
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 deteriorating Hollywood blockbusters, casting their critical attention on all aspects, good or bad, of cinematic releases. But now the critic is casting their often scathing opinions towards tv advertisements, particularly those gambling that is promoting lawsuits.
Glamorizing Gambling
‘Maybe most disturbing of all are the gambling commercials, which make betting look glamorous and surely appeal most strongly to the poorest and many desperate in our midst,’ said Norman in an interview that is recent The occasions in Britain.
‘There’s one where a good-looking young couple are so desperate to watch the telly and see how exactly to lose each of their money they can gamble their life savings away,’ he added, with the cynical tone you might expect from a film critic that they vault over the back of their settee, the more quickly to study the many ways in which.
Norman even indicts the BBC in the mix, stating that here is still another, basically more respectable, solution to get rid of your cash. which they air the results for the National Lottery draw during peak times ‘just to remind you’
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