THE AVENGERS - Stay after the credits for the bonus scene where they introduce the new Avenger: Captain Planet.
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL - Four actors film their vacation. It’s like Grown-Ups for old people!
LOL
- Miley Cyrus stars as a text-loving girl who has to choose between 2
total hotties! Oscar-bait season starts earlier every year! (As in my
gross uncle Oscar)
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LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN - Kate Hudson is dying, and dreams she meets God,
played by Whoopi Goldberg. If God turns out to be Whoopi Goldberg, I’m
killing myself in heaven.
DARK SHADOWS - Austin Powers: Groovie Ghoulie
BATTLESHIP
- Liam Neeson says “Fire everything!” That’s not something you say in
Battleship! You say “Can we play something else?”
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING - Starring feathered hair, pillows and slumming comedians!
THE DICTATOR - The future of frat house Halloween costumes will be determined by this movie’s success!
HYSTERIA - A comedy about the first vibrator. Between this and The Dictator, the pubic wig factory was working overtime!
MEN IN BLACK III - The series that kept Will Smith from having to do “fat suit comedies”.
MOONRISE KINGDOM - Wes Anderson, directing yet another gritty, blood and profanity filled revenge story. Come on, Wes!
CHERNOBYL DIARIES - Young people see spooky ghost kids. It’s ALWAYS kids! Don’t old people ever die unavenged?
Pizza.
A staple of American diet. It’s the universal go-to what you eat when
you need to feed a lot of people. It’s a reward for kids. A true
classic, seen at birthday parties, corporate meetings and college dorms.
It’s what you give interns and volunteers as “pay” instead of money.
And one of the biggest players in the pizza biz world: Pizza Hut.
Pizza may seem like a pretty straightforward endeavor, but Pizza Hut
always has some kooky new “take” on their product. And who better to
shill these innovations to the American public then our social betters:
CELEBRITIES! While it’s not strange for celebs to appear in restaurant
ads, Pizza Hut has picked some unusual choices over the years. Let’s
look at a few, shall we?
Ringo Starr & 75% of The Monkees
Ringo
Starr, the Beatle who will never, ever take his sunglasses off, took
center stage in this ad for “stuffed crust” pizza. There was a good
chunk of the mid-90’s when Pizza Hut was really selling the idea of
“eating pizza crust first”. It’s a clever slogan, I suppose, but let’s
consider what happens if you decide to follow Ringo down this method of
eating. You chomp down all the crust first, and (assuming your taste
buds weren’t burned off by shoving a tube of hot cheese in your mouth)
you’re left with a dripping glob of cheese and toppings WITH NO HANDLE.
You may as well eat pasta with your bare hands, or a grilled cheese
sandwich without the bread. You had Ringo, a beloved promoter of peace
and love, tricking a generation into being left holding a wad of grease!
No wonder the 90’s were so cynical!
Rush Limbaugh
It’s
pretty amazing to think what a big deal Rush Limbaugh used to be in the
entertainment world. Now he’s pretty regulated to the radio and
hard-core conservative functions, but in the 90’s, the guy was
EVERYWHERE. Another “stuffed crust” ad promoting getting your hands
disgusting as you eat, this one is sort of remarkable, as it features
some pretty outright skepticism for its spokesperson. America’s
forefathers come back from the grave to haunt their portraits, giving
“oh please, girlfriend” takes in response to Rush’s self-aggrandizement.
“Don’t go there!” - G. Washington.
Mikhail Gorbachev
It
is time for the eating of the pizza, Comrade! At the time is ad came
out, Gorbachev said he did the ad because eating pizza “brought people
together”. So this was basically like an ad for world peace, that just
happened to feature a fast-food chain! “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that
wall, and join me around a delicious Meat Lovers pizza!” - R. Reagan.
Hey, if you wanted an ex-Russian political leader to star in your pizza
ad, Gorbachev is definitely your best choice. I heard they asked Putin
to star in a Domino’s campaign, but the PR firm disappeared under
mysterious circumstances after they brought him the wrong kind of
bottled water on shooting day.
Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings
It’s
hard to think of these guys as eating pizza, right? I could see them
singing the praises of oatmeal, the beef industry, or the idea of
“drinking”, but pizza almost seems too modern. I know they aren’t
cavemen or anything, but something about it rubs me the wrong way. Oh,
and I guess two legends of music doing a fast-food ad rubs me the wrong
way, too.
Pizza Head
Pizza
Head had his own talk show from the 1960’s and well into the 80’s, and
was introduced to a new generation of fans in the late 90’s as an
accident-prone adventurer. He was tragically found cold in his Los
Angeles home in 2002, where he was indifferently eaten by a UCLA student
who claimed to be coming off of “a hell of a bender”.
