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I actually like most of this commercial. I think the whole "videogame characters celebrating the player who guides them to the end" theme is pretty neat and the film nerd in me likes the production values/set design: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdWkKKSckNk ....but when it gets to the part about the G.I.'s celebrating some PS3 player as the hero of D-Day, it just really manages to piss me off in ways that I guess probably shouldn't. I love the whole "flight-of-fancy/be part of something big" aspect of the commercial, but this bit strikes me as incredibly disrespectful to all of the real WWII veterans- and I'm sure it would've angered a lot of them if they were alive to see it. "I was pinned down, on that godforsaken beach.....my friends were dying....and then MICHAEL broke through!" gently caress off, people's actual grandfathers were traumatized for life on Omaha beach, and you want to celebrate some pudgy dude on his sofa? To be fair, I feel sort of the same way about the WWII-themed Medal of Honor games full-stop. I have a blast playing things based on fictional premises (like any other "military sim" game), but something about making a game out of real-life events (Now YOU can fight in the Battle of the Bulge, from the comfort of your home!) seems like it diminishes their importance or gravity somehow (Wolfenstein is awesome, and is obviously not in this category). If it weren't for the "too soon" aspect, I'm sure there'd be a "9/11 first responder" game out, and I'll cringe when it inevitably arrives. On a related note, the Halo 3 "museum" ads were great. CBJSprague24 posted:Can we kill off the GEICO cavemen and/or Flo from Progressive yet? I don't want the Flo commercials to stop airing because I find her strangely attractive. It's really weird, but I've had like 10 people agree with me...and then feel uneasy about themselves. But the commercials themselves are annoying. DJExile posted:Wow nissan, it doesn't get much more pretentious than that "what if everything ran on gas?" ad "Pretentious" is the most overused word in this thread. It kinda needs to stop. But on the subject of "pretentious"- and music in commercials (from a few pages back): I know a lot of people who become enraged when a song from a revered Indie band gets popped into a commercial (See: Grizzly Bear and the Generationals used in Reese's Cup ads/the New Pornographers in cruise ship and T-Mobile commercials/all Apple ads that goons loathe because  HipsterSmugCoffeeshop/etc.) but I really don't get more than annoyed with the commercial if it's annoying. I have no problem with artists "selling out"- especially "indie" acts with comparatively small fanbases- in this era where 80%+ of the music that gets exchanged is pirated. I remember seeing an interview with a band that said their payout from one ad placement earned them more than the sales from their multiple albums combined. I was watching TV with a friend and heard him mutter something about "thinking they were better than that" when he saw the New Pornographers T-Mobile ad, but come on- they're actually getting paid for their work.
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When I was in middle/high school, I think everybody sort-of-knew/overtly knew that AXE was foul garbage. I remember it used to be a big thing for obnoxious antisocial douchebags to "AXE bomb" each other/peoples' backpacks/entire buses. Picture kids bringing cans to school as weapons- holding each other down while spraying face-blasts point-blank. Or worse, opening your locker to find a nasty, sticky film on everything around the vents. A kid would brandish a black can in the air and an entire bus would rush to the windows and pull their shirts over their mouths. Those were dark days, my friends....dark days indeed......QuickbreathFinisher posted:In other terrible commercial news, we all know the geico "using smartphones to do dumb things." It's pretty accurate but I've seen it way too much to not hate it now. Meanwhile, I just noticed that another geico commercial, the one with the rowing guinea pigs, has a promo at the end to download their FREE rowing guinea pig app. I don't necessarily think it's dumb. It seems like an "ironically (or not) embrace your dumbness! Yaaay!" kind of thing with a good amount of self-reference to the original commercial. Sure people use smartphones to do dumb things.....but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Look how much fun they're having! And the Puss in Boots horse commercial really bugs me because it doesn't even try to be clever. It's just a shot-by-shot remake of the loving Old Spice ad in a way that says nothing. I take that back- it says, "We're loving Dreamworks and as you can obviously tell after 10 years of this poo poo, we're hack writers and our entire schtick is still shoehorning bad pop culture references into our films, talking up which washed-up former A-lister we've hired to do this, and sucking the milk out of a franchise until its dead udders bleed. We're not Pixar, but we'll do our best to confuse young kids/idiots/the elderly into thinking we are and make a cool half-billion before too many people realize that this movie is garbage. See you again next year?" Toucan Sam's Great SnowVenture-brought to you by Fruit Loops(TM) weirded me out with their randomly-added 90's ski bum George Clinton Yeti villain. Is he a super villain, or a fun dude? He holds the toucans hostage (or something like that) and they bust out with his loot. Also, he has a secret hi-tech lab for some reason. Then he chases them angrily, trips and gets trapped in a snowball, and subsequently crashes with a smile. All seems fine and they give him some cereal. What's the point of all this? Is it serious or is it a game? It seems like a big deal, but now George Clinton's all P-funked and chill. What gives? I guess it might be a result of this "everyone wins" trend in kid's advertising. I'll admit, I used to feel really terrible for the Trix Rabbit/Lucky/Coco Puffs Bird/etc when I was really little. I was all like, "gently caress you TV kids. All he wants is his loving cereal. Look how sad this cartoon rabbit loving is. Now I feel bad. I wanna make my mom send him some cereal but I'm sure you pricks will just steal it or tell him he can't have any like some sort of cartoon nazi. What, are there rabbit-only bathrooms too?" And this would go on.....I was a pretty angry militant kid. But I've noticed this big trend in kid's cereal ads (yeah I watch Adventure Time on Cartoon Network, what of it?) to make a standard "chase for cereal with goofy mascot and children" ad like we've seen for the past 30-odd years and then retcon it at the very last minute with some shoehorned "D'aww, but they're really friends!" bit. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Oct 26, 2011 |
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Tupping Liberty posted:I get that Loreal is French, but saying it like that when the rest of the commercial is in English, and the announcer has one of those "typical American" accents just sounds ... weird. It really bothers me when they have an over-done "French person talking" schtick with Tressemmé ads because it isn't French and "Tressemé" is not a word that makes any loving sense in French. If you've ever taken French courses in school, chances are you've had at least one teacher or professor make Tressemé the butt of jokes on how to look like a "stupid American." trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Oct 27, 2011 |
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phourniner posted:This is why people pirate Rosetta Stone. Thus, this is why they're price-inflated. And the cycle continues.......
