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Nicole Kidman FAILS at Brain Training in this new ad

11:26 AM on 06.26.2007, Jim Sterling 43 comments

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What a shocker. A celebrity has a Nintendo DS in her hands ... and is playing Brain Training! Wow, only Brain Age or Nintendogs could ramp up the cliche' levels. Tom Cruise's former snatch of the month, Nicole Kidman, has begun her campaign to be the pale face of the DS by advertising that she's utterly rubbish at More Brain Training, something I don't find impossible to believe if her ability to play rock, paper, scissors is anything like her ability to pick relationship material.
 
Look at her, she can't conceive that she got a score of 52.  You show that mad Japanese professor who's boss, Nicole! We're rooting for you. Speak into that mic. Speak loud and ... oh. Oh, well no wonder you're losing, how do you expect it to understand Australian!? No cookie for you! Still, could be worse, you could be stuck with Tom and his Scientology pals, worshipping the corpse of L. Ron Hubbard twice nightly and frying ghosts off your body with little electroboxes.
 
Anyway, this works perfectly with Nintendo's plan to keep their hooks in this so-called 'casual' market. All I can do is repeat what was asked in the comments thread for this video -- what does a game of chance have to do with your intelligence?

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LadyLucifer's Avatar
LadyLucifer at 06/26/2007 11:34
She's a special kind of idiot...

On a serious note: RPS is pretty badass.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1761338
LadyLucifer's Avatar
LadyLucifer at 06/26/2007 11:41
#0000FF


AKA


BLUE.
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tazarthayoot at 06/26/2007 11:41
duh...ROCK..NO! SCISSOR! NO! YOU BATHTURD!
Nick Chester's Avatar
Nick Chester at 06/26/2007 11:48
Oh wow! Nicole Kidman is just a normal person! She plays Brain Age on the Nintendo DS! I have to go buy one, too!
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phamtq at 06/26/2007 11:56
What's with all the hate? Jesus christ.

I say having Nicole Kidman as a rep is a good choice. I don't know if you've noticed but gaming still has a stigma attached to it. By making it more mainstream, it not only helps the industry but also helps removes the nasty assumptions people have about us not unlike the assumptions some of us have about other people.
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Jim Sterling at 06/26/2007 11:58
pham: I'm all for gaming getting the mainstream attention it needs. The commercial's just dumb is all. :)
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phamtq at 06/26/2007 12:03
Dumb for gamers like us perhaps but most likely it works very well with the rest of the public.
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Altair78 at 06/26/2007 12:03
It's a cute-ish commercial. I don't mind it much.

It's not making me want to buy one (since all Nicole Kidmans is sold seperately)... but it's still cute.
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Jim Sterling at 06/26/2007 12:05
pham: Which is why I didn't say 'remove this dumb advert'. I just joked about it.
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sadecki at 06/26/2007 12:10
This is some hard-hitting video game journalism. I'm so glad there is a hard-core gaming site for hard-core gamers.

But, seriously, I'm glad someone finally stuck it to Nicole Kidman because she's never bothered anyone ever and, frankly, I'm sick of it. All worth it to read the phrase 'snatch of the month.' The product of an all-nighter for sure but worth every second.
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Dale North at 06/26/2007 12:11
nicky is still a looker. Game still sucks.
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Jim Sterling at 06/26/2007 12:22
Haha, I wasn't even that fucking harsh. I love it.
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phamtq at 06/26/2007 12:27
I don't know. Maybe it's because all the comments I read on websites that have women who most people consider at least somewhat attractive eventually ends with how they're skanks or how their knees are crooked.

