| And what a number to begin with. |
| Last Edit: Delvino 10:09 am EST 12/18/17 |
| Posted by: Delvino 10:08 am EST 12/18/17 |
| In reply to: "It only ran for a month"? Really? - TimDunleavy 10:06 am EST 12/18/17 |
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It was a 90s Gap commercial, repurposed to "make sure" no one under 26 changed the channel. It has the opposite impact: it took the very reason we tuned in -- for double nostalgia (both the era of the film, and whatever era we individually fell in love with it) and pretended we needed to be kicked in the ass and reminded it's really 2017. It completely meta-ized a piece of material that didn't require it, and upstaged a genuinely workable format, Broderick's character weaving into his own childhood. It was thus framed twice -- imagine, say a producer waltzing out before the Stage Manager in OUR TOWN -- and it was dreadful. Whoever thought of it should be fired and sent back to advertising.
And the song was among the most unmemorable of pop ditties. It set up the Old Navy-ization, per Ann's points (and many on Facebook, who were truly appalled.) |
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