Five minutes in


I mean I wasn't expecting much of this movie, and I fear to see how badly they misuse the immense talent of Richard Ayoade, but my God! Was the movie financed entirely by Costco or what?

When placement advertising is THIS blatant, to the point where it dominates the story right off the bat, it MUST have a negative effect. Surely viewers resent it? This kind of thing makes me less likely to shop there, not more. I hope I'm not alone in that.

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Not all use of real life products and companies is evil product placement. Stephen King liked to use well known names all the time to 1) add realism and 2) save having to go the Acme route and make a fake company or product with a stupid name to obviously replace a real one.

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