Product Placement Gone Mad

I saw the new Fantastic Four film last night, which was pretty good. Of course, there was the usual blatant product placement all over it, but one piece just left me open-mouthed. Mr Fantastic builds a very funky Fantastic Four mobile, flying, jet, ship thing, which has a Dodge grill and Dodge seats. WTF?

Yes, Dodge as in the shit American cars – sorry, the Charger was a LONG time ago. Why would “the greatest mind of the 21st century” do that?

Update: Saw this over at filmwad.com – now product placement itself is film news.