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Commercials that think they're deep art, and aren't.

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AceBandage said:
Levi's "Go Forth"

THEY'RE FREAKING JEANS!
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The commercial is a bit artsy-fartsy, but the campaign behind it is really noble. The economic decimation Braddock underwent is insane, my Dad grew up there in its heyday and I've traveled through many times with him, it's the most depressing thing in the world looking at him trying to piece out his idyllic childhood memories from the horrific husk of a town it'd become. Levi's didn't just come in the night, shoot a commercial, then skip town; They've devoted a ton of money and effort into restoring and revitalizing the town over a matter of years, and it's looking a lot better the past few times we've gone.

I hope they continue and expand their efforts into other similar cities, regardless of whether the resulting ad campaigns successfully woo ADD consumers.
 
The "Love" by Chloe commercial has Raquel Zimmermann in it being way hot in it, shits art.

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I'm always surprised they can justify adverts, I don't think they work on me, and I know if they work you're meant to think they haven't, but I can't think of anything I buy because it's on TV, other than TV shows.
 
Any commercial with a child or, worse, a number of children in sequence stumbling over words irritates me quite nearly to the point of combustion.
 
AceBandage said:
Well, they're not a bad product, just that the commercial is confusing.
They are basically likening their jeans to the founders of a country...
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Commercial isn't confusing at all. People getting shit done like they used to. Times are tough. Frontiers need to be broken or something so put on some Levi's and break 'em.

Lifestyle marketing is not new. It's also very effective. All they're trying to do is equate their product with something people can relate to.

StuBurns said:
I'm always surprised they can justify adverts, I don't think they work on me, and I know if they work you're meant to think they haven't, but I can't think of anything I buy because it's on TV, other than TV shows.
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If you've ever seen someone wearing / using some brand and even remotely judged them based on it (ie. hipsters and Apple), then the advertisements have worked.
 
Firestorm said:
If you've ever seen someone wearing / using some brand and even remotely judged them based on it (ie. hipsters and Apple), then the advertisements have worked.
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I don't think I have. If I have it could easily be based on the quality of the product. Products are not all equal with the exception of their marketing.
 
every video game ad that thinks they can make it cool by adding slow unfitting music in there

gears did it cause cliffyB is a genius, youre not
 
Snuggler said:
That one cellphone commercial with the orange blankets that raped and murdered one of Nick Drake's greatest songs.

fucking hate commercials
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Isn't that the AT&T one, or something? Well, regardless, that's the one I came here to mention. I hate that one so much.
 
Oh, I know. Any of those commercials for...what is it, Totinos Pizza Rolls, I think? With the kids and that goddamn kid-sung rendition of "Kids in America". Holy mother of fuck I despise those commercials. So badly.
 
Seraphis Cain said:
Oh, I know. Any of those commercials for...what is it, Totinos Pizza Rolls, I think? With the kids and that goddamn kid-sung rendition of "Kids in America". Holy mother of fuck I despise those commercials. So badly.
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**shudder**
 
Milhouse31 said:
Am I the only one getting a "Days of Heaven" vibe ?
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It's Days of Heaven magic hour photography mixed with the closing Vorspiel scene from The New World.
It's an extremely uninspired effort coming from John Hillcoat.
Throw in the whole "Levi's aren't made in the US anymore" thing and you have a pretty despicable ad.
 
If there was a channel where they showed car commercials all day, every day, I'd probably watch it, LIKE ALL THE FREAKING TIME.

Good car commercials are just awesome.
 
I'd like to complain about that Intel ad with the two geeks.

First they're young and the one shows the other the internet. They're all giddy. Then they're a bit older and they discover wireless. They're blown away again.

Then, in the final scene where they're older still, the one shows an Intel laptop and says, 'It boosts performance automatically'

REALLY NOW?

That is such a lame line, and it is such an insignificant feature of a computer. To mention it in the same breath as going online and wireless is just blasphemy. Who the fuck greenlighted that commercial?
 
Snuggler said:
That one cellphone commercial with the orange blankets that raped and murdered one of Nick Drake's greatest songs.

fucking hate commercials
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"Pink Moon" being in a commercial is probably the reason most people even know who Nick Drake is.
 
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