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Forums - Movies & TV - The Amount Of Sony Product Placement In 'The Amazing Spider-Man' Sequel Is Ridiculous

Look of all the major film studios the only one that also manufactures consumer electronics is Sony.

So instead of complaining please explain why Sony would advertise rival products in it's films?



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It's a Sony movie. They do it all the time. I remember watching Paul Blart: Mall Cop and there were PS3s with Ratchet and Clan on Bravias and such everywhere in the mall



I take it most of you don't watch CW shows. Literally every single one of them has surface tablets and they won't shut up about them. They give them to friends as gifts, they make a huge deal about them in an actual dialogue and they even become part of an argument.

They always show how they work and how easy it is to click on them. It is so obvious that they're advertising them that it is actually funny. Anyone who watches Arrow might have noticed this. The only exception might be Supernatural. I haven't watched the latest season and don't remember anything from the last one.



You just wasted my time :( nothing here except the vaio to be confirmable as a sony product. Although i cant read the text from the angle im sure sony put in a 10 year old pc monitor to ignite sales of it.



KylieDog said:
No, this is product placement...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHCqw23zU_o

There you go, haters! PS Vita has ALL of the games. Kevin Spacey agrees.



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The President of United States just preffer Sony products, what is the problem on that?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Conina said:

That amount of product placement (and no close-ups of the products) is totally okay.

If they want to really make their point of annoying "in your face" Sony product placement, they should denounce the smurf-movies:

-Sony ad-

-Sony ad-

-Sony ad-

-Sony ad-

Vaio-Laptops, Xperia phones and tablets, Blu-ray banners... The Smurfs even carry a Sony tablet around for a good part of the second movie!

I was actually going to mention this. 

The Smurfs are such Sony fanboys, it's just ludicrous!



fleischr said:
It's time Sony just sells the Spiderman franchise back to Marvel/Disney.

The everything about the reboot is nowhere near the same quality of the Spiderman series of the early 2000s.

Hah~! I laugh every time I see somebody saying this.  Because even the new Spiderman reboot did really well.  If anything, Fox should give up their crappy X-Men movies and give it to back to Marvel first.  X-men movie cost around the same as the Spiderman movies yet makes around half the amount worldwide.  Each Spiderman movie makes $3/4 to 1 billion worldwide where the X-men movies ranges from $300-400M.

Sure everybody wants to see Spiderman with the Avengers, but heck, Marvel movies are now introducing mutants! It boggles me how Disney/Marvel is bringing in mutants without properly introducing the X-men first. (Of course they cant because of Fox) If anything, Wolverine needs to join Captain American and the Avengers before Spiderman.

 OT: Took me awhile to find that Vaio laptop.  I saw a few other products in the screenshot but how can anybody tell if its a Sony product or not, like I saw a camera but you cant tell what brand it was from that view.



yeah it was already pretty bad in the first Amazing Spider-Man movie.

Usually I don't care if it isn't that weird, like someone drinking a Coke or whatever, but I immediately noticed the Vaio notebook that Dr. Connor used in the sewers. They really tried to shove it down your throat there.



torok said:
daredevil.shark said:

We don't live in a world with only Sony electronics and that's what makes the products stick out so much in the sequel.


Well, we don't live in a world with people sticking in the walls and villains throwing buildings in the population... I remember that in Skyfall the ammount of Xperia phones was simply unbeliavable. This kind of marketing is becoming more popular, it isn't hard to see (talking about Brazil here) a lot of merchandising on television shows. Lumia phones, food marketing...

I remember one time, one or two months ago, when the characters on a show were supposed to go (around 7 people) to another location and were worried about how they would fit on the car. The main character "fortunatelly" had one of the most recent minivans from Chevrolet and lost 2 minutes explaining how everyone could fit and how huge was the internal space of the car. 

I usually don't see that much of a problem when the products simply are there, but things become simply ridiculous when they are all over the place or when characters start to show it and talk about it.


wasnt there only one xperia that Bond had that showed him checking it once for a brief second?