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The part that bothers me the most is that she apparently can't speak like a regular person
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Hazo posted:I saw a couple of these on late night tv yesterday. It's pretty much the live action version of that image-- her being bathed by female servants interspersed with clips from past Game of War commercials. It's hilariously condescending and weird, and the worst part is that at the end they said something like "see more tomorrow," which means we might actually see a Super Bowl commercial for this stupid generic freemium game. I have no idea how they have the budget to do this unless Kate Upton's boobs and monotone have really been that profitable for them. Yeah, I'm...genuinely amazed that these commercials are still happening, at this point. They're so laughably bad, and Kate Upton so clearly has no idea what she's doing in them. I'd be interested to find out how effective they actually are, although the answer will probably depress me. It's one of those things where my initial reaction is, "Holy God, this is so bad, there's no way this can lead to the sales they want." And then I remember, "No, there are people that are that easy to manipulate actually."
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Jan 31, 2015 23:14
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Sash! posted:The part that bothers me the most is that she apparently can't speak like a regular person She really can't act to save her life.
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Feb 1, 2015 00:09
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Well, she's not an actress, she's a model. Unfortunately models seem to believe that they can totally make that transition.
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Feb 1, 2015 00:33
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For all the actors who we say 'can't act', it can be tricky to remember that the actual baseline- able to read lines with inflection- is not very common. Upton actually cannot do that and it's rare to see.
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Feb 1, 2015 01:15
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So since no one seems to have broken the ice, i'll just do it and say the superbowl is bad and its commercials are bad and i was barely paying attention during the breaks, did I miss anything fun other than nationwide's "I'm a dead child haha" ad
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Feb 2, 2015 16:26
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snickers brady bunch ad owned completely E: oh yeah you saw it last page E2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2iurDi8mrc oh my god the teaser 
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Feb 2, 2015 16:39
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Vicas posted:So since no one seems to have broken the ice, i'll just do it and say the superbowl is bad and its commercials are bad and i was barely paying attention during the breaks, did I miss anything fun There was Budweiser with "We're not a puny weak micro-brewery, we're a MACRO-brew  "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siHU_9ec94c
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Feb 2, 2015 16:41
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I did see that one and it was amazing. My favorite part was them opening Bud with a bottle opener for no reason, or possibly the "just drink beer, don't enjoy it" vibe that permeated the whole thing
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Feb 2, 2015 16:46
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Vicas posted:I did see that one and it was amazing. My favorite part was them opening Bud with a bottle opener for no reason, or possibly the "just drink beer, don't enjoy it" vibe that permeated the whole thing I could have sworn that Budweiser made a statement a while back that they were going to drop the Clydesdales this'd year for an ad targeting hipsters. Making fun of a peach pumpkin ale certainly isn't going to do that.
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Feb 2, 2015 16:49
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it's the hipster double down: all the hipsters in your hipster social group are drinking cool microbrews so to be different you're gonna go mainstream (ironically) and drink your Budweiser from a Red White and Blue America can
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Feb 2, 2015 16:52
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All of this in the wake of them announcing that they purchased Elysian Brewing just last week.
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Feb 2, 2015 17:29
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Yeah, it's not like Anheuser-Bush/InBev doesn't already own some microbreweries, and also bottle a lot of beers that LOOK like some fancy microbrew but aren't.
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Feb 2, 2015 17:33
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I liked the Chevy "buy our huge rear end truck because it'll get you laid" ads. My friend and I were playing a game where we would try to guess what product the commercial is for before it finished.
