I remember seeing Ben at my local - he was still tearing around in the Ferrari he bought with the license plate 9.84. I think this and his latest job teaching Quaddafi's son how to run have kept him pretty busy. What a weird life. That jackass beer merchant who has those goddamn Phil Esposito commercials needs to be put to sleep.
That ad is idiotic. It's not even effective in its idiocy. [Black and white. Shot of a hockey locker room full of guys too far away to be immediately recognizable. Somebody is talking but we can't tell who.] SPEAKER: So, uh, hockey, and something about me being lucky, and masha masha masha wusha wusha blah blah mumble. [Vaguely recognizable close-ups of the other people in the room who are all hockey players who we feel we should be better at recognizing, but there are too many of them and the camera is of too poor quality and moves too quickly to render recognition feasible.] SPEAKER: Uh, something about beer, and mumble mumble gusha something in a vaguely rural Ontario accent. [General laughter.] SOMEBODY ELSE: Hey Frank, uh, so who's got a bigger head, you or your beer? [Silence.]
If presented with that script, I would have no choice but to greenlight it.
Greenlight it? Is that all? I'd be asking how many points I can have. Only if we could get David Lynch to direct, mind.
I think that's Steelhead, isn't it? If so, that fellow who spent the dough renting Hall of Fame friends should spend a little on R&D, as most of his products taste like ass.
I always like it when athletes/celebs accept their mistakes, and then try to tell their disenfranchised fans that they have done just that through humor. I'm not sure that this is what is happening here, but I certainly would not want to judge Ben Johnson for his decision to make this commercial. I say as long as he is honest, and accepting of his wrongs that he is right by me.
Hilarious......they must have laughed their ass off at the ad agency when they thought of that angle. My guess is they're thinking about a baseball player for the next ad.......
I fucking hate Frank D'Angelo and his shitty commercials for his shitty products. This campaign. The freaking old timer hockey stars in a locker room commercial. Those old Tie Domi and Wendel Clark ads for his apple juice. That stupid one with the "wow that IS big" chick. UGH.
