on the interwebs. I thought they were good and should be aired in the states.

I like the new Heineken ad better.

100% more happier.

That is all

Feel free to go back to talking about this ad.

Yay, threadjacking my own thread! You seen the new walking fridge? 

[Got Duc]

walking fridge? no haven't seen it

[erkishhorde]

Something lighten the mood and continue thread jacking my own thread.

NEW: Heineken Walking Fridge (follow up)

[Got Duc]