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I'm sorry people, but the prize MUST go to the movie where they placed the product and made it a pivotal plot point, and an idiotic one, namely:
When the aliens in INDEPENDENCE DAY are defeated because they use Microsoft Windows.
Hands-down, the daffiest of them all!
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Not quite an example for this discussion, but a funny scene of ad placement: the kitchen scene in The Truman Show.
My favorite.
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Not quite an example for this discussion, but a funny scene of ad placement: the kitchen scene in The Truman Show.
My favorite.
well, that is a PARODY of product placement.
best example: the beer drinking scene on the dock, complete with mock sentimentality.
excellent film
check it out!
bmr
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I'm still not getting what it is that gripes most of you about actual product signs along the streets, in the homes, etc., in films.
These signs are in our everyday lives...do you want made-up product signs?
WHEN A SCENE is specifically written to showcase a product it is a COMMERCIAL.
Casino Royale has that scene in the Bahamas where the rookie Bond is driving up the coast and is checking his messages on his Sony Ericcson™ mobile phone. That scene was lifted and dropped into a commercial that very same year.
What did that teach me? When I eventually get a mobile phone of my own, it *has* to be a Sony Ericsson™, because Daniel Craig used one!
the Bond films have really degenerated due to this.
TOMMOROW NEVER DIES was one big commercial; months before the film even opened, ads featuringBrosnan shilling for watches, booze, cars, ad nauseum, were unavoidable.
Then the film itself continued the disgrace; the scene where Q gives 007 his 'new' BMW will suffice
one reason i am not the fan i used to be
I guess you don't much about Bond. The original Ian Fleming novels are full of "product placement" - only the best brand names for 007!
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4400 was pretty bad in this regard
What do expect from AMC, the network with the 40 minute episodes (that means 1/3 of the broadcast contains OFFICIAL commercials)?
the breakfast scenes in particular were egregious
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TOMMOROW NEVER DIES was one big commercial; months before the film even opened, ads featuringBrosnan shilling for watches, booze, cars, ad nauseum, were unavoidable.
Then the film itself continued the disgrace; the scene where Q gives 007 his 'new' BMW will suffice
one reason i am not the fan i used to be
I guess you don't much about Bond. The original Ian Fleming novels are full of "product placement" - only the best brand names for 007!
Major difference: Fleming was not PAID to mention products. he did it to enhance the reality of the novels!
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Casino Royale has that scene in the Bahamas where the rookie Bond is driving up the coast and is checking his messages on his Sony Ericcson™ mobile phone. That scene was lifted and dropped into a commercial that very same year.
Also, the Ford Mondeo he was driving was a car that was going to be released a month after the film opened.
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I'm also on the lookout for movies that show said placed products being destroyed or otherwise shat upon, like the Marlboro truck in Superman II.....
or BURGER KING in SUpE IV....
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I just watched "Thor" today and seems that Honda had its Acura brand being highly touted. Kinda annoying to say the least.
i DIDN'T KNOW gods drove cars!
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What does god need with a honda?
did you not read the post above you?
huH?
huh?
LOL!
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