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After suffering through all the stupid commercials about "coach foster" i just had to say something. this last one, episode 18 i believe, is about as believable as aliens taking over the world. who, in their right mind, would tell the guy who sued him, thank you????????? that is the lamest thing ive ever heard. the entire "conversation" between the guy and joe is hogwash!!! nobody, i repete, NOBODY, is going to congratulate the guy who sued him for winning..........get real!!! if i ever need an lawyer, i sure wouldnt call you guys!!! Just in case you haven't heard yet, this is the worst marketing I've ever seen. Contrary to popular belief, all publicity is not good publicity. I don't know how many people I've talked to that have said they wouldn't even consider using Bart Durham after seeing these commercials. Before these commercials, he was actually considered Nashville's most legitimate "commercial lawyer" and now he's at the bottom of the list. I really hate to be rude, but I'm kind of surprised that you still have a job after this. For the sake of your firm, please stop these commercials. If Bart Durham airs a commercial apologizing for this, he could go a long way towards earning back some of the respect he has lost. Nashville is a forgiving city. Not only has the so-called soap opera series and the confusing boat commercials I've witnessed been totally without entertainment value, but they are shameful attempts to skirt Tennessee's ethics requirement that lawyers not suggest that future results for new clients can be based on previous results for previous clients with different fact patterns. More power to Mr. Durham. He was ahead of the pack in this legal community in soliciting clients. I fully support his right to do so and respect his success. But this so-called soap opera efforts leaves me - a well educated individual - wondering what I just saw on TV, what it meant, and with no clue as to why I was seeing it. Perhaps I haven't seen enough "episodes" and I truly hope I don't. I have no stake in competing with Mr. Durham or complaining further about this pathetic and boring series of commercials. My intent is merely to offer my take on this whole effort: it sucks. This is my honest and well-intended belief. Thank you for providing me with the opportunity to express my opinion. Oh my gosh! I love Coach Foster Fights Back! We get all excited at the beginning of every month waiting on the next episode. I can't wait to see how the story line plays out. I hope Irena and Coach Foster get to run away to Malibu together after he wins a million bucks. Then I hope that big shot Hollywood producer kills off the Blair character. That Hollywood guy is the man! Straight-up pimpin'! I really think Bart and Dr. Grant will end up falling in love. They were made for each other! Then I see a plot twist where Blair comes back from the dead to console Coach Foster's wife after he ran off with that pretty Russian girl. Most of all I'm in love with the Jessica Sanchez character. I want her to have my babies. Keep up the good work! This is way more entertaining than William Hung and that Sanjaya kid combined. I have taken a few moments to read the viewers' comments about your Coach Foster episodes, and I must say that there is not one that I would disagree with. I would like to add one more comment. I find it very interesting that in this series about Coach Foster there are no people of color. This would suggest that there are no Black , Asian, Hispanic, or any other ethnicities that are prevalent in Nashville, Malibu or any of the other places presented in the Coach Foster scenes. Do all the characters involved in this care live in a bubble that is white only? Coach Foster Fights Back has clearly taken on a life of its own. I think I might credibly argue that CFFB is a modern-day Dickens novel. The story line is a compelling one. You can't not watch this and at least admire a little bit the fact that this story fishes you in just a little bit. But while Dickens was widely read in his time, he was, in many ways, 19th-century England's answer to Aaron Spelling. If Bart Durham was the only lawyer left on the planet and I was hurt, I would represent myself. Bart's commercials are SO distasteful, and they don't even make sense! It's kind of a neat idea to do a series of commercials, but make them decent!! I am sending this e-mail because your Coach Foster commercials really offend me, and I just cant tolerate seeing them much longer. All it shows is a bunch of bad actors. My husband is a truck driver and I come from a family with a long history in the trucking industry. Many times I have ridden in the cab of a truck and have seen many accidents involving tractor trailers, but the difference is (something that you don't show) is 90% of the time it is the driver of the car at fault because these motorists think that they can outrun the tractor trailer, or tail gate them and even weave in and out from them. The drivers of these vehicles need to have more respect for the tractor trailers than they do. As you mention in your commercials these trucks weight up to 80,000 pounds, they cannot stop as quick as a car. But yet every time, even if the driver of the car is at fault the truck drivers get the dirty end of the deal. With the DOT laws as strict as they are now it is darn near impossible to do the things you portray in your commercials. Now trucks (like my husbands) have little black boxes in them like airplanes that record everything. I am so glad his company provides them, because now maybe the truckers will stop getting blamed for the foolishness from automobile drivers. 