THE KILLER ELITE an entire conversation takes place in front of an AMC Pacer billboard (shades of MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN!) OF course, no one in San francisco would be caught dead drivin' that lemon bruce
Apple [again!]computers . One shot had the actor in the middle and right of the frame and a desk in the left corner. The camera conspicuously pans left so that we may gaze upon the glory that is Apple pc.
At least they ccop to it in the credits
If Aliens were watching our television shows, and movies they would think the majority of our population own Apple computers!
Captain America Winter Soldier- Apple products, Apple Store, Apple Logo, Apple Associate. I thought for sure S.H.E.I.L.D was owned by Apple! Also Wrigley's Gum, and Chevrolet.
As has been mentioned before several times, Apple's ubiquitous placement of their Mac products, most notably their laptops with logo always showing prominently.
Not quite always, actually - I've seen shows whose makers went out of their ways to avoid showing Apple logos, sometimes in remarkably crude ways, such as sitcom episodes in which characters are using laptops I knew to be Macs (PowerBooks, at the time; now they'd be MacBooks), and the Apple logos on the cover are visibly taped over to obscure them.
As has been mentioned before several times, Apple's ubiquitous placement of their Mac products, most notably their laptops with logo always showing prominently.
Not quite always, actually - I've seen shows whose makers went out of their ways to avoid showing Apple logos, sometimes in remarkably crude ways, ..... the Apple logos on the cover are visibly taped over to obscure them.
RAY DONAVAN Mickey (Jon Voight) come into the house and announces "I bought some speaker wire from Radio Shack" and then, of course, puts the shopping bag with the RS logo emblazoned on the counter. same show: Chopper bikes and Mereceds benz cars
Showtime seems to be the worst offender!
Season two of this "guitly pleasure" brings us yet more epps!
worst offense: Donovan's wife goes into the bathroom to have a cigarette. The only reason she does this is to sneak a blatant promo for a brand of cigs. This is a major no-no in the USA where cig adverts are highly regulated (and banned from tele) second worst: the son needs a ride and employs UBER yuk!
Showtime's EPISODES also continues is shameful plugs for a cars : JAGUAR * ALFA ROMEO amongst others bruce
For the second consecutive year, Showtime's RAY DONOVAN earns the dubious distinction of "Worst Example of EPP" of the Year"
Here is the scene:
A brother and sister are in the school yard chatting. Girl: Do you still like M&Ms? Boy: yes. Girl: Come with me.
They proceed to enter the school wherein they come across a snack machine (probably not permitted in CA). She puts money in and we see the bag of junk food fall down into the slot. For the rest of the scene they pass the bag back and forth whilst talking.
Actually, this is the WORST OF ALL-TIME!~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oculus- Mac desktop computer, laptops, logos, gurgle, spit and repeat. Egregious product placement is even becoming to intrusive in live sports programming. I'm so close to turning off all media. Just hope I die before they "post" it into old TV shows and movies which seems to be the next step. You know insult to injury I'm paying to see a fictional story not a two hour commercial. Or so I thought. Then I go to the store and paying again for the pleasure of their product. Which by the way costs 4 times more than it did 10 years ago. -Rant over.
"Everybody walks around, they're walkin' advertisements. They've got advertisements on their clothes, you know? Walking around with "Adidas" written across their chests, '49'ers on their hats. Jesus. It's pathetic. It's pitiful. The whole culture's one unified field of bought-sold-market researched everything, you know. It used to be that people fermented their own culture, you know? It took hundreds of years, and it evolved over time. And that's gone in America. People now don't even have any concept that there ever was a culture outside of this thing that's created to make money. Whatever's the biggest, latest thing, they're into it. You just get disgusted after a while with humanity for not having more, kind of like, intellectual curiosity about what's behind all this jive bullshit."
Count me in among the "Actually, it never really bothered me" crowd.
It doesn't bother you when the story stops dead in its tracks so two characters to can do a commercial for a product? I can sort of understand it if you can overlook products placed in a scene, e.g a breakfast table scene with a box of Ritz crackers strategically placed on the kitchen table. But, when a drama is interrupted for a blatant COMMERCIAL?
"Everybody walks around, they're walkin' advertisements. They've got advertisements on their clothes, you know? Walking around with "Adidas" written across their chests, '49'ers on their hats. ."
~R. Crumb in Crumb (1995)
Oh God! It seems as if every body in San Francisco is wearin' some UGLY SF Giants shirt or cap! BRUCE
I'm ten minutes into this thing and the number of times the Hunger Games girl and the One Direction guy say "like" as if it were "ah" or "um" is driving me insane. I work at a college with children from that age group and don't hear the word spoken that often!
Count me in among the "Actually, it never really bothered me" crowd.
It doesn't bother you when the story stops dead in its tracks so two characters to can do a commercial for a product? I can sort of understand it if you can overlook products placed in a scene, e.g a breakfast table scene with a box of Ritz crackers strategically placed on the kitchen table. But, when a drama is interrupted for a blatant COMMERCIAL?
i AM BAFFLED.
BRUCE
The only thing more disturbing than the fact that the companies advertise as they do is that so many on this learned, intellectually-minded message board passively accept it.
We agree on very few things, Bruce, but we are practically "brothers-in-arms" when it comes to our dislike of EGREGIOUS product placement in films and TV.
I know some of you people don't read whole threads, so here is that Hawaii Five-0 episode with the egregious product placement:
