British film critic Barry Norman is now critical of gambling TV spots. (Image supply: Stuart Clarke/Rex Features)
Noted film critic Barry Norman has spent many a year breaking down Hollywood blockbusters, casting his eye that is critical on aspects, good or bad, of cinematic releases. But now the critic is casting their usually scathing opinions towards television advertisements, particularly those gambling that is promoting lawsuits.
Glamorizing Gambling
‘Perhaps most troubling of each one is the gambling commercials, which make betting look glamorous and surely appeal most strongly to the poorest and most desperate among us,’ said Norman in a recent interview with The instances in Britain.
‘There’s one when a good-looking young few are so eager to watch the telly and see how to lose all their cash that they vault over the back of their settee, the more quickly to review the numerous ways in which they are able to gamble their life savings away,’ he added, with the cynical tone you might expect from a movie critic.
Norman even indicts the BBC in the mix, stating that they air the results for the National Lottery draw during top times ‘just to remind you that the following is yet another, fundamentally more respectable, way to get rid of your money.’
Show Me Personally the amount of money (and They Did)
Norman, now a seen-a-lotta-life 80, was the facial skin of the BBC’s film review series ‘Film’ for over two decades and Continue reading “UK Film Critic Barry Norman Critical of TV Gambling Ads”