The iPod in Scary Movie 4

I guess you people don't get the reference to War of the Worlds.

The aliens in War of the Worlds traveled in tripod spaceships. Hence, triPod

Now arent we forgetting about two of the ipods greatest movie performances in the films "Transporter 3" and old Indiana Joness "Firewall". However, judging by the trailer, Scary movie 4 appears to be its best work. Now do the lasers zapping people foreshadow some sort of tazer to fend off ipod muggers in future ipod versions?

Though clearly not in this Scary 4 case ... there are two types of product placement in Hollywood:

The TYPE YOU PAY FOR because no one really thinks your products are cool enough ...

And the other TYPE WHERE YOU LOAN PRODUCTS like Apple and most luxury goods makers. Your products are cool enough that you don't have to pay for placement. Productions get free use and agree to some basic primciple's - in the case of Apple, it's an agreement not to use it as a bomb or trigger device or in some unflattering manner.

While the production doesn't get any money, the advantage is that if it's pay-for-play deal, sometimes it pretty obvious who the good guys are as they are all using HP laptops while everyone else is using a white box or it leads to awkward exchanges like last week where a lead on a TV series was raving about how cool her Ford Fusion headlamps are ... as if.

Or like the movie LEGALLY BLONDE. In the first movie, she goes to buy a laptop, a Mac iBook - Apple simply provided the iBook.

In the sequel, GATEWAY signed up and she got a pink PC laptop - and you could order one online. I'm sure they sold dozens for their million dollar placement.

Apple did obvious product placement on "Inside Man". Many people can be seen with white earphones, the Jodie Foster character receives a phone call in front of a very large Apple display with mounted iSight and even videochats on it with her assistant. I think there was a scene with an Apple laptop, too, but can't remember exactly.

Apple hasn't really been doing blatant product placement since the movie Independence Day.

You obviously missed Blade 3, which is short for "Blade 3G ipod gratuitious product placement"

Jessica Biel only fights while listening to specially created playlists she makes for her 3G ipod. And she does this on Patton Oswalt's 24 inch Cinema Display based G5 system.

If Apple had officially made the shuffle and the 3rd party crucifix shuffle cap, Blade would have officially been the dumbest movie ever.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I made a playlist on my iPod called "Destroy Humanity" a few months back after seeing this.

Here's a pic of it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/e3mw/94373287/

Jesus I saw this four months ago when the trailer premiered. It's still funny though.

triPod.

I'm pretty sure that product placement comment was sarcasm.

this is old.

CONSUMERS WHO COME UPON WEB ads for Dimension Films' "Scary Movie 4" later this month will get an unfamiliar invitation to "Download Videos to iPod." With a click of acceptance, their iTunes accounts--in many cases synced with their video iPods--will launch, and then download an automatically updated "Scary Movie" podcast folder.