I read The Star newspaper. For the past few years, I have been seeing too many ads from TV2 that never fail to deliver irritating nerves down my spine. Seriously, I don't understand why there is a need to dedicate a full page ad to remind people to watch movies on TV. It would make revenue sense if these movies were sponsored by corporate brands like Coca-Cola or maybe Maxis. On TV2, these movies are sponsored by the people who provide revenues to the income-tax department. Yep, these movies are fully funded by TV2, which is part of Radio Televisyen Malaysia, which is funded by the government. That simply means that YOU paid for the movies.
Let's take a look at one of the ads.
Unbelievable isn't it? There are so many things wrong with it, I could use a red pen and make multiple crosses everywhere. And then put an F with a circle on top. CRAP!
First, let's look at two very expensive Hollywood movies. The two Marvel comics adaptation of a superhero families are shown back to back. On the newspaper ad, they are not. Their job is to sandwich a movie that were probably made out of a budget that is approximately 10% of Fantastic Four Part One. CRAP!
CRAP!
Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer probably made 6000 times the box office takings of Sholay. Yet Sholay gets a bigger box. CRAP!
I ain't trying to belittle Sholay here. But it's my money that was used to get rights to show Fantastic Four on TV. The cost should be so much higher than Sholay. It would only do justice to common sense to give FF2 a bigger box. Heck, dedicate an entire page to FF2! CRAPPP!!!!
Then there is this movie called Chermin.
What the heck did they leave an empty space on the right side for? For the sake of the two ladies closing their eyes facing emptiness? Or creatively, they made it look as if Afdlin's head is too big for the bottom box? CRAP!!
First, they hire a school kid to design this ad.
Then the school kid downloads some images from the Internet.
Then he uses Microsoft Paint to place the movie pictures.
Then the school kid gets paid like RM100.
Then TV2 pays, like, RM800,000,000.00 for this ad.
The ad company is happy.
And they leave a name card at the bottom.

CRAP!!!
Oh, remember to watch the movies ya. Because you have paid for them already, you know.