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There are a couple of ones that really dont belong

How do you make a movie about NASCAR without product placement?

And Fed Ex was really part of the story with Castaway. So why write it out?

Mystery Men is a good one... In fact, it even mentions the endorsements that Captain Amazing is getting. "You lost the Pepsi endorsement."

Suprised no one has mentioned "Mac and Me", the world's biggest Mcdonalds and Coca-Cola commercial disguised as a movie.

Two movies cannot be separated from products:

Cast Away and FedEx

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ET and Reeses Pieces

What about Home Alone? That had a few moments of product placement such as Pepsi and American Airlines

DarthBoy wrote:Suprised no one has mentioned "Mac and Me", the world's biggest Mcdonalds and Coca-Cola commercial disguised as a movie.

Actually, someone already beat you to it. Look on the first page.

Men In Black 2 - between the NYC streets ads and then all the stores inside of MIB HQ (which mind you, must have been added after K left) it had quite a bit.

Transformers - I love the movie, but it was a long car commercial, not to mention Burger King and I am sure there were many others I can't remember because I simply didn't care enough

Hercules - Full of self promotions. Toys, drink cups, and even sneakers.

Spaceballs was great for this!


"Hmm, let's check the video-tape!"

I think we are forgetting the biggest product placement for a movie. I was a manager of a Suncoast Motion Picture Company store in Sacramento when The Flintstones (1994) hit the theaters and we were awash with every you could think of that was Flintstones related. I really don't think any movie since has had this kind of effect on stores that sell that type of memorabilia. I even got interviewed by six different television stations regarding all of the stuff in our stores in Sacramento.

True, Transformers has been pretty big, and the whole Spider-Man Trilogy thing has kept stores running to keep up with demand for action figures and such, but I still think that nothing was as big as "The Flintstones".

Don't forget Crazy People, all about advertising including such gems as:

"Porsche. It's a little too small to get laid IN it, but you get laid the minute you get out of it!"

"You may think phone service stinks since deregulation, but don't mess with us, because we're all you've got. In fact, if we fold, you'll have no damn phones. AT&T - we're tired of taking your crap!"

"Metamucil: We help you go to the toilet so you won't get cancer and die."

"Volvo: Boxy, but good”

and other classics

I'm sorry dvdjunkie, but product placement is about placing products or advertisements for products or dialogue about products in films, not just films that make a lot of products based on those films and place them in stores.

This is fictional, but I thought it was so clever and funny!: In Mad Magazine, they were making fun of Harry Potter. A scene that was cut from the movie but originally in the book has Harry on his way to defeat whoever's trying to steal the Scorcerer's Stone. He has to look at a table of potions and choose which one he can drink to lead him safely to the Stone, or something like that. So Mad Magazine has Hermione with Harry helping him decide which potion to take:

Hermione: Two of these vessels contain safe elixers! Two contain poison! And three contain the deep-down satisfying flavor of Diet Coke! Mm-mmm! Just for the thrill of it, just for the chill of it, just for the taste of it, Diet Coke!

Harry: Is it just me, or is "product placement" in movies getting out of hand?

thomashton wrote:
ET and Reeses Pieces

Back to The Future producers declared in the commentary that they tried to do the same thing for California Raisins...it just didn't work

XXX - A terrible movie I was forced to watch in the theatre. It was much more interesting if viewed as a long commercial for Škoda cars.