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Movies About AdvertisingNow PlayingAdvertising Rules!Crazy People Good Neighbor Sam Halloween III: Season of the Witch How to Get Ahead in Advertising Nothing in Common What Women Want Coming Attractions Advertising Rules! a/k/a Viktor Vogel - Commercial Man (original German title) As a Movie: B+ Advertising Content: A+ The plot is on the predictable side - an ad exec uses his girlfriend's idea to get ahead at his agency, with all the attendant complications - but this is a fun movie that nails agency life. It's all here - demanding clients, clients who suck all the creativity out of a campaign, agency prima donnas and burnouts, a person who starts to believe their own press, and the industry's addiction to you th and cool. Recommended. BACKCrazy People As a Movie: C+ Advertising Content: C+ Dumb, goofy and predictable, with the humor rising from the shocking ads created by Dudley Moore on the edge of a nervous breakdown. The clients are a little too accepting of Moore's odd writing, and the plot a little to whacky to capture ad agency life. BACKGood Neighbor Sam As a Movie: B Advertising Content: B+ Jack Lemmon in his usual good form as an ad exec caught between helping a neighbor and trying to keep a very straight-laced client. Deals with the "keep the client happy at all costs" mentality better than any other AdFlick I can remember. BACKHalloween III: Season of the Witch As a Movie: D- Advertising Content: D- I suppose that this could be interpreted as a parable about the evils of advertising, but face it - the film doesn't have that much ambition. Only periperally about advertising, but saved from flunking by its novel idea of using a TV commercial as a murder weapon. SPOILER: This also saved the movie from flunking; I did like the ending of the kiddies out in their Halloween masks, the hero dying and unable to stop the deadly ad from running. It's too bad the rest of movie didn't come up to its finish. BACKHow To Get Ahead In Advertising As a Movie: D Advertising Content: C+ Noxious and creepy dark comedy that no doubt *is* a parable about the evils of advertising. Rates low because I don't remember that much about it outside of the preachy ending, therefore making the film unmemorable. BACK
Nothing In Common
As a Movie: B Advertising Content: C Tom Hanks must juggle moving up the corporate ladder at his ad agency along with the en d of his parents' marriage. Some great interaction between Hanks and his screen dad Jackie Gleason (in his last film), but the ad agency bits are straight out of Bewitched. BACKWhat Women Want As a Movie: C Advertising Content: B Worked better at showing the competitive climate in side of an ad agency than it did as a romantic comedy. On that end it seemed murky and indecisive. If only the clients in real life were as cooperative as the ones in most AdFlicks. BACKComing Attractions:Lover Come BackNorth by Northwest Putney Swope |
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