Comments on: Best Ad Ever? Most Offensive?

By: HWD

HWD — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:08:36 +0000

Cute? Seriously – cute?
Check this out:
youtube.com/wa...

By: ck

ck — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:20:27 +0000

Mikeleh, Ya think the IDF launched tear gas as a response to a ball being kicked over the fence? If only the protesters at Bilin restricted themselves to just kicking balls then everything would indeed be relatively yoffi toffi achlah bachlah. Instead however they throw rocks, hurl invective and try to cut the fence. If you really believe that “This is how a soccer ‘match’ between real IOF soldiers and Palestinians really looks” then I have a video idea for you! Go to Bilin. Bring ten soccer balls. Put on a keffiya and wave a Palestinian flag. Kick a couple of balls over the fence. See what happens. I’m betting… nothing.

But other than that thanks to the link to that lovely piece of staged political propaganda. Maybe we can get a Nike Soccer endorsement?

By: mike darnell

mike darnell — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:25:26 +0000

Adding my daily dosage of “Hyperbole & Hysteria”:
The reality behind Mccann Erickson’s ad for Cellcom.
What really happens when u toss a ball over the fence –
tr.im/thFE.

Mike

By: blip

blip — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:02:40 +0000

Mike, you add nothing but hyperbole and hysteria.

You can’t even articulate what it is you find offensive, just that you’re offended.
Why do you even think someone is on the “wrong end of the advertising stick” with this commercial at all!? Here we are talking about the wall and Israelis in Tel Aviv are confronted with the realities of the wall existence while in their living rooms. How knee jerk of you to miss the value of that just to play the outraged Leftist parrot.

So wait, you don’t like the wall? You don’t say. Well that’s a deep. Truly original, when even those who support the wall, don’t particularly like that it’s there.

By: mike darnell

mike darnell — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:19:00 +0000

I wonder how many people who live barricaded behind the wall, or spend their days & nights patrolling it, find Cellcom & Mccann Erickson’s joint production of this abomination to sensibilities “cute”.

Of course when it’s Jews at the wrong end of the advertising stick we “Can’t help but wonder”: jewlicious.com...

Is that the acrid stench of hypocrisy I detect?

The only way I can justify the ad is if they were targeting the contractors that made a fortune building the f*cking wall…

Mike
ROIcom?
Don’t forget to FEED ME – tr.im/feedme

By: josh

josh — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:54:58 +0000

I wasn’t thinking about Arabs, but rather that the soldiers were playing with settlers that had been fenced out of Israel and left on the other side. There are also no religious soldiers that came to the spontaneous party.

So all in all, I thought it was a nice religious-secular getting connected piece. Thumbs up.

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:41:32 +0000

blip – that’s what i’ve been trying to say! some people just missed my point and baited me into further discussion. and yes, there is no doubt that they intentionally filmed it at the banksy mural.
it still reminds me of top gun, and ck, i’m still gonna kill you.

By: blip

blip — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:34:19 +0000

The ad is genius. The fact that it’s generating this much talk is proof.

It’s cute and clever advertising with a subtle provocative message…and you’re gullible as all get out if you don’t think it’s intentional….. did they really just accidentally happen to film at the Banksy piece ? Of course not.

The wall is saving lives, and it’s a reality of daily life…which painful as it may be for some of you to admit, does still offer light hearted magical moments….kind of like that really gross, but well executed Banksy mural people love so much. Chew on that.

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:18:50 +0000

if you think my reaction is “shallow,” so be it, i’m not going to argue the virtues or non-virtues of americans. you don’t know me at all to make that assessment and i’m not going to sit here and defend myself. all i did was state my opinion of the ad, and reasons for it. they happen not to be shallow, but whatever. if you want to extrapolate from that that i am shallow, so be it. damnant quodnon intelligunt.

CK – I’M GONNA KILL YOU!

By: caput58

caput58 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:55:45 +0000

It just seems that most, if not all Americans “happen” to be so shallow…

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:54:26 +0000

you’re missing my point. i am not saying that the buildings “happened” to disappear, or a wall “happened” to appear. tragedies occur, political situations are volatile. but realities being what they are, you can’t pretend they don’t exist. but that doesn’t mean that it has to cause this major political discourse. i’m taking a prima facie view of the ad. that’s all. i’m not denying that strife exists. i don’t think you are getting what i’m saying. it’s your prerogative to disagree with me, but it seems that you don’t even understand my whole point. and do i think this ad is the greatest ad since coca-cola taught the world to sing or alka-seltzer plopped & fizzed? no, it’s just a commercial!

c’est tout! sacré bleu!

