{"id":1681,"date":"2009-03-17T16:57:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:57:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T16:57:31","slug":"cool_ads_for_lousy_movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/17\/cool_ads_for_lousy_movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Ads for Lousy Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something fun for your St. Patty&#8217;s Day, a <a href=\"http:\/\/superpunch.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/aliens-vs-predator-print-ads-are-better.html\">trio of ads<\/a> for a New Zealand TV network&#8217;s upcoming airing of the execrable movie <i>Alien vs. Predator<\/i> (not to be confused with the excellent four-part comic-book miniseries <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aliens_vs._Predator_(comic_book)#Original\"><i>Aliens versus Predator<\/i><\/a>, which was published in the early &#8217;90s). The movie stinks, but I love the clever ads, especially this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/AvP_chess-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5574\" alt=\"AvP_chess\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/AvP_chess-1024x724.jpg\" width=\"725\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always, click to embiggenate.<\/p>\n<p>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/03\/17\/beyond-awesome\/\">Bad Astronomer<\/a>, who dubbed the campaign &#8220;beyond awesome.&#8221; Total agreement here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something fun for your St. Patty&#8217;s Day, a trio of ads for a New Zealand TV network&#8217;s upcoming airing of the execrable movie Alien vs. Predator (not to be confused with the excellent four-part comic-book miniseries Aliens versus Predator, which was published in the early &#8217;90s). The movie stinks, but I love the clever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}