Product placement

monkeyangst · Post by **monkeyangst** » Mon May 08, 2006 2:32 pm

I wholeheartedly agree with Greg. Too much product placement in a piece of entertainment can leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Greg, my advice is to wash it down with a cool, refreshing Pepsi.

thanoseid · Post by **thanoseid** » Mon May 08, 2006 2:47 pm

I wholeheartedly disagree with Greg. That movie sucked hard.

barachiel · Post by **barachiel** » Mon May 08, 2006 2:57 pm

Ah finally, someone else who liked that movie. Though my obsession with Scarlett Johansson is a well-documented fact in the field of psychological medicine, I did think that was a great Popcorm Flick last year.

As for the product placement, I tend not to really notice that anymore. Between the longer commercial breaks on TV and the 5 minutes of ads running before previews in theatres, I've just learned to tune it out. Near Future Sci-Fi movies seem to have it the worst because, hey its kinda hard to place Pepsi in King Arthur's court or have Jedi carry around cell phones with the Cingular logo.

I've been to more than a few romantic comedies and such as they have a fairly high level of product placement too, its just a bit more subtle. Its the way of movies. Move along.

Donomni · Post by **Donomni** » Mon May 08, 2006 3:40 pm

Perfect example of product placement: EA's Fight Night Round 3.

Post by **Blaze** » Mon May 08, 2006 4:13 pm

Greg, Greg, Greg... some of us visit Kent State with regularity!

That would be in HORRIBLY bad taste if I actually had a concience.

Good work!

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:18 pm

Kent State? I was thinking more the University of Texas.

As for the product placement, I tend not to really notice that anymore. Between the longer commercial breaks on TV and the 5 minutes of ads running before previews in theatres, I've just learned to tune it out. Near Future Sci-Fi movies seem to have it the worst because, hey its kinda hard to place Pepsi in King Arthur's court or have Jedi carry around cell phones with the Cingular logo.

Anyone remember the atrocity of science fiction wankery that was iRobot? Or, heh, the parody in, what was it? Not Family Guy, not Robot Chicken ... but .. we see the guy's shoe, and then it flashes on the screen "authentic "antique" converse shoe! on sale NOW!" ...?

Mrrfle.

Oh yeah and The Island sucked hardcore.

Someone make a movie with clones where the cloning isn't some sort of disaster and isn't perpetuated by people who're always, by fact of trafficing in cloning, greedy and evil? Please? ... and how about the idea that clones can still be distinc and unique individuals? ... Hey, and while you're at it, stop ripping off the matrix! And stop giving us shitty, shitty action sequences to piss all over what could've been a decent movie.

... huh. Has there ever been a sci-fi movie that wasn't an action picture and wasn't a technophobic horror film? ... Well Blade Runner comes to mind. The Day the Earth Stood Still. And that's ... about it. o.o

Oi. Rant there. ISLAND SUCKED. Not even SCARLETT JOHANSSON could save it, it sucked so hard. >.<

MrBawn · Post by **MrBawn** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:30 pm

[quote="StruckingFuggle";p="632632"]
Anyone remember the atrocity of science fiction wankery that was iRobot? Or, heh, the parody in, what was it? Not Family Guy, not Robot Chicken ... but .. we see the guy's shoe, and then it flashes on the screen "authentic "antique" converse shoe! on sale NOW!" ...?

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That was Robot Chicken. I think the segment was called "unsolved case files: I Rosy" and it featured the Jetsons.

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:46 pm

Aha ... yeah, it was Unsolved Case Files on Robot Chicken. Thanks.

(that was driving me crazy)

trick_man01 · Post by **trick_man01** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:47 pm

[quote="Donomni";p="632606"]Perfect example of product placement: EA's Fight Night Round 3.[/quote]
Well it seemed realistic enough to get away with.

