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Amentep

Amentep

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There are no product placement scenes.

Pretty sure that Carpenter's The Thing does have product placement; I seem to recall them showing the beer they're drinking fairly prominently and its a real brand. Possibly some other day-to-day items in the break room / kitchen.  Been awhile since I saw it so my memory could be cheating, but atm I can't find conclusive evidence one way or the other.

 

It'd have been rare for a relatively big budget film of the time done by a major studio (Universal) to not have some kind of product placement, no matter how minor.

 

 

There is some new version of The Thing?

 

Not since the 2011 prequel film, The Thing.

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I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man

Nonek

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There are no product placement scenes.

Pretty sure that Carpenter's The Thing does have product placement; I seem to recall them showing the beer they're drinking fairly prominently and its a real brand. Possibly some other day-to-day items in the break room / kitchen.  Been awhile since I saw it so my memory could be cheating, but atm I can't find conclusive evidence one way or the other.

 

It'd have been rare for a relatively big budget film of the time done by a major studio (Universal) to not have some kind of product placement, no matter how minor.

 

Was the computer on which Mr Russell's character is playing chess on at the beginning an IBM? I remember all of the hoopla at the time of release being focused upon ET, which I thought was a far inferior film (well made but far too cheesy and sentimental,) while the Thing was largely ignored.

Quite an experience to live in misery isn't it? That's what it is to be married with children.

I've seen things you people can't even imagine. Pearly Kings glittering on the Elephant and Castle, Morris Men dancing 'til the last light of midsummer. I watched Druid fires burning in the ruins of Stonehenge, and Yorkshiremen gurning for prizes. All these things will be lost in time, like alopecia on a skinhead. Time for tiffin.

 

Tea for the teapot!

Amentep

Amentep

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Nah, the computer was an Apple II computer, but it didn't have any apple branding as it was a fictional "Chess Wizard" with voice announcing.

 

J&B Rare Blend scotch that MacReady pours into it was real, though.

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Gorgon

Gorgon

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I'm not sure if that's because the movie is from before people obsessed about showing brands. I mean the Snow cat has Catarpillar written on it, but did they get a check for that. I doubt it. 

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That is all.

 

Amentep

Amentep

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The vehicles used in THE THING were two Bombardier Skidozers, a Catepillar D3 B, Thiokol IMP. a Thiokol Spryte and an LMC Imp.  

 

There's two likely scenarios for their use -  they were either procured from a company that leases vehicles to films or from the company themselves.  If from the company itself, it was done for consideration that the items would get screen time to show what they do (IIRC the Bombardier's would be the most likely in this case, I think they actually get much of the screen time, but I may be misremembering).

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I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man

algroth

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This year's been pretty slow/lacklustre so far, but I'm really looking forward to some of the upcoming titles. Arrival looks particularly superb, but so do Nocturnal Animals, Loving, Moana, Jackie, La La Land, Manchester by the Sea, Paterson, Certain Women and The Red Turtle. I'm expecting it'll be the best awards season since 2013, most likely.

 

 

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Volourn

Volourn

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WW looks awesome just like the first trailer. All of the JL films are fanatastic. You must be mistaking them for the ****ty Avenger trash.

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algroth

algroth

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WW looks awesome just like the first trailer. All of the JL films are fanatastic. You must be mistaking them for the ****ty Avenger trash.

Nah. I'm not as down as some others are on the Justice League films nor am I a fan of the MCU (I think Whedon's first Avengers film is actually worse than the Snyder films), but they are nevertheless problematic at best. Though they are interesting to some degree, and I appreciate that Snyder seems to at least be trying to add his own style and vision into a new superhero saga, the films are frequently messy, sometimes downright incomprehensible, and altogether extremely kitschy. Motivations are frequently all over the shop, and the writing at best feels improvised on the spot. It's a shame because I feel they tend to show more promise and potential than the MCU films usually do, but they fall way short of it.

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Agiel

Agiel

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I am quite fond of <<Valerian et Laureline>> series, and Luc Besson's last crack at an adaptation of a classic bande dessinée, <<Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec>> I actually quite enjoyed. I suspect however, as with many other Luc Besson flicks, the people who are least likely to react well to this announcement are actual francophones.

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“Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.”
 
-Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>>
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"The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."

-Rod Serling

 

Hurlshort

Hurlshort

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I am quite fond of <<Valerian et Laureline>> series, and Luc Besson's last crack at an adaptation of a classic bande dessinée, <<Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec>> I actually quite enjoyed. I suspect however, as with many other Luc Besson flicks, the people who are least likely to react well to this announcement are actual francophones.

 

Ok, that French movie looks fantastic, and also seems to share multiple scenes with 5th Element.  Where can I watch that?

Agiel

Agiel

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I first saw it while staying at the house of the parents of my then Quebecoise girlfriend (who were also avid BD collectors). I found that you can rent it on Youtube and I'd honestly be shocked if it didn't come with English subtitles since the description is in English.

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“Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.”
 
-Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>>
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"The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."

-Rod Serling

 

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Amentep

Amentep

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Spider-Man: Homecoming

 

War for the Planet of the Apes

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ShadySands

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Sorry, but it the other way around for me. Liked Spidey but didn't really care for Apes. Though I stopped watching after like the first reboot movie so that could have something to do with it

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Hurlshort

Hurlshort

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Sorry, but it the other way around for me. Liked Spidey but didn't really care for Apes. Though I stopped watching after like the first reboot movie so that could have something to do with it

 

The Mark Wahlberg one?  I don't think it is related.  Although I haven't watched any of them either, but Woody Harrelson piques my interest.

 

In the same vein, Micheal Keaton makes me interested in Spider-Man.

Agiel

Agiel

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Kind of got the sense that this implied that Deckard was a Replicant (who can somehow live a full human lifespan).

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“Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.”
 
-Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>>
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"The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."

-Rod Serling

 

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