Minneapolis & St. Paul "More Than Nice" TV Ad

The Minneapolis Saint Paul 2008 Host Committee launched a television advertisement designed to educate the 45,000 people coming to town for the 2008 Republican National Convention about our cities' many attributes and express Minnesotans' pride in their community.

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[433]

It's not like they chose to settle here, friend. Target started here as Dayton's in 1902, Best Buy started as Sound of Music in the '60s...they didn't just say "Hey, we're an established large business, let's move to the Twin Cities!"

My point is that the video is saying "look at us! We're super important and cool!" when we should just be living. I don't want us to be a hip city that everyone moves to -- look at how that's changed cities like Seattle, and (to a lesser extent) Austin.

[knke0402]

You're in geographic denial man.

Either way you look at it,MSP metropolitan area is one of the better in the United States.Its the 14th largest, but what is more important is its role as a regional hub. Its the largest metro area between Chicago and Seattle. Minneapolis has more theater seats per capita than any city in the US besides NYC. Four professional sports teams, and like the ad said,home to many fortune 500s.Fortune 500s dont just settle anywhere.MSP offers its fair share of exitment

[433]

We're not a big, exciting metro area, and we don't need to be. If you want to be Chicago, NYC, or LA, move to those places.

[knke0402]

Edit: Fargo the movie rules.

Fargo the city is crap.

Fargo is actually the asshole of the United States of America.

You seriously can't sit there and try to defend it, because I've lived there...I've experienced it...and if you still refuse to admit that its a disgusting place, then you're in denial and ignorant to the fact that that place sucks. Downtown is like a rundown ghost town and makes me want to gag

[knke0402]

What was being "pretended"?

I didn't see anything pretend.

It was just a promotional ad stating the facts and cool things of the Twin Cities...

[knke0402]

stupid coment.

They're clearly not "dising" Fargo. Its a response to the movie. Didn't you ever think that it was weird that it was called Fargo when most of it was in the Twin Cities and MN?

[iamneek]

Yeah, but it should be generally understood that people like to liken the people of MN to the movie Fargo. If one doesn't know that, then it would put one's cultural knowledge of MN in question.

[spookypen]

maybe they could have clarified that with "were not the movie fargo"

[433]

This sounds like we're posturing. Making excuses. This is like a 50-year-old TV executive writing for a movie about teenagers.

It's ridiculous. We don't need this crap. The promised windfall never arrived. I think that the vast majority of folks in the Twin Cities are just fine with being "flyover country", and don't need to pretend we're something that we're not.

Besides, I like hotdish.

[iamneek]

It's not dissing Fargo. It's saying that we're not like how the movie Fargo portrays us Minnesotans to be.