Watch This: Hollywood Director Attack Ads
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This one was sent in to us yesterday by Cinematical reader Jared N. and I wasn't going to post it because I guess it could kinda sorta be anti-McCain (and I know how much our readers love to call me out whenever I post something even remotely left-ish), but in my heart of hearts I feel this makes more fun of directors John Woo, Kevin Smith and Wes Anderson than it does John McCain. It's rather harmless in my opinion, but feel free to once again call me all sorts of racist, disgusting, hateful names in the comments section.
With that out of the way, a group of funny blokes from LandlineTV put together the above video which shows what it would look like if John Woo, Kevin Smith and Wes Anderson directed an attack ad for John McCain. I found the Wes Anderson bit to be rather brilliant and hysterical -- so much so that I desperately wanted more -- and the Woo and Smith bits aren't too bad either (except the former goes on a tad too long). "Check it out and enjoy," said the movie blogger right before buckets full of virtual tomatoes were thrown at him.
Which directors would you like to see direct an attack ad next? (I vote for Michael Bay.)
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10-23-2008 @ 1:03PM
Rufus said...
I don't care what anybody says, that was funny and it's been a while since I laughed aloud.
Sidenote* I think the fact that the John Woo one goes on a little long is testament to his movies... have you seen the ending to Face/Off? Of course you have. Check and mate ;)
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10-23-2008 @ 1:35PM
Eric H said...
Brilliant! The only thing missing from the John Woo scene were the birds, if it had the birds it would have been perfect.
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10-23-2008 @ 1:36PM
Tristan said...
This seems more of a comedic take on the directors than it does the cantidates. Either way, if it makes me laugh, I don't care what point it's trying to make. This gets my right-wing seal of approval. You're safe from my arsenal of racist, disgusting, hateful names that I am just itching to launch at the first chance.
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10-23-2008 @ 1:51PM
Adrian said...
Ha! I loved the Wes Anderson. Nice work.
Michael Bay next would be great. Or Baz Luhrmann!
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10-23-2008 @ 2:09PM
John Milton said...
Good fun. This is the right way to make political humor, Adam McKay take note.
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10-23-2008 @ 3:24PM
Andrew said...
The Wes Anderson one is fantastic!
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10-23-2008 @ 3:46PM
Saint Leonidas said...
The Wes Anderson one was great. Id like to see Tim Burton.
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10-23-2008 @ 4:22PM
johnny said...
I was thinking the same thing michael bay would make a great ad
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10-23-2008 @ 9:56PM
Jim said...
I thought the Wes Anderson one was decent. The Kevin Smith one, while obviously nailing the style, needed a rewrite. The John Woo one was a bit pointless and not well done.
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10-23-2008 @ 6:23PM
Randall said...
Haha, loved the Wes Anderson one, especially with the addition of David Bowie. How about a Luc Besson or Michael Gondry?!
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10-23-2008 @ 8:42PM
AJ Wiley said...
Brilliant, especially the Wes Anderson bit. Also fits right into my political leanings, so no harm, no foul there, Erik (even if it didn't, I wouldn't spew bile).
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10-25-2008 @ 2:15AM
YouFaceTheTick said...
Good stuff...
woo one was spot on - it matched the crap that is John Woo almost perfectly. It needed doves.
Smith one was nice.
Anderson - perfect.
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