Bollocks: A Thread for Good Adverts

Many on WATMM enjoy watching television adverts, and discussing them. In this thread you can post your favourite ads, maybe even post some print ads if you like them, or you can also post ads you don't like and discuss them.

 

I like the Dos Equis beer commercials with "the most interesting man in the world," played by El Guapo.

Oldie but still very goodie:

 

I judge all adds by this one:

 

Terry Tate series FTW

i like the sportscenter ads. they never make me laugh but i enjoy the lightheartedness

 

 

http://www.get-out-and-play.com/

 

best thing you'll see today.

tango blackcurrent, 1997

 

voted one of the 100 best commercials of all time

 

also voted "Best Long Commercial 1956-2001" by Film Four

 

 

more info ...

Edited June 4, 2009 by zazen

  zazen said:

tango blackcurrent, 1997

 

voted one of the 100 best commercials of all time

 

also voted "Best Long Commercial 1956-2001" by Film Four

 

 

more info ...

 

That could only be more 1997 if it had Tony Blair rappelling in from one of those jets at the end!

Tango Sprouts ad

 

possibly the first ad ever made to not mention the product it was advertising.

 

my mate thought this was actually an advert for sprouts that ripped off tangos style, and we argued about it for years

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwvB6CxKTCk#t=2m02s

 

Edited June 4, 2009 by zazen

This one induced a state of Satori enlightenment:

 

 

I absolutely love these commercials. The style and the atmosphere are both so perfect. Also, I love the fact that they don't make any sense until the very last bit. Brilliant.

Also, the girl in the last video is a classic beauty.

  dr lopez said:

I judge all adds by this one:

 

That... was brilliant.

Once again beautiful pictures, atmosphere and style. I love the color grading as well.

  Squee said:

Once again beautiful pictures, atmosphere and style. I love the color grading as well.

 

bonus points for using the jon brion piano thing from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

  zazen said:

  Squee said:

Once again beautiful pictures, atmosphere and style. I love the color grading as well.

 

bonus points for using the jon brion piano thing from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 

I was thinking the same thing. It's definitely one of the most beautiful theme melodies made in the last 10 years.

Carling Black Label

 

(for those who didn't grow up in 80's britain, Carling did a long series of beer ads where somebody does something amazing, and then someone else comments "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label")

 

Because the series ran for so long, it became increasingly inventive.

 

Some of them are just simple and surreal, some

animals. There was one very short one which .

 

But there are two outstanding ones:

 

A pastiche of Dambusters:

 

 

... and 'cowboy', perhaps the first meta-advert ever made:

 

 

edit: see also

, and , which is a piss-take of this very old spice ad which was on tv relentlessly at the time. Edited June 6, 2009 by zazen

canal + again :

 

first blackout : "look attentively at those frames"

second blackout : "they can tell another story"

final : "all the more reason to keep your eyes wide open"

Orange Cinema Adverts

 

OK I don't think you have these in the states so a little background:

 

There's a mobile phone company called Orange who sponsor these little adverts that come on before the main film in cinemas. The strapline is "Dont let a mobile phone ruin your movie. Please switch it off".

 

In each advert a star is pitching a movie idea to the Orange Film Board (or sometimes trying to make the film) and the Orange marketing guys ruin the ideas with naff product placements. Brilliant!

 

Here's a few of the early ones from a few years ago:

 

Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia)

 

 

Sean Astin (Sam in LOTR)

 

 

More recent ones include

, a Steven Seagal one on a golf course, and Snoop Dogg.

 

I think this Macaulay Culkin one is one of the greatest:

 

 

see here for a complete list.

 

actually, forget all of that, this is the greatest advert ever:

 

Honda 'Cog' (2003)

 

 

^ this was done, for real, with pieces of one of the first Honda Accords ever made. It took about 8 people working for six months to get the whole thing planned, designed and tested. Then in filming they did 20 takes per day for a week until they got it right. Due to space limitations they had to splice two tracking shots together into one long shot. But basically, what you see happening is really happening.

 

The lengthy design and testing process made this one of the most expensive ads ever made.

 

 

interview

 

wikipedia

Edited June 6, 2009 by zazen

  zazen said:

actually, forget all of that, this is the greatest advert ever:

 

Honda 'Cog' (2003)

 

 

^ this was done, for real, with pieces of one of the first Honda Accords ever made. It took about 8 people working for six months to get the whole thing planned, designed and tested. Then in filming they did 20 takes per day for a week until they got it right. Due to space limitations they had to splice two tracking shots together into one long shot. But basically, what you see happening is really happening.

 

The lengthy design and testing process made this one of the most expensive ads ever made.

 

 

interview

 

wikipedia

 

It wasn't exactly an original idea though was it?

Anyway, any kudos Honda deserve for that ad is to be stripped away as a result of that disgusting, awful campaign they did with Garrison Keilor. Rage-inducingly crap:

 

 

Makes me want to punch kittens, topple babies from their cribs, and throw dented cans of fruit in syrup at old women.