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zsummers
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2011-12-25, 00:20

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I can't find a pic of the actual scene, but it's where a female climber makes it to the top of a thin column of rock, and she pulls herself to a fully upright standing position and looks out over the valley.

Omg. I can barely think of this. Instead of standing, I would slither on my belly across the top of the rock, maintaining total contact with a full-body grip, and meld into the rock for eternity, because I would never be able to move again.

I get dizzy when I watch this ad. It's for a Citibank credit card, I think. Until I was 23, I had no fear of heights, but one day I went climbing with a very tall male friend, and I got stuck on the side of a cliff because I couldn't reach the hand and footholds my tall friend was using. It's a miracle I made it back down alive. We were free-climbing, and had no ropes.

This same thing happened a second time on another cliff, with a different, even taller male friend, and that was pretty much it. I have had a fear of heights ever since. A wave of dread flows over me, which I guess is adrenaline flowing into my system, and I feel like I could float away. Well, anyway, I wonder if other people react the same way to this Citibank ad.


My wife, referring to the Citibank commercial: "No way that's real."
My dad: "Total green screen."

Me: I think it is real, terrifying, and awesome. Good for the actor... but, like you, you'd never catch me anywhere near that particular summit. Trust trust trust trust trust.

"How could you falter / when you're the Rock of Gibralter? / I had to get off the boat so I could walk on water. / This ain't no tall order. / This is nothing to me. / Difficult takes a day. / Impossible takes a week."
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Moogs
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2011-12-25, 13:33

Forward to 5:08 and you'll see what I think of advertisers and marketing (and PR) people and 99% of their "handywork". #plague

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLecZ01h_ZI

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Windswept
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2011-12-27, 19:33

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My wife, referring to the Citibank commercial: "No way that's real."
My dad: "Total green screen."

Me: I think it is real, terrifying, and awesome. Good for the actor... but, like you, you'd never catch me anywhere near that particular summit. Trust trust trust trust trust.
What makes the final shot of her standing there even more "dizzyfying" is that the camera is circling around the column of rock so very swiftly (via helicopter, I presume). This relentless circular motion gives me as an onlooker an extra sense of instability. *shiver*

I think it's a real shot too. I so regret that I have fear now. Part of the reason this happened is that when I was cliffclimbing, I didn't have on proper climbing shoes. I think I had on clunky hiking boots, because I thought we were going hiking, not climbing. The shoe situation made all the difference and gave me fear where I had none. Actual climbing shoes impart such a sense of security; the climber feels like he's literally adhering to the rock.
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micalhassi
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2012-05-18, 00:07

Hello Friends !! The ones I really like are the vintage ones on Nick Nite or the oldies channels, they really hit you in the memory banks, I'd like to see some old cigarette commercials, I would bet they're hilarious now.
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2012-05-18, 00:27

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Hello Friends !! The ones I really like are the vintage ones on Nick Nite or the oldies channels, they really hit you in the memory banks, I'd like to see some old cigarette commercials, I would bet they're hilarious now.
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2012-05-19, 05:35

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Hello Friends !! The ones I really like are the vintage ones on Nick Nite or the oldies channels, they really hit you in the memory banks, I'd like to see some old cigarette commercials, I would bet they're hilarious now.
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murbot
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2012-05-19, 08:17

Wow, great website. I can tell by the way you blended in so well with us here that you really know people. Like, deep, right in their fucking minds.

As soon as I get back from trying to get your mom's prolapsed anus back in with a spoon (had some buddies over last night, they were a little rowdy) and put some water in her bowl, I'll spend a little more time reading it over.

Thanks again, brah. Glad to have you on board here.
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Moogs
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2012-05-19, 09:39

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Since you mentioned CGI:





To answer the question at hand: I want to take a slashing major and game misconduct against the people who produce the Geico NHL commercials. So fucking awful. Geico has all these creative ads and funny spots, then they do the lamest, most unfunny shit possible for the NHL. I truly think whoever made those spots does not like hockey and basically made it their personal joke, one that the NHL's marketing geniuses weren't smart enough to see for what it was. Also all progressive ads starring Flo and her pasty-skinned comrades make me want to take suspension-worthy hits that include all of the following infractions in one act: charging, leaving the ice, cross-checking, headshot, using the boards as a weapon.

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murbot
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2012-05-19, 23:24

This isn't a commercial, but it is excellent fucking advertising.

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2012-05-20, 20:51

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Windswept
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2012-05-23, 20:05

I guess it's a Public Broadcasting (PBS) commercial. It says something that I've always wondered about. An African-American guy is talking about when he was a kid. He says at first they would be able to play in the streets without worry. But later, the streets were ridden with gang territories and he would literally have to race home from school to keep from getting assaulted. He says if he ran fast enough, he could get home in time to see a painter named Bob Ross paint as if by magic, and just watching the beauty come alive on the canvas would sooothe this little boy, and show him another world beyond his reach.

