NOnonononono…I get “product placement”. That’s when you see someone drinking from and holding a Pepsi can with the label out. That’s when you see someone answering their Nokia phone with the logo in a funny place (under the chin so the camera can get a clear shot), or placing the BMW in Q’s office while various lab-coated people fiddle with it…
…what I despised was that Q introduced the car, told Bond about what the car’s got and what it can do (as he has with various cars in past films), and making the big presentation only to have the car be used for what was essentialy a useless and pointless joyride.
Darq in theatre: “So MI5 transports the BMW to Cuba just so he can drive five miles even though what he really needs aroud those islands is a plane… riiiiight.”
I agree that they way they handled the new Beemer in TWINE was the way they SHOULD have handled it in the first place. THAT car got used!
In comparison, Volvo ALSO paid much for Templar’s use of their new coupe. But at least there was a scene where it was used. No big presentation needed, but the car was an excellent example of well done (not hoaringly obvious) product placement.
In E.T., when the kids are riding through the streets on their bicycles and the Bad Adults are trying to stop them, a cop pulls out his shotgun and steps out into the street. Who, exactly, was he planning on shooting?
I guess you’re not from Southern California, where the police pull out their guns at the slightest excuse, in the hopes that they might get to kill someone/thing. Later, they can say they thought one of the kids pulled out a gun. Works IRL, anyway.
If they’d just remove the scene in Meet The Parents from the beginning of the movie to the end, it would have been much better. It was still a great title.
Did they ever say where the sub intercepted the steamer? It’s possible they were still in the Mediterranean and the sub’s journey could have been much shorter, only a few hours. (Remember, the trip began in Cairo, so they would have been sailing to Gibralter to get to America.) The submarine captain may have decided not to submerge for such a short trip.
In the Marvel comics adaptation of the movie, Indy tied himself to the periscope with his bullwhip. The periscope was never lowered (though I doubt this would have happened either). When they arrived at the island, Indy got off the sub and swam unnoticed into the base.
Hitchcock’s Vertigo is generally considered a classic. I agree, but there’s something in the middle that really bugs me:
Jimmy Stewart’s character is obsessed with a girl who looks just like the girl he fell in love with and lost. Is she the same girl? He can’t be sure, and neither can we. Until – she sits down and writes him a letter explaining the whole thing, a good half hour before the end of the movie. She throws the letter away, but now we know what Stewart doesn’t, and the uneasy tension is lost. Now the only tension is about whether Stewart will figure it out. After he does, an intense scene explains everything we need to know. For the life of me, I don’t know why the letter scene is in the movie.
The intro narration, explaining about replicants in the far-flung future, was truly gag-inducing, but I didn’t think Deckard’s “internal monologue” style narration is nearly as bad as is generally made out to be. The Director’s Cut does have a much cleaner noir-style ending, though.
One thing that always bugs me a little about Bladerunner, which is, don’t get me wrong, one of my very favorite movies, is the prominent product-placement ads for real companies. They can be downright jarring (Atari doesn’t really exist anymore, darn it!)
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The other day I saw the movie The Cell, which just came out on Friday. FWIW, I recommend seeing the movie. It rocks. It might even become my favorite movie, now that I think of it…
Near the end of the movie, one of the characters must find a way to break a glass wall. There is water on the other side, so theoretically, if you broke the glass, the pressure from the water would instantly crash through the glass (I won’t reveal anything else about the situation, because that would kind of spoil some of it.) He has a gun, so he shoots the glass 3 or 4 times. When that doesn’t work, he picks up a pipe off the floor and smashes through the glass with it.
Now, I’m no scientist, but unless it was a really fking heavy pipe**, wouldn’t you assume that a BULLET would have more force, in a more concentrated area, than the pipe?
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I was annoyed by the fact that there was no reason at all for them to go inside the killers head. It never occured to the police to find out what companies make these huge, thick sheets of glass that would be able to hold that much water, and then do some cross-checking to see how it related to the killer and where he might have taken them? :rolleyes:
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I thought The Blair Witch Project was an okay movie (not a great one), but there were a couple of things that really irritated me about it (besides the character Heather).
You must have noticed which direction the stream was flowing when you walked into the bush. Once you find the stream, FOLLOW IT. How hard is that? Keep the stream in sight at all times, and FOLLOW IT.
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I don’t know if you were listening, but they did. They followed it for hours, and ended up at the exact same place.
I can’t believe how many people miss that little detail.
I know it will likely seem obvious once I hear it, but right now I can’t think of anything off the top of my head.
Unless you are thinking of the incredible decision by one of the characters near the very end that, while nessacary, somewhat breaks suspension of disbelief(or borders on deus ex machina).
Yep Publishing company Infogrammes bought Atari and now is using that label to publish games. (They were the publishers for Neverwinter Nights, and KOTOR IIRC).
