Super Bowl 50- game, commercials, entertainment

Game: boring except for Bronco's D

Gaga: terrific, especially the eye shadow

Coldplay: way out of their league

Bruno: saved that mess

Beyoncé: female power

Commercials: Defoe turns into Marilyn

I'd have called an audible and subbed out Coldplay for Muse.

annielou said:

Coldplay: way out of their league

phenixrising said:

Train_of_Thought said:

ml1 said:

worst commercial by far -- during the pre-kickoff show.  Hyundai ad with Kevin Hart using the cars GPS locator to follow his daughter on a date.

people may have considered it a cute ad in 1960 (if they had GPS locator technology).  In 2016 -- ultra creepy.

FWIW, #1 on USA Today Super Bowl ad meter.

I thought that commercial was funny. I know my BIL enjoyed this one, especially with a majority female household.

I don't doubt it was popular.  Kevin Hart is very funny.  And he was hanging from a helicopter!  And tracking the kids everywhere with high tech!

Let me preface this by saying I wasn't offended.  I don't offend easily.  But I don't have much tolerance for outdated stereotypes and tired cliches.  That commercial is based on one of the oldest and most hackneyed tropes.  Dad is beside himself that a guy might touch his daughter!  Funny in 1960, maybe.  After everything that's been accomplished in gender relations over the past 50 years, I'd have thought not so much.

Maybe if I was the dad of daughters, I'd find it cute.  But I hope I wouldn't.  And as the father of young men, it's bothersome that a lot of dads apparently still look at guys their age as potential predators.  And that they don't trust their daughters to be in control of their own consent.

I predict that in a few years, most people will find that attitude as anachronistic as Ralph Kramden threatening to send Alice to the moon.

And I'm not the only one who thought the ad was weird.  But apparently only feminist bloggers and me:

The commercial is pretty funny — I mean, when is Kevin Hart not funny? — but honestly, it would be kind of nice if advertisers would put the “overbearing dad of a teenaged daughter” trope to rest already. Even though progress has been made when it comes to talking about respect and consent and responsible sexual choices, the idea of the overprotective dad with a shotgun to keep the boys away (to keep their daughters "pure") still won’t seem to die.

https://www.romper.com/p/is-kevin-harts-daughter-in-the-hyundai-genesis-super-bowl-ad-heaven-hart-will-be-embarrassed-by-it-one-day-5146

and of more concern, the young women most at risk for pregnancy are usually the ones who can't tell their parents that they're sexually active because mom and/or dad will lose his or her ****.

Other good commercials, 

Turbotax

Wiener dogs for ketchup

Doritos dogs trying to get into grocery store

Props to the domestic violence "text" ads- the opposite of the super bowl babies, I guess. 

conandrob240 said:

I hated those weird ads! What kid wants to stand there and talk about the night they were conceived?!?!  Gross!