Questions tagged [advertisements]
For questions about advertisements and promotional videos for speculative fiction works.
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Was the "Something Wicked This Way Comes" tag line to the Prisoner Of Azkaban movie poster taken from the 1962 Ray Bradbury novel of the same name?
I remember seeing this Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban poster when I was younger and thinking that the "Something Wicked This Way Comes" tag line was very catchy and incredibly clever. I was ...
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Did "2001: A Space Odyssey" make any reference to the names of companies, or show any evidence of the existence of advertisements?
In SE comments elsewhere 1, 2, 3 I talked about barriers of mixing advertising and spaceflight at NASA. In one I said:
...I'm not sure if Kubrick include any advertisements in his visionary ...
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What old sci-fi film is the source of this Hotels.com ad clip featuring a fire-breathing monster?
Youtube keeps giving me ads for Hotels.com, which feature a few seconds of what looks like it must be a scene from an old sci-fi film:
There's a giant seal-like monster, on top of a pile of rocks, ...
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What old sci-fi film is the source of this Hotels.com ad clip featuring a spaceship blowing up Earth?
Youtube continues giving me ads for Hotels.com, and now I've seen a slightly different ad with another brief clip that looks like it must be from an old sci-fi film:
A saucer-shaped spaceship does a ...
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Sci fi story with a coke sign on the moon?
I can remember reading a sci fi story where a rocket package was placed on the moon and when detonated sent the explosion of glitter fragments into the lunar atmosphere. And because of the lack of ...
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What is the magazine advert on Dennis Nedry's desk
I wondered if someone may help me to identify the advert of the open magazine on Nedry's desktop in Jurassic Park. It looks like a computer advert with purple 3D mesh and some graphs. It's possible to ...
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Where did the scenery for the Star Wars anti-smoking PSA come from?
A saw a link today to the classic Star Wars droids’ anti-smoking public service announcement.
It looks like C-3PO and R2-D2 are working in a warehouse or storage area ...
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Name of the song used in TMNT 2 HBO commercial
In this HBO commercial, there is a song playing in the background. It's kind of rock and dubstep fused together. I have contacted HBO through Facebook, but they couldn't reach the department who made ...
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What is Kool-Aid Man?
Besides being an anthropomorphic nearly full pitcher of cherry kool-aid, has there ever been any detailed description of how this pitcher of cherry kool-aid came to be so large, given appendages and ...
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Beer Commercial - Men Devolve into Salamanders - "Worth the wait"
I saw this commercial years ago. It starts out in a bar, with three guys having a beer, and suddenly this (kinda catchy) music starts playing and time seems to reverse, and everything around them ...
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What do the "half-blue" portraits represent in the Game of Thrones Season 3 ads?
The promotional posters for HBO's season 3 of Game of Thrones all depict an individual facial image of key characters from prior seasons with their faces half-lit in a blue hue.
What's this meant to ...
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Dystopian short story about a man who can only think in the language of adverts
I read this a while back and can’t remember much.
It was a short story where a man can only think in the language of ads - the narrative is subjective to his POV and he can barely describe himself or ...
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Looking for Westernized military sci-fi cover art of future woman tank commander and tank battle from 90s or early 00s
I’m searching for what I’m certain originated as cover art from a sci-fi gaming magazine which I once collected from basic internet image search for “future woman soldier” or “sci-fi woman soldier” or ...
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Do we know anything else about the Kledian Warlord besides his apparel fit preferences?
Who is the Kledian Warlord and its Companions?
The Kledian Warlord, his parrot-faced majordomo, and a Levi’s jean-wearing earth boy have a conversation about the boy’s jeans:
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Did The Lucky Charms Leprechaun always exist in the same universe as other General Mills characters?
In new Lucky Charms boxes, the Leprechaun is featured alongside the Trix rabbit and Chip the dog in several stories.
This is the first time that I've ever seen this. If I recall correctly, in all ...
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