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Old 05-24-2006, 08:43 AM   #1
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Man... I came into this thread waaaay too late. I was gonna talk about how I just watched the Hammer flick "Rasputin, the Mad Monk" starring Christopher Lee in the title role.

Anyway, now that we're talking about product placement, I'm surprised that nobody mentioned Zemeckis' mentor, Spielberg. Minority Report is quite possibly the most shameless example of product placement I've ever seen in a movie.

As far as Castaway is concerned, I would have chosen FedEx, too, if only for their super-cool logo. Once someone pointed out the subliminal arrow in the name, I can't look at the logo and not see it. Keen.
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Old 05-24-2006, 08:48 AM   #2
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Minority Report is quite possibly the most shameless example of product placement I've ever seen in a movie.
Totally. Although, despite that, I liked 'Minority Report'.

The worst was Taco Bell in 'Demolition Man'. And all those ads in 'Fantastic Four'.
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Old 05-24-2006, 11:05 AM   #3
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The worst was Taco Bell in 'Demolition Man'.
Actually, I thought that was pretty funny. Taco Bell is so craptacular - I can't think of a chain lower down on the quality scale. I'm sure they paid for their mention, but I took it as more of a dig against them - the irony that the worst fast food chain ever would win the restaurant wars. It fit in with the idea that ad jingles rise to top 40 status. I don't think it's funny unless you know how awful the source material is.
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Old 05-24-2006, 01:00 PM   #4
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Actually, I thought that was pretty funny. Taco Bell is so craptacular - I can't think of a chain lower down on the quality scale. I'm sure they paid for their mention, but I took it as more of a dig against them - the irony that the worst fast food chain ever would win the restaurant wars. It fit in with the idea that ad jingles rise to top 40 status. I don't think it's funny unless you know how awful the source material is.
Definitely agree with this - the joke was "Everyone knows Taco Bell sucks, how did they win the fast food wars?" That wouldn't have been communicated with Brand X.

I kinda wanted to see United 93 but I knew I'd never drag GD with me. Same goes for CastAway and King Kong, actually...

We added CastAway to our Netflix list and bumped it.
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