Comments on: Review: The Island Movie

By: Benjie

Benjie — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:54:33 +0000

Honestly I PREFER the advertisements. It makes the “future” seem so much more real. It makes the movie accessible.

By: Product Displacement « Robert in München

Product Displacement « Robert in München — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:04:45 +0000

[...] Product Displacement Veröffentlicht 23. Februar 2009 Fundstück , Kino Bei großen Filmproduktionen ist Product Placement ja heutzutage eine fast schon übliche Werbeform, um zumindest einen Teil des Films zu finanzieren. (Unangenehmstes Beispiel ist für mich bisher der Film The Island, in dem nicht weniger als 26 Produkte beworben wurden, und dadurch sogar Plotholes entstanden.) [...]

By: ben

ben — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:44:36 +0000

this is insane!

ok, so there might have been a few product references in the movie. so what? does that immediately write it off as a piece of entertainment? i hope that nobody who is whining here subscribes to cable, satellite, pays for magazines with ads in them, because what is the difference here? obviously there will be brands in the future, why not include that as a part of the film? also, with the current trend in advertising, it would appear to me that there is going to be more and more of it… nobody made a ruckus with Blade Runner and the huge Coke (and other product) ads plastered on the sides of LA buildings in 2020 or whatever that movie was set in. my point is, america is a consumerist hole, and we have ALL made it that way. we pay to watch the celebrities, the trailers, the crap on tv, all of it, and the only person we have to blame is ourselves!

ouch. as for me, give me a rolloflex and a kayak. and a couple thousand square miles of Boundary Waters.

By: K- Dawg

K- Dawg — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:23:21 +0000

First off, it was definitely a Cadillac Cien, not the Chrysler H-12. All the cars in the movie were from General Motors except for the thinly disguised Chrysler 300 police cars. (more advertisement). People only realize what there are interested in. I can barely recall the Pumas, (now that you guys mentioned it i can remember) but i honestly don’t remember the Microsoft logos being flashed. However, I remember the getaway car(Cadillac), the Hummer H2’s chasing the futuristic Mack Truck, the yellow Chevy SSR that they had in the desert, and the Chrysler police cars. Another example was Bad Boys II and the Matrix Reloaded.( every car on the highway was a brand new GM product) I remember having General Motors being shoved down my throat in both movies, and now in The Island. The point is, folks, we see whatever we want to see. The advertisements worked if we can honestly sit here and primarily remember the ads. My neice probably wouldn’t remember the cars, but she might remember the pumas or the Calvin Klein ad. Even though it was a huge overload of advertisements, not everybody is going to notice what you notice. So lighten up, and enjoy the movie without being offended by the advertisements, because you might’ve been the only one to notice

By: Karl The Brain

Karl The Brain — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 23:36:10 +0000

You know, that is true about the mich. But I would have to say that after already watching the beginning half hour of ad after ad placement I just very well could have blocked that all out. Really after you try to block out a lot of the movie because of the ads you really just stop watching completely and all you’re doing is blankly watching commercials for the next 1.5 hours of your life. It gets old!