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TCJohnson
12-06-2005, 01:37 PM
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=8568&pl=game&type=mov

That is just a great commercial. No idea why it was banned.
Joe Zool
12-06-2005, 01:40 PM
Because the PTA would be all over this like white on rice.

"No, no! We can't allow imaginary gunplay and violence!"
Robin3
12-06-2005, 01:44 PM
My guess is that they're afraid real people will play fake guns at a train or bus station and get killed by a cop.
Joe Zool
12-06-2005, 01:45 PM
My guess is that they're afraid real people will play fake guns at a train or bus station and get killed by a cop.

Then people are far stupider than I give them credit for.

...

Well. There goes the human race.
Michael P
12-06-2005, 02:47 PM
That was one of the greatest things ever. Stupd stupid people being stupid, keeping that off my TV.
Adem
12-06-2005, 03:08 PM
I was actually talking to a friend today saying how I didn't like the 360 commercials. This one is excellent though I wish it wasn't banned.
Zeta
12-06-2005, 03:45 PM
What? Water balloons and teddy bear picnics not cool enough for you? :p
Cam63
12-06-2005, 04:03 PM
My guess is that they're afraid real people will play fake guns at a train or bus station and get killed by a cop.

It has happened.
Just_A_Rat
12-06-2005, 04:14 PM
It has happened.

Well, yeah, but usually to people with realistic-looking guns, not people with their fingers pointed at each other.
Cam63
12-06-2005, 04:22 PM
I'd be very embarrassed for the cop who shot a kid for pointing his finger at him.
ocelotrevs
12-06-2005, 04:25 PM
A bit too close to bone for some people, like with people getting searched and all that.
I just thought it was a shit advert.
Just_A_Rat
12-06-2005, 04:35 PM
I'd be very embarrassed for the cop who shot a kid for pointing his finger at him.

No doubt. Particularly in such a setting - What happens in the commercial is something that I'd like to see a flash mob (does anyone still do that?) do.
Ian Boothby
12-06-2005, 08:57 PM
Good ad, they did something similar on a smaller scale in an episode of Spaced.
Lunar Daydreamer
12-07-2005, 12:46 AM
There was an X-Box advert with a lass popping out a baby, it flying through the air and aging, then crashing into a grave, with the tagline "Life's too short - play more". Genius ad, won advertisement of the year, a handful of idiot dufuses complained and it got banned.
Melissa
12-07-2005, 02:50 AM
...a handful of idiot dufuses...

[Ozymandias voice] Hmmm... would they be "dufi"? [/Ozymandias voice]