There are a few absolutely obnoxious films for product placement, one of which is Terminator 3. Can you remember the Victoria's Secret promotion-priceless!
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Burger King sure is a great place. Arrested Development?
Wayne's World has that great bit.
As far as most annoying, there's one in Going the Distance, a character actually pauses a conversation, holds her cell phone up to the camera, and says the name of her phone.
There was an episode of CSI:NY where one of the investigator's phone starts to ring and the other guy asks him what song it is and he shows his phone and says that it's the new Coldplay single... ugh... worst placement in history!
shareMost blatant one I remember was in "I, Robot" when Will Smith pulls a pair of Nike sneakers from a box and tells his friend how cool retro sneakers they are, while we see him putting them on.
shareThe Island, the whole movie was basically a commercial for various products and brands.
shareWow I hated that. First scene: A drawer full of Puma shoes....and the rest of the movie just looks like a supermarket.
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It is hilarious that you call them Nike sneakers, given the thread topic. They were Converse. Love that movie, btw.
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shareApple/iPhone/iPad...they are everywhere...
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Yes, "I, Robot", imho, had the worst product placement of any movie that I can recall. I remember describing the movie to someone else, and saying how the first 15 minutes of the film felt more like a Nike commercial than an actual movie.
At least with most movies, the product placement is subtle, but that was totally unforgivable.
They were Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars my friend.
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Even though it was converse, I´m with you on that one. The audis were pretty highlighted too. Maybe I only remember this one, because it´s the last of the blockbusters I watched. Any movie that does is basically not worth watching, even though I did kind of enjoy this particular film (Maybe because of the story, which wasn´t their own). Being a dane I also hated how I seemed to see Carlsbergs highlighted in both films and musicvideo constantly for a period. So obvious, and so disgusting. Also, Eminem is a big fat whore!
shareBlade 3..
That film took the cake.
The entire movie Josie and The Pussycats was a commercial
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*sigh* ShawnB, I think you missed the point of Josie and the Pussycats. While it did feature characters from an old cartoon, the movie was a tongue-in-cheek satire about product placement. You know, the whole movie being a story arc about how the music industry was putting subliminal ads in the music?
shareYeah that was pretty great.
shareNo...I got that...and I love that about the movie. One of my fave cheesy movies and that's one of the reasons...that and Alan Cummings' reference to Romy and Michelle, lol. I wasn't saying that as if I were annoyed.
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Britney's Hold it Against Me looks like a Sony commercial. Also has some camera and her perfume. Someone claims she made half-a-million.
shareTRANSFORMERS!
Both movies so far are insanely obvious commercials for cars and other products, but the MOST obvious scene in Transformers 1 is where that one female techie character sneaks out the audio clip she's analyzing on an sd card... The camera shows her taking out this "PANASONIC" sd card close up, and then she very unnaturally flashes it toward the camera as she pulls it away! I laughed so hard when I saw that...
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Furry Vengeance, where Brendan Fraser tries to buy his son's love back with a Nintendo Wii. It was beyond commercial, and it just made a horrendously bad movie that much worse
It always comes to my mind in the TV show Alias, there's an episode when the main character is driving a car, and there's a 2 or 3 second take of the "Focus" plate on the back of the car.
And now that we are into this show, in its blatant copy "Covert Affairs" the main lead drives a VW Golf (Rabbit I think in the US). There are NO shots where you don't see the VW logo.
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