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Nyrine@Work:
NSNA is a remake of Thunderball.
nostrebor:
--- Quote from: Nyrine@Work on May 12, 2005, 07:37:57 am ---NSNA is a remake of Thunderball.
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... Out of a different studio and producer than the "official" Bond series movies.
It was the first Bond movie I saw in a theater, and at the time it was no big deal to see those games. Last night it played on Starz and I'm just watching along, get to the gratutious private party in a casino scene ::) and BAM! there are about one million minty games! It was cool in a very geeky sort of way :P I'm used to seeing a game or two in a movie, but it was actually tied to the "plot" in this movie.
One thing is certain. Atari was definitely cashing in.
The real question is did you guys guess because of the game hint, or the twice Sean Connery/remake/20 year hint?
JoyMonkey:
The Sean Connery hint did it.
I want to build my own war game like Largo has. Has anyone tried adding shock electrodes to Happ Supers yet?
RayB:
--- Quote from: nostrebor on May 11, 2005, 11:03:26 pm ---(I was surprised to see such a blatent marketing tactic in a movie from the early 80's. I always thought that Pepsi thought of this trick first.)
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That's the thing about youth. We are so innocent amd naive... when we experience or notice things for the first time, we assume that it's a reflection of the times.
The point I'm getting at is that product placement, sponsoring, etc is not a modern-day trend. We think it is, because it annoys us, but even in the days of black n white movies you would see sponsored products. One example that really made me realize this was a movie about a company in Germany around the time of the nazis. The main characters worked for Coca-Cola (if memory serves me correct) or sold it or something. I remember the product name being mentioned many times.
Same with advertising. Since the dawn of television, shows have always been sponsored by products ("Drink Ovaltine!").
ChadTower:
Hey, I still watch some of those old Texaco shows sometimes.