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- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -3/+67Transformers!
- michaelje0, on 06/30/2009, -1/+50I don't like blatant and unnecessary product placement, but occasionally it has a point. When a character stops to make a call in front of a Pepsi machine that's perfectly in view, that annoys me. But when David Lynch writes in a character that drives a Ford Truck, that says something about that character.
I liked reading this list, but in the case of Cast Away, he was drawing a comparison between a company and employee that places a lot of importance on time and being stuck on an island where time no longer matters. In this case it helped the art more than it distracted from it. - sirjimithy, on 06/30/2009, -18/+62The Passion of the Christ
- WaCkYmAk, on 06/30/2009, -1/+45Any Michael Bay movie is a 2 hour commercial for Pepsi products...with explosions, and *****.
- RenoKb, on 06/30/2009, -1/+43Buried for not mentioning The Wizard; I figured that would be #1 on the list.
How did he know where that whistle was, anyways? - superkendall, on 06/30/2009, -1/+33Come on, the Italian Job used MINI Coopers because the original 1969 Michael Caine movie used them! It was heritage, not advertising...
And even if you still think it was advertising it's still absurd not to mention there is a real basis to use MINI Coopers before other cars. - ritzcracker, on 06/30/2009, -1/+33Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
- xscraped, on 06/30/2009, -0/+32I, Robot?
- yaazz, on 06/30/2009, -0/+24Happy Gilmore.
Free Subway for life!! - ovenchicken, on 06/30/2009, -1/+22Where's "The Wizard?"
- augment, on 06/30/2009, -5/+25I got to disagree with Cast Away being on that list. It didn't really promote FedEx. It made FedEx look bad by having its plain and all you important packages (like Wilson) crash into the ocean.
- Yourselves, on 06/30/2009, -0/+16http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/5749/waynepizza ...
- Kahnza, on 06/30/2009, -0/+12What about The Island?
- rodon, on 06/30/2009, -1/+12add every Michael Bay movie ever made
- serif69, on 06/30/2009, -0/+11Adverts in disguise
- diggapleeeze, on 06/30/2009, -0/+10Where was it said the movie is based on the tv show and not the toys?
- samrwamr, on 06/30/2009, -0/+10"Top Gun" is a division of the Navy.
- OuijaCat, on 06/30/2009, -0/+10I would have included "Back to the Future" (1985), with it's proliferation of Pepsi/Pizza Hut products.
- Sogui, on 06/30/2009, -0/+9Oh wow a list that isn't from Cracked.com?
Oh wait, this guy writes for Cracked too.... - falconear, on 06/30/2009, -0/+9Especially since it's (was?) the same company. Maybe Pizza Hut is popular overseas and Taco Bell is not.
Still, I love every minute of that terrible-ass movie. "Murder-Death-Kill..."
"You mean I'm eating a ratburger?" - 1what1, on 06/30/2009, -1/+10mmmmmmmm...*****.
- Tonicks, on 06/30/2009, -1/+9*plane ; your
- ChiaGod, on 06/30/2009, -0/+8Not sure why you're getting dug down, all the cars in minority report were Lexus (Lexii?)
- samrwamr, on 06/30/2009, -2/+10That's a pretty weak list. Just because a product or company is showed in a film everyone freaks out and gets angry at product placement..... Film characters use real products and work for real companies too.....
In fact I'm pretty sure i never even heard "AOL" mentioned or even saw the logo much in "You've Got Mail".
The more I think of it actually, that list is awful - mainly Cast Away and The Italian Job. The products and companies are central to the plot of the film... so they were written into the story before anything legal was placed or paid for. They're not commercials... they're just real life... Sure they had to get it approved, legalized, and chose the right company, but I don't think that if Chevy paid more money than Mini to have their product featured we would've seen them flying down the steps to the subway in 3500 Silverado's...
THAT SAID - Both Transformers films were 150 minute infomercials for GM. I mean the zooming in on the logos and stuff... THAT'S the kind of product placement that frustrates and detracts from the film (or TV show - 24 was the worst!). - blitzwing85, on 06/30/2009, -0/+8Correction: "5 Movies and 1 TV Series That Were Glorified Commercials"
Knight Rider wasn't a movie. - alexismyhomeboi, on 06/30/2009, -4/+12I am Legend
- kirbyriw, on 06/30/2009, -3/+11Yeah maybe, but that was just a great movie.
