Today one of the guys at work came up to me and said he saw a comercial for the Y2k movie. He said it was scary. He said they show a large city with all the lights going off,people panicing, and the voice says " Are they telling the truth about Y2k". My friend said he looked at his wife and said"Are you ready for that?" He told me that he believes that just the commercial is going to get people thinking a lot more about Y2k. Has anyone else seen this commercial?

-- Gambler (scotanna@arosnet.com), October 28, 1999

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Oh yeah; it's been advertised nearly every game of the short World Series. Man, I'll bet Ko-skin-em was soooooo happy the Series is over and so boring. Maybe, they didn't see it?

-- Jim the window washer (Rational@man.com), October 28, 1999.

Bull.

They said:

"What If they're right about Y2k".

(Not, are they telling the truth?)

There is a difference, o little doomlit. And besides, is ANYONE here really going to base their Y2K research on an NBC made for Tee-Vee movie?

Lordy, I hope not.

-- (_@_._), October 28, 1999.

Hey guys....when is this planning on airing? I dont get a chance to watch much TV. I havent seen the commercial. And on what broadcast?

Thanks

-- bulldog (sniffin@around.com), October 28, 1999.

Yep I saw it, and it didn't look to tame to me. Big plane crashing upon landing, some sort of fuel depot exploding, you know all the stuff you talk about on this site.

How will the public respond? I remember a whole lot of people spent the summer ON THE BEACH after JAWS came out! Of course we don't really believe Hollywood but there's always that thought in the back in our heads, "What if their right?"

-- Watching Goodman (ITgoodmanHK@juno.com), October 28, 1999.

The "short" version of the Y2K Movie commercial is so-so, not very provocative. However, the long version that I saw just the other night, well...it was kinda cool! It was filled with Y2K STUFF, replete with an airplane crash landing right towards you at the end. It made me sit up in my chair and say "WOW"...and my husband nodded. I'm sure if nothing else, it will have people talking the next day. Airs Nov 21 I believe.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), October 28, 1999.

Airs Sunday, November 21, on NBC. Sponsored by Hormel (makers of SPAM), Uncle Ben's Converted Rice, and the BEANO company.

Just kidding about that last part.

-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), October 28, 1999.

INTERESTING thought.!!! I think this explains the disconnect. Americans are too trained to see life only as reflected in the tube. Will the NBC movie indeed prove to be the last bit of psychological innoculation prior to the BIG DAY? So that Our Fellow Americans -- so piddling few of whom have had the rational foresight to make prudent plans for a foreseeable -- if contingent -- WHOLESALE SOCIO- ECONOMIC BLOWOUT, will instead readily take part in fulfilling their role as EXTRAS in a Hollywood disaster flick come true????

Yep. That's it. Why make rational but tedious, painstaking, costly, carefully delineated preps to stave off the consequences of a POSSIBLE disaster, when YOU CAN DO BETTER! YOU TOO can have the ultimate THRILLRIDE: EXPERIENCE the PANIC of the MOMENT! FEEL the SURGE of the CROWDS! GIVE WAY TO THE MOB MENTALITY!! It's ..... Like leing There -- ONLY BETTER!!! The ultimate rollercoaster... and you are in the middle of it all.

-- Roch Steinbach (rochsteinbach@excite.com), October 28, 1999.

-- asked "There is a difference, o little doomlit. And besides, is ANYONE here really going to base their Y2K research on an NBC made for Tee-Vee movie? "

Yes, there are people here who will do that.

-- Doomer Logic (gotta@love.it), October 28, 1999.

Actually, I have been thinking quite a bit about this Y2K movie. Haven't seen the commercials, but knowing how Americans approach their TV and movies, I worry that it will make the whole thing seem even more unreal. I mean, after all, it was made into a made-for-TV movie, so it can't be real, right?

Our lines between reality and fantasy are so blurred. You can watch World's Most Disgusting Train Wrecks and World's Wildest Police Chases and see people die, buuuuuttt it's entertainment, right? Then you see the real thing on the news and it's entertain-...oops, no, that's real, that't the news. Then there are shows like Law and Order, which are fictional stories, but the plots are taken straight from actual headlines. And as kids are growing up many are watching this crap and don't have an adult helping them to distinguish between reality and fantasy (hell the producers can't distinguish, how can we expect kids to?) they get incredibly confused about what is real and what is not.

And it just really doesn't matter.

1 month until my 29th birthday. 63 days to go.

-- preparing (preparing@home.com), October 28, 1999.

I wouldn't be suprised if all the promo spots look totally serious up until showtime, then in the first ten minutes of the movie it becomes obvious that it is an Airplane/Police Squad type of comedy farse. (just to take the edge off)

Then there will be a great bleat of relief!

I posted this on an earlier thread.

-- farout (Ohyea!@beaver.country), October 29, 1999.

-- farout! (Ohyea!@beaver.country), October 29, 1999.

Incremental acclimatization. Revealing of the Method. Psyop 101. Memes 'r Us. Consume.

-- Spidey (in@jam.irenic), October 29, 1999.