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New Product-Placement Technology Makes Joneses Even Harder to Watch

In an era when money is harder than ever to come by, Hollywood privately knows exactly what will save it. No, not 3-D . Not flop insurance either. I’m talking about product placement, that unabating scourge turning your favorite movies and TV shows into the equivalents of extended commercial breaks. Few films embrace this reality as warmly as The Joneses , whose poster revealed an ugly truth made only uglier by new technology allowing you to literally buy the items onscreen while you watch. Welcome to hell!

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New Product-Placement Technology Makes Joneses Even Harder to Watch

Confession: I Can’t Tell the Actors Apart on HBO’s The Pacific

Do the three pictures above look sort of similar? Perhaps you’re thinking that they’re all snapshots of one actor, or maybe a set of brothers? Now, imagine them with identical one-week blond beard growth and helmets slung over half their face and try to tell them apart. This is my problem with whoever cast HBO’ s The Pacific .

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Confession: I Can’t Tell the Actors Apart on HBO’s The Pacific