Thats the worst product placement sionce years!!!!
in my opinion... and apart from c.walking the hole story is told very lame.
Its very artificial and didn't suck me in at all. KFC-Logos every 2 minutes gave me the rest.
Perhaps if you could ignore the KFC placement for a minute, you would have liked the story a bit more.
I thought it was a great indy film. Certainly worth the 83 minutes, much more than much of the dreck put out by Hollywood recently (which, by the way, has a great deal of product placement itself).
I thought it was very good. You got a problem with KFC?
shareI'm not going to say it wasn't a product placement, but everyone out there has a place that they go to and it isn't unreasonable to assume that some ppl go to KFC. So as far as i'm concerned weither or not they were compensated for using KFC is irrevelent, cause it's still plausable that they would have gone there all the time. There is a restaurant that me and my buddies go to all the time, and if they made a movie on us would that be product placement, or just accurate?
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It's used as a metaphor but that's probably just too difficult for you to understand.
shareI didn't see it as product placement so much as recognising that KFC is a place that a lot of people eat at (but not me!). It's part of contemporary society
I think KFC didn't actually glow: the irony that Henry wanted a 'classy' restaurant end ended up at KFC; the manager wouldn't sell them the drumsticks, and it was obvious that they were getting bored eating there.
Was it any more placement than the use of the VW van.
The story was typical of the road movie genre and some intergenerational reconciliation themes but it was reasonably watchable. IMO, the Straight Road and About Schmidt were better.
I agree... I mean, it may have been product placement, but when they get to the one that is burned down, and the guy is laughing... do you really think that is a good ad campain for KFC?
I thought this was a great movie... I don't think you are supposed to watch it and say.. I wanna go to KFC, or I wanna go on a road trip... you are supposed to want to spend time with your family while you still can. The importance about the movie is family, and no matter what happens in your family, the fact is.. its still YOUR family. Cherish it. Thoughts?
Yeah, if anything I'm surprised that KFC allowed the filmmakers to use it as the restaurant; perhaps the KFC bigwigs didn't get the metaphor.
shareOn the one hand they needed the money.
On the other hand, Henry Lair is a bit of an eccentric and loves KFC (which chicken is very good indeed.) There's a lot of educated old-timers with whimsical habits as near-and-dear as Henry's. I know a bunch of people like Henry.
An average decent movie—a tad soapy, though—written according the play-it-safe storytelling manual that is: a larger-than-life character, estranged father and embittered son's strife, and finally everybody is redeemed on the face of death.
It has be done before it will be done again.
Anyway, why are some people kicking such a fuss about product placement?
I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill.
get it extra crispy!
Season's Greetings!
i like chicken..hahha only playing
yeah true product placement
certainly not by accident
i wouldn't be suprised if kfc made the story and sold it to Wb for advertising
i personally like the movie it was good i mean atleast it had christopher walken ;)
...obviously another PETA fanatic. I wouldn't read into Max Ziebell's comments any deeper than that.
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