SuperBowlCommercials

__**The "Best" Superbowl 2011 Commercials**__

In my opinion, my favorite superbowl commercial was the Captain america spot. I thought it was amazing: there was alot of action involved and the story looked fairly interesting. There was alot of special effects as well, such as a scrawny Steve Rogers(Chris Evans) in the begining of the commercial, which was basically someone else's body and the editors of the video edited Chris Evan's face onto the body. All in all it got my attention, and im definitely looking forward to July 22nd to watch the movie! Ok so in my opinion, I think the Darth Vader Commercial for the Volkswagon was cute and it reminds me of my brother. The kid is going around trying to make things work or move with his or her mind (telekinesis?), and becomes fustrated. Then his or her dad comes home and he or she attempts to try it out with the car and when it does works, he or she becomes happy and excited, when in reality the dad just pressed a button on the remote to lock the car. BEST COMMERCIAL! []
 * Aleks:**
 * [|Captain America Spot]**
 * Puja [P.O.P]:**

Then The Pepsi Max which was hilarious. Words cannot explain [more like I don't feel like typing...] []

And of course the Doritos Commercials! Dogs, Rebirths, and Apples... Oh My! [] [] []

Melanie Grande: My favorite commercial this year was for Best Buy with Ozzy Osbourne and Justin Bieber. Not only did the company have cool ideas (the buy back policy) and high-tech/futurey sets and costumes (which I like), it was funny and played on the popular jokes about the two stars-- that Ozzy has barely a clue what's going on and that Bieber looks like a girl. It made me laugh and anyone who agrees will remember and probably go check Best Buy out. []

I also found on Foxsports.com an Apple Commercial that was a parody of Orwell's //1984//. It is interesting to see the book we studied show up in a modern ad and to see that Orwell's ideas really exist in our world today. [] []

(Young:) So I was watching the Super Bowl and I thought this commercial in particular was funny: [] I know we have to so I'll state the obvious: it's funny because you see this guy running around, screaming and trying to prevent everyone from seeing that 'reply all' message... only to find out after all that effort that he didn't.

And who could forget the magical powers of Doritos?: []

Also, does anyone else find it funny - or //ironic//, rather - that we have to see ads on YouTube to see commercials?

Laura Kohner: [] I liked this commercial because a rough rider acts all tough as he enters the saloon, but then he softens up and sings the song "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John. I found this very funny and cute.

Megan Kohner: [] My favorite Super Bowl commercial was a House ad. This is hilarious because it is very typical of House. This is a parody of a Coca-Cola commercial from the 70s which was very famous and very popular. []

I can't wait to look at these! Great work. We should do another such collection for another visual rhetoric thing we study (ideas: good web comics, TED Talks related to class content... sort of a "thematic" extra credit activity every week or every 2 weeks would be very interesting). ~Ms. C