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Nike's Commercial: Lebron's Chamber of Fear

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Nike's Commercial: Lebron's Chamber of Fear

Nikes new "person" is Lebron James

Anyone see the commercial Chamber of Fear? I've heard awesome things about it but yet to see it myself

Anyone have a link?

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I've seen it during the Raptors telecasts.
I think it's ******** as hell.
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The spots are kind of goofy, and the website doesn't make sense.

I prefer sleeker ads, like the Reebok one awhile back with Iverson weaving through an obstacle course and burying a shot at the end.
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its kinda weird.. but its also cool in a way.
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I thought it was ok. Definately think it's hell of a lot better than that lame T-Mac commercial. Great job T-Mac you had cameras in the perfect spot. It looked like you jumped about 1 foot off the ground.
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T-Mac just plain looks goofy. He's not a good ad pitchman.
His eyes are always droopy, he looks "high", big ears and all on a small head.
Not ideal.
Now if it's a comedic spot, then maybe ...

I still remember the ol' David "the Admiral" Robinson ads with Gary Payton as his servant. Those were great.
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With the amount of money both firms are capable of dishing out, both ads are terribly stupid, and lame. T-Mac's worse. LBJ's not that much better either. The commercial is so inconsitent, including the animation. Obviously they were going for Kill Bill style (what's with the yellow sub-title, really? Aside from KB, I can't think of any movie that uses it) in one of them that the old master was speaking Mandarin. The writings describing each floor are in traditional Chinese, not really indicating Mandarin in that case. Poorly done, and I didn't like it.
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i think three of the best commercials for basketball so far are (no particular order):

1) Vince Carter's "Dr. Funk" commercial when they're playing in rucker park
2) Kevin Garnett's "he's got the whole world in his hands..." commercial
3) LeBron James' where he takes those long shots from the other end of the court
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It's pretty stupid.
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I thought the commercial was stupid. What the heck is with the 4th level Complacency? Guess they were desperate.

It was more like Bruce Lee's "Game of Death" (inspiration for Kill Bill) as evidenced by LBJ's pathetic imitation of Bruce Lee's scream at the end of the commercial.

I mean really, does Nike think LBJ is as legendary as Bruce?
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Stupid for me but then again, they're not aiming the ad for me. I'm not a 'baller'... so it probably doesn't matter.

I'm sure they know what theyr'e doing and their target audience probably likes it...
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[/quote=Fantaz]Fantaz It's pretty stupid [/quote]


OK. What would you rather watch during a timeout in a basketball game? That or some type of advertisement? I can only agree if it was getting repetitive, otherwise I love it.
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you guys are all clueless. it's a fact that these Nike ad's are inspired by the classic Shaw Brothers movies. the print ad's gave it away.
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I like it. It's longer than the avg. commercial too so it's more like a story than just trying to get you to buy their product. Way better than the tmac one.
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i dont know why so many ppl hate it. I actually like it...much much better than TMACs commercial
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tinlunlau wrote:you guys are all clueless. it's a fact that these Nike ad's are inspired by the classic Shaw Brothers movies. the print ad's gave it away.
I didn't like it before but since it's inspired by the shaw brothers, I like it now!
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HOCKEY wrote:its kinda weird.. but its also cool in a way.
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