Later, as a young man, he became an "artist in the schools" participant, to help affect the lives of children in the way art had affected him. Really a great commercial in that it shows the value of America's Public Broadcasting Service, and how it can change the lives of anyone within its reach. I've often thought that a daily dose of specially selected programs could change the lives of people in prisons. I'm sure it could, after seeing this commercial. Of course, people in prisons aren't as young, but maybe they are still impressionable enough.

Has anyone else had similar thoughts after seeing this commercial? Just wondering.

I'll see if I can find a clip later. Don't have time now. But if you've seen it, you'll remember it, I think.
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2012-05-23, 21:16

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Really a great commercial in that it shows the value of America's Public Broadcasting Service, and how it can change the lives of anyone within its reach.
It's strange to think of it now, but there was a time not too long ago when many conservatives were arguing that with cable networks like the History Channel and TLC to provide high-quality educational programming, PBS was no longer needed (never mind the people who can't afford cable, or the loss of local interest programming) and should be defunded. The free market was fulfilling PBS's purpose more efficiently than a loose network of grant-supported broadcast stations could ever hope to! Of course, a quick glance at the quality of TLC and History's current market-driven programming (Toddlers in Tiaras! Did Nostradamus Think The Mayans Were Right?) and it's no wonder that the people making that argument are suddenly strangely mum in that regard (they still think PBS should be defunded, of course, but for some other reason that I'm sure is much better).

and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong
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Windswept
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2012-05-23, 21:37

I think PBS is having trouble raising funds these days because of the recession. I kept getting calls on my caller ID from something like Phone Bank System. It turned out to be someone calling for PBS funding, because I had pledged $250 last year for a Suze Orman legal documents and personal finance package in CD form. So they were calling for more. I felt guilty but I only chipped in $40 for now. I'll probably chip in more during later pledge drives during the year, because I always forget if I've pledged anything earlier in the year.

But I think PBS is scraping for funding, so if anyone hasn't chipped in this year, it's for all our benefit and it's so worthwhile for the country. You never know what potential criminal might be watching, who might be swayed to become an artist instead, like the little boy above. One less criminal is worth his weight in PBS pledges.
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Robo
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2012-05-23, 22:35

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You never know what potential criminal might be watching, who might be swayed to become an artist instead, like the little boy above. One less criminal is worth his weight in PBS pledges.
For the sake of discussion, here's my PBS story, which might have a bit more weight than discussing PBS helping disenfranchised people in a purely theoretical sense.

I was a PBS kid. My mom didn't want us to have a television at all. Like sending us to school outside the home, she was convinced that a television would encourage us to rebel against her God-given authority. She was paranoid of having her word challenged — by a teacher, by a neighbor, by Bill Nye the Science Guy. But my dad wanted a TV for porn, so we had one, and she begrudgingly let us watch it (the TV, not the porn) when we were done with our chores and "studies."

We weren't allowed to watch cartoons, or shows like Power Rangers, which were Satanic. We were allowed to watch only PBS and the Discovery Channel, as long as we turned off the TV whenever a commercial came on or whenever they started talking about evolution. We couldn't afford cable; the only reason we had Discovery is because our neighbor had cable and by some quirk of the old analog cable system, we got some channels too. If it weren't for that, it would have been just PBS.

Let me describe what TV was, for me. It was a window into normalcy. When I was young, I assumed, on some level, that all parents were like mine — that all parents were paranoid and abusive, in the same way I just assumed that every family was desperately poor. I knew, in a conscious way, that this wasn't true — my cousins had a nice house, and their parents never fought or shrieked at them — but I still assumed on a deeper level that they must be poor, because I just couldn't process anything other than poverty and abuse. It's like my vocabulary didn't have any words for any other ideas, so I couldn't even think anything else. I was isolated by design so that I wouldn't "get any ideas" that would lead me to challenge my mother in any way.

TV changed that. In a way, my mom's worst fears about TV proved true — it did lead me to challenging her thinking, and what a glorious gift that was. TV showed me that there were people who weren't racist and sexist and paranoid, that there were parents that almost never beat their kids, that it was okay to think and feel and be an autonomous human being. I think this last bit is actually the most important. As weird as it sounds to outsiders, the people in my mom's home school group home schooled because they didn't want their kids to learn how to think. They wanted their kids to obey, and not ever "rebel" in thought or deed.

If it weren't for those two TV channels, that abuse would be all I knew. And if it weren't for a quirk in our cable wiring, those two TV channels would have been just one TV channel, and that one channel was PBS.

