# Movie Marathon (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 17, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780 "2019-08-17T02:03:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 492
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9828 "2021-03-18T00:06:02Z")
**Movies about real-life musicians, now dead, who weren’t singers** 1. Immortal Beloved - Beethoven 2. Amadeus - Mozart 3. Bird - Charlie Parker 4. The Cantor of St. Thomas’s - J.S. Bach 5. Tous les Matins du Monde - Marin Marais & Jean de Sainte-Colombe 6. The Glenn Miller Story - Glenn Miller 7. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 8. Impromptu - Chopin 9. The Pianist - Wladyslaw Sziplman 10. The Waltz King (1930) - Johann Strauss **Movies Which Had Prominent Product Placement for Now-Defunct Companies** 1. 2001 - PanAm logos on the Space Planes _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9829 "2021-03-18T00:21:29Z")
**Movies Which Had Prominent Product Placement for Now-Defunct Companies** 1. 2001 - PanAm logos on the Space Planes 2. The Garage (1920)- Red Crown Gasoline logo One of the earliest. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9830 "2021-03-18T12:16:24Z")
**Movies Which Had Prominent Product Placement for Now-Defunct Companies** 1. 2001 - PanAm logos on the Space Planes 2. The Garage (1920)- Red Crown Gasoline logo 3. Back to the Future trilogy - DeLorean ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9831 "2021-03-18T13:21:11Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Back to the Future trilogy - DeLorean Not sure if that qualifies as product placement since DeLorean was out of business two years before the first movie came out. Product as icon maybe, but DeLorean wasn’t trying to get their product placed. The producers said they picked it because John DeLorean was in the news due to his drug arrest, and the stainless steel finish looked cool. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9832 "2021-03-18T14:28:45Z")
Since we’re hijacked: I’m reminded of the bar on _Babylon 5_ with the prominent “Zima” logo on the wall behind it. JMS claims he did it as a joke, knowing how unlikely it would be for Zima to be the “drink of the future”. According to Wikipedia you can still buy it in Japan but that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9833 "2021-03-18T14:37:13Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Since we’re hijacked Not a hijack, I am raising a technical objection. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9834 "2021-03-18T18:04:05Z")
**Movies Which Had Prominent Product Placement for Now-Defunct Companies** 1. 2001 - PanAm logos on the Space Planes 2. The Garage (1920)- Red Crown Gasoline logo 3. Toy Story - the Slinky Etch-a-Sketch saw a 4500% boost. **Slinkys were no longer being produced because they weren’t profitable. Post-Toy Story, Slinky received 20,000 orders, which revitalized the company.** Mr. Potato Head sales jumped 800%. Will this do? If not, I give up. It’s a tough category to Google. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9835 "2021-03-18T18:15:03Z")
**Movies Which Had Prominent Product Placement for Now-Defunct Companies** 1. 2001 - PanAm logos on the Space Planes 2. The Garage (1920)- Red Crown Gasoline logo 3. Toy Story - the Slinky 4. American Beauty - Pontiac ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9836 "2021-03-18T18:23:09Z")
**Movies Which Had Prominent Product Placement for Now-Defunct Companies** 1. 2001 - PanAm logos on the Space Planes 2. The Garage (1920)- Red Crown Gasoline logo 3. Toy Story - the Slinky 4. American Beauty - Pontiac 5. Blade Runner (1982) - Bell Telephone Company. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9837 "2021-03-18T18:44:11Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Will this do? If not, I give up. It’s a tough category to Google. Sorry, I’m not trying to be the movie police. The DeLorean just stuck out at me. I’ll shut up now. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9838 "2021-03-19T02:07:24Z")
**Movies Which Had Prominent Product Placement for Now-Defunct Companies** 1. 2001 - PanAm logos on the Space Planes 2. The Garage (1920)- Red Crown Gasoline logo 3. Toy Story - the Slinky 4. American Beauty - Pontiac 5. Blade Runner (1982) - Bell Telephone Company. 6. Horse Feathers - Life Savers I don’t know if it can be considered a modern-style ‘product placement’; more like an obvious joke that Groucho couldn’t pass up just because it involved a brand name. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9839 "2021-03-19T04:13:53Z")
**Movies Which Had Prominent Product Placement for Now-Defunct Companies** 1. 2001 - PanAm logos on the Space Planes 2. The Garage (1920)- Red Crown Gasoline logo 3. Toy Story - the Slinky 4. American Beauty - Pontiac 5. Blade Runner (1982) - Bell Telephone Company. 6. Horse Feathers - Life Savers 7. The Man with the Golden Gun - AMC automobiles ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9840 "2021-03-19T04:47:05Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Toy Story - the Slinky Wait-- no more Slinkies? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9841 "2021-03-19T05:24:09Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > > [@Spoons](#): > > > > Toy Story - the Slinky > > Wait-- no more Slinkies? - According to Wikipedia, James Industries had stopped manufacturing Slinky Dogs several years before 1995, when _Toy Story_ was released. There was a brief additional run of the toy that year for the movie but then it went back out of production. Now while I don’t want to say Wikipedia is a bad source, I did a follow-up check on Amazon and verified you can readily buy a Slinky Dog (or a regular Slinky). ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9842 "2021-03-19T12:51:34Z")
**Movies Which Had Prominent Product Placement for Now-Defunct Companies** 1. 2001 - PanAm logos on the Space Planes 2. The Garage (1920)- Red Crown Gasoline logo 3. Toy Story - the Slinky 4. American Beauty - Pontiac 5. Blade Runner (1982) - Bell Telephone Company. 6. Horse Feathers - Life Savers 7. The Man with the Golden Gun - AMC automobiles 8. Rocky IV - Brown & Williamson Cigarettes B&W paid Stallone $500K for product placement in 5 movies. [https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=jtpc0040](https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=jtpc0040) ---
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**Movies Which Had Prominent Product Placement for Now-Defunct Companies** 1. 2001 - Pan Am logos on the Space Planes 2. The Garage (1920)- Red Crown Gasoline logo 3. Toy Story - the Slinky 4. American Beauty - Pontiac 5. Blade Runner (1982) - Bell Telephone Company. 6. Horse Feathers - Life Savers 7. The Man with the Golden Gun - AMC automobiles 8. Rocky IV - Brown & Williamson Cigarettes 9. Blade Runner - Atari The original company, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9844 "2021-03-19T20:15:33Z")
**Movies Which Had Prominent Product Placement for Now-Defunct Companies** 1. 2001 - Pan Am logos on the Space Planes 2. The Garage (1920)- Red Crown Gasoline logo 3. Toy Story - the Slinky 4. American Beauty - Pontiac 5. Blade Runner (1982) - Bell Telephone Company. 6. Horse Feathers - Life Savers 7. The Man with the Golden Gun - AMC automobiles 8. Rocky IV - Brown & Williamson Cigarettes 9. Blade Runner - Atari 10. The Matrix - Nokio 8110 Okay, Nokio is still around (and I just learned they’re a Finnish corporation rather than a Japanese one as I had assumed). But they no longer make the 8110 model. And this is a tough category so let’s end it. Pass. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9845 "2021-03-19T20:26:11Z")
**En Garde! Movies with Swordplay** 1. The Princess Bride ---
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**En Garde! Movies with Swordplay** 1. The Princess Bride 2. Seven Samurai ---
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