GoDaddy isn't the only company with an ad that went too far this week. Dominos is not thrilled about a leaked Fifty Shades of Grey-style ad that's making the rounds for its spicy Sriracha pizza. "You’re going to suffer and enjoy every moment," pledges the ad, which shows a disembodied tongue wearing bondage gear and a ball gag. The image was so unappetizing (yes, even worse than Domino's Chicken & Bacon Carbonara), that some assumed it must be fake when it surfaced online Tuesday. EW's sister publication People has confirmed the ad was indeed legit, but that it was...
- 1/28/2015
- by James Hibberd
- EW.com - PopWatch
Call us old-fashioned, but we like to keep our pizza and S&M separate. A controversial Domino's ad for their Sriracha pizza recently surfaced online, causing many people to raise their eyebrows. The shocking ad features a cartoon tongue tied up in bondage with a gag in its mouth and a whip lying next to it. "You're going to suffer and enjoy every moment. Domino's Sriracha. Super spicy, super tasty," reads the text on the Fifty Shades of Grey-inspired ad. So what was Domino's thinking when they came up with this totally gross concept? "It's real," Domino's spokesman Tim McIntyre tells People. "The ad was created and pitched by an agency to the independent...
- 1/28/2015
- E! Online
June 25, 1982, was a good day for genre fans. Hell, that summer saw a spate of genre classics released, including "The Road Warrior," "Poltergeist," and "E.T." But June 25th in particular saw not only the release, as we discussed earlier today, of "Blade Runner," but also another legendary sci-fi picture, which like Ridley Scott's film, wasn't well-received at the time, and flopped at the box office, but went on to be enshrined in the geek hall of fame. No, it's not Barry Bostwyck vehicle "MegaForce," but John Carpenter's terrifying "The Thing," which despite the efforts of last year's poor retread/prequel, remains one of the greatest sci-fi/horrors ever made.
Technically a remake of Howard Hawks' well-loved 1951 "The Thing From Another World," which Carpenter pays tribute to in the opening moments, the new film took a very different approach, ramping up both the paranoia and the eye-popping physical effects,...
Technically a remake of Howard Hawks' well-loved 1951 "The Thing From Another World," which Carpenter pays tribute to in the opening moments, the new film took a very different approach, ramping up both the paranoia and the eye-popping physical effects,...
- 6/25/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
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