The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

Without going full Sup Forums, can we discuss this movie?

Are you for or against product-placement in movies? A cynical way to sell us something, or a necessary evil?

SIEG HEIL

Well, we almost lasted 4 minutes, so that's something.

Seriously though, how much advertisement filtering do you use while browsing the web for example?

Is product placement a way to get around stuff like this?

Has capitalism gone too far?

Bump for an important topic?

Oh come now on, we're already on the 4th GoT thread. Can't we take a moment to discuss something alternative?

I don't have a problem with good product placement, like Mcdonalds in 5th Element. It's like yeah it's the future so it's a future Mcdonalds with a futuristic menu.

Compare that to iRobot where Will Smith gets 'vintage' 2004 Converse All Stars and listens to music on a 2004 Sony stereo despite it being 2030 in the movie or something.

>a necessary evil

No, it isn't needed. There's tons of ultra low budget movies that do well and/or are good. I really don't give a shit about these half a billion dollar shitfests that have been coming out lately.

There's just so much of movies that are nothing but advertisement and social propaganda. There's barely any movie left worth watching. Social propaganda has been a thing in movies since day one, but the commercial ads that get woven into them is a more "recent" thing and it is fucking terrible.

The movie itself is fairly good, but not very good as a documentary really.

>how much advertisement filtering do you use while browsing the web for example?

As much as possible. I don't like being solicited in any form. If I want something I'll seek it out.

Also, no one on Sup Forums gives a shit about this stuff. I know I've tried making a few threads in the past few years.

I'm pretty sure most people, even normies are more likley to use an ad blocker than not, which is why product placement will probably get more common.

Yes, but is it really the worst form of advertisement? Does watching Will Smith drink Mountain Dew make you want one?

It's probably quite a harsh topic to talk about.

On the other hand, a lot of these companies have to advertise SOMEHOW, and if you're not going to watch their commercials, how else are they going to get you to Eat At Subway™?

Word of mouth from satisfied customers, you say? Pff.

>this movie
>movie
This is literally a 2 hour long commercial. There is no deep message. This whole thing was born out of the idea "how can I turn my minute of fame from Supersize Me into the most money possible". There's nothing ironic or interesting about it. It's a money grab, plain and simple, nothing else.

Considering Super Size Me was a complete and total lie just to fuck with McDonalds, no. Fuck that guy.

>Morgan Sporlock

fuck off

senpai almost nobody uses ad blockers

youre doing selection bias in your head by thinking the people you associate with represent the majority

Advertising kind of ruined Fight Club for me.

I haven't watched a legit commercial ad in many years.

He has several movies.

>He has several movies.
And they all suck.

He's such a faggot.

This man is a liar with no integrity.

I won't watch any of his shit.

So, still doesn't make your statement in any more correct.

Have you seen the movie? Do you know how the advertising in movies generally works? There's no lies in the OP movie.

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I didn't make that comment, but how does it not?

Spurlock has never made anything of real merit. He had commercial success with Supersize Me and he's been riding off the success of that sham for the last 12 years.

He has literally no dignity or integrity left

>Supersize Me
>success

That's just it though, it wasn't a success. It was a massive loss. All his movies have been massive flops.

>Brought in $22,000,000 on a $65,000 budget
>A loss

Another fake documentary?

>not understanding how movies work

Time to stop posting, kid.

wat

>300x return on a movie with next to no marketing.
Hollywood wishes they could get those numbers.

Does advertising even work? I have never once in my life ever saw an advert and thought "oh cool, I'll buy that" I buy things because of word of mouth or because I search out the right product myself.

Think it might be one of these jew schemes where it's all based on estimates of "confidence" so they can run investment scams on each other or something.

But how do these other people find these products?

Advertising isn't necessarily always to get you to buy a product. It's to get you to know the product, company, or service exists. It's to get you thinking good things about the company. For instance, why on earth does Boeing run fucking television commercials? That's not how you sell planes.

What this user said
Advertisement stopped being about the product in the 90's entirely

my firefox keeps crashing because I have plenty of filters, I'm literally using a pre-2006 internet it's fucking amazing

I'll probably end up using a text-only browser though

NoScript and AdBlock FTW DESU DESU

I like it. It gives th movie a bit of reality to it, unless it goes over the top like Mac & Me. Whereas of a movie is like Repo Man and everything is generic that CB work too.

I hate fake products made to look like real brands

you're a wise man

>I have never once in my life ever saw an advert and thought "oh cool, I'll buy that"

It's a lot more subtle than that. The advertisements merely plant the seed so you know the product or company is out there, they form the basis for where you begin that search, and if you're exposed to more advertising for one product than another, then all other things being equal you'll just have this inexplicable gut feeling that you should go with that one over the less-advertised one.

For example, a McDonald's ad doesn't make you run out and go buy McDonald's right then. But if you're out and about one day thinking, "I need something quick to eat right now," that McDonald's advertisement will get your subconscious to lead you to McDonald's. It will simply be the first thing you think of.

That's the devious thing about advertising. You don't even realize it's working, it's just subtly changing your basis for thinking about things by bombarding you with imagery 24/7, and whoever bombards people the most will have a statistical advantage.

I don't think ads should be in movies the same way I don't think there should be a Coca Cola advert behind the Mona Lisa or a cumstain spelling out 'Pornhub' on Van Gogh's "Starry Night"

Capitalism, politics and art shouldn't mix

>never going to buy anything ever again
>he owns a grill
>implying that grill or parts of it won't eventually need replacement

>All movies are art made on shoestring budgets

Artists did commissions for millennia (comparable to when a director does lame capeshit movie #233)

Even in commissions people inject a message or deeper artistic value. The commercialization of the industry is not because they lack financial resource to back it, it's so that the businesses make as much money as possible, which is why they do this advert stuff

Regardless that's neither here nor there

>4th

20th today alone.

>Hollywood is a business
>But that's not the issue
Its the bloody crux of the issue.

>from the director of the feature length Subway commercial

DUDE I ATE MCDONALDS ALL DAY EVERYDAY AND GOT FAT WHO WOULD'VE THUNK IT HUH?? LMAO

Product placement isn't here so that you will go out and buy a Mountain Dew right away per se, but more that it reinforces familiarity with the product in you. It's so that you will always think of Mountain Dew before Mountain Thunder etc when you crave a piss green sugar drink

I think product placement is fine as long as it isn't in your face and blatant. Most of the time I'd prefer it than the dumb fucking knock off shit they use like "Pear" instead of "Apple".

Its legit too

Wow, it makes me think of David Cross. He shits blantant commercialism then does the Chipmonks movie.

*shits on