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WANT!

The bike...not the T-Mobile service, nor the iPhone.

I hope you want the mini bike, that stretched abomination makes me NOT want to have T-mobile

Her ears stick out.

Sisyphus wrote:Her ears stick out.

Yeah, she's hideous.

Sisyphus wrote:Her ears stick out.

So do her hips.

Nom om om.

Sisyphus wrote:Her ears stick out.

I could easily run with that one, but I'll just leave it.

MATPOC wrote: that stretched abomination

Is that Catherine Zeta Jones gone anorexic or one of her clones?

Why didn't they make it a good commercial and have Sr. show up, start yelling at everyone, break through a bunch of doors, cut up the mini bike to look like the space shuttle with ape hangers, and drive away with the pink elf crying on the back. Then I might buy their goddamn phone thingy. Marketing people.

Sisyphus wrote:Her ears stick out.

Personally, I think she looks like an elf or one of the Hobbits.

Ok, the first time I saw this commercial, I have to admit that I was intensely focused on the front of the bike.
It was not until viewing the commercial a second time that I noticed the hideously raked out swing-arm. That part I don't like.

The girl is also not that attractive...it wasn't her that I expressed "WANT" for.

Mainly, it was just the front half of the bike that I liked. I guess they used the hideous girl to hide the hideous swing arm.

Ok, I'll just take an original un-modified Kawai ZX10R with a hot-pink & white paint job.
(this totally goes against my entire argument that things for girls don't need to be painted pink!)

Wow. Ok.

I'm never posting photos of ME in my leather in front of my bike on here again! LOL

I'd touch her 4G, ears or no ears.

Isn't it kind of funny how little visual information you need to 'just know', with some certainty, that some kind of visual involving a motorcycle is just a setting- that there is no way someone really rides or that a real bike was used. The t-mobile girl is easy on the eyes but there is no pretending for a pixel that she just rode up on that bike.

related: this campaign seems to be (weakly) evoking the mac vs pc campaign in order to sell their network, and the need for big comic props like the bike (& the hot chick for that matter) show how weak they are by comparison. Those mac vs pc commercials needed neither props nor sex to be funny and memorable.

Pattio wrote:Isn't it kind of funny how little visual information you need to 'just know', with some certainty, that some kind of visual involving a motorcycle is just a setting- that there is no way someone really rides or that a real bike was used. The t-mobile girl is easy on the eyes but there is no pretending for a pixel that she just rode up on that bike.

I proctored bikes to high end photoshoots in NYC and the Hamptons while working for Ducati a few years ago. Part of my job description was to instruct models (male and female) how to get on, get off and mimic operating the controls to A) look semi realistic and/or competent and B) not hurt themselves or the bikes. Seriously.

The models are there to look pretty, sit still for hours while being worked over by hair, makeup and wardrobe, hold sometimes awkward and painful poses under occasionally dreadful working conditions and not blow their lines should they have a speaking part. Precious few of them have any in-depth working knowledge of what they're selling, and really, it wouldn't be an advantage of they did - it would just get in the way of what the director wanted to do.

BackDoorBarbie wrote:

stiles wrote:

Pattio wrote:Isn't it kind of funny how little visual information you need to 'just know', with some certainty, that some kind of visual involving a motorcycle is just a setting- that there is no way someone really rides or that a real bike was used. The t-mobile girl is easy on the eyes but there is no pretending for a pixel that she just rode up on that bike.

I proctored bikes to high end photoshoots in NYC and the Hamptons while working for Ducati a few years ago. Part of my job description was to instruct models (male and female) how to get on, get off and mimic operating the controls to A) look semi realistic and/or competent and B) not hurt themselves or the bikes. Seriously.

The models are there to look pretty, sit still for hours while being worked over by hair, makeup and wardrobe, hold sometimes awkward and painful poses under occasionally dreadful working conditions and not blow their lines should they have a speaking part. Precious few of them have any in-depth working knowledge of what they're selling, and really, it wouldn't be an advantage of they did - it would just get in the way of what the director wanted to do.

i still think she would look better if she was riding and not talking

hehehehehe....

MEEE TOOOOOO.

BackDoorBarbie wrote:
i still think she would look better if she was riding and not talking

I don't think you're the intended target audience of that commercial.

I'd T-her imMobile given half a chance.

Yeah, I paused on this comercial first time I saw it, too. She's cute in her way, marry-able if you will, and I like the color scheme of the big bike with the obvious exception of the rear. Beyond that, commercials in general do not grab me anymore, and having the ability to DVR pretty much everythng I watch allows me to blow past them with impunity anyway.