Adam & Amber’s Blog

So there I was on Monday night, watching a little Golden Globes on the TV (don’t judge me), things were going good. Then I saw something so amazingly disturbing I had to rewind it and show Amber. What could have possibly been so amazing to jar me from my obviously entranced TV watching state? This…

(I didn’t goto the site that marked this video so I can’t vouch for it)

I will give you a moment to soak that in…

First off bringing someone digitally back to life is a little iffy even if done well, but this looks horrible. His digital head is not the right size for his “actor” body and does not move naturally with it. Going by what I read in this USA Today article I can understand from their procedure why it looks so awkward. They used one actor for the base of the face and a different actor for the body, that seems like an odd choice and one that did not do them well. There was another interesting quote from the article:

Advertising psychologist Carol Moog says there’s “a certain creepiness” to reviving Redenbacher but expects it’ll sell popcorn. “There’s going to be a macabre fascination.”

It is true that it has “a certain creepiness” but it really doesn’t make me want popcorn and I will probably never look at poor Orville the same way again. However, I am posting the commercial on my blog (which means tens of people will watch it) so maybe the commercial is doing its job. I still say as a general rule, don’t let dead people sell your products on TV (keep them on the radio where they belong).