Miscellaneous Movie Musings

Gemini Cricket · 05-24-2006, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by mousepod

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'.

Prudence · 05-24-2006, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

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.

Cadaverous Pallor · 05-24-2006, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Prudence

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.