The only movie I saw more than once in the cinema. And a few dozen times on DVD (hell yeah at first I owned a VHS of this movie... it's so damn old). But never, until today did I notice this ultra obvious Nokia product placement in this scene. Guess I'm getting old and frustrated

I don't believe Apple pays for product placement. Any product placement you see is a result of the show/movie actively seeking their products to feature.

30 Rock may be the ONLY exception to this.

Jeez, from the title I was expecting a bit more than product placement by financiers in a shitty film.

And while they sit back and show everyone just how media savvy they are and point out all the obvious product placements, especially Sony electronics. So far so good, then they start asking why they didn't use Apple products, because as everyone knows, nobody in their right mind would ever use anything other than shit made by Apple, [/faceplam]

Reminds me of: http://videosift.com/video/Worst-product-placement-ever-major-BSG-spoiler

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Good message of hope.
I hope Adidas and the NBA gave him money for product placement.

Which is the fine line between product placement on how-to videos and commercials?

>> ^ant:

Ford in 24 and Alias.
Oh and Norton in many TV shows and movies: http://www.flickr.com/photos/antd00d2/sets/72157623240652724/ ...


Yeah, see, I don't mind things like that so much. It's not so bad when it's just products being IN the show. It's when the characters start spouting marketing rubbish about the products, OR the placement of the product is SO pronounced that it makes you pause. If it's just that a character is using computer brand X or driving car brand Y, that's fine.

It's crap like this that is really becoming WAY too prevalent in shows that makes me really sad.

>> ^PHJF:

It's like people only do things because they get paid... and that's just really sad.


I can't talk about it anymore, it's giving me a headache.

Made me Google search for it


>> ^Payback:

That Pepsi placement in Game of Thrones made me stop watching the show.

I hate Pepsi.

>> ^Morganth:

Wait, was that laptop with the Apple on it even an actual Mac? I'm pretty sure the apple was upside down.


Oh you youngster: it's how they used to be!

@Porksandwich

I've only just started watching community, still in the first season, so haven't really hit the product placement stuff.

We really need to stop watching shows that are so close to being cancelled that they need to have such blatant placement in them just to pay the bills!

>> ^spoco2:

>> ^Porksandwich:
Chuck and the Subway stuff was because Subway basically kept that show on the air through at least one and maybe two cancellations.

Oh, I know that Subway saved Chuck, and for characters to eat the product is fine... but when they stop to list the ingredients, or have whole scenes set in a subway restaurant... it really lessons the show and makes you think it might have been better letting it die.
The Google Wallet product placement in Fringe was completely out of place, didn't fit in with the story, made you think there'd be some plot point to do with using that form of payment... but no, just a big old close up of a guy paying using Google Wallet and then a couple of characters talking about it later, trying to suggest 'it's how people pay for things now'... urgh, so painful


Yeah the stuff in Fringe really bugs me, especially since it's a good show and they keep threatening to cancel the good shows. So the story line is all screwed up and confusing because they keep having to come back from these "the end of series........maybe" shows.

Chuck......I knew the story behind it..so them giving Subway time didn't bug me as much. It was a goofy show.

Community did a much better job of putting Subway in the show and making it funny with the "Subway" character.