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It can appear in straight-forward ways, like offering Reese's Pieces to an alien, ordering a Pepsi in a retro café of the future, or filming an advertisement for Suntory Whiskey while visiting Japan. A movie might use it in a playful way, such as modeling a build-up of ghost activity with a Twinkie, Pepsico brands being the only surviving fast food places in 2032 A.D., or a man-eating bed glugging down a bottle of Pepto-Bismol. It can be incredibly blatant, as with AOL in You've Got Mail, Nintendo in The Wizard, the assorted billboards of Love Happy, and the Converse All-Stars (“vintage 2004”) in I, Robot. They might spin it with allusions, a la Little Nero's Pizza and Pizza the Hutt. Or it could be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjB6r-HDDI0 However it's used, product placement is a pretty pervasive part of contemporary movies, along with Hollywood accounting and its mysteries. Is it terrible? Is it amusing? Does it just not matter that much? Which movies have handled it best? Which used it worst? Who ordered Domino's?
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Jan 22, 2017 05:52
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action has a Walmart appear in the middle of the desert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgRAH0DRAuM Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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Jan 22, 2017 15:21
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The product placement in Rosemary's Baby. The credits specifally mentions that Rosemary's hair is done by Vidal Sassoon and when someone in the movie asks about her hair she even says "It's Vidal Sassoon. It's very in" . Then everyone in the movie keeps saying how ugly the haircut is.
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Jan 22, 2017 15:45
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That reminds me of how, every time Seinfeld offers someone a Snapple, they turn it down.
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Jan 22, 2017 17:25
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Sometimes product placement can be hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pkB2GGD72M
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Jan 22, 2017 17:35
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Return of the Killer Tomatoes is a vastly underrated comedy masterpiece that features George Clooney in his finest role, and it has a hilarious product placement scene, beating Wayne's World by a few years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogId4kCae1A
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Jan 22, 2017 19:23
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Josie and the Pussycats is an amazing movie that got nothing for all it's product placement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9k8b9tjKI4
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Jan 22, 2017 19:31
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I know the Bond films always kind of featured product placement with its cars but it reached ridiculous levels with the Daniel Craig films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naBRz1Y0cc8
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Jan 22, 2017 20:03
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Kingsglaive, a 3D CG companion movie to Final Fantasy 15 has a bunch of billboards and ads for real brands, even featuring 2 characters riding around in an Audi.
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Jan 22, 2017 21:09
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SleepCousinDeath posted:Josie and the Pussycats is an amazing movie that got nothing for all it's product placement. I have and will continue to defend this movie until I die. It's so goddamn good.
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