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The Wizard (1989)
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"Product placement in movies is now so overdone that we may not even notice it unless a particular film or TV show really hits us over the head with a blatant in-your-face product shot. Otherwise, seeing commercial goods everywhere merely seems like everyday life in capitalist America. Just look at any of the websites that tally up products spotlighted in mainstream movies and you’ll probably be surprised (though not shocked) at how many brands appear in each new release. Did you notice that Blades of Glory contains 38 separate products? Probably not. Many of those products couldn’t have gotten their money’s worth, because the movie doesn’t allow the audience to walk away recalling any one particular item. At a time when TV’s Top Chef and 30 Rock show us how lame blatantly whorish and ironic product placement can get, and while moviegoers are being subjected to more subliminal, suggestive and unintentional advertisements (Speed Racer, Wall-E and
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"Mick LaSalle asked us last week what movie we would like to be inside (instead of Beowulf, which we can sort of feel like we’re in). Personally, I think being inside The Wizard of Oz would be awful. I might even prefer The Wiz, and I’d hate to be in The Wiz. I’d even prefer to hang out with Fred Savage in The Wizard, and I don’t play video games. My answers: anything Capra (well, almost anything — no Why We Fight docs); anything Marx Brothers; anything Muppets; anything Miyazaki; Amelie; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The Goonies (why not?); and What Dreams May Come (the movie was bad; the setting was beautiful). In honor of me writing more about
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"...I liked it back in 1989. I was a HUGE video game player then, and to go see this film with the not-yet-released Super Mario 3 was more than I could stand. I'm sure if I watch it NOW, I'd turn it off before it ever got to that point. Apparently, the acting and story line are atrocious. But...whatever...it was a movie I loved as a kid. "
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"This movie is great for those nights when your reminiscing about the 80's. I fell in love with the Nintendo back in the day and with all the new technology and game systems I rarely think back. Ahh.... I remember how cool the Glove was too! My brother had one and wouldn't share. Also, what little girl didn't think Fred Savage was adorable!?I also love how the story line still affected me. For me, this movie is just one of those moves that I MUST have in my childhood movie collection and probably share with my nieces and nephew. "
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