False Ads in movies

Article = none , personal experience.


I was watching this really great movie. It's called Live Free or Die Hard , the lastest bruce willis flick. And in it it features this hacker using this totally cool rubber keyboard. You just roll it up like a sheet of paper , put it in your pack , take it out , unroll it , plug it in and use it. And the hacker was tapping away on it at a mile a minute and it looked like the greatest thing since sliced bread !

Then I saw one at wall mart. 30$.

So I bought it. And I tried it out.

And it sucked.

And there was no way you could type with any speed, it was constantly missing key strokes the space bar didn't work properly , touch typing on it was impossible.

Thank goodness for the wall mart return policy. My wife returned it , kicked in 10$ , got herself a toaster oven she'd been saying she wanted for some time now.

What is that called ? When they place an ad inside a movie or tv show as part of the plot ? Imbedded Advertisement ? Product Placement ?

Whatever.

It sucks. It lies big time. Even worse than regular advertising. And thats going some because regular ad's have carefully crafted rules that can be easily gotten around. In show ads...hey ! it's just a show ! a piece of fiction ! We didn't promise you nothing !

It sucks. Bad.