One of the questions we're going to have to answer as a society, in the coming decades, is whether parents should have the right to ruin their kids — to leave them isolated, neglected, and intellectually unstimulated, to the point where their opportunities to live a successful life are incredibly limited. The predictable quarters will freak the fuck out at what they see as intrusion into thar rights (my mom's home school group was paranoid of Child Protective Services) but I think the conclusion we'll come to is that things like intellectual stimulation and abuse in childhood matter, perhaps more than anyone realizes now, and that the so-called "village" has the responsibility to intervene to make sure that child has a decent shot in life. But the encouraging thing is, we don't have to wait for society to come to this conclusion, dooming who knows how many abused kids to a life of limited opportunity. There are some things we can do to help provide neglected kids with that necessary intellectual stimulation right now, and one of those things is PBS.

PBS is one of our only public anti-ignorance mechanisms. It's an intellectual stimulation machine. It's not 100% effective, of course. Not everyone gets something out of it. But it's what we have, and for the poorest kids who can't get rides to the library, it's one of the only such mechanisms they have. There's something magical about how egalitarian it is — there's information and education and ideas literally in the air, accessible to anyone with a receiver and the willingness to pay attention.

Personally, I would be extremely suspicious as to the motives of someone who wanted to remove one of our only public anti-ignorance mechanisms. But that's just me.

and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong
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2012-05-23, 23:26

I was never much of an audio-visual person, even as a child. I had my precious recordings of old 60s and 70s science fiction, and I watched them obsessively, but I generally didn't take advantage of PBS or anything like that. It just wasn't interesting to me. But the way Robo and Windswept feel about PBS is how I feel about public libraries, and what Robo says about the fact that publicly-funded information sources can teach you about the fact that life isn't always the small, enclosed world you live in? That is spot on. It's the reason why we need PBS, and libraries, and even public radio.

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psmith2.0
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2012-05-24, 01:47

PBS, honestly, is about the only refuge from the "unscripted" scourge of modern-day television. As Robo says, even once-respectable outfits like The History Channel and TLC - along with Discovery, A&E, The Travel Channel, Animal Planet, HGTV, Bravo! and others - have thrown in with the whole "let's turn a camera on the most grating, insufferable a-holes inhabiting the planet and build an entire series chronicling their moronic, useless existence...any occupation, any social or economic background, we don't give a rip! As long as they're loudmouthed, semi-literate buffoons who like to argue with everyone around them and display a complete lack of grace and self-awareness, we'll take 'em!" programming.

Unfortunate.

I don't like everything on PBS (but big deal...I don't like everything on any given network, so they're hardly being singled out), but, at any given hour, I can be reasonably certain that anything I see on it isn't going to make me want to gouge out my eyes with a salad fork.

I liked all the painting, cooking and woodworking shows, and everything under the This Old House umbrella. And, of course, Curious George! Such a cute little guy, always up to something.

I can't recall ever landing on a PBS offering, slapping my head and screaming some variation of "WTF is this $&@ on the $&#%* TV?!?!?" (except for maybe one of those Bill Moyers specials).



But seriously, I'll take him over anything I see anywhere else. A true wasteland, cable TV.

I would've wagered everything I had years ago that the reality/unscripted craze would die out within a few years. I'll be damned if it hasn't, instead, grown like a weed and ruined about a dozen, once-worthwhile networks in the process. Dickheads and morons, bimbos and gasbags...wall-to-wall, 24/7/365.

And people want Apple to wade into this cesspool?! Good grief...

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Eugene
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2012-05-24, 02:43

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And people want Apple to wade into this cesspool?! Good grief...
I want it desperately. Who else would be capable of disrupting the balance of power in the industry?

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I can also understand why PBS is no longer as relevant to young kids as it once was. TVs are passive broadcast devices that share time with iPads and PCs. The feeling that there's nothing but crap on TV is a result of SNR. There's plenty of worthwhile content out there, so the question is how much is it worth to use a simple filtering tool like PBS? Is Sherlock on PBS an example of quality content? I downloaded it almost 2 years ago... I watched shows like Square One, 3-2-1 Contact, Mr. Rogers, Yan Can Cook, The Frugal Gourmet, Nova, The Joy of Painting, Voyage of the Mimi, etc etc. as a kid, but if I were born in the 2000s, I doubt PBS would be of an influence...

Obviously I think PBS is worthy of continued government funding, but it's still going to have to rely on grants from other parties as well as viewer donations. We're also going to have to live with the fact that PBS will continue to be marginalized by consumer access unless they continue to adapt their format.