Post by **Blaze** » Mon May 08, 2006 8:37 pm

[quote="StruckingFuggle";p="632632"]Kent State? I was thinking more the University of Texas.[/quote]

Well, yes, with Charles Whitman and all that. But there was a lot of talk about something involving the Tri-Towers at Kent State durring the massacre.

LQDMTL · Post by **LQDMTL** » Mon May 08, 2006 8:41 pm

[quote="StruckingFuggle";p="632632"]Someone make a movie with clones where the cloning isn't some sort of disaster and isn't perpetuated by people who're always, by fact of trafficing in cloning, greedy and evil? Please? ... and how about the idea that clones can still be distinc and unique individuals? ... Hey, and while you're at it, stop ripping off the matrix! And stop giving us shitty, shitty action sequences to piss all over what could've been a decent movie.[/quote]

Please refer to Code 46. The basis of the movie is a law named Code 46 (duh) which outlines rules for who you can and can not have 'relations' with, as a result of widespread cloning as a form of procreation. The law dictates that you have blood tests to ensure the other person is not of a certain % blood relation, because you don't know anymore who is related to you due to cloning and... well, just watch the movie. Then you can get back to us with your rant about clone movies.

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Mon May 08, 2006 8:49 pm

Then you can get back to us with your rant about clone movies.

Why? It sounds like another "oh noes, cloning is a really bad bad thing" ... but at least it doesn't sound like it's gonna go on the "inhuman!" angle or "crimes against humanity" or the like, like the one that REALLY set me off: "Cloned". God, that movie irritates me.

Spongiform · Post by **Spongiform** » Mon May 08, 2006 9:11 pm

[quote="LQDMTL";p="632673"][quote="StruckingFuggle";p="632632"]Someone make a movie with clones where the cloning isn't some sort of disaster and isn't perpetuated by people who're always, by fact of trafficing in cloning, greedy and evil? Please? ... and how about the idea that clones can still be distinc and unique individuals? ... Hey, and while you're at it, stop ripping off the matrix! And stop giving us shitty, shitty action sequences to piss all over what could've been a decent movie.[/quote]

Please refer to Code 46. The basis of the movie is a law named Code 46 (duh) which outlines rules for who you can and can not have 'relations' with, as a result of widespread cloning as a form of procreation. The law dictates that you have blood tests to ensure the other person is not of a certain % blood relation, because you don't know anymore who is related to you due to cloning and... well, just watch the movie. Then you can get back to us with your rant about clone movies.[/quote]

Heh, that might not be a bad idea in small, rural towns, even without cloning being a factor. The problem usually with The Guvermint deciding who people can have sex with is discouraging diversity. I think Alabama only lifted their interracial marriage ban less than ten years ago.

Note: I'm kidding. Laws filtering marriages = bad.

monkeyangst · Post by **monkeyangst** » Mon May 08, 2006 9:12 pm

There's an arcade called Einstein's on Guadalupe St right across from the U.T. campus. I was having a lovely time playing Silent Scope one day, just picking people off right and left, when suddenly I looked to my right and saw, through the window, the UT tower from which Charles Whitman killed 15 people and wounded 31 others, and realized that it was probably in incredibly bad taste.

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Mon May 08, 2006 9:20 pm

The problem usually with The Guvermint deciding who people can have sex with is discouraging diversity.

usually being the key word. If you have mandatory genetic typing, you can pretty easily, I'd imagine, construct alrogrithms to plan breedings FOR genetic diversity, too. It just has to be the goal in mind for the program.

[quote="monkeyangst";p="632678"]There's an arcade called Einstein's on Guadalupe St right across from the U.T. campus. I was having a lovely time playing Silent Scope one day, just picking people off right and left, when suddenly I looked to my right and saw, through the window, the UT tower from which Charles Whitman killed 15 people and wounded 31 others, and realized that it was probably in incredibly bad taste.

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Bad taste, but hilarious.

Man, I'm gonna have to go down to Einstein's sometime, if it's still there, and get a picture. It just SCREAMS image macro.

(<~ Austinite).

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