90% of the trucks out there also now have their engines calibrated to where they cant even speed. I would love to see someone do a commercial that defended a truck driver, but we know that wont ever happen cause there would be no money earned with that one would there? I understand that you are an attorney and you are in the business of defending people, but do you really have to do it at the cost of offending other people? In closing the sexual content in your commercials have nothing to do with the coach foster situation so why did it even have to be included? and when are these commercials finally gonna come to an end? Maybe these commercials wouldn't be so offensive if they were done in a more tactful way and showed both sides of the coin. If it wasn't for these truck drivers you wouldn't be able to buy food, or clothes or anything in this country since it is because of them that things get to where they need to go. |
The actors are SO AWFUL that it's almost impossible to concentrate on the point of the commercial itself! On top of all of that, it took a couple of months to even find out what the point was, even without the dreadful F-list style actors! Even people who can't relate to entertainment cringe when these commercials interrupt our television! Please, for the love of God, QUIT PLAYING THOSE INCREDIBLY STUPID COMMERCIALS. They are, without a doubt, the worst thing ever to be on TV.I'm embarassed for you. A young, broken english speaking Russian doctor, c'mon. I had to come to the website after weeks of watching "whatever the heck that is on TV." My husband finally suggested that I just go to the bartdurham.com website. This is supposed to be some kind of joke on the public, right? You're not serious about people watching this on an ongoing basis, are you? It certainly is generating a lot of E-mail for you, though. Is that the point of this insanity? Do the E-mails give you addresses of people who could become potential clients? Whatever the reason, I had to write!! So, obviously, you got my attention too. Good work, gentlemen (not on the piece of junk that you call a commercial, but on all the response you're getting)!!! Local bloggers chime in about the soap opera: Mr. Durham, For the love of god....they need to stop chasing some russian tail!!! Can you please tell me what this has to do with a law office? And why did you have to pick the ugliest girl to play Rene? And the scene on the beach with the two guys "heal thyself doctor" that is so high school play! I can't believe you guys have continued to do this! Are you this desperate for business? You need to decide if you want to be an attorney or try to break in as an actor. I just don't get it, all I know is the commercials are so annoying and I just can't see what your reasoning is? It's distasteful, and again it has nothing to do with your law office. You wanted feedback, there it is, and trust me I get the same feed back about your ad, all the time, without my prompting for comments. I wish you'd come up with something different, this is getting quite old! So, I think it's a a good marketing campaign because I obviously made it to the Bart Durham website, but I hate it with a fiery passion. Seriously, the worst acting ever; a horrible plot that makes as little sense as a hyena in the arctic, videography that reminds me of a 3rd grader's parents home video of their son's rendition of the first Thanksgiving. It reminds me of the Head-on commercials but with a callously unkind twist. Whoever's project this was... must be a horrible, self-loathing, sadomasochist. your commercials kill me. you people and all your money make me sick. boy i wish i had all the money you had to spend on this dumbass commercial. it's sad that you would rather spend your money on something as retarded as this then to give it back to the community that gave you your money in the first place!!!!!! have you ever heard of charity? at least thats not a waste of money! the only thing you were interested in was to watch girls in their bathing suits and half-ass porn scenes with really REALLY bad actors. you should all be ashamed of yourselves epecially you DURHAM. you are a digrace to the state of Tennessee. What's that line ol' boy says on episode 12? i'm proud of being a tennessean? your commercials are so silly I would never considering using your law office for any reason-get some new ones, not a soap opera this is going to come off as a put down, but my real feelings on this are that the actors/actresses have no talent and make a terrible script even worse. Yes people remember Bart Durham but at what cost? If I ever got in an accident and needed a lawyer I wouldn't turn to a person with commercials that are totally irrelevant to the person they represent I would turn to someone with commercials that lay down the facts and aren't just a big joke. Dear Sir, |
