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To expect better of Al Pacino?

52 replies

squoosh · 16/06/2013 18:20

You are Al Pacino for God's sake, why are you starring in tragically unfunny ads for Sky Broadband? I'd expect this of Bruce Willis, but Al I never once dreamt that you would disappoint me in this way. Do you really need the cash that much?

You were in The Godfather, you were in Serpico, you were in Dog Day Afternoon. Well, after this debacle you are now in disgrace.

Now get out of my sight.

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Mrsrobertduvall · 16/06/2013 19:44

He is also very short.

Earnshaw · 16/06/2013 19:47

I love it that we're using Michael Corleone and Tom Hagen as our moral compasses Grin

SnookyPooky · 16/06/2013 19:51

I love the one with Bruce Willis, God I would dump my job and go with him too.
Just saw the back end of the Al Pacino ad. Yikes.

Southeastdweller · 16/06/2013 20:03

For the same reason he did an interview and Q&A in London recently where tickets sold for between £60 - £250: alimony. His ex had their kids in 2001.

AnyFucker · 16/06/2013 20:04

You would seriously dump your job and go with The Bald One at the crook of his finger ?

really ? Hmm

Bue · 16/06/2013 20:12

He's also starring in a made for TV movie about Phil Spector with... Helen Mirren! Surely they're not so old and washed up that they have to stoop to this level to get a part?

KatyTheCleaningLady · 16/06/2013 20:16

AnyFucker I would! But, then, I clean toilets for a living.

Picoo · 16/06/2013 20:21

Pierce Brosnan is doing the Sky ads for the Irish market. Obviously the Bond films didn't pay enough!

Lighthousekeeping · 16/06/2013 20:26

It'll be Meryl Streep advertising Tena pads next.

squoosh · 16/06/2013 20:34

Thank God Sir John Gielgud is dead, he'd probably be flogging Fray Bentos pies.
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Sorry Sir John, I know you wouldn't.

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Mintyy · 16/06/2013 20:37

Amazing that so many people find avarice attractive!

If you have earned £20 million over a few years doing three movies, then there is no reason on this planet why you need to ginger up a quick extra million doing an advert over a few days.

Unless you are excessively greedy.

SwedishEdith · 16/06/2013 20:52

Not seen it but I instantly start to hate anyone who does a Sky advert. The worst offenders are the unbearably smug Ruth Jones and Robert Lindsay. Why on earth do they do it?

JazzDalek · 16/06/2013 20:52

So it WAS him! Saw this ad today and thought it looked like Al Pacino but decided he wouldn't stoop so low and it must just be someone that looked like him!

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redlac · 16/06/2013 21:03

Oh god, I'm only going to watch BBC from now on so as to not taint my love for Al Pacino. :(

Admittedly he has been in some utter tripe films however I like to forget about them and remember the good ones

Lighthousekeeping · 16/06/2013 21:19

His eyes still have it Smile. Even if his jowls are on the floor.

ARealDame · 16/06/2013 22:28

Well, I have never liked Al Pacino, at all, not a bit! I have never liked him as an actor in anything (except very briefly in The Godfather I suddenly remember). I mean, he was just all I'm an Italian-in-a-leather-jacket so give me a role! Scarface was a bit of a unintentional joke all-round.

And I love other American actors like De Niro or Brando etc.

Bruce Willis, never liked him either.

I don't like the Sky adverts, but then I hate Sky as a company.

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Bobyan · 16/06/2013 23:08

I was actually disappointed by Ant and Dec's Morrisons advert.
Apparently their net worth is £62m. Why the fuck are they advertising a supermarket?!?

ClartyCarol · 16/06/2013 23:14

Snigger at Meryl Streep doing Tena Ladies.

SarahAndFuck · 17/06/2013 00:30

Will it be part of Ant and Dec's contract because Morrisons sponsored BGT do you think Bobyan?

NutcrackerFairy · 17/06/2013 07:59

I'm with Anyfucker on the Bruce Willis Sky ad.

For me, that idiot girl is the worst thing in it.

Her gurning is the pits.

And Bruce Willis in his dressing gown "saving lives on a daily basis" or whatever that line is, god he's lame.

But the girl with her dribbling and the biting of her lower lip, then mouthing "BRUCE WILLIS!!!".

GET A FUCKING LIFE!

Primrose123 · 17/06/2013 08:21

I'm sure Pierce Brosnan is in Spar ads in Austria, speaking German too!

QuintessentialOldDear · 17/06/2013 08:27

Geez, times are hard, you are berating the man for doing a days honest work. ...

Maybe he likes doing ad work?

Double standards much?

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 17/06/2013 09:43

Look, if Yoda can stoop to Vodafone ads, Pacino doing Sky was inevitable. Yoda is a Jedi Master for fucks sake and lives in a swamp so can't be doing it for the money.

SnookyPooky · 19/06/2013 20:39

Damn right I would for Bruce Willis.....

LeGavrOrf · 19/06/2013 20:42

Genuinely laughed at 'now get out of my sight'

For some reason I am more annoyed by Julie Walters doing the VoiceOver for those ghastly lloyds bank adverts.

Al Pacino was so wonderful in the Godfather. His FACE at the end if the second one. Poor fredo.

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