Take a ride in my Chevy while you drink your Pepsi in the mug I bought at Target
 

Now that consumers can fast forward advertisements on TV and generally ignore them everywhere else, corporations are turning to product placement in movies and TV to grab your attention. How does everyone feel about this?

As long as the product is integrated seamlessly into the plot and they don't beat me over the head with it, I don't care that much. If a character happens to be drinking a Coke (they don't even mention it, but you can see the logo on the can), I'm fine with that. However, on TV especially, some programs go laughably out of their way to make their programs an infomercial for a specific product.

As long as it is not disruptive, I think that product placement goes a long ways to help foster suspension of disbelief. When I'm sitting there watching Die Hard 4 and there are like 10 LCDs on the screen and half of them are playing the Gears of War title screen, I am thinking how silly that is. When I'm sitting there watching Disturbia and dude is under house arrest and is playing GRAW 2 on his 360, and actually PLAYING it, I am thinking to myself that this is something that a real suburban kid would probably be doing if he were under house arrest.

There were advertisements on every single fold-down table on the last flight I took. :gonk:

Terminator 2 has an interesting part where a man is holding a pepsi?, I think. The logo is very clear and visible. Then the T 1000 starts shooting, filling both the man and the pepsi full of bullet holes. There was something very deep about that and it CAN be looked at as a direct shot at consumerism.

I generally think that ads can be done tastefully. If that is the case, then I don't see the problem with them. I don't watch tv because its less about programs and more about commercials, informercials and advertisements. Screw that.

Usually I'm fine with it as long as it serves the story... Just don't let Michael Bay handle product placement. Good lord what a fucking retard that man is.