Most Obnoxious Product Placement?

[Mr. Adventure]

My vote is for The Last Mimsy which is a cute harmless little fantasy about wonder suitable for kids and family.

Spoiler: Mimsy Spoiler

Then we find Mimsy is advanced technology from the future because it has a little nano intel logo!!!!

I was watching TV before work and one of the channels had Fantastic Four 2 on and I was watching it killing a little time. I found myself enjoying it more on a second viewing and thinking this isn't that bad and then the frickin' Dodge Fantasticar shows up. I think I could have lived with the Ram grill but to actually have DODGE embossed on the front and Johnny Storm asking "Hemi?" was just too much.

 

[Roshi]

Knight Rider 2008!

 

[Jax]

Kyle XY and those dam sweet things

 

[cardinal biggles]

Knight Rider 2008!

Amen.

 

[Twilight]

The third Blade film - Jessica whats-her-name's iPod stuff got a bit silly.

The Island - quick: count how many Microsoft and Coke products you can find!

 

[The Evil Dead]

Return of the Killer Tomatoes

 

[Ben Sisko3]

All the Dodge Rams driving around in Deadwood. Give it a rest, people!

 

[Mistral]

Sorry, the Golden No-Prize goes to Eureka and their Degree deodorant product placement. Absotively unbelievable-they actually have the characters admitting in an episode that Degree is "their first corporate sponsor".

 

[Zulu Romeo]

"Mac and Me"

 

[Orac Zen]

All the subtle-as-a-brick Sony Ericsson shots in Casino Royale grated after a short while. Looks like the next movie won't be much better, judging from the ads for [whatever SE phone it is] being run here lately.

 

[Hermiod]

All the subtle-as-a-brick Sony Ericsson shots in Casino Royale grated after a short while. Looks like the next movie won't be much better, judging from the ads for whatever phone it is being run here lately.

Bond movies have never exactly been subtle about product placement, though.

 

[Orac Zen]

True. But that one really irritated me, for some reason.

 

[CommodoreKong]

All the subtle-as-a-brick Sony Ericsson shots in Casino Royale grated after a short while. Looks like the next movie won't be much better, judging from the ads for [whatever SE phone it is] being run here lately.

Casino Royale was one long Sony ad with a few James Bond scenes.

 

[Hermiod]

True. But that one really irritated me, for some reason.

At least with the Sony Ericsson stuff it was more to do with Sony owning both MGM and the Sony part of SE.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Transformers...Blech!

 

[Aragorn]

All the subtle-as-a-brick Sony Ericsson shots in Casino Royale grated after a short while. Looks like the next movie won't be much better, judging from the ads for [whatever SE phone it is] being run here lately.

Come on. When your destination is straight ahead of you and within visual distance, don't you look at your GPS for an extended period of time to make sure that's where you're going?

Smallville. It's like product placement is part of the script formula.

Though I'd rather see a character drinking a Pepsi than an Mmm-Good Cola.

 

[trevanian]

All the subtle-as-a-brick Sony Ericsson shots in Casino Royale grated after a short while. Looks like the next movie won't be much better, judging from the ads for whatever phone it is being run here lately.

Bond movies have never exactly been subtle about product placement, though.

Yeah, MOONRAKER is really godawful in this regard. But CR takes the cake. The whole gimmick of killing people to get their cellphone info is one of the most ridiculous things about the movie, since if it were that important, you wouldn't keep this stuff anyplace it could be discovered.

As for most self-conscious placement, I'd say the great-up-until-the-terrible-reshot-ending INTERNAL AFFAIRS, which has a scene where Laurie Metcalf and Andy Garcia are in a car, both checking out a girl going by. The pepsi cup is rotated around very deliberately and left with the label facing the camera/audience. It actually had people snickering in the theater.

 

[Kirkman1987]

Superman The Movie's Cheerios scene. It may not be the worst, but it is blatent.

 

[Trekker4747]

Smallville. Stride Gum.

Discussion over.

 

[IJD GAF]

Actually Heroes with its Nissan bullshit pisses me off every season. What new car can we give a character to pimp this week?