Sometimes when you watch a movie, you spot a product placement in the film. Most often you'll ignore or don't think much of it. Sometimes, product placement can be very annoying or used completely wrong. Heck, it could convince us not to get anywhere near the product in general. So, what do you think are some of the worst product placements you seen in a movie?
Garbage Pail Kids had that Pepsi shout out that made me groan and shake my head in disgust at pepsi. I don't really remember too well, but I think in Untraceble, OnStar had a big push or something. In the movie, I think the female lead was stuck in her car when the bad guy took control over it. Great way to promote your product by telling people it can be hacked.
When MST3K did LASERBLAST, there was a long scene with the unappealing hero drinking a coke and a prominent coca cola sign. The bots comment: "This product placement provided by Pepsi."
Sea World in Jaws 3D. Nothing says "bring the whole family" like a giant, man-eating shark.
One of Bill Cosby's movies . . . I can't remember exactly which one . . . maybe Leonard Part 6 . . . had scenes where Coke cans were aggressively stuck directly in front of the camera. Very obvious and distracting.
In the movie Hells Bloody Devils, the "hero" and the "heroine" eat at Kentucky fried chicken, which is prominently featured at the table and the colonel himself walks into the shot and starts talking to the actors! When I saw this, it blew my freaking mind! Check out the review of this movie by the Cinema Snob, it is a hilarious review And an even funnier scene lol.
http://thecinemasnob.com/2010/07/28/hells-bloody-devils.aspx
I got about halfway through that review for Hell's Bloody Devils and had to stop so that I could go to Netflix and move it to the top of my queue.
:bouncegiggle: :thumbup:
Quote from: the ghoul on August 15, 2010, 05:01:52 PM
I got about halfway through that review for Hell's Bloody Devils and had to stop so that I could go to Netflix and move it to the top of my queue.
:bouncegiggle: :thumbup:
It's a long story, but I have actually purchased (not rented, mind you, but PURCHASED) this DVD
3 times.
Quote from: SkullBat308 on August 15, 2010, 04:38:09 PM
In the movie Hells Bloody Devils, the "hero" and the "heroine" eat at Kentucky fried chicken, which is prominently featured at the table and the colonel himself walks into the shot and starts talking to the actors! When I saw this, it blew my freaking mind! Check out the review of this movie by the Cinema Snob, it is a hilarious review And an even funnier scene lol.
http://thecinemasnob.com/2010/07/28/hells-bloody-devils.aspx
Also, just about every Herschell Gordon Lewis movie has a scene with people eating Kentucky Fried Chicken . . . often inside a KFC restaurant . . . and sometimes Col. Sanders even shows up and has a few lines of dialogue.
In Honey I Shrunk the Kids there is a scene where the little boy, Nick is sneaking a cookie during breakfast. He gets up to go outside and for no apparent reason picks up a box of Little Debbie Oatmeal cookie snaks and places them on top of his breakfast plate. Later they used one of the cookie crumbs to enslave and eventually lure an innocent young ant to its death. :wink:
Twilight was pretty bad about splashing Google all over the screen. And this is kind of general, but ever notice how almost nobody in the movies ever uses PCs? Always Macs.
I think Blade Trinity sets the bar very high when it comes to being tacky in the realm of product placement. I kind of threw up in my mouth when Jessica Biel's character is making an I-Pod playlist and Ryan Reynolds is explaining it. Then theres a point where Blade takes a long look at a cellphone, can't recall the brand though. Heck, even Count Chocula is thrown in there.
Rock N Roll Nightmare comes to mind when Thor gets up and exclaims to no one he needs a Coke when writing a love song.
Quote from: The DarkSider on August 16, 2010, 11:22:32 AM
I think Blade Trinity sets the bar very high when it comes to being tacky in the realm of product placement. I kind of threw up in my mouth when Jessica Biel's character is making an I-Pod playlist and Ryan Reynolds is explaining it.
That was like number 20 on my list of 100000 Dumb Things About Blade 3.
Seriously, not only was this gratuitous product placement, it's just freaking stupid! Yeah, we're going into battle with a bunch of vampires, so, let's listen to music so we can't hear anything. Always a smart thing to do in a fight. Just hope no one has to shout a warning at us to duck or something... :lookingup:
Quote from: BTM on August 17, 2010, 03:45:46 AM
Quote from: The DarkSider on August 16, 2010, 11:22:32 AM
I think Blade Trinity sets the bar very high when it comes to being tacky in the realm of product placement. I kind of threw up in my mouth when Jessica Biel's character is making an I-Pod playlist and Ryan Reynolds is explaining it.
That was like number 20 on my list of 100000 Dumb Things About Blade 3.
Seriously, not only has this gratuitous product placement, it's just freaking stupid! Yeah, we're going into battle with a bunch of vampire, so, let's listen to music so we can't hear anything. Always a smart thing to do in a fight. Just hope no one has to shout a warn at us to duck or something... :lookingup:
Thank you somebody else who thought Blade 3 was stupid. Yes Jessica Biel is hot, yes Ryan Reynolds is funny, the movie still didn't make any damn sense.
