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Sockser posted:That's kinda the idea behind the viral marketing half of the film's advertising. The film is this dark horrorterror and the real ads for the film are as such. This is exactly what I thought, it's a perfect representation of a "squeaky clean" tech company being all  about the stuff they've made for the project of the century. I don't even mind the Verizon plug too much because of how well it fits into that scrubbed-clean sleaziness feel.
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kiimo posted:Don't break my suspension of disbelief with your lovely cross-marketing strategy. How can you not have a big enough budget for loving Prometheus to avoid something like this? What is this, a struggling NBC sitcom? Your suspension of disbelief is broken by use of a company that actually exists? I don't think that's how it works.
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Maybe it's me but I think it would have been better if David-8 was run by Google Android OS. Also, I'm hoping that's not a big spoiler because I didn't know Fassbender was a synthetic.
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Seriously. I mean, it was bad enough that Aliens had that awful tie-in wither Caterpillar for the powerloader. 
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Deadpool posted:Your suspension of disbelief is broken by use of a company that actually exists? I don't think that's how it works. I was immediately disgusted because I could hear the cross-promotion meeting happening because I've been to them. It might not offend others, who knows. But personally I don't like mixing a futuristic sci-fi/horror movie with present companies, at least not Verizon because I feel like it dips into a tongue-in-cheek effect that a movie of this magnitude should be above. The fact that I'm even thinking about that takes me out of the story. I suppose it would be one thing if it was an iconic company like IBM but Verizon is way too new, way too contemporary. Plus it is a phone carrier service, what does that have to do with androids? Maybe Allied Signal or some kind of engineering company but not a phone carrier. Blech. I dislike. kiimo fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Apr 19, 2012 |
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Robert Denby posted:So those "Dark Shadows" posters with the skewed color schemes looked… pretty bad. I was very surprised walking around New York today to see one of the same posters 100 feet high: Oho! A fellow New Yorker. I walk by this corner a lot! My favorite poster to ever be on that wall was Lady in the Water. Gorgeous poster. Shame about the movie. My least favorite, the new Arthur. Something about it just depressed me.
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kiimo posted:I was immediately disgusted because I could hear the cross-promotion meeting happening because I've been to them. It might not offend others, who knows. How'd you feel about Blade Runner?
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Those posters are just from the viral campaign and were unlocked through a Verizon App where you explored the Prometheus, thus the sponsorship logo. I don't think they're going to be in any theaters.Die Laughing posted:How'd you feel about Blade Runner? So many of the advertisers in that film either no longer exist or have changed their logos so drastically that I wonder if younger generations would still read most of the signs as product placement. I think Coca-Cola is likely the only logo a lot of new viewers would be familiar with.
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I quite like those Prometheus posters. They seem like something I could find in the pages of Wired or some other tech-type magazine. It works for the film since the company thinks of themselves like Apple does themselves, despite how evil they really are. That last sentence works just as well for Apple as Weyland-Yutani. How about that...
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Bugblatter posted:So many of the advertisers in that film either no longer exist or have changed their logos so drastically that I wonder if younger generations would still read most of the signs as product placement. I think Coca-Cola is likely the only logo a lot of new viewers would be familiar with.
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Yeah, I remember Pan-Am and RCA having some of the big building-screen ads.
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And Kodak, I believe!
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Die Laughing posted:How'd you feel about Blade Runner? I was too young to recognize what was going on. Walking around the city and being bombarded with ads in the film is a little more acceptable to me (because that happens in real life) than having "powered by Verizon" on your poster but I suppose the fact that it is a viral ad unlocked through a Verizon application make it much more tolerable, I didn't know that. I just saw them on IMP Awards.
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kiimo posted:I was too young to recognize what was going on. Walking around the city and being bombarded with ads in the film is a little more acceptable to me (because that happens in real life) than having "powered by Verizon" on your poster but I suppose the fact that it is a viral ad unlocked through a Verizon application make it much more tolerable, I didn't know that. I just saw them on IMP Awards. It's okay, Verizon were bought out by Walmart in the far future.
