The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Films

As product placement becomes more and more overt in film and television, we were inspired this month to blog about products in films, either real or fictional, that left us coveting them.

I tend to be pretty oblivious to product placement – in fact, a few weeks ago I was proud as Hell that I actually recognized one in an episode of Bones that I immediately had to talk to Mark about it – I felt like Willam in Mallrats when he finally saw the sailboat in the magic-eye picture!

Inspiration comes from the most unlikely places sometimes. I am a geek – I own it. I love computers and gadgets and spend entirely too much time at my desk in front of three monitors, wasting time as my ass expands exponentially! So you can only imagine the geek-gasm I had when I saw the sweet-ass home office set up in Halloween Resurrection. Sure, the movie is a piece of shit (killing off Laurie Strode in the first few minutes of the film was just an ugly idea, even if it was Jamie Lee Curtis’).

The concept is brilliant – set up a large monitor across from the desk keeping only the mouse, keyboard, and remote control at the desk, keeping the desk wire-free!

I would, however, modify the set-up a little. I would need a laptop on the desk and use the large monitor as the extended desktop of the laptop – it would be perfect for having the applications you are working on close for working, and throw up some web video, or a game on the large monitor… Gack! I am getting the sweats just thinking about it!

I would so buy that for a dollar! Hell, I’d even pay more!