The most shameless piece of product placement you've ever seen in a movie?

[DemonicVixen]

Terminator 2 had quite a bit of shameless product placement, if I recall correctly.

Actually, just about any movie where a character drinks a pepsi/coca-cola.

You mean like Mac And Me? The movie that was pretty much entirely a commercial for Coke? Even worse is that it was an absolutely horrible commercial.

There where also the aliens from Mars mini series years ago that was one really one long commercial for the Mars corporation.

Wow never thought anyone but me had seen that movie... Personally bugger the advertising, i hate that its more a rip off of E.T. I can't be bothered to name every movie that i have seen that includes adverts for some form of product or other. I do know hoever that there are thousands.

 

[davidboring]

I Love you Man... maybe I'm wrong, but in the previous when the 'dude' guy was walking down the beach wasn't he wearing a pair of sandals or some other inconspicuous footware? Yet in the actual movie he's sporting a pair of Manuggs of all things. You may as well cut your balls off to begin with if you're going to buy a pair of those things, making it even worse it's in the middle of summer on a California beach. Like I said I could be wrong, but I really hope they didn't CG those on there as a product placement.

I Love You Man placed the iPhone HARD. It may as well have been called 'I Love You iPhone, Man.'

Classic placement for me was the Marlboro in Die Hard. Yipi-ki-cancer!

 

[Stainless]

Here in Norway they're currently running The Biggest Loser: Couples Edition, and being the trash-tv junkie I am, I occasionally plunk myself down in front of it. It has the most shameless product placement of any show I've ever seen, ever. In my life.

They do this thing where one of the trainers gathers their team and pretends to be teaching them about, say, nutrition, but instead just tells them that Ziplock bags helps keep food fresh using their patented blah blah blah system, AND IT SAVES YOU MONEY!

Just about every episode has something like this, with the contestants saying something along the lines of "it just makes sense" or "oh wow, that's great!" It's like a tiny little infomercial inside the show.

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[Samm1ch]

Not a movie, but there have been a few episodes of "Smallville" that went a tad beyond the pale. One of them had Lois distracting a security guard by telling him how awesome her new Ford Fusion was. Another shoehorned in a line from Chloe about the great gas mileage one gets from a Toyota Yaris. They also had Clark repeatedly show off his Tundra pickup, as if a farmboy from Kansas would ever drive a Toyota.

The Sarah Connor Chronicles also had a few instances of vehicular placement. They actually had an entire episode sponsored by "the new 2009 Dodge Ram," complete with a filmed Brian Austin Green thank-you note to the fine folks at Dodge. I felt bad for the guy.

Recently, I noticed that Liam Neeson always managed to secure a slick Audi in which to find his daughter in "Taken." The funny thing is that I might not have even noticed that 5-10 years ago, when product placement was less pervasive than it is now.

 

[Vextroid]

Waynes world #1 I lol'd so hard when i saw that scene.

Party On!

 

[nerfando]

It's been quite a while since I watched it, but if I recall correctly the Powerboots in the Super Mario Brothers movie had a Nike swoosh on them.

Right before the Bob-omb blows up in some "pivotal" scene the audience gets a clear view of the underside of its feet. Lo and behold, the Bob-omb had labels under his feet saying "Reebok." I thought that was pretty shameless.

I don't know about the powerboots, but I'm sure about the Reebok. Now if Nike paid for their swoosh to be in a movie where Bob-ombs wear Reeboks, then the movie's producers were indeed pretty more than shameless. Conniving? Hmm.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

you want shameless product placement?
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[Samm1ch]

Here in Norway they're currently running The Biggest Loser: Couples Edition, and being the trash-tv junkie I am, I occasionally plunk myself down in front of it. It has the most shameless product placement of any show I've ever seen, ever. In my life.

They do this thing where one of the trainers gathers their team and pretends to be teaching them about, say, nutrition, but instead just tells them that Ziplock bags helps keep food fresh using their patented blah blah blah system, AND IT SAVES YOU MONEY!

