Online film magazine Notebook's picks for the best movie posters of 2011 make for an interesting list. Most of them are for movies I've never heard of, but that's due to the international focus more than pretentiousness, I think. Chris Ware's poster for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (full image after the jump) tops the list. Melancholia's poster is boring, but Burning Man is really neat. And Super has a Burnt Face Man feel to it that I like. And while I wasn't a huge fan of the Drive poster, it is refreshing to see a picture of Ryan Gosling without that "hey girl" crap all over it. Via Kottke.

Ah, the complex olfactory bouquet of the urban bus shelter. Trying to identify individual odors within such dense scent tapestries can be difficult, and most disturbing. That's not the case, however, at some locations in British cities like London and Manchester, where McCain Foods is installing 3-D ad panels that emit the aroma of freshly baked potatoes at the push of a button. Check out the picture. That "potato" looks like a big buttocks to me, but who am I to argue if those barmy Brits want to cop a feel or smear on some sour cream and chives? (Don't be so provincial, people!) McCain says "a hidden heating element gently warms the potato," so I suppose we'll soon be reading about one of those bus stops catching fire and roasting a few soul-crushed commuters in their own jackets. Actually, I kind of like the concept. And while we've seen some things like this in America, we could use more of it. That way, when I'm waiting for the bus and someone asks, "What's that weird smell?" for once I can honestly answer, "Not me!"

They didn't have "memes" in Don Draper's day, but they drank and smoked 24/7 and perfected the use of pomade in social settings, so it was basically a better world. Anyway, kudos to the folks who've done such a great job tagging NYC subway posters for the March 25 return of Mad Men on AMC for its fifth season. I guess the posters qualify as "interactive advertising," with all that white space inviting people to show off their creativity by placing the "falling man" silhouette in unexpectedly kooky situations. They didn't have interactive advertising in Draper's day either, but they got into kooky situations with gals from the typing pool all the time. Variations on the meme (some from subway cards, others created online) include "Little Draper" bouncing on a playground trampoline, about to be swallowed by Cookie Monster and heading for a shapely female derriere. (Guess which one Little Draper prefers?) Flip the silhouette upside-down, and he doesn't seem to be falling anymore. In fact, it looks like he's running—hauling ass as fast as he can. Fleeing the ad biz with what's left of his sanity? Via Laughing Squid.

No Super Bowl is complete without a few lingering controversies, and this year's game left us with plenty. While most of the mainstream media has been buzzing inanely about M.I.A.'s middle finger, the night's commercials sparked their share of hand-wringing and name-calling as well. Some backlash, like Chrysler's "It's Halftime in America" being ripped as an homage to Obama, has gotten time in the national spotlight while others have been simmering slightly below the surface. After the jump, we recap a few of the more interesting nuggets of negativity.

5. Chevy's World Without Ford

   This one began slightly before the Super Bowl when an attorney for Ford wrote a cease-and-desist letter to Chevrolet in the hope of stopping the latter's post-apocalyptic ad, "2012." In the spot, Chevy Silverado owners who have survived Armageddon mourn their Ford-driving friend Dave, who "didn't drive the longest-lasting, most dependable truck on the road…Dave drove a Ford." Chevy bases its dependability claim on industry data from the past 30 years, though Ford argues the same data shows F-150s are more likely to last beyond 250,000 miles. Whoever is right, Ford was most certainly the one condemned in the court of public opinion. News coverage all day Monday made Ford sound like a litigious whiner, which isn't exactly the position you should take when someone questions your toughness.

6. Samsung's Stylus Snafu

   Samsung's 90-second "Thing Called Love" cavalcade of boisterous antics for the Galaxy Note was one of the most theatrical spots of the night, but many viewers found themselves unable to get past a single line: "It's got a pen?!" By showing a stylus as an example of what makes the Galaxy Note "the next big thing," Samsung and agency 72andSunny gave Apple fanboys ammunition to mock an ad intended to mock Apple fanboys. Shortly after the spot aired, #stylus and #palmpilot were both trending Twitter hashtags, and almost any discussion of the ad was eclipsed by stylus snark. The more neutral voices in the tech community have pointed out that the stylus is actually a nice perk of the Note, which is a smartphone-tablet hybrid. But most of Monday's blog coverage about the spot wasn't much interested in that point of view, with headlines like "How Samsung Screwed Up Its Super Bowl Ad."

7. Dannon's Double Dipping

   Dannon's crowdsourced commercial for Oikos Greek Yogurt, starring John Stamos, was so vanilla, I practically missed it during the game. (It still managed to rank No. 10 in USA Today's Ad Meter…sigh.) But AgencySpy dug up an interesting double controversy about the spot. First off, the music is a nearly note-for-note duplicate of "Zebra" by the John Butler Trio. Fans quickly alerted the band, which announced on Facebook it would be "seeking advice as how to address the issue." But AgencySpy also notes that the ad as a whole seems lifted from a decade-old Canadian 7UP spot.

