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Avatar - The Movie
RayB:
If the smoking was product placement they failed miserably as I didn't notice a brand.
Xiau also failed the brevity test.
Xiaou2:
I had become hooked on the show "House" in the last few years...
Close to xmas, there was an episode where one of the doctors is standing next to
a computer, talking to someone. The cameraman pans around the pc ever so
elegantly that you can tell its Blatant what they are doing.
The PC's monitor was a Dell, as its black embossed design stood out loud and clear.
Then the funniest thing happened... the nurse said to the doctor... "Your next patient
is Dell ******". I cant recall the patients last name, But it was a double face palm moment.
Not all product placement has to be so Blatant. Im not saying for 100% that there
Was in fact motives from the smoking industry... but I surely would not put it past them.
Imagine of Pizza was on the verge of being banned. There were laws in place to
keep you eating it in only designated areas. The Pizza manufacturers were not able
to advertise in any magazines, papers, etc. Do you not think that all the Pizza
producers would not be meeting about this? Would not join forces so to speak?
Did you ever see the movie "Tucker" ? Its a portrayal of what happened to
Mr Tucker when he made a revolutionary car. The car was so good... that the
big 3 car manufacturers would have had to spend millions to re-tool just to try to
catch up. So.. they all got together, along with govt and newspapers,
and sabotaged him / it .
It does not matter What brand they put onto the screen. So long as they put
Someone popular smoking on the screen...to try to influence a new generation of
lifetime addicted smokers. Such a play is well worth the "shared investment" or
should I say "Forced?" placement within the media.
If you think an industry which rakes in trillion of dollars in profits from peoples
deaths is going to play Nice... you are really Naive. Remember... these are the
same people who were intentionally targeting Children at one point in their
advertising...
RayB:
You fail again. You could have made your point in two sentences. (Actually one, but I'm giving you space to make the point and complete it with a summation. :P )
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on December 30, 2009, 01:27:59 pm ---
Man... thats way sad.
--- End quote ---
Yes and no. The new owners bought the whole complex after it sat empty for a year or two. Then they figured its better to charge $5 a seat and have a hundred people in a cinema than to charge $10 and have 20. Prices have gone up since then, they are now between $6.50 and $8.50 depending on time of day. So sometimes you get to see a movie for $6.50 on that huge Imax screen :cheers: Avatar 3D was $12 on Sunday morning.
Their leading competitor by the way is normally about $15, except on Tuesday when it's $9 i think.
So not so sad for me. I think I only ever saw one Imax movie. Might have been some crappy 'planetarium' type spectacle...
DaOld Man:
I agree with Xiaou2, subliminal messaging really does exist, and the tobacco companies are a steaming pile of dog droppings. I could never figure out why tobacco was legal but not pot, until I found out the big money involved in tobacco. But please let's dont run this thread into P&R, cause the original topic is very interesting.
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