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Wagonburner posted:Do Pantene, Selsun, Motorola, Skoal, Cadillac and on and on make any sense in English? Using a legit name or an existing word seems to make a lot more sense to me than putting sounds together into something that's supposed to resemble a given language. Even if they don't make sense in English (or at least, people don't know what they mean) Quesadilla or Cordon-bleu are a lot better than Chalupa, Fruitista or Frostacchino. And my specific gripe was with commercials selling up or trying to legitimize the "Frenchness" of an American shampoo with a bullshit name by hawking it with models going "Ooh La La!" and affecting strong gauloise accents. I doesn't bother me that Tressemé is a thing or that it's called that. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Oct 27, 2011 |
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The Moon Monster posted:Anyone seen that commercial for, um, tacos or something, with some doofus shouting that "I'm black ops". It has quickly become my most hated current commercial. Ugh. Brian Wilson is in commercials for like loving everything these days. It's extra annoying because they all revolve around his whole "I'm crazy in a way that's totally wild and hilarious! But maybe also dangerous? I'm the Zach Galifianakis of baseball! Look at my loving beard!" gimmick. It was sort of interesting when the Giants' pitcher just showed up out of the blue to games with a dyed ZZ Top beard but watching 5-odd commercials try (and fail) to straddle the line between vaguely menacing and family-friendly accesible is grating as hell. And you know it's only a matter of months before everyone else is gonna jump on this "I'm so random" bandwagon too. I miss the days when athletes pretended to be wholesome and whitebread.
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SpacePig posted:I think this might be the least appetizing picture of food I've seen in awhile. At least the put it on a nicer bun than their regular burgers. At least they didn't make an ad directly courting the "ethnic" market, with half-assed R&B/slam poetry/Kangol hat scenarios. "Let's just get some black people doing acceptable black people things and pop a parfait and some fries in there and call it a day. I saw this 'Deaf Jam' thing on HBO last night. That's gotta be hip right?" All this McRib talk reminds me of an old Simpsons episode that makes fun of the fandom that erupted after its cancellation. Homer becomes addicted to the KrustyBurger "Ribwich" and joins a band of "ribheads" who bus around the country following the last remaining fountains of ribtastic goodness. Homer eventually corners Krusty and asks him why it was cancelled: Krusty: "Well, it got so popular that the animal we made it from went extinct." Homer: "The pig? Cow? Sheep?" Krusty: "No, think smaller. With more legs." There are prisons with better food than the McRib.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Especially that one with the small child learning to salute. And didn't they also do that "This is Our Country" campaign a few years back? What's really funny about that is that "This Is Our Country," like John Mellencamp, is politically left wing- and very openly and explicitly so. I like to imagine the thousands of proud Hannity-watching 'Murricans that have nodded their heads with pride to a Silverado commercial before googling the song and making GBS threads themselves at its lyrics about gay rights, intelligent design, and anti-intellectualism. It's basically the same way "Born in the USA" and "This Land is Our Land" have been co-opted by "patriotic" types at some point or another while being the complete antitheses to their values and platforms. der juicen posted:Hardees just had a commercial for their cheese biscuit. I like it. But I only saw it once. On youtube. And if I had to see it on television, without any control over it, it would get on my nerves after about 1 show (considering the frequency with which Hardee's commercials get replayed). I do think the "awkward family photo" thing is sort of neat. But it's an admittedly brief appreciation.
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The Moon Monster posted:Our Country actually is a patriotic song though, rather than just vaguely patriotic sounding if you only listen to 1 in 10 words. Right, but it's also downright "unamerican" by FOX News logic.
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The Moon Monster posted:D'oh. I'm not sure why I typed "god" given the animal in question is a cat. It's a really sweet cat too, but I can't take it and my parents won't so it's a difficult situation. God/cat- it's really the same thing to millions of lonely obese women across the Western world. Edit: Not saying you're one of them.
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