Comments on: Crossing Movie and Product Commercials https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials/ The Correct Opinion Thu, 15 May 2008 16:28:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Rei Ayanami https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials/#comment-136421 Thu, 15 May 2008 16:28:49 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials#comment-136421 Like GM and Transformers

]]> By: HAZMAT https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials/#comment-136181 Wed, 14 May 2008 15:34:07 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials#comment-136181 I agree that product placement is ok depending on context. Heck sometimes it works well.

For example the novie ET introduced us to Reeses Pieces which happens to be my favorite candy today, I remember asking my grandma to buy me a bag of them after seeing the movie. Now Reeses Pieces sell themselves.

On the other side of the coin is its bastard son Mac N Me which should have really been called Coke: The Movie with its distracting product placements of Coke and McDonalds.

]]> By: Chris https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials/#comment-136166 Wed, 14 May 2008 13:29:00 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials#comment-136166 I don’t have a problem with product placement in movies or in tv shows. It makes things a little more realistic. I would rather see a brand name product in a scene (when the scene calls for such a product) than see the same product with a blanked out logo.

]]> By: Orren Jensen https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials/#comment-136136 Wed, 14 May 2008 06:36:33 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials#comment-136136 Product Placements is a two way street. I scratch your back if you scratch mine. I see product placements from the producers point of view, it will bring down the cost of the film by giving us money by putting their product in the film. I bothers me when there is product placements very second like in every Micheal Bay film. I agree with John “Personally, I don’t mind product placements as long as they fit into the scene. For example, if the scene calls for a laptop in it, I don’t mind if the laptop has a clearly visible Apple logo on it. If a scene calls for a cell phone, I don’t care if it’s visibly a Blackberry. (A whole post could be done on product placement).”

]]> By: Jordan https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials/#comment-136131 Wed, 14 May 2008 05:48:50 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials#comment-136131 Product placement gets to me only when the movie makes a contrived effort to show it.

Take Transformers. There is a scene where a few SUVs are driving into an alley. It’s a crane shot, and the camera moves down, and sits on the GMC logo for a good count of 1, 2 before moving on.
Or the scene early on where the one guy mentions the rims on his Hummer and it cuts to an awkward shot that puts the Hummer logo right smack in the middle of the screen, with the actors off to the side.
Or the cell phone that they turn into a robot. “Ooh, Nokia.”
Or the guy in the climactic fight scene who happens to be sitting there with an xbox 360 console. No games, no box, no controllers. Just the console, (the shot directly after the mountain dew machine turned into a robot).

It got to a point in Transformers where it just made me laugh.

]]> By: Andrew Too https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials/#comment-136083 Wed, 14 May 2008 00:23:14 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials#comment-136083 As far as subtle product placement in movies go, why should it piss someone off? By it being there, the studio has more money to make a better movie overall. Sure, blatant commercialism in a movie (like Casino Royale or i,Robot is annoying, but a guy being handed a Burger King bag fairly non-chalantly without aural mention of the product is hardly something to get in a twitch about.

]]> By: leeloo https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials/#comment-136069 Tue, 13 May 2008 23:28:05 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials#comment-136069 my post got messed up-

roadrunner >>>>>>>> speed racer.

]]> By: bigsampson https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials/#comment-136052 Tue, 13 May 2008 22:49:35 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials#comment-136052 man i hate when im watching free porn online and all the sudden a dam commercial …dude like thats gonna make me want to buy anything…it just pisses me off that i need to fastforward with my good hand to the the good parts! lol im not kidding

]]> By: Mattiac https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials/#comment-136047 Tue, 13 May 2008 22:37:49 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials#comment-136047 :( This bothers me a great deal! I hate commercials in movies that I have paid money to see!! And I hate so called “product placement”!!! I resent it!!! Damn it makes me angry! It made Transformers a worse movie!!! :(

]]> By: leeloo https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials/#comment-136026 Tue, 13 May 2008 21:24:47 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials#comment-136026 roadrunner speed racer.

]]> By: Andrew James https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials/#comment-136016 Tue, 13 May 2008 20:40:41 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials#comment-136016 They’re commercials on TV that are advertising two products at the same time. Who gives a shit? What’s the difference if it was JUST a commercial for Speed Racer or JUST a commercial for High Speed on-line? This way the company saves money by adverting two of their products within the same 30 second time span. It could be for Bic razors and Bic pens. Either way its a stupid commercial.

Solution? Don’t watch TV. Download everything you want to see. Get rid of cable/satellite. This saves a lot of my time for watching movies on DVD.

]]> By: Gutpunch https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials/#comment-136010 Tue, 13 May 2008 20:24:50 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/05/crossing-movie-and-product-commercials#comment-136010 The James Bond films pay recoup their budget with product placement before a single frame is shot. They are the most blatant product pushing movies out there.

The funniest product placement has got to be the Dr. Pepper vending machine in the Pentagon in the US version of Godzilla Returns.

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