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Product Placement is fine as long as it's background. In fact, it's more than okay, since the real world is filled to the brim with it. Therefore, it helps the film feel more realistic.
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SpeedofLife posted:Product Placement is fine as long as it's background. In fact, it's more than okay, since the real world is filled to the brim with it. Therefore, it helps the film feel more realistic. ie not like this 
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Dissapointed Owl posted:ie not like this Are also: The Island. All of it.
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So I walked past a movie rental place this morning, and this was up in their window: 
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It's as lazy a poster as I am.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Are also: The Island. Or the Smallville episode Hero. STRIDE GUM
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bobkatt013 posted:Or the Smallville episode Hero. STRIDE GUM If I recall correctly Stride Gum is also the beneficiary who paid Skate...2? So that when you performed tricks on the opressive 'NO FUN/SKATING ALLOWED' posters put up by THE MAN it turned them into Stride Gum ads. Fuckin' sick as.
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bobkatt013 posted:Or the Smallville episode Hero. STRIDE GUM It worked because I never heard of Stride Gum until every bi-weekly  product placement derail mentioned their Smallville episode.Also, that fake Disney poster from a few weeks ago has become so prolific that Snopes had to do a write-up on it, so congrats to that guy.
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See also Hawaii 5-0. Also been noticing Subway product placement a lot lately.
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Dan Didio posted:If I recall correctly Stride Gum is also the beneficiary who paid Skate...2? So that when you performed tricks on the opressive 'NO FUN/SKATING ALLOWED' posters put up by THE MAN it turned them into Stride Gum ads. It was Shaun White Skateboarding.
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BROS SUN PRAISER posted:It's such an awful, lazy poster. At the point of movie rentals, the whole point of posters is to say "Hey, this is that movie that's got that scene in it." To that extent, the poster's a success.
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bobkatt013 posted:Or the Smallville episode Hero. STRIDE GUM Or when Bones pretty much stopped in the middle of a scene to extol the virtues of MY NEW SUBARU.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:ie not like this Or in the modern Casino Royal's pre-title segment, with a shot of a quickly opened desk drawer containing a gun and also a fancy Sony phone.
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Young Freud posted:Maybe it's me but I think it would have been better if David-8 was run by Google Android OS. It's not a spoiler and is actually a big part of the viral campaign. Also it gives me a chance to spread this really good viral that goes with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWmbqH_z7jM
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Dissapointed Owl posted:ie not like this I've become so jaded, it took me a minute to realize the product placement. I kept looking at the syrup bottle in the lower right like "Is it a POM juice placement?"
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CobiWann posted:I've become so jaded, it took me a minute to realize the product placement. I assure you, it's unmissable in motion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HpIZrOH4zc
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Young Freud posted:Maybe it's me but I think it would have been better if David-8 was run by Google Android OS. But then the other characters would have to pull his battery out at least a dozen times during the movie.
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Shanty posted:I assure you, it's unmissable in motion. Referenced in dialogue even: "Converse All-Stars, vintage 2004". The only thing missing is a subtitle that flashes on the screen "Available Now!" just in case those in the audience didn't get the 2004 date (which also happens to be the same year the movie was released).
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I Robot's was bad but it's nothing compared to this Good product placement is hard to do but every now and then you get flawless integration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz5acPAKLZo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jm6B31HKBw Ok I'll shut up about product placement now Here have a poster of a dapper as gently caress Bruce Willis doing his best Jason Statham in Transporter impression  Mierenneuker posted:Product placement you say? God I love Torque so much. Happy Noodle Boy fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Apr 20, 2012 |
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Product placement you say? Bah, embedding disabled. Click me. Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Apr 20, 2012 |
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Will GI Joe have a Snake Eyes or Jinx poster? I'll buy those and that Cobra Commander one.
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Codependent Poster posted:Will GI Joe have a Snake Eyes or Jinx poster? I'll buy those and that Cobra Commander one. Here's all 8 character posters
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