No, I think they’re well done. They have a whimsical, Wes Anderson-ish vibe.
The ad for Grand Theft Auto 5, with the obnoxious guy going, “I’m a Darwinist” and other deep-sounding bullshit. I want to shoot him. He sounds like every douchey dudebro I’ve ever had the misfortune to run into.
And the Big Lots commercial that seems to play every 7.5 minutes, with the overdressed manic woman singing, “Check out my house, check out my tree! Who’s nailing Christmas this year, it’s ME!” Ugh.
The thing that gets me about this commercial is that there is NO FUCKING WAY a bus full of 8 year-olds would know (or be excited about) that song. Also, the blonde in the car is kind of a hottie.
Re other posts:
- Judy Greer is, in fact, sexy as hell - regardless of what commercial she’s in.
- The Rob Lowe commercials are funny as shit (except for the hairy RL one).
- The Dart commercials are pure genius. Don’t know whether they sell any Darts are not, but damn they are good (especially the hands-free phone one).
Shhh! That’s the next commercial in the series!
This commercial is more dishonest looking than most metlife ads. The two actors (pretending to be mother and daughter) unconciously shake their heads “no” almost every time they make a false statement!! I don’t think honest, everyday people make for even the worst of actors. To be any kind of actor, you have to be a very convincing liar and not give yourself away with your body language!
There’s an ad for a local florist. It’s pretty much just a banner saying
Where’s the stupidity?
Eighteen months ago, our area code split, so 7 digit numbers don’t work :smack:
Have to pop in here to rant about the recent Game of War commercials featuring Kate Upton in which she, for no apparent reason, sort of wanders around a fantasy battlefield showing off her enormous bewbs saying “come play with me” a bunch of times. Look, I get it, sex sells, but could you at least try to come up with a pitch other than BEWWWWWBSalso we have a gameBEWBS BEWBS BEWBS!!
Sold!
I’m sick of the seizure inducing cell phone commercials- especially the one that’s predominately pink (T-mobile?)- kids running this way, kids running that way, kids making faces at the camera, kids doing random inane things. Ooh, that kid flips his skateboard around its longitudinal axis!
How dare you judge her for being a holidaysexual.
Oh, that’s not what she means by “nailing Christmas”?
Nevermind…
Yeah, I was already sick of it about three weeks before thanksgiving. They aren’t awful commercials, but when you see them during EVERY FUCKING AD BREAK for weeks on end, well before there should even be Christmas ads yet, and it really PISSES ME OFF!
In the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving show, he laments that the stores have already started selling Christmas stuff. On Thanksgiving. If only they could show such restraint today.
Reviving thread for another good one.
First, the AT&T one with the horrible parents* and the two teenage girls. Dad is buying the older one a phone for her birthday.
Okay, I get that the older girl is 16 now and gets a new iphone, and the younger girl gets the hand-me-down phone. That’s normal. I get that the younger girl, who might be 13, doesn’t get a hip smart phone. I get that she gets hand-me-down clothing, that’s fairly normal. But why would she get hand-me-down a personalized bedazzled sweatshirt? That’s not the kind of thing that gets passed down, that gets kept in the back of the closet or boxed up as a trophy or souvenir of life.
But what makes the parents suck is not only do they give the younger daughter the older daughter’s personalized bedazzled sweatshirt, they make her wear it in public. Why else would she do that if not being forced?
- Probably not the worst parents in the world, but definitely pretty lousy.
Add to that, they make go to the ATT store to watch her older sister get a new phone. And older sister is rubbing her face in it.
On the plus side, Lily is still adorable and I like the bedazzled logo on her back. Almost saves the ad. Almost.
On the other hand, they do seem to be nailing it if their message is “AT&T, the phone plan for socially inept losers. You don’t need a good plan, because no one wants to talk to you anyway.”
I hope I’m not the only one that finds the new Colonel Sanders creepy as hell.
I think he looks pretty good for someone who’s been dead for 35 years. No decaying bits falling off.
Ok, I get that they’re transforming him from owner and proprietor to company mascot. The last time they tried that was with a cartoon Colonel. I suppose much of their target demograghic wasn’t even alive when the Colonel was. Nevertheless, it’s odd to me.
At least Wendy’s had avoided calling their chipper redheaded girl “Wendy”.
I don’t know which ad infuriates me the most, the one where the kids decide they want their parents to buy a car based on which one has the best internet connection, or the Sea World ads telling us how much they love their orcas.
Yep. The dumbest impersonator they could have found. Cringeworthy. The ad agency should have to pay KFC big time. Certainly they could have found someone that could mimic the original.
Is like he’s wearing a “Colonel Sanders” costume, but doing a bad Bush impersonation.
My next bad commercial: the Allstate one “you might be covered for this” - snowballs thrown against car - “but not this” - giant ball of snow crushes car, thrown by a Yeti.
Gee, I *hope * I’m not coded for Yeti attacks, or I’m overpaying. Unless it’s under a general “act of God” caveat that covers hurricanes, floods, tornados, earthquakes, foreign invasions, SWAT raids to my house by mistake, crazy ant infestations, and visits from the in-laws.
If it’s a 2014 spot with a Nissan Sentra, it’s supposed to be calling attention to the Bose stereo, which makes it considerbly more plausible as a marketing ploy.
McConaughey did star as Mickey Haller, title character in The Lincoln Lawyer, a lawyer who works out of his Lincoln Continental instead of an ordinary law office. I enjoyed the novel and the movie, so I would like to see this commercial.