Advertising in movies

Advertising in movies

Ick!	43.5%	[ 10 ]
What?	13.0%	[ 3 ]
Eeh...	43.5%	[ 10 ]
Total Votes:			[ 23 ]

[Mud Flavored Shoe]

So I finally managed to get around to watching The Rock'em Sock'em Robots movie Reel Steel and I must say I was impressed; I was expecting an incredibly hashed together movie that I would fail to remember the day after watching it. Needless to say, it was above my expectations; However, as the movie progressed I counted more and more blatant label insertions. I realize movies cost money, but I really don't think I've seen a movie with so much advertising!

The kid downs several Red Bulls and drinks Dr Pepper like there's no tomorrow. Budweiser, Sprint, Cadellac, &c. all throughout the stadiums. HP apparently makes Robots now.

I just feel with so many in-your-face logos it really begins to pull away from the movie itself. Then again, I tend to be the one who walks out of a theatre with the knowledge of how much money was lying on the windowsill of some random shot in the movie.

Anyone else bothered by the amount of advertising done in movies? Are there any other movies that are really bad when it comes to this?

[Lady Ammaryce]

Why does this post remind me of this scene?

Anywho, it honestly doesn't bug me.
The joke's on the advertisers anyway. I'm too broke to buy their s**t.

[Mud Flavored Shoe]

Wow. That's a movie you don't hear about too often these days. XD

Yeah, I know what you mean. o-o and its not very effective most of the time, its not like I'm going to go out and drink Dr pepper just because a snotty little kid drinks it in a movie.

[sgt.Frosty]

my mom rented the movie the other day, I wanted to see it, but then there was the scene where the kid was calling out the champ in the ring "anywhere, anytime" kind of thing. maybe I'm just cynical, but the way that kid sounded while yelling just made me not want to see that movie anymore.

[Mud Flavored Shoe]

I'm not gonna lie; the kid was incredibly obnoxious. There's more than one occasion where he starts yelling because he doesn't get his way; but I just figure that's the way kids are.

The story overall is one about a father getting in touch with a kid he's never really known, so there's a lot of him in there. As it progresses they learn things from each other and work towards a common goal; yadda, yadda, &c. It's somewhat predictable, but something the way it was done (e.g., the pacing, the cuts, the music, what-have-you) made it relatively enjoyable to watch.

There's a few bad cuts, at one point there's this lens flare that is incredibly awkward; it looks like the editors where trying to edit it out to the point where it looks like a meteor falling into the airport--it's not. Then, there's the fact that none of the robots are ever shown entering the arena; something not really all that important, but they make it painfully obvious by the way they show the robots walking up to the ropes, cut, and then suddenly they're standing in the arena.

It's not an awe-inspiring movie, you don't leave with a completely new outlook on things (do any movies do that now-a-days?) and it certainly doesn't make the 'must-see' movie list; but, it's not a bad movie either.

[Jet 18-Volt]

I don't notice those at all when I watch movies and it doesn't affect the products I buy. Advertising doesn't bother me unless it's those obnoxiously loud talking banner ads.

[The_Ginatron]

I noticed Bye Bye Birdie to have loads of advertising for Coke in it. It's even in the songs "One boy to laugh with, To jump with, Have Coke with". The diners they hang out with are lined with coke posters and they're all drinking Coke. It was so blatent I was surpirsed, I guess back in the 60's they didn't have to be so subtle or at least try to be subtle.