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They know their market when it comes to Christmas ads. It nearly got dusty in here.
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I don't watch tv so I avoid this crap.
Christmas isn't just for christmas, it's for 2 whole months.
first reply is a misery guts 😆 STW at its finest.
Makes up for last years one with the bear and Lily bloody Allen.
But yes, dusty.
I'm no fan of Christmas in November but, that is indeed another cracker from the masters of the Christmas ad campaign 🙂
Christmas isn't just for christmas, it's for 2 whole months.
I love Christmas- 2 months of it is great!
Very good ad. First christmas as a dad for me. Can't wait.
Nicely shot, produced, graded, composited, flame work etc
Hackneyed sentimental dirge.
Customers and client will love it.
Love the ad, love Christmas. Bring it on!
I'm not really into Xmas, but the John Lewis ads are always worth watching.
Pretty much ripped of lost & found by Oliver Jeffers.
Last year they killed a bear by waking it up halfway through its hibernation. Now they're boxing up penguins for Chrimbo. Sad stuff.
Am I the only person who has never seen a JL Xmas ad?
Shite.
Bloody brilliant.
[url= http://www.johnlewis.com/christmas/c7000620002?intcmp=TVad_block_5_shopmontyandmabel_x061114 ]Look at all the stuff they are trying to flog off the back of it![/url]
You can tell Mabel's a girl penguin - she has eye lashes 🙂
[edit] although asking nearly a 100 quid for a 45cm tall soft toy seems a tad ambitious.
cinnamon_girl - MemberAm I the only person who has never seen a JL Xmas ad?
I think you must be CG. Statistics show that by christmas eve the average person in Britain will have seen it exactly 53,692 times. Even if they don't own a tellybox 😯
Stuff your Border terriers I WANT a penguin!
Hackneyed sentimental dirge.
Yep, manipulative too- some pretty cynical tugging on the strings
But they do always do it very well!
I probably won't see it "in the wild" but I'm going to watch it on Youtube so I can disapprove. If it's actually good I won't admit to having seen it.
Anyway, if it's not the Toys R Us or coca cola holidays-are-comin' christmas advert, it sucks.
Am I the only person who has never seen a JL Xmas ad?
I was going to agree, but then I thought you said JLS Xmas ad.
It nearly got dusty in here
Someone, maybe JLS, need to put a bullet in this one. You're not a stoic marine who has just seen his buddy take one in the face, when he's only three days from retirement. You're just a bit of a ponce, who cried at an advert. 8)
first reply is a misery guts STW at its finest.
Not a misery guts, just not a Christian.
Christmas day is great: the roads are empty, the hills are empty, and I get the day off 😈
If that lasted for 2 months of the year I'd be thrilled...
[i]just not a Christian.[/i]
Not sure that's relevant?
Most people just treat it as an opportunity to spend time with their family doing stuff they enjoy/having huge rows after too much alcohol, what's not to like?
Pff, christmas in the uk has bugger all to do with being a christian, it's about time off work, buying stuff, and eating til you vomit. Much better. No it's not pagan either.
I was in Starbucks today, they were playing Rod bloody Stewart doing Christmas songs while the staff were wearing elf hats and antlers, in November in Jakarta where it's 35c.
just not a Christian.
Whut? What's Christian about a Pagan festival?
Not a misery guts, just not a Christian.
Heh....that's you argument?
just not a Christian.
Whut? What's Christian about a Pagan festival?
Aha, the Christmas is Pagan reply!
It's almost like people expect everyone to be shocked when they say that.
Surely everyone knows this by now (apart from old misery guts with no tv obvs 🙂 )
Still on the first page and it's boiled down to religion already.
Christmas isn't pagan; the Victorians invented Christmas along with Scottishness and quite a lot of other mawkish sentimental carp. I'm coming round to the idea that the Victorians also wrote the Bible.
Christmas was invented by the illuminati to distract us all from their lizard based intentions.
Pretty much ripped of lost & found by Oliver Jeffers
That's one of Li'l J's fave books.
He's going to want his own Penguin if he sees the ad.
[i]Am I the only person who has never seen a JL Xmas ad?[/i]
I know I've seen them, but none have stayed in my memory.
I dare not watch it - John Lewis adverts alawys reduce me to floods of tears. No idea why.
Rachel
No idea why.
Don't worry. I'm the same with the Safestyle UK ads.
while werre talking about newly released vids
check out 'droneboning' on vimeo, its just like Seasons/Roam but not riding bikes!
although NSFW!
damn, i was hoping this thread would be a PSA for some lovely cushions.
Dusty? Dusty. Oh do listen to yourselves.
Christmas was invented by the illuminati to distract us all from their lizard based intentions.
You do know they're watching you now Jamie. Another outburst like this and they'll take you away to see their Lizard overlords....
Am I the only person who has never seen a JL Xmas ad?
No.
Christmas isn't pagan; the Victorians invented Christmas along with Scottishness and quite a lot of other mawkish sentimental carp.
like ****ing morris dancing and global warming.
I love that.
I love Penguins too!
They taste like Chicken AND Fish!
[i]They taste like Chicken AND Fish! [/i]
Mine always taste of chocolate.
It's a bit shocking the way it's all been hijacked, though - not many people know that Christmas was really a Pagan festival, not the day when John Lewis was born.
It's a bit shocking the way it's all been hijacked, though - not many people know that Christmas was really a Pagan festival, not the day when John Lewis was born.
