Corperate "Brand Name" advertizing in movies

I would like to get other film enthusiasts response to the upsurge in Corporate "Brand Name" advertising in movies. One movie I recently watched, which I liked "King of California" had at least a dozen really obvious examples of this including Coke, Phillips, Costco and McDonald's. When I watch a movie I do not agree to Corporate advertising as part of the film. And I think it is a degrading aspect in the film. At a point in the film I became more aware of the next "Big Name" corporate logo that flashed across the screen rather than the plot of the movie.

A documentary I watched recently which I can recommend and which addresses this issue is "The Corperation," at link http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Corporation/60034810?trkid=64596. I highly recommend this documentary as it starkly illustrates the vast power which the corperation has accumulated.

I remember a quote about corperations "A means by which one may accrure personal profit without personal liability," but do not remember the source.

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Permalink Reply by 2McAbre on September 5, 2008 at 8:22am: Big Corporation may be Evil, but you also have to remember that it was "we" the consumers that made them so, and encouraged their ever growing competitive nature.

A Must see for everyone:

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

How many Pokémon (So prevalent in society that the product name is in my spell check dictionary!) cards and toys do you think they would actually sell, if nobody watched the stupid movies or animated series? Or for that matter Vice Versa?

How many stupid Pokémon movies and animated series would they produce, if nobody bought the toys and cards?

I know I sound like a broken record sometimes.

But there will "ALWAYS" be consequences for our actions. Its the failure of a large portion of the human races ability to accept that fact that's put us as a society where we are today.

But they have an easy out. Because they are used to blaming everyone else for the consequences of the "groups" actions, instead of accepting responsibility and doing what they can to effect change.

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Permalink Reply by Slappy on September 5, 2008 at 9:34am: Big Corporation may be Evil, but you also have to remember that it was "we" the consumers that made them so, and encouraged their ever growing competitive nature.

Not necessarily you but it has been brought up by many here and there. How in the heck can you live in a capitalistic society and hate big business. This immediate impression that all big business is evil, yeah some have done horrible things, but it has got to be a twist of the knife in your gut for the American dream to be the chance to make it big. All those companies started somewhere and in many cases some little person like me worked their ass off and won the lotto for it, I can't stand the hate for a freedom that we all hope for, the freedom to be stinking filthy rich. I just wish that freedom was a constitutional right because being dead broke sucks lmao.; ▶ Reply to This

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Permalink Reply by 2McAbre on September 5, 2008 at 12:31pm: Ah but did you notice the subliminal messages?

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