Ex-U.S. Paratrooper Rips 'Hideous' Ad for 'Modern Warfare 3'

Author and former U.S. Army paratrooper D.B. Grady lays down some heavy fire in The Atlantic, blasting 72andSunny's hugely popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 ad with Sam Worthington and Jonah Hill as hideous, tasteless, and perhaps even "deliberately offensive." Combining slapstick with state-of-the-art effects, the spot shows the combat-zone coming-of-age of "the Noob," played by Hill, and closes with the tagline, "There's a solider in all of us." It ranked among last year's most shared ads, with more than 20 million YouTube views.