Is product placement in film offensive?
Yes, this is why
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No, this why not
Side Score: 2
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I personally hate it. It doesn't bother me as much when I just see a company logo in the background or something, but when the actors actually take away time from the plot/ incorporate it in the plot for some advertisement for a brand name product, it gets me. Side: Yes, this is why
Product placement takes you out of the movie and reminds you that you're sitting in a theater watching a big budget Hollywood picture. There was a scene in Transformers were that hacker girl who a TOTALLY remember from the cartoon show put a memory card into a card reader. The film cuts to a close up of the memory card in her hand as she tilts it towards the camera revealing the Panasonic logo. I know most of you will point to Transformers being a 90 minutes car commercial, and you'd be right, but for some reason that scene was far more irritating. On an unrelated note . . . f*ck Michael Bay. Side: Yes, this is why
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I would rather watch a high budget movie with tasteful product placement than watch a movie that has neither product placement, nor an adaquit budget. Sure, it sucks when movies go out of their way for product placement. Other times it seems quite natural (see for instance, the Cokes ads in Blade Runner.) In real life, their are product names everywhere you look. If a movie is trying to be realistic, one would expect brandname products and logos to occasionally be on the screen. Side: No, this why not
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