It gets annoying after awhile.
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Jim Sterling at 06/26/2007 12:33
pham: I don't mind Nicole Kidman. It was jokery, settle down. People need not take it so personally.
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imbeta at 06/26/2007 12:38
I don't find it cute when girls hit their foreheads... one thing is for them to hide that they may not be very smart, but when they become physical about it... egh.
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iliketuna at 06/26/2007 12:44
i love how she says "paper" at the end. that was hot
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bhive01 at 06/26/2007 12:45
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Clockwork at 06/26/2007 12:45
So apparently she's left handed. Anyone catch that besides me? Yeah...I'm going to go back in my little corner now.
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bhive01 at 06/26/2007 12:46
Excellent. A blank comment. I assure you it wasn't blank when I posted it.
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bhive01 at 06/26/2007 12:47


There we go...
Samit Sarkar's Avatar
Samit Sarkar at 06/26/2007 12:57
HAWT.
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Sharpless at 06/26/2007 13:01
Dumb commercial. I don't mind it, though. If it gets more people involved in playing games, then I see no harm, be they casual or hardcore. Speaking of hardcore, Nicole will always look good to me, airbrushy face or not.

*imagines an Alba/Kidman DS threesome*
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MaxVest at 06/26/2007 13:26
@JimSterling: I think the point of the game is you have to say which item will defeat the one shown to you. It shows you "rock," so you have to say "paper" or "acid rain" to defeat it. Kind of like the yellow font on the word "blue" in BT1.

Now that's a game I'd like to play at Vegas. The dealer shows scissors: what do you say? What DO you SAY??
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Mxyzptlk at 06/26/2007 13:27
What the hell is More Brain Training? When did this come out?
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0bshaky at 06/26/2007 13:39
LOL! Nicely written! How old is she? Like 50 right? That happens when you have money that doesnt get spent thru the nostrils...
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phamtq at 06/26/2007 14:01
@JimSterling:

Taking it personally? Maybe you should re-read your post. If you don't like the commercial than whatever. I'm sure you've got more writing skills than to resort to talking about a woman's snatch in an attempt to play the "I'm clever by bashing" card.



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Bricfa at 06/26/2007 14:24
I thought when Jim said snatch he was not referring to a vagina, but more like when you go to a seafood place and order the "catch of the day" kinda thing.

on another note, are we in some kind of pre-E3 drought? It seems no good news has come out recently.
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Bricfa at 06/26/2007 14:25
Or maybe...
It's a clever pun that means both!
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Jacki Jinx at 06/26/2007 14:45
Thank you, Nicole Kidman! You make women look smarter by the minute -__-
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Niero at 06/26/2007 14:55
Dressing in white while playing Nintendo products is an absolute must. Failure to do so is punishable by premature aging.
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MaxVest at 06/26/2007 15:37
The whole dressing-in-white thing could be worse... Nintendo could be forcing people to dress in metallic rose.

Metallic Rose: Good faux-70s band name, heinous handheld color.
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StrawberryFFuck at 06/26/2007 17:39
She looks pretty cute in that commercial.
Doesn't make me wanna buy one though.
Then again I don't want to play brain age.

I like her cause she is a great actress.
*see: to die for.
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RJG at 06/26/2007 18:14
FTA: Look at her, she can't conceive that she got a score of 52

Oooh, that's a low blow. It made me laugh though, so it's alright.

For those of you who don't know, Nicole Kidman has lots of rumours going on about her apparent lack of fertility. Apparently she miscarried and that was the result of her break up with Tom Cruise and she has since lost a baby with her new husband Keith Urban.

I never thought I'd see the day I'd see such tabloid allusions on Destructoid.
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aborto thefetus at 06/26/2007 18:17
@phamtq
Jesus christ man, you are over-friggin reacting!!!
She is a woman, she is a celebrity, people refering to her as dumb or a whore is pretty much inevetible. calm down.
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Morrius at 06/26/2007 18:17
Rock.
Rock.
ROCK.
ROH HOCK.
ROCK-A.
ROOOOOCK.

Crappy voice detection aside, my grandad owns her at this game, and he hasn't got a clue what's going on. Still, can't knock Nicole, even if I do have to watch her massacre The Golden Compass... She's universally recognised and massively uncontroversial - perfect Nintendo material.
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Michymaster at 06/26/2007 18:25
she is so fuckin hot
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Lord_Satorious at 06/27/2007 02:07
Nicole Kidman is hot. That's all I care about.
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Dexter345 at 06/27/2007 02:19
Rock, Paper, Scissors is not a game of luck. It's a game of wits. Check it.
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ffmusicdj at 06/27/2007 08:28
You! Thats actually a good commercial! I liked it!
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