5 Commercials That Somehow Actually Inspire Greatness... Sad but true.

I'm going to try to keep this as short as I can.
1) Nike. They're good but it just bugs the heck outta me 'cause you know they're making huge bucks off their name brand attire yet are getting away with only paying pennies a day (?) to the Chinese factory workers making the attire. Bring the jobs back home & share the wealth.
My other huge Pet Peeve about any sports type thing is that we as a country pay these sports players such huge amounts of money to play a "GAME". We have homeless, starving people in this country that in my opinion should come first. How can we justify paying some schmoe 60 million dollars yet can't feed a homeless person? That just doesn't make any sense to me. Our whole system is so out of whack it blows my mind. I could go on but I'll spare you. I think you get the drift.
2) Apple always does good thought provoking commercials.
3) Charity Water - A very good commercial. Once again though - we have our own people living in This country who have to live in 3rd world conditions. They haven't any running water, electricity we bury our nuclear waste on their lands. These places are called Native American Reservations. The Original, First Peoples of this country have been (pardon the expression) bent over & raped by the U.S. All the treaties that we tricked them into signing-we've never once kept our word and done what was signed on in each and every treaty! These are the forgotten people of this country. People assume that since a few tribes are doing ok by having Casino's or some other type of income that they're all doing well. Not true. Check out some of the Reservations in South & North Dakota. 3rd world conditions there. No heat in their homes except a wood burning stove, cracks in the walls that the wind howls through on freezing winter nights & days. Most of the "officials" running the Reservations are as corrupt as they come. And that includes the politicians that know what's going on on the Reservations.
I'm all for helping anyone in need but shouldn't we take care of the people in our own country first? Help to make these Native People the Proud, Honorable People they should be instead of hiding the truths & keeping them down! This obviously is a Huge Pet Peeve of mine. I'll get off my "Soap Box" now.
4) Starbucks - Great commercial & idea. I do have to wonder, with the prices they charge per cup of Coffee or Tea why they couldn't offer 10 cents instead of 5 cents. They make a lot of money they can afford it. Maybe even ask the consumer to match each dime they donate, then they'd be able to double what's being donated? Sheepishly climbs back on "Soap Box" momentarily. Why can't companies do the same for our Native Peoples too? Thanks to our types of foods introduced to the Native Peoples they've been suffering from a lot of health issues. Diabetes is a huge problem for them because of our introduction of processed Sugars an the like. Sorry, just had to add this in here. I'm off my "Soap Box" again.
5) Coca Cola - I remember this ad from when I was young. Yes, I'll admit, I'm old. I've always loved this ad, the idea behind it and the song. It's all good.
Sorry for the length of this comment. Thank You for the thought provoking morning!

Perhaps I am a ***** for a good commercial! I love all of these. All of them.

But perhaps I am blinded by the beauty of Jennifer Connelly. I have been crushing on her since Jim Hensen's "Labrynth"

Cool post, duderama!

These are great! A couple are amoung my very favorites.

It's amazing the emotions a short clip can bring out.

There's a beautiful story from one of our members who shares how Apple's 'Think Different' commericial touched his son who has a disability.

Check it out: http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/...

@EPJulio, yeah, I really love that Nike commercial -- we're totally on the same wavelength. The one for CharityWater one here is awesome too. Another great Apple one is the Big Brother one!

This is a commercial that inspires greatness for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BkIh1R5utY

Nike's MOVE commercial (aired during the 2002 Olympics) deserves some mention. By far my favorite commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Yn9eWgNmk

I have no problems with placing importance on a "GAME"; whenever somebody knocks the role of sports in North American culture, I always think of Jesse Owens.

The commercials are great.....BUT!

It's kind of annoying when people who DON'T achieve anything great compare themselves to people who do. What exactly did NIKE do that "shocked" the world for being bold, inspiring or original? Did Nike unionize its workforce? Save the rain forest? End child labor in China? It's just weird when companies that are as status quo as they come (Coke, Nike, Apple) compare themselves in a self-aggrandizing manner to people like Martin Luther King or Lance Armstrong.

"Sometimes those 'crazy' people who think they can change the world....actually do!"

Um, but you didn't change a damn thing. You're still a multi-billion dollar international outsourcing all its labor to 3rd world countries that exploit their workers.

So the only people that are supposed to be "inspired" by these messages are people like us --- the companies themselves (apparently) don't believe their own 1min 30sec bullshit because they slavishly maintain the status quo!

I've always really loved that Coca Cola teach the world to sing commercial. Good collection!

I'd personally say that I find Nike's "Failure" commercial more inspiring than "Courage", if for no other reason than the fact that it's got a more coherent narrative. Yeah, we get a lot of flashes of inspirational things in Courage, but all its depth is from inherent images--things it reminds us of rather than elements of a story that we don't know.

Of course, they're both brilliant.