Some of my favorite bad product placements is in the Transformers movies. In the first one there is a scene where they get on a plane and on the back of a chair it says in big bold letters PS3. Its sort of a subliminal product placement, but I quickly noticed it.
The Recruit was a virtual ad for Dell and Mac computers and SWAT was almost a two hour ad for Dr Pepper.*
* Not that either of those is in any way a bad idea. :wink:
Well, a good one was in LOONY TOONS, BACK IN ACTION. They just used the Walmart prod place as an out and out gag.
"Did you do this?"
"....the audience expects it. they don't even notice."
Hero glances at camera,embarrissed
I remember the gang in THE CONEHEADS all making a big fuss about Subway sandwiches.
You can get a Subway/CONEHEADS drink cups from ioffer for eight bucks.
(http://cdn1.ioffer.com/img/1072339200/_i/2140791/1.jpg)
Want one..?
This would be either bad or awesome product placement depending on how you look at it, but how about Superman II when one of the villains gets thrown into a big Coca Cola sign by Superman during the big throwdown in Metropolis?
I believe Dr. Pepper was also prominently featured in the 1984 Godzilla film, was it not?
Now that I think about it... there is one movie that really ranks up the product placement to a very annoying amount and that is Mac and Me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdvO0tmNjGo
Quote from: InformationGeek on August 17, 2010, 09:13:21 PM
Now that I think about it... there is one movie that really ranks up the product placement to a very annoying amount and that is Mac and Me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdvO0tmNjGo
Yeah that movie was one big screaming advertisement. Aliens withering and about to die, I know let's revitalize them back to life with Coca-Cola! After all those aliens mouths were only suited to consume things through straws, they were biological adapted to thrive on Coca-Cola and Skittles-- what other solid could fit into their mouths, only something small and semi-pellet shaped. I can never forget the scene in the car with Mac in that movie, the kid has some Skittles, then looks over at Mac and says to his friend "Let's see if he likes these" as if that was a rational thought that a person who would be in contact with aliens would think.
Which reminds me of a really crappy movie called 'Star Crystal", the scene where the astronauts drink Coca-Cola in space! This made me wonder if Coca-Cola knew they were being advertised in this craptacular monstrosity. It must've been some right of passage that all movies knocking-off "E.T." had to have some sort of product placement to be a respectable rip-off. Nukie even had product placement scenes with Michelob, Slice, Welches, not to mention the scene where nun gives an ape a bottle of Pepsi before talking about the ills of Americanization!
I think that the movie the "Pod People" had a Pepsi logo on a barn. I will have to watch it again.
Later,
John
Yeah, Mac and Me was the first movie I thought of too.. but E.T. shamelessly plugged Reeses Pieces and Coke, so that was basically ANOTHER aspect Mac and Me ripped off of E.T.!
Godzilla 1984 - Dr Pepper, just embarassing.
How about The Wizard? It's basically one giant commercial for Nintendo. I love it!
(http://www.reviewbusters.net/images/movie/wizard_main.jpg)
Not an example of bad product placement, but I've always liked the gag in Wayne's World:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIo61VyRyRo&feature=related
Taco Bell in Demolition Man comes to mind.
Quote from: wyckednick on August 17, 2010, 06:14:42 AM
Thank you somebody else who thought Blade 3 was stupid. Yes Jessica Biel is hot, yes Ryan Reynolds is funny, the movie still didn't make any damn sense.
Oh, man, I could go on a good, long rant about all the things dumb in that film. Sad part is, the first two were pretty good, and it DID have a decent premise (Blade taking on Dracula, the FIRST vampire ever created), but it just wasted everything.
My most annoying would be a Fantastic 4 fight scene between pyro and the thing where pyro hits a burger king "flame grilled" sign. Major groans at that one, must have cost BK a fortune.
Obviously not a movie, but in the show Pawn Starts they pimp Subway quite a bit.
Quote from: ChaosTheory on August 16, 2010, 11:21:59 AM
Twilight was pretty bad about splashing Google all over the screen. And this is kind of general, but ever notice how almost nobody in the movies ever uses PCs? Always Macs.
Because Steve Jobs pays them all off.
Quote from: JPickettIII on August 18, 2010, 10:32:53 PM
I think that the movie the "Pod People" had a Pepsi logo on a barn. I will have to watch it again.
Later,
John
I have two movies:
The Pod People. There is a barn with a Pepsi logo on it.
Abraxxas, Guardian of the Universe. There is a lot of Pepsi being pimped out. There is a garage with some bottles are being dropped by Sucundas (I think that is how the name is spelled) and there is slow motion on the bottles breaking. There there is a convenience store scene, nothing but Pepsi signs and products. WOW.
Later,
John