sycasey;471715 said:
I don't think we've seen enough commercials for movies that feature alien spaceships attacking the Earth.
NVGolfingBear;471705 said:
Doritos Grandpa returning my fav so far.
93gobears;471756 said:
Creepiest = Android smart phone commercial where human thumbs are transplanted onto a robot.
Not creepy enough for you, google the movie "The Human Centepede."
Phantomfan;471781 said:
Google Image Blue Waffle
southseasbear;471790 said:
My favorite one so far is the one celebrating NFL fans by using clips of various shows as if everyone is going to the same SB party. That one I would like to see again.
93gobears;471799 said:
That. But what was it advertising?
SleepyBear07;472274 said:
My favorites were Audi ("Hit 'em with the Kenny G!")
jaw-droppingly. it would have been at home at the beginning of 'tropic thunder'. there's a fine line between drawing attention and making your company look bad. kenneth cole apologized for his tweet last week, I wonder if groupon will do the same.Cyan;472289 said:
]The Groupon commercial was jaw-droppingly bad.
BearyWhite;472003 said:
Funny story about the "Reply All" Bridgestone commercial. Apparently two guys at Bridgestone's ad agency won the intra-agency competition for one of last year's SB ads (the "Hangover" ripoff with the orca in the truck) and were brainstorming about this year's ad. One of the pair sent his partner an email ripping on half the other creatives by name, breaking down the competition according to who would do well and who wouldn't. He accidentally sent that email to the entire firm. He spent two days not sleeping and feeling awful, and then decided that the experience could actually make a pretty good ad. It got positive feedback and Bridgestone liked it, so the pair ended up writing an ad for the second straight year.
510Bear;472402 said:
Anyone else have any thoughts on the Chrysler/Eminem/Detroit ad? That was my favorite.
I guess I'm kinda over Bud Light and their shenanigans.
Big C_Cal;472424 said:
Most of our economy is now built on amusing ourselves. This is what the fall of the Roman Empire must've looked like.
philly1121;472428 said:
PepsiMax commercial - a couple on first date sitting down. Girl is wondering if the guy is rich, will he go bald, does he want kids. Cut to the guy and all he's thinking is, "will she go to bed with me, will she go to bed with me".
The Richards Group. Here's the full story on Gizmodo.calgymnast;472363 said:
That's hilarious. Do you happen to know the name of the ad agency they worked for?
Big C_Cal;472424 said:
1. "The main reason I watch the Superbowl is for the commercials!"
Well, you're an idiot. I admit the game is a superbore, but commercials are supposed to be when you turn the set OFF.
2. A bunch of commercials with special effects designed to appeal to the 14 year old intellect.
3. Most of the commercials were for either movies or snack foods. This country used to MAKE STUFF.
Most of our economy is now built on amusing ourselves. This is what the fall of the Roman Empire must've looked like.
PS: Can't wait till football season!:p
Big C_Cal;472424 said:
1. "The main reason I watch the Superbowl is for the commercials!"
Well, you're an idiot. I admit the game is a superbore, but commercials are supposed to be when you turn the set OFF.
2. A bunch of commercials with special effects designed to appeal to the 14 year old intellect.
3. Most of the commercials were for either movies or snack foods. This country used to MAKE STUFF.
Most of our economy is now built on amusing ourselves. This is what the fall of the Roman Empire must've looked like.
PS: Can't wait till football season!:p
68great;472468 said:
The Roman Empire did not fall because of people amusing themselves (which was the case for almost 800 years) or because a decline of morality (unless you believe that the pagan gods were upset by the people's conversion to that Eastern Religion -- i.e. Christianity)
Try:
1. winner take all politics where almost all of the qualified candidates were excluded from positions of power unless you were related to the current emperor thereby leading to too frequent unofficial means of regime change -- i.e assassinations.
2. Autocratic rulers who cared more about destroying real and imagined internal enemies not the foreign enemies.
3. climate changes which led to major population migrations putting pressure on the Northern borders of the empire;
4. disease which decimated the entire empire and destroyed the tax base, trade and the military at a time when barbarians were at the gates;
5. eternal war at the Eastern borders (i.e. in present day Iraq and Iran which) with a sophisticated kingdom which led in part to mutual military and financial exhaustion.
