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*blaaaaaargh* That wet sound you just heard is me vomiting my two day old Jack-in-the-Box salad all over my keyboard. WHAT THE FUCK MAN!? That was quite possibly the most horrifying thing I've ever seen. I may never step foot in the Great White North again. *shudder* *shake* *twitch* I need to be held.

Damn, you weren't kidding about that commercial. I'm gonna have nightmares about that one.

As for the movies, those are a different kind of nightmare. The kind I can't actually wake up from.

Thank you Dan for the Mitch & Mickey--it has almost flushed my mind of the first clip, but not quite. It may take a few more viewings of Mitch & Mickey and 3 more years of therapy. Do they really show that on TV with children watching? Disturbing. Remind me never to eat in Canada again. Apparently they are shitallstupid.

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Sweet Jesus, that chick's got a giant Pajiba!

(Melon-headed joke, not mammary gland comment... please don't report me to Feministing...)

I'm in Canada, and that's actually the first time I've seen that ad, but I've definitely heard about it. In fact, just this past weekend my sister and her friends were all talking about how disturbing it is. WSIB is also planning to run an ad that will be on bus shelters around the country that appears to be a construction worker who has been impaled and is lying in a pool of his blood. WSIB: Serious Business... I guess?

Oh my god. If I had a kid and they saw that ad while unsuspectingly just watching tv, I would be so pissed.
Canada...please simmer down. No pun intended.

I think I'll met my boyfriend cook the spaghetti tonight.

Hey! It's Brady Corbet from Mysterious Skin in the Naomi Watts movie. I haven't seen him since that film, but I was hoping to.

Uhhhh..I should not have visited the website Erica told us about. The loading page has a severed hand spurting small bits of blood every once in a while. Luckily my kid was curious because of the happy-go-lucky and misleading music, so I couldn't delve any deeper. What the fuck Canada??

No, Alex, I laughed too, but I think it was that sort of "I don't believe what I just saw, what do I do know?" nervous laugh.

The workplace safety ads are great. I mean, they're gruesome, but seriously, that's what it would be like if it was to happen. I don't think people take workplace safety all that serious, and maybe this is what people need to realize that it happens, and it's not something that you expect.

There are 2 more in the workplace safety campaign, the kitchen one I find is actually more tame than the other two. There's a retail one where this girl falls from a ladder onto a set of glass nesting tables... not pretty if you can imagine.

Clearly the campaign is doing a good job, they've sparked discussion and raised awareness. People may question their methods, but in the end, they've achieved what they set out to do.

That's a good point TraderZed, it's still kind of "bio-power" though.

I will respect the hell ut of "Funny Games" if Tim Roth just starts screaming "Fuck you! Fuck you, man. I'm fuckin' dyin'! I'm fuckin' dying!"

Goodness-Gracious! That kinda freaked my shit up. Oh, and being a dummy I didn't read what was written after the clip so I thought "riveting" meant "HAHA, Passions, Days of Our Lives" no it meant an audible "Jesus Christ." Thanks for allowing me to be embarrassed once again in a public setting, I always enjoy that.

Speaking of the one that wasn't in Showgirls, her last good movie was Son in Law. Oh, and by good I mean Greatest Show Ever, every time that baby comes on TNT it is a family experience.

Love to all who have been scarred from viewing,
Emily

In Ireland while I lived there they ran these horrible ads about not buckling your seatbelt. Basically, they showed in slow motion what happens, peoples heads banging into others and killing each other, etc. It was brutal. The scene in Death Proof is very similar. Let's just say I will ALWAYS buckle my seatbelt as a result. And I will definitely NOT leave grease on the floor ever again! That was just...disturbing, on so many levels.

As for that Naomi Watts flick, what's up with the red-rimmed eyes? And why can't they just beat the shit out of those kids? I know my dad would just kill those guys if that ever happened to us. But I love Tim Roth, so I'll probably Netflix it.

I think that the ad person WSIB has watched the Final Destination series way to many times. When you think about it, the whole Home Depot scene from FD3 could be used as a workplace safety commercial.

I'm now going to go examine my kitchen floor with a microscope, looking for signs of grease...

Um, that PSA definitely got a very loud 'holy shit!' reaction over here. I just got up, but I think I'm now quite awake enough to go without my coffee for the morning.

Franklin's actually the FORMER middleweight champion: http://www.filmdrunk.com/post.phtml?pk=703
But I don't blame you for the mistake since Variety got it wrong first.

By the way, if you haven't seen Bruce Greenwood's home page, you're missing out. Excerpt: "Did you know Bruce invented an inflatable hat (with best friend Norman Foote) shaped like the Vancouver Stadium Dome for The Grey Cup of 1983?"

Seriously. I have the whole thing over on FilmDrunk - not spamming, just thought you might be interested.

Isn't it Liev Schreiber not Live?

