Fighting for Fusion Watch the ad… Really? I mean, really? Was there some kind of desperate deadline that meant you had to absolutely definitely release an advert about another razor no-one cares about and it didn’t matter whether or not it was finished or not…? Or was it a case of Tiger Woods and Kevin [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Gillette Fusion Power
Posted in Awful Awful Awful, Celebrity Endorsement, tagged bad cgi, gillette, graphics, kevin federer, razors, thierry henry, tiger words on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Always Ultra: Pinball
Posted in Awful Awful Awful, Wishful Thinking, tagged always, menstrual porn, periods, sanitary towels, tampax, tampons on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, I’m just going to say it and then I’ll leave it be. I’ll just squeeze the sentences out and we can all forget we ever saw this advert, heard it or thought about it. I’ll be quick, and although it’ll be painful it won’t last very long. It’s a fucking vagina. On TV. With [...]
O2 Money: Cash Manager
Posted in nonsense, Technically Accurate, tagged banking, cash manager, debit cards, illusions, magic, natwest, O2, visa on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s very interesting that this advert uses sleight of hand because the product is as much of an illusion as the manner in which it is advertised. You think it’s about something, when it’s about nothing. You think it does something, when it does nothing. You think it sounds useful, when it’s actually useless. Watch [...]
Clear Blue
Posted in Patronising Bastards, tagged clear blue, knocked up, pee test, pregnancy on September 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I can’t find a link to a video version of this advert so I’ll have to hope you’ve seen it already, but it begins with a nubile young thing – positively glowing with morning light – wondering aloud whether or not she’s pregnant. Her tone is light and whimsical, embracing the idea of pregnancy as [...]
Go Compare
Posted in Awful Awful Awful, Patronising Bastards, tagged aviva, car insurance, Chris Wilkins, gio compario, go compare, lazy, opera, price comparsion, Sian Vickers, stereotypes, wynne evans, zurich on September 8, 2009 | 35 Comments »
Everyone has dreams, and everyone has ambitions, and everyone wants to be true to those dreams and ambitions but there comes a time when you have to question how likely you achieving those dreams and ambitions are. For example, if you’ve dreamt all your life of being an actor but have had relatively little success [...]