By: caput58

caput58 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:20:03 +0000

So in your view the Twin Towers just “happened” to disappear on 9/11. I mean that would be the logic you stand behind… Or, that fact, maybe, touches you more deeply than an 8 meter concrete monster we have to look at every day. I am sorry I don’t find it that fun as Cellcom & Mcann Erickson did in the commercial.

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:16:43 +0000

that’s exactly my point! i don’t want to get into a dialogue as to the “whys & the wherefores” of how they wall got there or who put it there, or whether it’s a “wall,” “fence” or “barrier.” that’s semantics. in fact, i try to avoid discussing israeli politics altogether (american politics: gay marriage, abortion, rahm’s missing finger… – i’m there!).
the bottom line is that today there happens, yes, happens, to be a…. “structure” that does, i admit, have extremely volatile connotations, however, in the context of this ad, and any other context for that matter, it is an a posteriori fact is that “there happens to be this wall.”

By: themiddle

themiddle — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:36:15 +0000

Well, if you get right down to it, the Palestinian war of 2000 and their refusal to come to peace with the Israelis made that barrier, most of which is fence and not wall, “happen.” Sharon was loathe to build a “wall” because he believed it would become a de facto border.

By: caput58

caput58 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:27:19 +0000

@Jess now I’m cracking up:

“there happens to be this wall” ???

So it just “happened” right?

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:04:40 +0000

HAHA! you nearly sent me back to the hospital because when seeing that i almost cracked my head open from falling off the chair in a fit of laughter. new meaning to “cracking up”?

By: ck

ck — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:56:47 +0000

Jess: I can haz suicide bomber?

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:37:42 +0000

oh mike, mike mike. would it be less offensive if it were the crips & the bloods? and granted, the ad’s a cliché (it also reminded me of an 80s Sunkist commercial), maybe it’s time we stop we stop over-analyzing everything. the reality is what is it is, like it or not. there happens to be this wall, and the israelis and the palestinians and it is only natural that it will show up in the media. this debate reminds me of what immediately followed 9/11, but it seemed that it was the rest of the nation and not new york that had the most sensitivity to seeing the World Trade Center. For those of us (and by “those of us” i guess, i really mean just me, since i can’t get into everyone’s head) who had grown up in new york & experienced the events of 9/11/01, it was like people were trying to erase reality. For us, who have real memories of the being in the buildings, and had that as part of our daily landscape it felt like people wanted to forget they ever existed, and made the buildings into a symbol of tragedy, while for me, as tragic as the destruction is, the buildings for me represent something totally different. The events of 9/11/01 for me represent something different. They aren’t symbolic, in fact they don’t “represent” anything, they’re facts of life. It was something terrible that happened. Get over it. I’m not saying to forget it ever happened, of course not. But it did happen. Move on.
This ad is using what the reality is here today. I still think it is a cute ad, nothing more, nothing less. It still reminds me of Top Gun.
and damn you, mike, see what you did, you made me get all deep, and think-y and stuff (i even capitalized words. i CAPITALIZED. and wrote a long comment, thus defying my whole “brevity is the soul of wit” thing i’ve got going on. my comment was neither brief nor witty) if you excuse me, i’ll revert to my e.e. cummings style of typing, and someone, get me a cheesy 80′s movie, or a sitcom or a LOLcat or something STAT (or the terrorists will have won)!!!!

By: Mike Darnell

Mike Darnell — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:50:08 +0000

…PS the wall has been the inspiration for some pretty cool stuff. Like this: flickr.com/pho...

Maybe Mcann Erickson and Cellcom should hire these guys instead of the brain dead bozos they’ve got on the payroll now.

: )
Mike
tr.im/feedme

By: Mike Darnell

Mike Darnell — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:42:12 +0000

It’s poor advertising.
It’s a stolen concept (Connecting people… Nokia Hello?). It’s offensive to Soldiers, Palestinians and anyone who isn’t brain dead.

It’s crappier than my daughter’s diapers.

The heads should be rolling at Cellcom & Mcann Erickson over this one. I wonder how long till Mcann global starts feeling the fallout. Did anyone say Boycott?…

BTW… 1257 people so far have joined a Facebook group called (and I translate): “The new Cellcom ad makes me sick too” new.facebook.c...

Way to go Mcann…