- FritoPendejo, on 06/30/2009, -0/+7I don't know. I thought the part of the movie where the Fedex CEO showed up on a jet ski to save him was unrealistic.
- bstock, on 06/30/2009, -0/+7Yes, I, Robot should have been #1 on that list.
- monkeyrun, on 06/30/2009, -0/+7Transformers is actually a GM ad, pretending to be an 80s toys ad pretending to be a cartoon.
Transformers, advertising in disguise. - Tehrab, on 06/30/2009, -0/+7Why are you being dugg down? The opening five minutes of the movie is about as gratuitous as film commercials get. The five minute spot, beyond containing the film's main character and set in the same post-apocalyptic NYC, is actually contradictory and irrelevant to the rest of the movie.
Most of the spot is just about how awesome the Shelby scoots around this badlands version of NYC. The only part of the commercial that even comes close to being part of the movie is how this "hunt" is depicted as a vaguely desperate search for food despite the fact that Will Smith's character lives in abundance and has been doing so for some time. - drewc1138, on 06/30/2009, -1/+8*plane
- decker12, on 06/30/2009, -2/+8I agree. Using Fedex gave it a great sense of realism. You got to see how their system works, which was interesting in itself, and the brand was familiar enough that you really wondered what would happen to your packages if one of their planes went down. Fedex and the packages were almost like another character in the movie.
- kylere, on 06/30/2009, -0/+6Actually it was the best commercial the US Navy ever had.
- primatage, on 06/30/2009, -0/+6seriously dude? the whole "naval aviator" thing didn't tip you off? or the aircraft carrier?
- Vital8, on 06/30/2009, -0/+6Demolition man trivia: For some non-American releases, references to Taco Bell were changed to Pizza Hut. nobody knows why
- gortface, on 06/30/2009, -1/+7Jurassic Park FTW! totally promoting dinosaurs
- frepnog, on 06/30/2009, -1/+7no it is not.
it is based on apocryphal accounts of events that may or may not have occurred 2000 years ago that were supposedly recorded years after the events described were supposed to have taken place.
/No proof Jesus existed. None. Except for the stories in the bible. - rhyss, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5@michaelje0: I have to disagree on your point about Cast Away. I found FedEx very distracting from the story. I agree with your point about time and its meaning on the island and with using a company like FedEx. However, rather than using an actual company, perhaps it would have been better to use a fictional one like DefEx or something stupid like that. Perhaps not a stupid one like that, but something benign and still gets the point across as in the case with Toy Story where they had a fictional real estate company called Virtual Realty. Gets the point across, kind of clever and doesn't draw unnecessary attention to itself.
- Nephersir7, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5Casino Royale--> dozens of Sony product placements http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naBRz1Y0cc8
at least 2 Vaio Laptops
some Sony Bravia TVs
1 Sony Walkman mp3 player
multiple Sony-Ericsson Walkman phones
1 Sony Cybershot camera
1 Blu-ray player & 1 Sony Blu Ray disc
etc. - dumass4u, on 06/30/2009, -1/+6I love the power glove. . . its so bad.
- SScottAZ, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5Are you kidding me? The first ten minutes of the movie were about how dedicated FedEx was to deliver your clocks on time.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -1/+6Dude, don't take this the wrong way, but you're 54 years old - just a wee little bit older than their target demographic. Like by a generation or so. I thought that would have been obvious.
(That's not to say there aren't plenty 54-yr-olds who would enjoy it, mind you, but you're plenty old enough to know whether or not you and your friends would enjoy a film clearly geared to the teens/20s crowd.....) - thectrain, on 06/30/2009, -1/+5The Island was brutal for product placements. The movie itself was terrible, but the product placement made it 10x worse.
- Kelden21, on 06/30/2009, -1/+5Came here to say that, shocked I had to scroll so far. Maddox nailed that right on the head.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=i_ ... - HHP2K, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4Almost all of these movies existed before TiVo, DVR's, or Ad-Block Plus.
- ShingoEX, on 06/30/2009, -1/+5But the 1st movie was quite the GM product ad.
- FredFredrickson, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4Thank you! I always said that when I watched that movie as a kid. You could never find that whistle up there without reading about it first in Nintendo Power.
- frepnog, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4lolwut.
Star Wars went in the crapper WITH Return of the Jedi.
one word. Ewoks. - sirjimithy, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4First thing that came to mind!
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