Keith Tanner wrote: The BMW Z3 in Goldeneye was painful.
No, "The Man with the Golden Gun" was painful. AMCs for everyone! Bond gets a Hornet. The bad guy gets a Matador. Audiences get bewildered.
Keith Tanner wrote: The BMW Z3 in Goldeneye was painful.
No, "The Man with the Golden Gun" was painful. AMCs for everyone! Bond gets a Hornet. The bad guy gets a Matador. Audiences get bewildered.
JtspellS wrote: Love breaking bad, hate the blatant Chrysler ads and toward the end the pushing of Ford.
Forgot about this one. Yes. I loved Breaking Bad, and the Chrysler ads in the last season were just ridiculous. It was almost embarrassed to watch.
What's weird is that just makes me hate Chrysler. Does not make me want to go out and buy one.
In reply to ProDarwin:
We hardly fall into the "standard consumer" category that they target with placement like that. Breaking Bad made me want a Pontiac Aztek more than anything else. 
I also realized I never answered the question. Blatant product placement is very annoying for any product but the new rash of over the top car placement is terrible.
Toyota is the biggest pusher on TV right now. Bones and at least one other show have the heros in Toyotas, and they seem to make awkward comments about the cars fairly often. Can't remember the second one, but the hero is in a Prius IIRC.
I think you'd see Apple laptops in movies and TV even without placement - that's just what the creative types who make movies use. Need a laptop? Grab that one from the screenwriter table!
I've also noticed it on "New Girl". Everything is a Ford. For the most part it doesn't bother me, but when the young single guy is driving a Flex, it's a bit incongruous.
Not a movie, but the Ford placement on the TV show "White Collar" gets comically bad at times. The rest of the show is good though.
http://youtu.be/7dr5lXmB7SQ
Car companies still have nothing on Apple.
I wouldn't say ruined, but they jumped a car through or by (can't remember for sure) a Royal Purple billboard in Need for Speed (the movie).
Dr. Hess wrote: They've always done that. In the 60's and early 70's, every single car on TV was a Chrysler product. Look at Adam-12, Hawaii 5-0, etc.
Doc, Hawaii 5-0 was sponsored by Mercury.
Adam 12 strove to be authentic. The LAPD used Plymouths most of the time the show ran. I'm sure Chrysler was happy to oblige. A-12 switched to 401 Matadors when the LAPD did. I think they ran the Matador to the end of the series.
Beverly Hillbillies were Chrysler products. At least one season of I Dream Of Jennie was Pontiac. Brady Bunch was Chrysler products some years then Chevy. Mod Squad had Mopars after the Mercury woodie wagon was destroyed.
Charlie's Angels was Ford. For private investigators I still don't know how they didn't notice the same Granada following them around in an entire episode.
I wonder if Gilligan's Island was sponsored by Packard Bell?
Most of the movies listed here weren't ruined by product placement. Terrible acting and stupid plots yes, but not the type of cars driven.
Will wrote: That's not product placement. This is product place
Goodness that was awful/awesome. The camera had a nice long, lingering gaze at that bag of CHEX MIX TRADITIONAL.
Movie AND TV: Robocop
That was placement? In the movie, I thought those cars were intentionally portrayed as E36 M3ty.
I will never forgive Michael Bay for turning Jazz into a silver Solstice. He is, was, and always will be, a white 930 with Martini stripes. Always.
I will forgive "The Island" and the GM stuff because they used the Cien concept car.
When I saw that in person I stopped dead in my tracks and stared more than I would if a porn movie were being filmed in Cobo Hall.
TV has to do it because of DVRs and torrents. Otherwise we would never see any commercials.
Movies need to do it because actors HAVE to get $10-50million dollars for their incredibly difficult and dangerous jobs
and movie theaters can't fleece us for any more than they already do.
On a side note- Disney actually asked permission to use Porsche's likeness for Sally in Cars. I think it was the first time automotive product placement was not paid for by the manufacturer.
Mitchell wrote: The Hire short films would have been a lot better without the BMW ads.
Tim Baxter wrote:Keith Tanner wrote: The BMW Z3 in Goldeneye was painful.No, "The Man with the Golden Gun" was painful. AMCs for everyone! Bond gets a Hornet. The bad guy gets a Matador. Audiences get bewildered.
Ahhhhh, come on man!!! That was one of the best chase scenes EVER!!!
bouncy, bouncy, bouncy....
The product placement in movies doesn't bother me in the least. It certainly has never ruined a movie for me.
Although a certain persons comment about the movie Twister has ruined my opinion of them...that movie is great 
The Z4 placement in Armageddon was obnoxious. That was one were it looked like they stopped the film, switched over to a BMW commercial in the middle, and then went back to the film.
dculberson wrote:Will wrote: That's not product placement. This is product placeGoodness that was awful/awesome. The camera had a nice long, lingering gaze at that bag of CHEX MIX TRADITIONAL.
That's awesome! "Please take your Polo shirt off so I can get the Hidden Valley Ranch olive oil and vinegrette dressing out with this refreshing bottle of Schwepps Club Soda." was all that as missing.
Keith Tanner wrote: I think you'd see Apple laptops in movies and TV even without placement - that's just what the creative types who make movies use. Need a laptop? Grab that one from the screenwriter table!
Probably, but they'd have the logos taped over. I've actually seen this on a few shows.
"Elementary" is pretty blatant with the Windows Phone and Windows 8 tablets as well.
Tim Baxter wrote:Keith Tanner wrote: The BMW Z3 in Goldeneye was painful.No, "The Man with the Golden Gun" was painful. AMCs for everyone! Bond gets a Hornet. The bad guy gets a Matador. Audiences get bewildered.
That was the most painful thing ever...
And the terrible sound effect on the jump. I can't remember the last time I watched a Roger Moore Bond movie...
The NFL and iPads? Oh wait I mean surface tablets. 
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