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Feb 2, 2015 17:36
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Iron Crowned posted:I could have sworn that Budweiser made a statement a while back that they were going to drop the Clydesdales this'd year for an ad targeting hipsters. Making fun of a peach pumpkin ale certainly isn't going to do that. I think the "getting rid of the Clydesdales" was somebody misinterpreting what Bud wanted to do, but they definitely wanted to target younger people. The Macro-Brew ad feels like a big misstep to me. Younger people drink craft brew in way higher numbers than older people, and Bud has been losing market share because of that. Going around and insulting a huge swath of the country that normally drinks craft beer is a good way to make sure those young people stay very far away. It's pretty funny too, since Anheuser-Busch has bought out a bunch of craft breweries, so they're essentially making fun of their own products. They own Goose Island and Elysian, plus tons of foreign brands. Also, the whole ad just reeks of, "we make crap beer that you guzzle by the gallon, you don't really want to try and actually taste it."
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Feb 2, 2015 17:36
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I thought they were done airing this awful Charter commercial but it came on during the Puppy Bowl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA6GLHTdcVo I hate it so much.
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Feb 2, 2015 17:38
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DapperDinosaur posted:I thought they were done airing this awful Charter commercial but it came on during the Puppy Bowl: I will cause unspeakable harm to everyone involved in the production of this.
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Feb 2, 2015 18:22
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Meltathon posted:I think the "getting rid of the Clydesdales" was somebody misinterpreting what Bud wanted to do, but they definitely wanted to target younger people. The Macro-Brew ad feels like a big misstep to me. Younger people drink craft brew in way higher numbers than older people, and Bud has been losing market share because of that. Going around and insulting a huge swath of the country that normally drinks craft beer is a good way to make sure those young people stay very far away. I dunno why people think they should be concerned about attacking their own brands, if anything the ad will get people who like Bud to keep drinking Bud and people who like craft beer to keep drinking craft beer, and they win both scenarios. Obviously Budweiser themselves are pretty concerned with their flagging sales but along with Bud Light it's still the most popular beer brand in the US by a significant margin (that said, Bud Light does more than 2/3rds of the work in that figure, it's insane how popular it is)
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I'm torn on the Budweiser ad because on the one hand beer snobs usually are pretty insufferable. But on the other hand, despite the fact that I drink it when I go for cheap domestic beer, Bud is pretty bad. The best commercial during the Super Bowl was the Snickers one. The second best was the dead kid Nationwide one because it spawned this: 
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Feb 2, 2015 18:36
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I sorta stopped paying attention at some point so I missed that it was about a ghost That was a tl;dw commercial for me
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Feb 2, 2015 18:40
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I can't believe Clash of loving Clans had a superbowl ad. And that it was hilarious and I enjoyed it.
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Feb 2, 2015 18:41
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PT6A posted:I can't believe Clash of loving Clans had a superbowl ad. And that it was hilarious and I enjoyed it. Their ads in general are kind of cute but they play them so drat often.
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Feb 2, 2015 18:48
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TMMadman posted:I'm torn on the Budweiser ad because on the one hand beer snobs usually are pretty insufferable. But on the other hand, despite the fact that I drink it when I go for cheap domestic beer, Bud is pretty bad. My god, that Nationwide commercial was so bad that it spawned a microcosm of this thread discussion amongst my friends for about ten minutes afterwards. It was loving special.
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Feb 2, 2015 19:38
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PT6A posted:I can't believe Clash of loving Clans had a superbowl ad. And that it was hilarious and I enjoyed it. Still not gonna make me want to play Clash of Clans, though. On the subject of terrible Super Bowl commercials, my wife dug up this one from 1999 that I somehow don't remember seeing or hearing of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6fDLMKsf6U
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raditts posted:Still not gonna make me want to play Clash of Clans, though. Fun fact: Just For Feet sued the add agency that made it, JFF lost and went bankrupt less than a year afterward.
