Official Off-Topic Thread

[bengo]

any thoughts on the commercialism and advertising through the movie? I've heard 'bad bad bad' but it didn't bother me.

Haven't seen the movie but hey, don't let product placement ruin entertainment, also get a Dell PC they work great at very reasonable prices, anyway, I think its fair that they're going to make millions off of the movie alone, so why not just add to that? Millionaires need more money, oh hey, lets not stop there, lets put product placement in video games! Because when I'm playing Splinter Cell, I want to be reminded that Burger King is the best fast food chain ever. Oh oh and put product placement in comics too, because when Tony Stark aka Iron Man needs new parts for his suit, he knows that Autozone will have the best and cheapest parts. I can understand commercials, I can understand previews before a movie, I can understand ads in a comic book but I don't want that crap in there, it's annoying and it ruins it because its not so they can keep the show/game company/whatever going, its just so they can make an extra buck or two.

[AdamAtomic]

the product placement drove me nuts...here's the brands that I noticed getting major full-screen treatment:

GMC
Chevrolet
Pontiac
Cadillac
The Strokes
Mountain Dew
Apple
Nokia
Microsoft/XBox 360

EDIT - Forgot non-transformers Hasbro brands like My Little Pony and Furby...

And those are just the ones that I remember

[rabidbaboy]

Hey, hee, hum!
My first thief!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFSoLTdC-Bw
 

Haha, that's happened to me already.

I don't know about you, but I had a mixed feeling of injustice and joy. Joy because someone actually found my work worth stealing, heh.

Hope it gets sorted out.

http://uk.media.tv.ign.com/media/945/945821/img_4653798.html
I don't know what to think... I don't know what to say...

Can't they at least actually try to put a little more effort and creativity into it?

[huZba]

Product placement in videogames is a good way to cover for increasing production costs and avoid giving it a $100 pricetag. Complaining about product placement in transformers is a bit funny, since the whole concept originated from boosting sales of the japanese diaclone and microman toys under the name of "transformers" It was originally just one big toy advertisement and it still is. Now i agree in the movie it went a bit overboard and it bothered me a bit, but didn't really ruin it. It was one of the parts that contributed for covering for production as well as keeping the costs down. There were other quite noticable bits of making it cheap, like using material from previous bay movies as well as favoring practical shots over CGI. Of course the actors and bay are getting a big buck out of it, but is there a movie that doesn't have high salary for big names?

@adam. If you go searching for flaws you'll find them cause your brain will work overtime just to make a plot hole that doesn't exist. Also GMC, Chevrolet, Pontiac and Cadillac = General motors. The transformers had to be some cars and they couldn't be their original alt forms cause Volkswagen and porche for example don't want to be associated with war toys.

[Helm]

I watched some transformers cartoons a while ago and they really didn't hold up. Just because I didn't know any better as I child doesn't mean I have to hold a loyalty to a cheap show solely made to sell toys which somehow caught on. Robots are cool, but let's not become too much of nostalgia junkies.

[ptoing]

HUMAN DISPLAY!

http://www.shoutfile.com/v/x8X9qTCx/Samsung_Dance

[bengo]

Oshi-

[huZba]

Coolest one of those dances i've seen so far. Damn those koreans. I wonder how many choreographers died in the process 

[Dusty]

I think advertising in a game is dumb. It isn't a way to avoid a $100 pricetag, it's a way to shell in a little more extra cash. Many other excellent games have no in-game advertisement at all, and their price stays at the average price that other games sell at.
Advertising has long been used to keep things free, or relatively free, for consumers, now everyone is jumping in knowing that they can get an extra buck off of it.

[bengo]

Dusty, you win one free internets, just one though.