17 Most Shameless Product Placements in Movies

12. Minority Report - Lexus, Guinness, American Express etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQbVD5hlddk Steven Spielberg is probably the guy we can thank most for how rife product placement is in films now - but we'll get to that later - and his excellent sci-fi flick Minority Report stands as one of his own most blatant examples. In a vague future, Tom Cruise's protagonist walks through a shopping mall and is quite literally inundated with a wealth of interactive advertisements including Lexus, Guinness and American Express which invade his line of sight due to iris-recognition technology which runs rampant in this future. While it's sort of a nice comment about how product placement in the future is likely only going to be more in-your-face and annoying, it's still horribly forced, and wastes nearly a minute of the film's screen time to make a point that could've been done in just a few seconds. Furthermore, if they'd used fake companies, they could have exaggerated this point much further without pissing anyone off.