Shameless Product Placements in Movie History

[bonoferox]

http://www.cracked.com/article_16574_10-most-shameless-product-placements-in-movie-history.html

This one was pretty good.


Others?

[DarthWade]

One of the worst ones I ever saw was in The Shadow. There's a scene where the scientist father is working on some thing or other and he's in the background. In the foreground, right smack in the middle of the frame is a Pepsi bottle (or it may have been Coke). It wasn't a short little shot either, it lasted quite a few seconds. Shameless.

The other is that awful DePalma movie - Mission To Mars(?) - where one guy sends a packet over to another astronaut and it slowly slowly sails across the screen (it's in zero-g) and on it is a big Dr. Pepper logo. It kept slowly coming towards us, and the logo which was naturally in perfect focus kept getting bigger and bigger. I remember the audience all laughed at this and someone even shouted 'Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too???'.

[darknite125]

I'll go with Spidey 3 being constantly refered to in Knocked Up

[JJFlamingo]

Return Of The Killer Tomatoes-after about the halfway mark...:D

[bonoferox]

Anyone remember the scene in Torque (yeah I had to watch it when I worked at the theater) when two people stop their bikes. One is in front of a huge wall plastered with an ad that says "Mountain Dew" and the other stops in front of a mirroring wall with a "Pepsi" logo?

If someone can provide that one it would be greatly appreciated :)

[APzombie]

When MGM and Columbia bought the rights to make BOND films, you knew it was going to mean lots and lots of SONY production placement.

And its evident in Casino Royale. Man, there is tons of Sony stuff, from blu-ray discs to everyone in the world using vaio computers.

[Mr. Creasy]

What about the Xenadrine trailer on Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines. But you know what I think is the biggest product placement in history? this one...



http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6386/mcdonaldslogosa2.gif (http://imageshack.us)
Has appeared in like 5,000 movies (not that much but you know the point)... lol

[ListersParanoia]

I Am Legend, I felt like I was watching a big overdone car commercial. 1st with the Ford GT 500 (make sure to zoom in real tight on the logo when he drifts across the street-AND cut/print)...then at the end with the spotless Ford Expedition...it's a post apocalyptic world and you spend most of your day running from mutants and foraging for food yet to take the time to bring that SUV around for a wash? FAW-Q!

[outsyder]

The Matrix Sequels: Powerade.

The matrix is a green tinted, dreary world of endless urban wasteland, but sure enough, on the wall of a subway station platform, there's a big green, bright, vibrant logo for Powerade.

Totally kills the effect. The Cadillac overexposure was almost as bad.

[poopontheshoes7]

The Dr. Pepper shit in Spider-Man really pisses me off.

"I have brand new spider powers! I can shoot webs out of my wrists!! I should practice my aim on THIS DR PEPPER CAN!"

*BAM! Close up on Dr. Pepper can*

And the Time Square scene has at least 20 adds in it. I still love the movie, but damn thats distracting.

[poguesfan]

Even though I throughly enjoyed Knocked Up and found it to be one of the best films of 2007, I will have to say that this movie took product placement to a whole new level. Everything from Spiderman 3 to fucking google was dropped into this movie. It didn't ruin the impact of the film, but seriously there came a time when I thought I was watching the fucking home shopping network.

[outsyder]

The Google mention was likely just improv, as I know that the conversation with the children in the car was improvised for certain, and that there was a lot of unused dialogue from deleted scenes that appeared to be improvised to begin with.

The Spider-Man thing was likely planned, as both films are Sony.

[EvilHenchman]

A whole lot of stuff in Back to the Future II.

[Mr. Creasy]

What about the Xenadrine trailer on Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines. But you know what I think is the biggest product placement in history? this one...



http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6386/mcdonaldslogosa2.gif (http://imageshack.us)
Has appeared in like 5,000 movies (not that much but you know the point)... lol

Did I just put a product placement in this thread???

[Terror Australis]

Any Michael Bay film ever made! Plus the Gap in Minority Report.

[Rant]

I can't believe that they left out 'The Fantastic Four'. Half-way through the movie Johnny Storm in a crazy hey-why-not non-sequitur scene from Hell, decides to go motor cross racing and ends up getting in a fight with the other 3 fantastics outside the arena which is JAM-FUCKIN'-PACKED to the Max with corporate logos smeared all over the background, the crowd and Johnny himself. This wonderful scene culminates with Johnny being knocked through a giant Burger King "Flame Broiled" Whooper sign that starts to smoke as though hot-of-the-grill as he passes though it. Absolutely, Utterly God Damned Shameless.

[BanksIsDaFuture]

Any Michael Bay film ever made! Plus the Gap in Minority Report.

The Island. Nuff said.

[bonoferox]

I can't believe that they left out 'The Fantastic Four'. Half-way through the movie Johnny Storm in a crazy hey-why-not non-sequitur scene from Hell, decides to go motor cross racing and ends up getting in a fight with the other 3 fantastics outside the arena which is JAM-FUCKIN'-PACKED to the Max with corporate logos smeared all over the background, the crowd and Johnny himself. This wonderful scene culminates with Johnny being knocked through a giant Burger King "Flame Broiled" Whooper sign that starts to smoke as though hot-of-the-grill as he passes though it. Absolutely, Utterly God Damned Shameless.

Have to agree 100% on that one. Well put :)

[bigred760]

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

[Rant]

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

This is true, but it was shameless in a good/funny way, like in Wayne's World when they take the time to talk about how being a corporate whore is really sad, all while pimping themselves out in advertisements. Talladega is about racing cars, and racing cars are about selling dumb rednecks shit-they-don't-need, so Tallagega would have been missing a lot of the culture that it was mocking had the advertisements not been included for good-tastes sake.

Though, I am sure that you knew this, as you are clearly not stupid. I was just explaining the 'Why' of why it didn't bother me in that movie.

[bigred760]

This is true, but it was shameless in a good/funny way, like in Wayne's World when they take the time to talk about how being a corporate whore is really sad, all while pimping themselves out in advertisements. Talladega is about racing cars, and racing cars are about selling dumb rednecks shit-they-don't-need, so Tallagega would have been missing a lot of the culture that it was mocking had the advertisements not been included for good-tastes sake.

Though, I am sure that you knew this, as you are clearly not stupid. I was just explaining the 'Why' of why it didn't bother me in that movie.

Yeah I knew that . . . but the Applebee's commercial during the car crashing at the end was a bit much, even for the movie.

[MidnightAngel]

Others i remember:

In Demolition man where Sylvester Stallone and some SAPD cops are dining at a Taco Bell restaurant. taco Bell is no longer a fast food joint but a five star restaurant. :D

In Blue Velvet they present two beers; Heineken and Pabst Blue Ribbon.The Frank Booth quote:
What beer do you drink?
Heineken...
Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!:p

In Last Action hero where Arnold's character Jack Slater is out of the cinema world and in the real world is at a alley and he sees a billboard of the new jack Slater movie and behind is a Burger King sign.

[outsyder]

To comment on Blue Velvet, I really don't think David Lynch would EVER use product placement in films for the purpose of ad revenue.

EVER.

[Spidey]

In 'Sex and the City' when Carrie needs to use a phone and they do a close up of an I-phone.
But then again, this whole movie is one big product placement.

[john_rambo]

http://www.brandweek.com/bw/photos/stylus/31390-Booty-Sweat_drink.jpg

[TheJadedGamer]

The moment in Transformers where the Xbox 360 and the Mountain Dew machine come to life.