It's a Pagan festival? Surprised no-one has mentioned that already.
Frankly, I think anyone over the age of 12 who's ever had a cynical thought and internet access knows "Christmas is a pagan festival".
Which in fact, it isn't, it's a hybrid and frankly the 'Pagan' bit is the Lib Dems to the Tory Crass Consumerism and Labour Nativity Story elements.
P-Jay - hmm - I've eaten penguin. The last thing I would expect is someone to *like* it...
Sorry, I'm rarely taken seriously in real life, so I'm not used to people taking my seriously online - I was joking, I've never tasted Penguin.
I did eat crocodile once, and that is lovely.
Sorry, I'm rarely taken seriously in real life, so I'm not used to people taking my seriously online - I was joking, I've never tasted Penguin.
Heh...busted!
I'm not used to people taking my seriously online - I was joking, I've never tasted Penguin.
Ah, the Emperor defence.
I liked it, sorry... I'm a soft git with Kids, it does things to you...
Last years with the Bear was a bit below par TBH...
I reckon it'll have a similar effect to the 2011 JL ad which had my missus in proper floods:
I want - but can't be bothered - to draw a Venn diagram of people who shop at John Lewis, and people who watch ITV. I'm not sure who sits in the middle - UKIP voters probably.
So Christmas is actually crapulous.
[url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/john-lewis-advert-condones-penguin-sex-trafficking-2014110692534 ]John Lewis advert 'condones penguin sex trafficking'[/url]
[i]You can tell from his expression that Monty is evil. God knows what that beady-eyed waddling pervert has in store for her.[/i]
😀
The 2010 advert, featuring the song "She's Always a Woman" got me at a very sensitive time and properly destroyed me to fits of tears. I still can't watch it without crying...
[i]I did eat crocodile once, and that is lovely. [/i]
I find it a little snappy if bought in a fast food restaurant.
Do they taste like chicken?
http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/11/06/john-lewis-christmas-penguin-advert-parody/
Dunno why all the hate for the bear, I liked it. The penguin is a bet meh, but reminded me what a catchy tune "Real Love" is.
MrSmith - MemberNicely shot, produced, graded, composited, flame work etc
Hackneyed sentimental dirge.
Customers and client will love it.
Not to mention the stwistas trying to "out-sensitive" each other.
It's artless commercial string pulling - buy a bloody vacuum cleaner and clean that dust up
Dunno why all the hate for the bear
It always looked on the verge of eating the bunny and her furry friends to me.
Still on the first page and it's boiled down to religion already.
I know, I mean WTF has Christmas got to do with religion. Sorry for dragging it off topic 🙄
(PS - I'm not Pagan either)
The "she's always a woman" one is good but I was half expecting it to suddenly turn miserable, like the start of Up.
I wanted to hate that and cant you ****ers!!!
I like the babadook parody. Not perfect but well observed, the kid is kind of creepy
John Lewis Christmas Advert PARODY 2014
Loving all the "Pagans didn't invent Christmas" comments (well one or two anyway), as if a bunch of Christians happened across a bunch of pagans celebrating something called Christmas and thought "Hang on.."
Of course pagans didn't "invent" Christmas. They did however have a mid winter festival to coincide with the winter solstice and verily the early Christians didst think "Hang on" and didst cynically appropriate it for their own ends and rebranded it Christmas. As indeed they did with Oestre fertility festival. Any guesses for what they rebranded it as...?
Haven't seen the JL ad, but I'm sure the missus will love it 🙂
[i]Floods of tears because of an advert?……… [/i]
balls, grow, of, set, a - springs to mind.
If the advert does that to anyone then god forbid they interact with the real world.
Just seen it. Shameless rip off of the truly great Calvin&Hobbes. And the song is a dirge. Not a patch on the bear and the rabbit imho.
Bah humbug!
Did this advert really make anyone feel like crying??! Boy with imagination + rampant commercialism.
Really.
🙄
Not seen the John-Lewis one yet, but the very.co.uk one was just on the telly. They've only gone and shrunk down Fern Cotton to the size of Kylie Minogue and have her running round a Christmas tree looking at various gifts - where the hell is this going to end...
RM.
VERY disappointed! Have I been out of the country too long? What happened to the '3 minutes of lingerie' John Lewis ads?
and +10000000 for the Calvin and Hobbes rip off...
They should just have shown three minutes of Penguins falling over, would probably outclass about 90% of Christmas telly
VERY disappointed! Have I been out of the country too long? What happened to the '3 minutes of lingerie' John Lewis ads?
That's M&S, isn't it?
Anyhow, these ads are aimed at real people who can identify with emotions portrayed on screen, not the bunch of sociopaths who inhabit this place. 🙂
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doesn't quite have the same emotional resonance for me, tbh.
Anyhow, these ads are aimed at real people who can identify with emotions portrayed on screen, not the bunch of sociopaths who inhabit this place.
Will those be the fake emotions stirred up by an advertising company to make people buy overpriced tat for a celebration of something most people don't believe in?
[i]fake emotions[/i]
How can I tell when my emotions are real?
Are they trying to get you to buy something? Then they're fake. Unless it's a bike of course.
They must have underestimated just how gullible the British public are.
[url= http://www.johnlewis.com/christmas/c7000620002?intcmp=TVad_block_5_shopmontyandmabel_x061114 ]Out of stock in every overpriced size, yes, even the £95 ones[/url].
They need to get the whips out on the five year old kids in their Chinese sweat shops.