LMAO! "several three+ syllable words"
You do understand the folly of your 95% logic don't you? You haven't explained all of your points and then explained the explanations in an effort to leave no stone unturned...your post is a field day for the average slashdotian because there is too much room for interpretation. Heck, who knew only writing 3 sentences and putting TLDR would get an attack by the grammar police. They even got modded UP!
+1 for JoeMerchant and -1 for me please!
Like any post on any forum, it's only as trustworthy as the source and since we don't know each other we'll never know if we can trust what's being posted. That being said, trust me when I say I mentioned "6 years" only because it was a point of expanding on the effects I've been able to witness. If you go two months with no TV (September and October) and then go to Thanksgiving dinner in November and don't notice yourself watching TV commercials like I do after 6 years of no TV, then don't be surprised that you aren't experiencing what I experience. That's all I meant. The author started with, "Unless you've managed to not watch anything in the past three weeks" and so I started with how much I didn't "watch anything". I look back now and see that I may have clarified that better but I only posted the comment to both share an experience and also to draw some attention to how much the advertisements can affect people (and coincidentally, how the lack of exposure kept me in the dark about this movie).
"Unless you've managed to not watch anything in the past three weeks"
(This is by NO means an attack on the movies...I'm just sharing my personal experience)
I haven't had "TV" for 6 years. While I've seen advertisements for this movie online, I didn't know it was anything different than the one with Heath Ledger...becasue "Dark Knight" was used in both. I haven't seen that one and don't plan to see this one. I'm sort of shocked that I'm just now realizing that they wouldn't be advertising the one with Heath Ledger in it. I guess I just care so little about the titles that I'm only now realizing that fact.
It's actually quite amazing how the human mind works when you don't submit it to advertisements all the time. During family gatherings (Thanksgiving for example) it becomes very obvious to me the power of these advertisements, especially on TV. When everyone is watching the football game, I could care less (I'm not a sports fan) so I don't watch the TV. When a commercial comes on however, my eyes are GLUED to the TV and everyone begins talking amongst each other and ignoring it because they've seen all of them a hunder times or more.
"Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything." -- Russell Baker