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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 04:40 PM
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Poll question: Worst product placement in a movie.
Should be self-explanatory.
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IndianaJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 04:47 PM
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1. Demolition Man. Taco Bell. nt.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 09:42 PM
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17. all restaurants are taco bell now
man, I'd forgotten all about that. :rofl: :puke:
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 10:27 PM
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23. Not sure the difference between "best" and "worst," but that was my choice
for most memorable.

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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 04:48 PM
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2. Leonard, Part 6.
Or for fun, Idiocracy.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 04:51 PM
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3. Didn't see it, but I have heard it is one big Cokacola commercial. nt
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 04:56 PM
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4. Don't see it. It is a howling abomination, without anything approaching Ed Wood type unintentional
valuation. Search youtube for it and worst dialogue, IIRC. There is a clip up of the worst lines from the film, and they are scathingly bad. There was one amusing bit involving frogs, but the scene in which he ballet dances to defeat mutant ostrich...

'n Jello Pudding Pops, 'n Kodak film, 'n Coca-Cola...
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 09:47 PM
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19. Butt Fucker's!!
or, my favorite...
"Carl's Jr. Fuck you, I'm eating."
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deucemagnet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 10:16 PM
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22. delete
Edited on Mon Dec-15-08 10:18 PM by deucemagnet
I was a bit late on that one. :(
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 05:02 PM
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5. You've Got Mail was nothing more than an AOL commercial.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 05:04 PM
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6. Oh, leave Harold and Kumar alone!
Replace their poll choice with Leonard: Part 6 if you please.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:36 PM
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13. Yeah really. Need I point out the opening scene of the sequel?
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 05:04 PM
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7. All of that Schindler merchandise in "Schlindler's List"
give it a rest, Oskar
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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 09:26 PM
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16. So you are questioning the quality of Deutsche Emailwaren Fabrik enamelware?

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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 05:05 PM
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8. Other: it's all equally shite.
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 05:20 PM
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9. all of the above?
I prefer the style of Repo Man where the beer cans just say "BEER" on them, or barring that, a fake label.

Fuck product placement. I almost always notice it, and it almost always pisses me off.
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6000eliot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 05:28 PM
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10. I just saw I Am Legend last night,
and I couldn't help noticing all of the gleaming Viking appliances in Will Smith's kitchen.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 05:42 PM
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12. Near the start there's a product placement for "Batman vs. Superman"
The movie hasn't even been greenlighted
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-08 03:37 AM
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29. Ha, and I thought I was the only one who noticed that...good eye, nt
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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 05:36 PM
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11. I almost went for the Wizard...
however, when that came out and I was a kid, the draw was that it was about Nintendo. We loved Nintendo, so the movie was related to our lives. I do not love FedEx. In fact, I hate FedEx. They are the worst.
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 09:02 PM
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14. There's always The Coca Cola Kid
with (yum!) a young Eric Roberts.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 09:09 PM
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15. I voted for Castaway but...
Back to the Future II had so many products advertised that I bet it paid for at least 1/2

the special effects budget.I love the movie BTW.:)
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 09:45 PM
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18. The Wizard? How about BEST product placement in a movie??
It actually made people want to use the awful Power Glove. :D
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 09:50 PM
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20. "I love the power glove, its so bad."
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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 10:01 PM
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21. I thought Harold & Kumar was product placement for weed
Edited on Mon Dec-15-08 10:04 PM by Neo
worked on me
:smoke:

Wanna see a bizarre placement, the original Superman movie. Martha Kent gets Cherrios for Clark in a very obvious ad placement manner. They even put a spot on it in a dark set.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 10:30 PM
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24. I'm more weirded out by non-product placement.
When they make a movie about current times, for instance, and someone drinks a soda from a generic can with no logo. Bothers me more than product placement. It's as though they are saying "If we don't get cash to represent society accurately, we will pretend we don't know what people drink."
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 10:35 PM
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25. I, Robot.
Not only was it a blatantly stupid obvious product placement, but it made ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE in any way, shape or form. Totally ripped you right out of the movie.
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Tabasco_Dave Donating Member (744 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-08 02:01 AM
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26. Forrest Gump
Dr Pepper, Nike, and Apple Computers. I don't know why that piece of shit won an oscar. :hurts:
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1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-08 02:30 AM
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27. i saw a "coke" can in a movie once about some guy who did something...
seriously.

you "product placement" nazis need to get over yourself and get a life.

people in real life eat "cheerios." they drink "diet pepsi." if it shows up on the silver screen or on tv so what? you are only happy when a can has the word "beer" on it?


are your tin hats really screwed on that tight?


madon...
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MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-08 02:57 AM
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28. In "Clerks," Kevin SMith has all the convenience store patrons ask
Edited on Tue Dec-16-08 03:01 AM by MnFats
only for "a pack of smokes."
he didn't want to appear to be endorsing cigs, in however a small way...
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-08 04:38 AM
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30. M&M's actually turned down the E.T. tie in.
They passed and Hershey grabbed it. They never say exactly what candy it is in the movie.
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-08 04:42 AM
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31. Every company mentioned in Idiocracy.
Or maybe they're tied for first. Great movie.
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