Miscellaneous Movie Musings - Page 7

Cadaverous Pallor · 05-23-2006, 11:08 AM

I agree with scaeagles on paid advertisements - as long as they don't take me out of the movie. It's all about keeping me within the story.

scaeagles · 05-23-2006, 11:16 AM

I certainly don't want a Truman Story thing going on (you know - with the wife telling Truman what she got at the store in tremendous detail).

Seeing a billboard for Coke or a McDonald's golden arches while someone is driving down the road in a movie only makes sense, because I pass those things all the time. Now if someone passes the golden arches 12 times while driving a mile.....that gets a bit silly.

BarTopDancer · 05-23-2006, 03:37 PM

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Now if someone passes the golden arches 12 times while driving a mile.....that gets a bit silly.

But if someone passes one Starbucks they better go past 4 or 5 more in that mile

Isaac · 05-23-2006, 03:42 PM

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Now if someone passes the golden arches 12 times while driving a mile.....that gets a bit silly.

Maybe they were filming in Paris.

scaeagles · 05-23-2006, 11:35 AM

Making movies is a business. To make money. Some may say they are making art, but if they are losing money on it, they aren't going to be making art for very long. If big studios find they can entertain me with big budget films, and to help recover some of the costs of making the films they have a coke can on the counter, it only helps them make more big budget films to entertain me.

Of course, the key is that they have to entertain me.

Gemini Cricket · 05-23-2006, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

Making movies is a business. To make money.

But one can make money without product placements. I will say that if it can be done in a subtle way, I have no huge problem with it. But my eye is completely trained to see it in any way, shape or form.

scaeagles · 05-23-2006, 11:43 AM

So not only are you an elitist pizza snob, you are an elitist movie snob.

But I can see what you are saying. Different people are bugged by different things related to what they know well. I have things that bug the hell out of me that I presume you wouldn't notice.

Gemini Cricket · 05-23-2006, 11:46 AM

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So not only are you an elitist pizza snob, you are an elitist movie snob.

Snob is the word. When I went to see 'Da Vinci Code', the sound was bad during the previews. No one could hear a thing. Everyone was whining about it, but in this sold out theatre the only one to complain about it was me. Me me me. Then the theatre employees told me they couldn't do anything about it until they received 3 complaints first. So I went to three different ushers... They fixed the sound.

innerSpaceman · 05-23-2006, 02:48 PM

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When I went to see 'Da Vinci Code', the sound was bad during the previews.

And me? I couldn't even enjoy the DaVinci Code. Right away, there was the real Louvre! I mean, c'mon, couldn't they have made up some fictional museum??? Totally wrecked it for me. God knows how much The Louvre paid for that product placement. It was all over the film. Gak, the movie started there, ended there. Bleh.

Why did they have to use the actual Westminster Abbey? Totally took me out of the story.

And what's up with using "Catholicism?" A made-up religion would have been much better. How much do you suppose The Pope paid for that?!?!

Snowflake · 05-23-2006, 02:52 PM

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And me? I couldn't even enjoy the DaVinci Code. Right away, there was the real Louvre! I mean, c'mon, couldn't they have made up some fictional museum??? Totally wrecked it for me. God knows how much The Louvre paid for that product placement. It was all over the film. Gak, the movie started there, ended there. Bleh.

Why did they have to use the actual Westminster Abbey? Totally took me out of the story.

And what's up with using "Catholicism?" A made-up religion would have been much better. How much do you suppose The Pope paid for that?!?!

Bwahahahaha

05-23-2006, 11:08 AM	#1
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scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	I certainly don't want a Truman Story thing going on (you know - with the wife telling Truman what she got at the store in tremendous detail). Seeing a billboard for Coke or a McDonald's golden arches while someone is driving down the road in a movie only makes sense, because I pass those things all the time. Now if someone passes the golden arches 12 times while driving a mile.....that gets a bit silly.
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05-23-2006, 11:35 AM	#5
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	Making movies is a business. To make money. Some may say they are making art, but if they are losing money on it, they aren't going to be making art for very long. If big studios find they can entertain me with big budget films, and to help recover some of the costs of making the films they have a coke can on the counter, it only helps them make more big budget films to entertain me. Of course, the key is that they have to entertain me.
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05-23-2006, 11:43 AM	#7
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	So not only are you an elitist pizza snob, you are an elitist movie snob. But I can see what you are saying. Different people are bugged by different things related to what they know well. I have things that bug the hell out of me that I presume you wouldn't notice.
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