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Neon Noodle
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« on: November 09, 2003, 10:28:50 PM »
Bad enough that all movies have about 15 minutes of commercials before the previews even start, but what about shameless product promotions in the films themselves?

I recall watching Terminator 2 that pretty much everywhere in the film, people were eating out of Subway Wrappers and drinking Pepsi. In the 3rd Highlander movie, the lightning bolts are striking McCloud through a table full of Mountain Dew cans.

The obvious one is Taco Bell in Demolition Man. and Wayne's World, with the Pizza Hut, Reebok and Pepsi and Advil ads.

I can't recall which James Bond movie it is (I think it was Moonraker) where he passed several billboards in his car about every 5 seconds and the camera had to stop on each one for the full effect.

Anyone else?
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« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2003, 10:33:19 PM »
The Coca-Cola sign in Superman II that Supes gets knocked into.
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« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2003, 10:45:56 PM »
Minority Report had plenty of them everytime Tom Cruise's eyes were scanned.

Also, VIctoria's Secret had that huge billboard in T3 Rise of the Machines resulting in that humorous scene.
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« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2003, 11:58:25 PM »
>>The Coca-Cola sign in Superman II that Supes gets knocked into.<<

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« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2003, 12:04:26 AM »
Hee Hee Hee

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« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2003, 12:07:22 AM »
The worst I've ever seen wasn't in a movie, but a TV show.  If you saw the reality show "The Restaurant" this past fall, the ad placement was extemely obvious and bad.

It was obviously sponsored by AMEX and Coors, which gratuitously show their logo in the start of the show.  Then, in every episode, the head chef, Rocco DiSpirito, would make mention on how they needed to get more Coors or extend their credit line on the small business AMEX card.
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Neon Noodle
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« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2003, 07:20:07 AM »
Aha - and this also reminds me that everyone in that movie smoked Marlboro Reds. Supes gets thrown into a truck of theirs.
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While on a journey, Chuang Tzu found an old skull, dry and parched.
With sorrow, he questioned and lamented the end of all things.
When he finished speaking, he dragged the skull over and, using it for a pillow, lay down to sleep.
In the night, the skull came to his dreams and said, 'You are a fool to rejoice in the entanglements of life.'
Chuang Tzu couldn`t believe this and asked, 'If I could return you to your life, you would want that, wouldn`t you?'
Stunned by Chuang Tzu`s foolishness, the skull replied, 'How do you know that it is bad to be dead?'

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« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2003, 09:02:41 AM »
The only fun I had watching the terrible Inspector Gadget film, was laughing at all the painfully obvious product placements.  I can remember McDonald's, and Yahoo, and Skittles, but I think there were close to 10, altogether.
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« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2003, 11:57:23 AM »
In one of Bill Cosby's flop movies (I think it might have been LEONARD PART 6), he is sitting on a sofa holding a can of Coke.  He holds the can prominantly so that the camera has a good, long view of it.

Many of Herschell Gordon Lewis' movies show people eating Kentucky Fried Chicken.  Colonel Sanders even shows up in one of his movies!
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« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2003, 02:35:18 PM »
In the Addams Family movie when the kids were selling lemonade there was a huge Tombstone pizza billboard ad in the background.
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« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2003, 02:38:08 PM »

In the Addams Family movie when the kids were selling lemonade there was a huge Tombstone pizza billboard ad in the background.

That at least fits in with the dark humour of the Addams family
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« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2003, 01:35:21 PM »
I've always enjoyed the Dr. Pepper placements in STUDENT BODIES.  Mostly, becuase it is not what you would call a quality film and the product placements are really obvious.  Who thought up this idea?
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« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2003, 02:19:33 PM »
Speaking of Dr. Pepper. Forrest Gump does a pretty good job of promoting it.

How many was it that he drank?

14?
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Gus Nukem
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« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2003, 03:25:37 PM »
Underworld & Bacardi rum.

Spider-Man & X-Men 2  & Dr Pepper.
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« Reply #14 on: November 11, 2003, 03:44:17 PM »
Pieces does a pretty good job of ramming Wendy's down your throat in the last act, when all the detectives are discussing the murders and there are wrappers and cups strewn all over the room.

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