I have to disagree here. They used the brands (mostly) to show how the time had changed back to 1956. What good did showing a Walkman do, when SONY doesn’t even sell Walkman anymore?
The guys running out of the Texaco station to clean the windshield and fill the car was hilarious, and an obvious throwback to a different time, now that nobody helps you with anything. So yes there were some “product placement” things in the film, but I didn’t find any of them annoying. “Give me a Tab”? Do they even sell Tab anymore?
If you hated that, you’re really gonna hate “F1” (Fabulous flick, BTW.) There are logos on the cars, logos on the drivers, logos on the racetracks, logos on the transport vehicles. Brad Pitt might even have a couple tattooed on his back, I didn’t look that closely. And yet, since that’s how that industry operates, none of them got in the way (at least for me.) I’m going back, and I might see it in IMAX this time (as was suggested in their marketing in the first place.) Really good, unless “logos” get your dander up.