Just about every episode has something like this, with the contestants saying something along the lines of "it just makes sense" or "oh wow, that's great!" It's like a tiny little infomercial inside the show.

I had been trying to systematically eradicate every memory I had of watching that show, so I forgot about those epic product placement moments. My favorites were when the people who got voted off and went home were shown enjoying the low-fat offerings at Subway. Not even being kicked off the show could save them from their advertising duties!

American Idol also deserves mention here for its Coke and Ford product placement.

 

[TheModWolf]

Madden 10 has THE most shameless placement, followed closely by iRobot

 

[Simriel]

Quantum Of Solace. Seriously, both that and the one before it where filled with Sony product plugs.

 

[TotallyFake]

The phone in the Final Fantasy 7 movie. Almost every scene had it being plugged.

Quick, tell me what the phone was. I watched that film a week ago and have no idea.

The phone's at least moderately important in the film. It's part of the ongoing metaphor about how Cloud is distancing himself from the world. He can't let go of it, but doesn't want to be a part of it, so he has the phone but never answers his calls, just checks his voicemail. And Vincent is entirely removed, he has no phone (or pockets) but decides to buy one after joining with AVALANCHE to fight Bahamut.

I can't believe I actually typed that. It's the most retarded metaphor I've ever seen.

 

[Prometherion]

I know this is about a movie, but Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Dont know how many wriggleys airwaves blimps youve seen, but apparantly one floats over New York City, providing the only source of illumination after the power goes off.

Airwaves; Breath easy AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH.

 

[drunkirishman]

what about Independence day, the whole end of the move, when he uses the powerbook to blow up the alien spaceship.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

So that's my example. What's yours?

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[RyQ_TMC]

Well, again not a movie, but Eureka's deal with the deodorant producer I don't recall right now... Granted, they started that with a nice lampshade in the form of a "sponsorship deal" Global Dynamics got under the new CEO, and were usually very self-aware about the whole thing, but then there was this one episode when a miniature Sun appears over the town and produces lethal heat... But then they whip out this deodorant, which has some über-formula and apparently can protect you from lethal heat.

One other time I remember was the smith branding plate armor with a Nike logo in A Knight's Tale, although back then I found that funny instead of annoying and for the record, I still don't own any Nike products, so it probably didn't have the desired effect on me.

 

[Inco]

Waynes world #1 I lol'd so hard when i saw that scene.

Party On!

We have a winner!
One of the funniest scenes in the movie just by how shameless it is.

 

[Fiskmasen]

The 360 in Michaels Bays Tranformers

I don't know about that one. If we're thinking of the same scene (first film, where the All Spark turns a 360 into a robot) it's not very obvious is it? I haven't seen the film in a long time, granted, but the way I remember it, the box of the 360 is barely shown, and with the camerawork of Bay it's almost impossible to actually tell it's a 360 until you hear the iconic "start-up" sound.
But the film itself is filled with shameless product placement. The one that stands out in my mind is where the female "hacker" transfers government secrets to a memory card, and they of course has to show a close-up of the card itself. To add icing to the cake, the female "hacker" even angles the card so it's impossible not to read the label.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Not sure if it counts as product placement, but how about the arrogant bastard having Bad Boys 2 posters on the dorm walls in the university in Transformers 2? That really ground my sh*t to a fine powder.

 

[BENZOOKA]

I'd say Aston Martin's in the James Bond movies is the most shameless of all time, those two live in such a symbiosis. And in speaking of cars, Volvo plays quite a big role in "Spun", the main guy's called Volvo too, if memory doesn't fail me.

Nokia does there product placements in movies quite nicely; The Matrix, Chev Chelios' 8800 Scirocco edition in Crank where he spends a lot of time on the phone, and also the part in Transformers where it's finally said aloud that Nokia is Finnish. Amongst many many others of course.