Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler The "Big Game" Commercials, what'd ya think?

The vote at our house? Awful.

Perhaps I'm getting cynical in my old age (31), but it seems they get worse and worse every year. The group at my house couldn't come up with a single one that was 'great'. The best we could do was 'unoffensive'. I think the fetching Clydesdale got a 'cute' vote. At least the Budweiser ones weren't blatantly offensive. We liked the previews for 'Aliens vs. Monsters' and 'Up', but those were more because the movies themselves looked cute, rather than for any sort of amazing commercial value.

But absolutely nothing stands out as a 'good' commercial, or at least something memorable. The opinion at our house was that the commercials were a spectacular waste of 250+ million dollars (and that's just for the time, nevermind the production costs). I know that times are tough, but we just can't figure out why the companies that did buy time even bothered.

Did you have any favorites? Did I somehow miss a good one?