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Feb 2, 2015 19:59
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DrBouvenstein posted:Yeah, it's not like Anheuser-Bush/InBev doesn't already own some microbreweries, and also bottle a lot of beers that LOOK like some fancy microbrew but aren't. Reminder that Darren Rovell thinks Blue Moon is the pinnacle of microbrewing
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Feb 2, 2015 21:04
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I don't remember many ads from super bowls past but goddamn I will never forget one by Monster.com from either the 98 or 99 super bowl. I hope all those kids grew up to get the jobs they wanted 
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Vicas posted:I dunno why people think they should be concerned about attacking their own brands, if anything the ad will get people who like Bud to keep drinking Bud and people who like craft beer to keep drinking craft beer, and they win both scenarios. Obviously Budweiser themselves are pretty concerned with their flagging sales but along with Bud Light it's still the most popular beer brand in the US by a significant margin (that said, Bud Light does more than 2/3rds of the work in that figure, it's insane how popular it is) Well they don't really win because despite Bud owning some craft breweries, there are way way way more that they don't own. Craft beer sales as a total, just passed Budweiser not too long ago. Bud's problem is that the people who like to drink Bud are old and getting older, and so they're going to continue to lose market share unless they attract a younger crowd, which they won't with this ad because it insults that exact crowd. I drink plenty of craft beer, but I also drink plenty of macro-brew beer when I want to drink something either cheap or light. Lots of people who drink craft beer do the same thing. To me this ad just says to me to never ever drink Bud, even if I want something cheap, which is why it's a bad ad.
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Meltathon posted:Well they don't really win because despite Bud owning some craft breweries, there are way way way more that they don't own. Craft beer sales as a total, just passed Budweiser not too long ago. Bud's problem is that the people who like to drink Bud are old and getting older, and so they're going to continue to lose market share unless they attract a younger crowd, which they won't with this ad because it insults that exact crowd. The kind of people who got insulted are the kind of people who wouldn't consider Bud often anyway, so its no big loss.
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DJExile posted:I don't remember many ads from super bowls past but goddamn I will never forget one by Monster.com from either the 98 or 99 super bowl. This is probably my favorite Super Bowl ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crq3FJ_vE2Q Well, apart from Terry Tate: Office Linebacker, but I think that goes without saying.
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McSpanky posted:I haven't found like, production credits for the ad or anything but yeah, that's totally Brandon Keener a.k.a. Garrus from Mass Effect. That commercial placement sounds about as magical as this infamous one from BSG: It's five in the morning and I'm cackling like a loving idiot
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pretty much every single Super Bowl ad was a huge overreach. though the Brady Bunch Snickers one was really funny. actually now that I think about it Snickers has had pretty consistantly funny commercials for a while now. the Patrick Ewing one they were running 6-7 years ago still cracks me up. that said, the rest were mostly cringeworthy, that McDonalds "pay with lovin" idea is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard from a major corporation, the bonercar ad made no sense whatsoever, Clash of Clans w/ Liam Neesons was pretty awesome, lol @ at this Game of War: Fire Age garbage.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Hoz2ZHYZM this goes here
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But I don't hate any of that
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ninjahedgehog posted:This is probably my favorite Super Bowl ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crq3FJ_vE2Q Phone postin, this better be the dancing monkey
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ayn rand hand job posted:Phone postin, this better be the dancing monkey
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Little Ceaser's gimmick is you walk right in and buy a premade pizza they just reheat. Cool, they're cheap and if you just want a quick dinner that's okay I guess. The problem is that they keep trying to burn Pizza Hut and Dominos with this line of thinking "Who wants to go on such a COMPLICATED website and order a pizza!?". I've used the Pizza Hut site. It's literally just picking what you want, it's doesn't require an advanced degree Little Ceasers.
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OldTennisCourt posted:Little Ceaser's gimmick is you walk right in and buy a premade pizza they just reheat. Cool, they're cheap and if you just want a quick dinner that's okay I guess. The problem is that they keep trying to burn Pizza Hut and Dominos with this line of thinking "Who wants to go on such a COMPLICATED website and order a pizza!?". but what if you end up with a none pizza with left beef
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Vicas posted:but what if you end up with a none pizza with left beef The newest commercial shows a guy using the COMPLICATED site and going insane when he needs to choose his topping and ~GASP~ enter a coupon code. "You could do that...or just walk in "
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