8. Pete Hoekstra's Chenglish

   One of the most roundly criticized ads from the Super Bowl ran only in Michigan. Republican Senate hopeful Pete Hoekstra's spot called "Now" attacked Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) with allegations that her free-spending ways are helping China's economy at the cost of America's. To convey the message, he showed an Asian woman delivering lines in stereotypical broken English, such as: "Your economy get very weak. Ours get very good." Bloggers from both parties panned the ad for being xenophobic, racist or just dumb. Hoekstra refused to apologize, telling CNN, "The only stereotyping is of liberal Democrats and their spending polices." Fun fact for political ad junkies: The ad was made by Fred Davis, the same guy who convinced Christine O'Donnell to say, "I'm not a witch."

9. Chrysler's Halftime Hope for Obama

   As an example of advertising craft, Chrysler's "It's Halftime in America" is simply a triumph. But Clint Eastwood's riveting narration of Wieden + Kennedy's stellar copy quickly raised the hackles of some conservatives who felt it was a re-election manifesto of sorts for President Obama. Republican strategist Karl Rove led the charge, telling Fox News he was "offended" by the ad. "I thought it was an extremely well-done ad, but it is a sign of what happens when you have Chicago-style politics, and the president of the United States and his political minions are, in essence, using our tax dollars to buy corporate advertising," he said. Rove was essentially suggesting the ad was meant to justify the auto industry bailout and celebrate it as a turning point in the American economy. Obama's team and Chrysler have brushed off the allegations of political cronyism, and Eastwood himself defended the ad in an email to The New York Times: "The ad doesn't have a political message. It is about American spirit, pride and job growth."

So, what do you think? Did any Super Bowl ads get under your skin? And more importantly, after weeks of leaks, teasers and overexposure, are you just glad this year's Super Bowl ads are finally behind us?

You may have noticed OK Go briefly appeared in one of the Chevy commercials during the Super Bowl, and then showed up in an extended trailer for their new video right after the game. The latest and one of the best of the OK Go videos, it shows them successively whacking 1,157 homemade instruments—tuned to ensure they'd play the right note no matter where they were hit—with one Chevy Sonic. According to OK Go's press release, at first there had never been plans to show or feature any part of the video during the Super Bowl. "But then a funny thing happened. We finished the video, showed it to the bigwigs at Chevy and GM, and they fell instantly, head-over-heels in love with it. So much so that they immediately proposed a complete change of schedule to integrate it deeply into their Super Bowl plans." Unsurprisingly, it's already at well over 1 million views. And all those sounds are real. The only word for it is: amazeballs.

Will Ferrell's series of local Old Milwaukee ads—which were shot and aired only in Davenport, Iowa, Terre Haute, Ind., and Milwaukee—was one of the funnier and more peculiar campaigns of 2011. So, it's nice to see the pairing add a Super Bowl commercial last night. In the spirit of the campaign, it was apparently the most enthusiastically local of local buys, with Deadspin reporting that it aired only in North Platte, Neb. That is evidently the hometown of New England running back Danny Woodhead, for what it's worth. Like the previous spots did, this one makes fun of the themes and structures of advertising, with Ferrell walking, gecko-like, through amber waves of grain and then getting cut off before he even begins his sales pitch. Also like the previous spots, good luck finding a version of this one that looks even halfway decent. The brand linked to an even crappier version from its Facebook page. All in the spirit of authenticity and anti-glamour, perhaps.

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As always, music will be a big part of Super Bowl XLVI. Madonna is doing the halftime show, of course, and musicians will appear in a number of ads—from Elton John and Melanie Amaro for Pepsi, to Mötley Crüe for Kia, to the Pussycat Dolls for Go Daddy. Our sister magazine Billboard is keeping tabs on the night's music, so check out their collection of stories: Super Bowl XLVI: The Music Behind the Big Game.

As always, music will be a big part of Super Bowl XLVI. Madonna is doing the halftime show, of course, and musicians will appear in a number of ads—from Elton John and Melanie Amaro for Pepsi, to Mötley Crüe for Kia, to the Pussycat Dolls for Go Daddy. Our sister magazine Billboard is keeping tabs on the night's music, so check out their collection of stories: Super Bowl XLVI: The Music Behind the Big Game.

As always, music will be a big part of Super Bowl XLVI. Madonna is doing the halftime show, of course, and musicians will appear in a number of ads—from Elton John and Melanie Amaro for Pepsi, to Mötley Crüe for Kia, to the Pussycat Dolls for Go Daddy. Our sister magazine Billboard is keeping tabs on the night's music, so check out their collection of stories: Super Bowl XLVI: The Music Behind the Big Game.

General Motors is airing three 60-second spots for Chevrolet during the Super Bowl. We had already seen two of them—"Stunt Anthem" for the Sonic, and the "Happy Grad" consumer-generated ad for the Camaro (which drags a bit compared to the :30, but apparently GM didn't think so). This morning, GM unveiled the third Chevy :60 for the game—an end-of-the-world spot by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners for the Silverado in which the Mayan apocalypse, scheduled for this year, has happened, and only Chevy truck owners have survived. (Ford owners never stood a chance.) The spot is a bit reminiscent of Goodby's old E*Trade ad from a decade ago, with the monkey wandering around the post-dot-com-bubble wasteland. Twinkies make a humorous appearance at the end of the Silverado spot—cockroach-like in their ability to withstand the apocalypse. The damn box doesn't even have any dust on it. Hostess should feel insulted, but they'll take what they can get at this point.