Complete and utter bullshit.
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Now, I say this being not your average "antiestablishment" twentysomething which society says I must be. But here's the thing... the word is BLATANT. Hollywood BLATANTLY cramming advertising down our throats as we watch an unrelated form of entertainment. The MLBA BLATANTLY accepting the most ludicrous and embarrassing blemish on their own name (i.e. "Hey, that's a great idea, let's take the most scrutinizingly measured, managed, and regulated objects on a playing field, and paint cute little webs and product name all over them so that our audience members will not watch the game, but notice how cute the arachnid marked bases and pitchers mound are). The BLATANT embarrassment of everyone watching the game, eating their CrackerJacks, and saying WHAT THE FUCK... STOP CRAMMING BLATANT ADVERTISING HYPNOSIS DOWN MY THROAT!
I have all the respect in the world for Sam Raimi. I have all the respect in the world for Stan Lee. But I am so pained by Hollywood and the MLBA for literally changing the face of baseball for the good of a motion picture that needs no advertising to already reach the $300,000,000 mark in its gross profits. If we put up pictures of starving children in a 3rd world country with flies swarming up their noses and do something good for the world, the same amount of people will still see Spiderman 2, even without the advertising.
I don't know, maybe Minority Report was right when all those advertisements would pop up in people's vision.
Just a little pissed about it. Sorry.