I wasnt looking at THOSE lips.

"The Matrix Teaser Trailer people! The Matrix Teaser Trailer!"

I guess I was takin' a leak when I missed that one...

Doesn't matter anyway. The whole movie could be summed up in 10 minutes of fabulous sepcial effects... 100 million dollars of special effects.

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>And dude, it wasn't Gwen Stefani and Sting, it was No Doubt and Sting

Yes I know. But I couldn't take my eyes off Gwen. Did you even notice the rest of the band? Sure she's not as polished as she could be live, but Celine Dion is polished as a baby's ass and does nothing for me. A Canadian singing God Bless America... /me scratches his head... And Sting and Gwen grinning at each other while singing was the ultimate compliment for both of them.

I thought it said Everquest, too.

Seems like you were. I woulda, but I won't bother to subscribe.

As for favorite commercial, I liked that PS2/SOCOM commercial, and the FedEx/Castaway one too...

Someone please tell me that I wasn't the only one that read that as "Because It's There: Putting Everquest Online." Someone... Anyone...

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As stolen from noted over at The Digital Bits, Animatrix is scheduled for release on 06/03/02:

http://www.digitalbits.com/#mytwocents

Glad that Miyazaki is getting some DVD love,
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I thought that the Hulk CGI looked pretty poor.

I keep telling myself that it's temp animation, and that they'll improve it some over the next few months.

But right now, it looks pretty bad. Where's my Hulk angst? Ang Lee, you have forsaken us.

The Matrix Teaser Trailer people! The Matrix Teaser Trailer!

Oh man! Those Tech Support Nightmare photos are so true. It's amazing what people do to their poor computers.
(I love the one with HDD plugged in the CD-ROM and nothing else. Shrinked-wrapped NIC card is good too)

I liked the Reebok commercial with Terry Tate the best.
"Office Linebacker" that was great.

Yea, my thoughts exactly on Shaniah Twain... it was terrible. Including the dudes all decked out and pretending to play guitars.

And dude, it wasn't Gwen Stefani and Sting, it was No Doubt and Sting, and I think it was awesome. Sting sang The Police because No Doubt was there, The Police were a big influence for them (when they used to make pretty good music).

~Jedi

Either I have a terrible sense of humor, or you do.

I had forgotten about the Budweiser clown one, that was hilarious too

Creston

I loved Gwen's performance, especially with Sting.

You have a terrible sense of humor =/ The first sierra mist commercial (with the dog and the hydrant) was funny. The monkey one and the dog-on-the-head one just made me and my friends kind of look around and basque in the sound of chirping crickets.

The funniest commercial was the budweiser one with the upside-down clown outfit (I dubbed him the 'assclown'). People stare in amazement as he drinks a beer through the mouth hole (which is the asshole in the costume). I almost had a heart attack when he was denied a hotdog by the bartender.

Didnt watch the SB, never was a big fan. What the heck ARE those bowling ball things? I may be a little off, but last time I took a chemistry class, they never mentioned lead growing on trees.

When we were watching it, my wife said "I think she's lip synching," about Shania. And I said "no way, Shania doesn't do that, she sings very well life, why would she want to? It's not like she's Britney Spears."

And then she moves into the crowd, and just stops moving her lips altogether... Sigh...

But at least she gets a ten for effort in the outfit department.

I don't really mind lip synching that much anyways. To be honest, when Gwen Stefani started singing life, I was fervently praying that she would switch to lip synching soon, because she does NOT sing well life.

And was I the only one who found it kind of ironic that Sting had to sing a Police song? I guess none of the crap he's made ever since they split was deemed worthy enough...

The commercials were pretty good, I liked all of Sierra Mist's commercials (the monkey vaulting into the polar bear pool was classic), Budweiser had some classics as well, the Fed Ex one was great, but it seems there are still some marketeers out there who don't understand that Super Bowl = FUNNY commercials. So they brought out their same as usual dry boring crap. And sorry Gatorade, if you're going to splurge out for a Super Bowl commercial, at least make something NEW! Oh look, it's Mike vs Mike, yawn.

My favorites, in no particular order :

Budweiser Clydesdales waiting for the zebra to finish reviewing the play (had me laughing for way too long).

Yao Ming trying to pay with a check. Yo! Yao! Yo!
(btw, is it just me, or does Yao currently have more ads than Shaq? I love the apple commercial with Yao and what'shisname, mini-me, in the plane with their notebooks, it's just classic).

I nearly croaked on the Budweiser one with the guy and his long black hairy mutt.
"Ya man, everybody jammin'"

But, ofcourse, the best laugh of the entire Super Bowl was Rich Gannon still playing with 20 seconds to go (and seriously, WHY keep playing? You've lost the Super Bowl, so you're going to feel shit about it even IF you score another touchdown. The only thing you risk doing is injuring one of your own guys badly enough that he'll miss the next season...) and then throwing his FIFTH interception, which will stand as a Super Bowl record for a loooooong time. Regular Season MVP my ass.

Ok, and then finally, the Hulk...
Can somebody explain to me why CGI guys apparently have no fucking clue on how FAST something moves irl? You go from very real looking scenes (well, I guess real to people who DON'T look at computer games all day, but still, it's real enough) where the Hulk moves like the ponderous brute he is, and then suddenly he zooms about like he's the fucking Flash or something. Do CGI guys never GO outside to watch how people move??

This always makes me shake my head in disgust when I see it. Company pays what, 100 million or whatever to get state of the art CGI, it looks great, until the CGI thing does a spin, and suddenly it moves at 180mph. Sigh...

Creston

Two interceptions ran for TD's....thats gotta hurt.

was it two, or 3? I thought it was 3...

As the old song asks, "What kind of a noise annoys an oyster?"

I think my favorite part of Twain's performance was when she walked into the crowd - and stopped moving her lips altogether. It was one of those fun TiVo moments my wife and I got a good chuckle from.

(Note: we tried watching SNL's halftime bit, but about the time they had a fake Gollum giving his thoughts on the superbowl, we gave up.)

OK, it was patently obvious that Shania Twain was lip-synching - but what about Sting + No Doubt?

And didn't Twain's outfit look like the bad guy from a Batman movie? Not that I'm complaining - she makes any gawdy looking outfit look good.

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ummm, ya got the end of that commercial wrong, btw. But yes, it was funny.

preferred the instant replay one, myself.

As the old song asks, "What kind of a noise annoys an oyster?"