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Old 11-04-2009, 10:31 AM
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Remember when movies were just movies?
Old 11-04-2009, 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by dom93hatch
Remember when movies were just movies?
You can thank ET for this
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Old 11-04-2009, 10:39 AM
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you have a particular movie you have beef w/?

i think the most recent offender of this is Transformers 1/2
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Originally Posted by Nightshade
You can thank ET for this
hahaha forreals. did that movie start the whole thing?
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Originally Posted by TaekOne
you have a particular movie you have beef w/?

i think the most recent offender of this is Transformers 1/2
i remember blade trinity had a boner for apple products.
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Originally Posted by dom93hatch
hahaha forreals. did that movie start the whole thing?
If I remember right it was the first movie to blatantly advertise a specific group of products.

Pepsi/Pizza Hut
Resses Pieces
and if I remember right Huffy bicycles among other smaller mentions.
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I'm not sure if 24 is still sponsored by Sprint, but aside from that they had a ton of Dell products in the first few seasons then switched to Apple...



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