That PSA is messed up, but it does get its point across. As of now I am quitting culinary college and becoming a mime for Jesus!

The PSA was pretty disturbing, like the transit ads we've got running in Toronto. One shows a lathe operator lying on the ground in a pool of blood, with a safety warning sign having cleaved his arm in two.

The other PSA spot I've seen shows a construction worker falling off a building. It's rather odd, looking like a badly greenscreened SNL sketch that tosses a dummy off a building. Strange.

The concept and tagline of the PSA series is good, but the execution could use some work. Suggest more, show less.

Oh, and yes, since these ran in Canada, all Canadians are frightening, horrible people and all travel to Canada should be avoided forever.

Canadian ad- Jeeeeeesus. Ugh. Turn your pots handles in toward the stove or wall, peoples.

Mitch and Mickey will be playing at my wedding, you mark my words.

"Funny Games" - Channeling Malcolm McDowell. Are you sure it's not a remake of "A Clockwork Orange"?

Speaking of Michael Chabon movies, what the hell happened to the movie adapatation of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay"? Wasn't it finished months ago? Or did it never get out of the script stage?

James, I thought the same thing-- hell, is the trailer supposed to be an homage to the "Clockwork Orange" trailer? It's almost exactly the same-- booming classical music, quick editing, laudatory titles interspersed in block lettering... look it up, the original ad is fantastic.

Make my own Pajiba pun:

Is that a Pajiba in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Tit for T.A.T.

This is the breast site ever!

Meh, those have been running for a while. Remember the one with the guy at his own funeral? If you end up around the CBC where they have all of the plaques honouring the deaths of 100 people (with full descriptions), a lot of your righteous indignation will be quelled. Mine was. I'm no gore-hound, I'm actually the wussiness wuss-bot in wussen-dom there is. But those plaques will haunt you. They freak you out the first time, and I don't have a TV, so I've only seen it once, but I don't know. Maybe if it works there's a point.

Ant any rate, you unleashed Hilton on us, so the scores aren't even close to even.

For me though, it's always going to be about 'Astar the Robot', 'Drugs, Drugs, Drugs', 'Don't You Put in Your Mouth, Don't You Stuff it in Your Face.'

Don't indeed.

Make my own Pajiba pun:

Saved by the Bells.

902DD.

We take workplace safety very seriously here in the Great White North.

I was in England a couple of years ago, and they were running these ads on radio and television about the difference 10mph over the speed limit makes if you HIT A CHILD WITH YOUR CAR. The TV ad started with this horrible, twisted little girl who'd been thrown against a tree, dead. The voiceover says something like 'This is what 40mph looks like.' Then the dead girl SLIDES DOWN THE TREE TRUNK AND ACROSS THE LAWN TO THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, where she regains color and begins crying, now only injured. VO: "This is what 30mph looks like. Obey the speed limit." Fucking terrifying.

Did I drive the speed limit through towns? Yes, I did.

In Ireland while I lived there they ran these horrible ads about not buckling your seatbelt. Basically, they showed in slow motion what happens, peoples heads banging into others and killing each other, etc. It was brutal. The scene in Death Proof is very similar. Let's just say I will ALWAYS buckle my seatbelt as a result.

Hee! Someone else has been traumatised by the Irish 'Drive Safely' ads. We have the most horrific ones I've ever seen - the one with the dead toddler, or the boy texting his girlfriend and run down by a truck (in graphic, graphic detail of course). I don't know why they're so horrifying, but they make that Canadian one look...well, not too bad in comparison.

I'm sorry to say that I laughed manically throughout that entire advert. Really, next time I need a good hearty laugh, I'll watch it. Fantastic really.
It reminded me of the time I had to watch a work safety video for my new job. I actually considered stealing it, that's how hilarious it was. Let's just say it involved a lot of table saws and bottom drawers of file cabinets being left open...

THANK YOU, the psa made my miserable day! really. I laughed a full sparkling happiness laugh and my soul feels better now. Alex let's be friends, we can go watch little kids fall from trees and crash on the ground (and by that I mean actually put them on the tree and the shake it until the kid falls.

That's one of my favourite activities rio. There's nothing like a good dose of schadenfreude to brighten up my day.

Holy crap, Canada. I never thought I'd see public safety ads channeling Quentin Tarentino (ok, so I thought it was possible some day, but not from Canada). That one's probably the most disturbing, but I clicked on some of the others and he one with the woman who falls off of the ladder then holds a conversation with a dangling broken wrist afterwards is somehow also deeply disturbing to me.

This reminds me of those anti-smoking ads. Like the one where they are squeezing fat out of an artery in an operating room, one that involves amputating a smoker's foot with gangrene, and another with a cross-section of a blackened lung. As a non-smoker, I hate that I have to watch these ads that are trying to scare me away from doing something I'm not even doing. Isn't there a channel that only smokers watch?