Truly Shameless Product Placements in Film

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HardkorSB

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SkullCap said:
Thread: Give some examples of truly shameless product placement in films, whether cinematic releases or made-for-TV that stand-out to you?
Anything made by Happy Madison (Adam Sandler's company).
Check out this great review of "Jack and Jill" for proof:

http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag/jack-and-jill/
 

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Casual Shinji said:
I really don't mind product placement in movies at all. If the story takes place in current times chances are people use brand products.

Unless they pull something like this...


...I couldnt care less if someone uses a Vaio laptop or drinks Coca Cola.
Oh then Hawaii 5-0 is fucking despicable in this regard.


 

Sizzle Montyjing

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Evolution.
This was a little extra at the end of the movie-
Oh, and that's the least sell-outish part of the film.
They defeat the end monster with head and shoulders.
THEIR WEAPON IS MOTHER-FUCKING HEAD AND SHOULDERS.
I win the thread.
 

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HardkorSB said:
SkullCap said:
Thread: Give some examples of truly shameless product placement in films, whether cinematic releases or made-for-TV that stand-out to you?
Anything made by Happy Madison (Adam Sandler's company).
Check out this great review of "Jack and Jill" for proof:

http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag/jack-and-jill/
Just wanted to thank you for providing me with my next hour's worth of entertainment. I love that site.
 

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twistedmic said:
The way I see it, The Truman Show and Wayne's World don't really fit here. First, they are both comedies. And second, the blatant product placement is being joked or spoofed. In the Truman Show, most of the movie took place inside a continuously running t.v. show so the product placement was their version of commercials. And with Wayne's World, the entire movie was a parody/spoof and was repeatedly noted as being a movie so any product placement was way over-done and joked.
You don't say? xD
I didn't post it because it actually is shameless product placement, I posted it because it takes the piss out of what this thread is about. It's relevant satire you could say.
 

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Although there are many reasons I'm embarrassed for having watched Blade: Trinity, one of the ones that stands out is the mindblowingly bad product placement for the ipod. Not only do they have a short clip so blatantly written in Marketese that it's rather jarring, the lead female character uses earbuds to listen to her music WHILE IN HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT WITH MULTIPLE VAMPIRES!

God, it makes me uncomfortable just remembering that scene.
 

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No mention of the live action Josie and the Pussycats yet?

Granted, all of the product placement in that was deliberate, and part of the joke...
 

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Nouw said:
Real Steel had some pretty shameless product placement in it, including an 'Xbox 720.'
It was in a sports arena, that sort of thing is expected; besides they could have just given the robots the NASCAR treatment and have them do things like flex their guns to advertise Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima.
 

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Though not a film, I can think of Pizza Hut in Code Geass. That was so overplayed it became part of the show's charm.

"Pizza Hut supports the rebellion"

Every other episode had about 5 seconds of the camera hovering over a Pizza Hut box. Lulz
 

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INB4 OBLIGATORY WAYNE'S WORLD CLIP
Surprised I got there first o:
Paahahahahahaahah it's been years since I've seen that, but for some reason that made me laugh hard.
 

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twistedmic said:
Casual Shinji said:
I really don't mind product placement in movies at all. If the story takes place in current times chances are people use brand products.

Unless they pull something like this...


...I couldnt care less if someone uses a Vaio laptop or drinks Coca Cola.
The way I see it, The Truman Show and Wayne's World don't really fit here. First, they are both comedies. And second, the blatant product placement is being joked or spoofed. In the Truman Show, most of the movie took place inside a continuously running t.v. show so the product placement was their version of commercials. And with Wayne's World, the entire movie was a parody/spoof and was repeatedly noted as being a movie so any product placement was way over-done and joked.

Movies like 'I, Robot' and 'Mission to Mars' were (mostly) serious and the product placement wasn't meant to be a joke.
Well ofcourse I know it was meant as a parody, I just referenced it as an example as to the lengths a movie would have to go in order for me to become annoyed by the product placement.

I'm sure there were loads of people who hated the scene in 28 Days Later were someone tosses the protagonist a pack of Maltesers. But as far as I'm concerend, why the hell not?
 

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What about Santa Claus: The Movie? There's that scene with that homeless kid was hungry and he look out to the inside of a McDonalds jot seeing people eating their burgers and etc.
At 3.25.
So you're telling me that it's so fun chatting with your mate or family while chowing down your nuggets, burger and taking a refreshing drink of Coca Cola that it can make a homeless boy go hungry and envy?

EDIT-
Ok this isn't a film but it is indeed shameless!
Seriously in part 4 when he does become the Hulk, he didn't even smash that stupid product placement car!!!
 

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The one that had me roaring with laughter was Demolition Man.

It had a bit where the characters made a big point about going to a Taco Bell resturant, that chain being the sole survivor of "the franchise wars", within the film's future setting.

I, however, live in a region where this company have no presence, so in the localised copy I watched, the words "Taco Bell" were badly dubbed over and CG overlaid with "Pizza Hut". Gotta love those italian mariachis. :D
 

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It's funny how they say "Digitized Graphics from the Hit Movie!" as if that's a good thing.
I find it alarming and unprofessional that they had typos in that sentence, they missed out an S.
 

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Found a Cracked article on this, go have a looksie.
[link]http://www.cracked.com/article_16574_the-10-most-shameless-product-placements-in-movie-history.html[/link]
 

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