Lame rant time:
I generally ignore commercials, but I stumbled onto this one from Nike.
There’s 2 or 3 of these “Greatness” ads running. They tell you what Greatness will/won’t do to/for you.
Worst ad campaign in a long time.
What can Great do for you?
Greatness…I’m lovin’ it!
I want to know how they do the ones where Lance Armstrong is a boxer, The Big Unit’s a bowler, Agassi is a baseball player (right?) etc.
Those… are cool.
Ron Jeremy’s in Nike ads now? Cool!
(seriously, though, who’s Big Unit?)
MLB pitcher Randy Johnson is The Big Unit, so named because he’s 6-foot-10.
And let’s not forget my boyfriend, Brian Urlacher, playing hockey. Sigh…so dreamy.
Your boyfriend? I thought Paris was his squeeze.
Don’t make me smite you. Don’t bring up her name around here.
Those are not cool. Those are weird and pointless.
Whew…good thing we’re allowed opinions! :rolleyes:
I think they’re VERY cool, special effectswise, and the message that no matter how you’re pigeonholed, you can achieve more through sweat and hard work.
Computer graphics, easy as pie. They just swap the face. Verizon did this with James Earl Jones as well, skyboarding all over the place like a nut.
Hehehehe…
So what exactly WAS Ms. Hilton doing up in the skybox during that game last year? Wearing that number 54 jersey, too.
I cannot lie. The two were ‘involved’ because Urlacher likes ‘pretty shiny things’, but she soon lost her luster. Urlacher, after counsel with Mike Ditka, has reconciled with the wife, and coincidentally the media. He’s no idiot. He knows that he’s the golden boy that everyone in Chicago would slay their first born for…that Paris thing brought a great many of us to a scary, screeching revelation…
and then, of course…he tried Pro Wrestling.
Poor Brian, a twelve year old goon stuck in a Greek God’s body. GRRWWWWWORWWWL
Hooo boy. Those Greatness commercials.
Greatness equals greatness, greatness equals greatness, ad nauseum.
You know, if you hear it enough, it sounds like grapenuts equals grapenuts.
(Don’t know what the remark about opinions refers to…)
Terrible way to express the message, then. Telling me one mega-athlete from one sport can play another sport? Those athletes aren’t pigeonholed - they excel because they’re athletes; they’re not limited by their athleticism.
Now, if you take a cabbie and made him the doormn at the Waldorf-Astoria, and he performed his new job successfully that would be a stronger message - then, you’d be taking a person from one profession and putting him into a completely different one.
The real point of this commercial is that Nike has access to Famous Athletes and isn’t afraid to use them.
re: the Nike ads, this “Ad Report Card” from Slate Magazine says that there was not any special effects trickery.
The hardest one to believe, IMO, is Marion Jones’s gymnastics routine.
You think Iron Mike told him he needed to try out Levitra?
It refers to you not saying “I think they’re stupid” or “I don’t like them” but proclaiming for ALL of us as FACT that they’re stupid. Thank you for clearing that up for us.
I proclaimed no such thing. Settle down. Claws in, cat.