Thread: Trekker's 10 Worst Product Placements in TV/Movies

Quote: Originally Posted by Smiley Quote: Originally Posted by Harvey I like what Quentin Tarantino does with product placement. He only uses brands that are either defunct (his movies are filled with long discontinued breakfast cereals from his childhood) or invented for his movies (the oft-recurring Apple Cigarettes, for example). While this may be true in general, four words make the word "only" untrue: Quarter Pounder...

Quote: Originally Posted by Medusa One of the most deliberate and obvious was the dancing pepsi can in The Golden Child , which held the camera for a good two minutes. Unlike some of the above examples, this scene is inseparable from the movie. I don't know, the dance scene in the McDonald's and the moment where the alien is revived after consuming some Coca-Cola® seemed inseparable from the film in Mac and Me .

Re: Trekker's 10 Worst Product Placements in TV/Movies It's hard to compare the older films to recent ones like Transformers , where the movie is literally just a long advertisement. __________________ Deputy Director, Section 31 Expand Medicare for All!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Smiley Quote: Originally Posted by Harvey I like what Quentin Tarantino does with product placement. He only uses brands that are either defunct (his movies are filled with long discontinued breakfast cereals from his childhood) or invented for his movies (the oft-recurring Apple Cigarettes, for example). While this may be true in general, four words make the word "only" untrue: Quarter Pounder...

Re: Trekker's 10 Worst Product Placements in TV/Movies Quote: Originally Posted by God Magnus Quote: Originally Posted by Zomdue oh god, I hated that movie, but that part was so awful, it made me hate it even more. While it's quirky and certainly not everyone's cup of tea, the "Mountain Dew" robot gained quite a bit of a fan following among the Transformers fandom. His popularity even led to a (non...

^ That is a good point about Blade Runner.

Re: Trekker's 10 Worst Product Placements in TV/Movies Quote: Originally Posted by Wolvermouse The dumbest thing to me about the Mountain Dew machine was that it had only Mt.Dew in it! Why wouldn't there be other Pepsi products in it? No, the dumbest thing was that Hasbro said "Yeah, fans really WANT this as a toy" and all the twenty or so fanbois on www.tfwiki.net who really did bought it and no one else . Really,...

Quote: Originally Posted by Greg Cox Two other memorable examples: SMALLVILLE: When poor Chloe had to deliver the immortal line: "AccueVue Contact Lenses save the day again!" (You gotta wonder: do the actors get any extra compensation for having to shamelessly shill a product?) nope, but that Accuvue line paid for the head of the WB new car

^ Actually, you're right! I have the UK version and just checked. However, the first time I saw the movie it was the German version. And I'm almost certain it was Pizza Hut. I just did a brief internet search: German Wikipedia has a reference in its Pizza Hut article which mentions that it's Taco Bell in the original. There's also a mention on Wikia which I don't know.

Re: Trekker's 10 Worst Product Placements in TV/Movies Quote: Originally Posted by destro As annoying as product placement is, I find it even more annoying when we see someone drinking out of a plain white can that simply says "beer" or "cola" on it...or a plain white bag that says "chips" Anybody wanna invest in a cmpany that makes GENERIC brand soft drinks, sold (almost) exclusively...