Mac's on movies or TV shows?

[burritos]

I know there are two on 'Sex on the City'. Jessica Parker has an old black G3 powerbook, and Cynthia Nixon has a Tibook.

I think the editor in 'Smallville' has a Imac.

I'm sure Mac's have been used in other shows and movies, do people know off the top of their heads?

[TyleRomeo]

Originally posted by burritos
I know there are two on 'Sex on the City'. Jessica Parker has an old black G3 powerbook, and Cynthia Nixon has a Tibook.

I think the editor in 'Smallville' has a Imac.

I'm sure Mac's have been used in other shows and movies, do people know off the top of their heads?


hey check out basically any movie and they use macs.

jeff goldbloum used a mac to save the world in inderpendence day, josh hartnet had one in 40 days and 40 nights. watch any movie from the mac five years and 90% of the home computers are macs.

Tyler

[LethalWolfe]

Here ya go (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16308) :D


Lethal

[Wano]

In Austin Powers: Goldmember they had tons of g4 with 22in display and he used a tibook.

[tjwett]

Here's some off the top of my head:

-Royal Tenenbaums: LOTS of Cubes and Studio Displays plus older Apples when Chas is a kid.
-Mind of the Married Man: Mickey uses a TiBook.
-Six Feet Under: The massage therpaist chick uses a TiBook
-All my Life: FP iMac in their house
-Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: Macs allover
-Will and Grace: Grace now has an FP iMac in her office.
-Zoolander: Orange iMac stars in a scene

They are everywhere on the screen, probably because they look good and come in assorted colors (well they used to) to match the sets.

[janey]

Simple rule: Good guys -> Macs; Bad guys -> PC's.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16308
A lot of Mac sightings ;)

[macphoria]

There was pretty blatant product placement in Final Destination 2. This guy who supposedly won a lottery went out and got himself an iMac and carries it up to his crummy apartment. The name iMac on the box, as he carries it, is perfectly positioned towards the screen. Also main character is seen looking up directions on PowerBook, with its Apple logo on the cover glowing nicely in the dark. As much as I like Apple products, I do not like product placements in movies because they can be very distracting.

[Toby O Notoby]

I work in advertising and we all use Macs. Whenever you have to shoot something with a computer (film or print) you tend to go with what you know and put a Mac in there. Plus art directors tend to like the way Macs look more than PCs. They're just a cooler design than anything else. That's why you tend to see them a lot.

[janey]

Originally posted by macphoria
There was pretty blatant product placement in Final Destination 2. This guy who supposedly won a lottery went out and got himself an iMac and carries it up to his crummy apartment. The name iMac on the box, as he carries it, is perfectly positioned towards the screen. Also main character is seen looking up directions on PowerBook, with its Apple logo on the cover glowing nicely in the dark. As much as I like Apple products, I do not like product placements in movies because they can be very distracting.
it was great what are you talking about!!
wonderful...i went to watch it with some of my windoze loving friends and they died when they saw all those apple computers (and they also saw the trailer for Bringing Down the House, which has Steve Martin using a TiBook).

[macphoria]

------it was great what are you talking about!!
wonderful...i went to watch it with some of my windoze loving friends and they died when they saw all those apple computers (and they also saw the trailer for Bringing Down the House, which has Steve Martin using a TiBook).

Well, I'm sure it was great for you. I was really bored and looking forward to a scary movie and BAM! There is an Apple logo which I know so well and love, in full view, and there goes all the scary element in the movie. It is like watching a scary movie and you see someone you know in the background playing an extra, the movie is not scary anymore.

[janey]

the movie sucked but the product placement was great.

[macphoria]

-----the movie sucked but the product placement was great.

At last, someone who also thinks movie sucked. Many seem to think all the violence made the movie worth watching. I suppose product placement wasn't as big of an issue in terms of my enjoying the movie since it sucked anyway. Still, I wish they were more subtle about the whole marketing gimmicks in movies.

[aethier]

In MIB 2, in there mercedes, there gps thing uses mac os x with ie.

in friends you see them in rachel and chandler's offices, will and grace, in Leo's apartment they have a FP display but you cant see the computer.

in ClockStoppers, they have lots of ibooks and FP displays

in everyone loves raymond in his basement office he has a mac and i think he has a blasck PB now.

In ligalyBlond, the girl has a ibook at harverd law

well thats all i could think of at the top of my head

-aethier

[aethier]

In MIB 2, in there mercedes, there gps thing uses mac os x with ie.

in friends you see them in rachel and chandler's offices, will and grace, in Leo's apartment they have a FP display but you cant see the computer.

in ClockStoppers, they have lots of ibooks and FP displays

in everyone loves raymond in his basement office he has a mac and i think he has a blasck PB now.

In ligalyBlond, the girl has a ibook at harverd law

well thats all i could think of at the top of my head

-aethier

PS in one of JEn lopez' older music video's there are imacs and powerbook

[aethier]

In MIB 2, in there mercedes, there gps thing uses mac os x with ie.

in friends you see them in rachel and chandler's offices, will and grace, in Leo's apartment they have a FP display but you cant see the computer.

in ClockStoppers, they have lots of ibooks and FP displays

in everyone loves raymond in his basement office he has a mac and i think he has a blasck PB now.

In ligalyBlond, the girl has a ibook at harverd law

well thats all i could think of at the top of my head

-aethier

PS in one of JEn lopez' older music video's there are imacs and powerbook

[aethier]

oops didnt mean to post that 3x

-aethier

[Das]

Well, 24 has about the most macs I've ever seen in one showing. Granted they also have some (like 3) Dells. The place is mactropolis. That new Steve Martin movie has one and who can forget the days when they hid product placement in TV shows like on Just Shoot Me where a post it note conveniently covered a mac logo on Jack's tibook. Ah, the good ol days. And, for any book fans (the things with them squiggly lines) the new William Gibson book has an Apple Cube and cinema display in almost every paragraph(ten bucks as to what he wrote the book on).

