The most shameless piece of product placement you've ever seen in a movie?

[RandV80]

I Love you Man... maybe I'm wrong, but in the previous when the 'dude' guy was walking down the beach wasn't he wearing a pair of sandals or some other inconspicuous footware? Yet in the actual movie he's sporting a pair of Manuggs of all things. You may as well cut your balls off to begin with if you're going to buy a pair of those things, making it even worse it's in the middle of summer on a California beach. Like I said I could be wrong, but I really hope they didn't CG those on there as a product placement.

 

[Vrex360]

The world may have ended, we may be wandering the wasteland in search of something that may not exist, while avoiding rapists, murderers, cannibals, and murdering rapist cannibals, but God damn it, praise the lord for Cheetos! Aside from the fact that the kid wouldn't have had Cheetos before that time in his life so how the hell does he know them (I hope his father doesn't regale him with tales of corn based snack foods), it just stands out so much. The Coke, okay, I can kinda see. The fact it's still carbonated over a decade after the apocalypse, pushing it. Come to think of it, I think The Road had quite possibly the most gratuitous product placement I've ever seen. As with the carbonation mentioned above, the placement goes beyond even the logic of the movie's own world.

Hail the cheetos, they will save us and deliver us from evil.

 

[Frybird]

While there may be some Movies that are even more of a straight commercial, i still consider I, Robot to be the absolute worst example of Product Placement ever.

Not one, but two scenes that are ONLY about Will Smith talking about how he wears Converse Shoes (EDIT: Ninja'd here), and a bombardment of Fed-Ex, JVC, and some insurance company Products and Billboards within THE FIRST 10 MINUTES of the movie.
And the worst thing: It even worked. Audi got a image boost out of specifically designing a concept car for the movie.


Also, i'd like to mention: The BEST use of Product Placement goes to Minority Report. In terms of Products and Commercials shown, it's almost as bad as I, Robot, but the way in wich they are used is brilliant. If you pay attention you will realize that just about any product placement in the movie is either very annoying to the Protagonist, or ends up making him completely paranoid since they get him in danger to be caught by his opponent.

 

[Vern]

It's been quite a while since I watched it, but if I recall correctly the Powerboots in the Super Mario Brothers movie had a Nike swoosh on them.

 

[FalloutJack]

I think I have to point out 2012.

Consider... We are doing a load of product placements in a movie...WHERE THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!!! DO I have to spell out the way this is a bad idea?! "Drink Pepsi while there's still time!"

 

[TailsRodrigez]

The Xbox 360 in Michael Bays' Tranformers...

Come to think of it, Bay also had blatant product placement for the Xbox in the Island. Strange coincidence. Thought I should bring it up.

god that was a dumb movie

 

[Dusty Donuts]

Every scene in The Wizard.

That's just /thread right there. Shameless advertising to the max.

 

[Chipperz]

OK, so it's not a movie, but I never get tired of...

[youtubr=CkvSLzug3Nk]

PEPSIMAN!

OT - I don't have a specific example, but any time any actor drinks from a can, but distorts their hand so you can clearly see the label. It makes me laugh and cry in about equal measure.

 

[Huupertti]

There's alot of shameless in finnish movies but I don't have any examples...

 

[bluepilot]

Using an iphone in `Dark Knight`

It was shameless but actually pretty funny at the samne time

 

[Omega500]

a Old brit film called Kevin and perry go large EVERYONE drives a ford focus
Stargate not so shameless but everyone has dell computers, I do remember seeing somthing that dell supplys the USA gov with comps but am sure thats not the reason they all use dells

 

[TRR]

Theres a really crappy version of Hamlet thats set in modern times and its sole reason for existing is probably to make people hate it. You know that famous soliloquy, the one with "to be or not to be..."? of course you do. Anyway that scene with Hamlet 'soliloquizing' is shot entirely in a Blockbuster, and on display is every sort of marketing possible. Looking at the quality of the movie, im pretty sure that was one of the key ways they were able to fund the project.

 

[XiahouDun]

Fantastic 4, notably the fight in front of the building, horrible product placement in a garbage movie. Also bad was the new Star Trek... Budweiser and I think it was Nokia?

Good product placement: Iron Man, subtle about working in Audi, LG, Verizon, and Burger King.

 

[Woem]

Propaganda for President Arnold Schwarzenegger in Demolition man!

 

[DazBurger]

iRobot... They are all white, with a blue light... And its fucking named "iRobot"!!! ø_Ø

 

[Lordpils]

The 360 in Michaels Bays Tranformers

Just the 360? Try the whole god damn movie.
lol

 

[Split Moon]

The 360 in Michaels Bays Tranformers

Damn ninjas, but yeah the xbox placement made me cringe, the way the guy just walks by calmly in the middle of all that chaos.... urgh

 

[booned]

Waynes World. Although all of that was done on purpose for laughs.

 

[Explosm]

Waynes world #1 I lol'd so hard when i saw that scene.