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2012-05-24, 14:46

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PBS, honestly, is about the only refuge from the "unscripted" scourge of modern-day television. As Robo says, even once-respectable outfits like The History Channel and TLC - along with Discovery, A&E, The Travel Channel, Animal Planet, HGTV, Bravo! and others - have thrown in with the whole "let's turn a camera on the most grating, insufferable a-holes inhabiting the planet and build an entire series chronicling their moronic, useless existence...any occupation, any social or economic background, we don't give a rip! As long as they're loudmouthed, semi-literate buffoons who like to argue with everyone around them and display a complete lack of grace and self-awareness, we'll take 'em!" programming.

Unfortunate.
Truer words about television never spoken. But calling the human atrocity that is "reality television" (especially the new "watch people catch fish and crabs and swear a lot" genre) "unfortunate", is like calling a freshly contracted case of Ebola "an inconvenience".

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psmith2.0
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2012-07-01, 20:42

I've only seen this one a couple of times, but I've got a major crush on his passenger.

The irresistible combo of sexy/cute gets me every time.
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Windswept
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2012-09-09, 17:46

The new Marriott Residence Inns commercial with the penguin family making themselves at home is sooo cute. I especially like the shot of the penguin babies snuggled up on their pillows (while their parents cuddle on the sofa in front of the tv). The shot of the babies playing in the full bathtub and splashing about amongst the rubber duckies is also cute. I do love commercials with some sweetness and/or a sense of humor. This one has a bit of both, I'd say. Anyone else like this ad? They also have elephant and giraffe versions, but I think the penguins are the most endearing.

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2013-02-09, 18:04

I like the newest Aflac commercial where the doctor is giving a press conference about the condition of the "celebrity waterfowl" who has been admitted to the hospital with wing lacerations and a "fractured beak."

I don't know what I like about the ad exactly, but I think the doctor does an appealing job of addressing the issue of the "fractured beak." It's funny the way he says the words, for some reason.

I also like the older Aflac ad with the big bullfrogs at the end sitting on lily pads and giving low grunts as part of a song. All just silly, but good-natured and kind of catchy in a weird way.
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2013-04-07, 17:51

In a more recent edition of the Aflac duck's hospitalization, while he's in bed and being evaluated by a medical team, one (nurse?) looks at the duck and says "I'm seeing lunch," and if the viewer is paying attention, he'll notice that the duck's 'vital signs' monitor starts beeping really fast, presumably as the duck entertains the thought that HE might be on the menu for the lunch just mentioned; but then a food tray is popped in front of him, he sees the actual lunch, and the beep for his pulse rate goes back to normal. I didn't catch the fast beeping the first few times I saw this ad. You have to be paying attention to notice it.

I can't remember what the company is, but the commercial shows a Viking-run Bed and Breakfast inn with luggage piled high on a horse or mule, the guests gleefully soaking in a hot tub that turns out to be a giant cauldron in which they might be being cooked, and the rooster being handed over for a morning wake-up call and the Viking asking, "Now where's that snooze button?" as he holds the rooster and looks for the button. I'll bet this is a Capital One ad, because when there's an ad and I can't remember the company, it's a good chance it's a Capital One.

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2013-04-07, 18:04

This woman in the Bud Light "Blind Date" commercial absolutely drives me wild (it seems to get a ton of airplay during all this basketball playoff stuff, so I've seen it about 40 million times over the past few weeks). Therefore, this is a commercial I love. The plot/dialogue is lame, but I just focus on her.

I did some digging and her name is Jessica Little. I found a demo/portfolio reel...

Oh. My. Gosh.
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2013-04-08, 09:26

Well, now you’ve you got her phone number, pscates2.0. Though something tells me it might not be her answering the phone if you call that number.

I have to laugh at how often Windswept can describe an ad in every detail except … the name of the company. Poor advertisers.
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2013-04-08, 14:55

Yeah, I'm not gonna be that guy. I'll just enjoy the commercial (and watch that demo real 10-15 times a day...
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2013-04-08, 14:58

I'm intrigued by the new trend towards fast food marketing directly to stoners. If this keeps up they'll start showing late night drive up customers setting aside a bong just prior to ordering.

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2013-04-08, 15:06

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2013-04-08, 15:31

The emphasis in this commercial on the creation of the packaging over the creation of the contents tells me everything I need to know about the product:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo1BHwPtQcc

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2013-04-17, 17:21

Now the Aflac duck is in physical therapy, lifting weights and jumping rope.

It's funny to watch a duck jump rope. He's pretty good at it too.
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2013-04-17, 18:13

The Geico ads with someone "happiest to do this thing" are highly annoying now. The Gallagher and Mutombo ones were kind've delightful, but now I think they're just stretching it.

Probably my favorite in the last year has been the "Good thing I got my orange juice" series of commercials for Florida Orange Juice. They're just great all round. Nice writing, great actors, etc. I love this one

So it goes.
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