Oh yes, and Final Destination 2 did suck, plus the fact that his new imac didn't even get out of the box before getting melted in the apartment fire. I guess death had a plan for it...so young *sniff*

[Anne]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Willow's trusty laptop is an ibook. And oh the world saving that little computer helps out with!

I think I also remember seeing an episode of the Drew Carey Show where there was an office filled with imacs.

[Eniregnat]

My favorite- Future rama- The world of robots, when the super computer that runs everything is shut down and reboots, the familiar Apple chime can be heard as it restarts.

My least favorite- Mentioned above in Independence Day, Jeff Goldbloum- The Cable Guy- saves the world using a Mac.

I think one of the reasons that you see Macs on sitcoms is that many screenwriters and creators use Macs.

[macphoria]

-----I think one of the reasons that you see Macs on sitcoms is that many screenwriters and creators use Macs.

And Macs look way cooler than boring PCs. They compliment the set better. ;-)

[sparks9]

In a 'crime/police-show' on danish TV2, "Station 2", the hosts always have the newest Powerbooks on the desk.
First they had the black ones now they have titanium ones.
They never use them, the 'books just stand and looks nice...

[Chaszmyr]

In the movie AntiTrust one of the SkullBocks guys was using a PowerBook G3

[Natron]

I noticed at least 2 FP iMacs on CSI Miami last night.

-Natron

[ExoticFish]

I just saw DareDevil last night and they had a TiBook and a FP iMac in there.

[sparks9]

In "24" 1 and 2, the counterterrorists use macs (G4s, cinemascreens) in their office... (well before it was blown up).

[aethier]

Rosie Odonnol used to have a PB next to here on mondays
that was when she would chat with fans during the show..

-aethier

[Foucault]

Yea "24" uses TiBook everywhere. The president uses it, Kiefer Sutherland uses. He even used it to do some hardcore interrogation of a terrorist. What does it all mean.? Let's use Macs to terrorize Iraq...

[Jaykay]

i see them in a lot of music videos and the like but there is a big white circular sticker over the apple symbol, a la sum41 video (ugh cant stand them) the record producer has a TiBook with big sticker.

[Flowbee]

In Jerry's apartment on "Seinfeld" there's a Mac on his desk (The model changes as the seasons progress).

[FredAkbar]

I wonder if Apple has some sort of deal with Fox, because there's quite a few Fox shows that use Macs, and I've hardly ever (if ever) seen a PC on there. Shows that feature Macs include the X-Files, 24, John Doe, Fastlane...all the major dramas, it seems. I dunno if product placement in these shows could be related to an Apple deal with Fox (it depends on who makes the shows, I guess), though.

--Fred

[burritos]

I remember he originally had the Mac SE as a background prop. I don't think he ever used it, though. If that show were still running, i'll bet he'd have upgraded to the curreng imac.

[burritos]

x-files's mulder and scully never used macs. I think their personality would fit. You know, FIGHT THE SYSTEM!

[brdoco]

Originally posted by Flowbee
In Jerry's apartment on "Seinfeld" there's a Mac on his desk (The model changes as the seasons progress).

bah! you beat me to posting this one..

Two of the models I've noticed were the classic, and a duo dock

[janey]

Originally posted by Chaszmyr
In the movie AntiTrust one of the SkullBocks guys was using a PowerBook G3
if you look even more carefully they were also using iMacs (in the daycare place) and the computers that were non-macs all were running linux or something like that.
You will also note that once in a while (like when you see pics of computer people in antitrust) you see a mac.
Most of the time you gotta look carefully because they'll almost always have something over the apple light on the laptops.
The desktops are too obvious though.
i always thought swordfish would be the movie where they'd get all macs...no they just had to get ALL dells...servers, laptops, monitors and desktops :rolleyes:

[brdoco]

If I remember correctly, in Jurassic Park when the people in the control center are watching the guy out on the dock... the "video feed" is really a quicktime clip. You can see the qt controls at the bottom of the video.

I've seen a few other movies do this, too

[funkywhat2]

Originally posted by brdoco
bah! you beat me to posting this one..

Two of the models I've noticed were the classic, and a duo dock

Don't forget his Twentieth Anniversary!

edit: Macintosh, that is.

[Jovian9]

Mark Romanek's One Hour Photo has 2 Macs in it: the father has a PowerMac that he uses for his design business and his son has a vintage iMac.

[hugemullens]

Drew Carrey uses Macs in his show, FP imacs everywhere!

[daniel77]

on MTV's like so and so revamp your room show, the girl got a 17'' widescreen imac and a 5gig ipod. lucky girl :P:P

[daniel77]

Originally posted by brdoco
bah! you beat me to posting this one..

Two of the models I've noticed were the classic, and a duo dock

he had a TAM at one time ;)

[guitargeek]

The Cheat from www.homestarrunner.com uses a mac :)

[brdoco]

its nice to see some other homestar fans on here.

[guitargeek]

I'm there every Monday for the new Strong Bad e-mail!

[janey]

Originally posted by Jovian9
Mark Romanek's One Hour Photo has 2 Macs in it: the father has a PowerMac that he uses for his design business and his son has a vintage iMac.
The father (Michael Vartan from Alias) also has cinema displays and I think there was also one more Mac in the movie as well.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by übergeek
The father (Michael Vartan from Alias) also has cinema displays and I think there was also one more Mac in the movie as well.

the 23 or the 22?

[janey]

i don't know...looked like 22 or so...probably 23.