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Lets talk Transformers....
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Never heard of it...any good? :icon_nav_
Birdman
Registered User
The Guy from The Transporter should have been the hitman. Oh yeah, and transformers sucked. Didn't care about character development of robots and watching the 45 min fight scene at the end sort of made me want to kill myself. Beginning was cool though, where the transformer fucked up the air force base
Zilch
This...is...Caketown!
That MUST have been made by some non-AF person wanting to humiliate them. I can see no other logical explaination for it...I couldn't get 15 seconds in without wanting to pour lit gasoline into my eyes.
Zilch
This...is...Caketown!
Hey, Transformers is product placement, and has never been otherwise. The show, as well as most kids' cartoons in the 80's, were all about making you want to buy toys and whatnot, which, in turn, made you want to watch the show more.
It appears to have worked. All these 80's kids (like me) who are now adult(ish) are still happy to shell out money to see Optimus Prime duke it out with Megatron. The tranforming Mountain Dew machine and XBOX 360 were not lost on me.
It seems to be a perectly-targeted movie...The sequence of events last night proceeded as follows:
After PT'ing a bit to help prepare myself for OCS: Round 2, I boot up my XBOX 360 and play Pac Man. Then, my friends and I grab the few remaining Mountain Dews and head out to see the Transformers movie, which features icons of our childhood, plenty of aircraft porn (great to see some A-10 screen time,) classic Camaro action, and lovely women.
It's all marketing, and we are all aware of this. That said, it's a fuc&ing awesome action/cheese movie and I'd see it again. (I kinda wish Bumblebee had retained the old Camaro form, though. It made me miss my old '68 Mustang...)
BurghGuy
Master your ego, and you own your destiny.
I'd agree. If you went to this movie NOT expecting mass-product placement you obviously didn't realize the target audience was men in their mid to late 20s-30s and their sons. (I'm not saying women can't/haven't enjoyed it, it's just not the target demo is all) It's got hot women, cool cars, battling robots, great CGI, childhood-nostalgic value, and enough toy tie-ins to choke a camel. What self-respecting father who watched Transformers as a kid wouldn't take his son and/or make him a fan like he was?
lastwarrior
New Member
The movie was really great! I wanna watch it over and over again! A really must see movie!
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I admit that my complaining of product placement in this movie is pretty hypocritical and I did exaggerate a bit. I also understand that the movie in and of itself is one gigantic product placement for their toy lines, and to keep the movie current, or at least relate to its audience, some placement is in line, or at least impossible to leave out. Having everything branded "X" would be unrealistic, but having an extreme closeup of the 'top secret' PANASONIC disk used to get the signal to the hacker guy is a bit much in my opinion.
I admit that my complaining of product placement in this movie is pretty hypocritical and I did exaggerate a bit. I also understand that the movie in and of itself is one gigantic product placement for their toy lines, and to keep the movie current, or at least relate to its audience, some placement is in line, or at least impossible to leave out. Having everything branded "X" would be unrealistic, but having an extreme closeup of the 'top secret' PANASONIC disk used to get the signal to the hacker guy is a bit much in my opinion.
"Usin' the whole fist doc?" Good stuff.
PCHomerun_4
New Member
The new Indiana Jones movie comes out next year. Shia Lebeouf did a great job in transformers. I'm sure he'll do good in this one. Maybe a 4th Indy will live up to be a classic as the first three.
Good thing that was just a dramatization.
I hope it's as good as "Young Indiana Jones."
As said above, plenty of high budget movies get made that dont use product placement, however it can save a lot of money.
I was reading something the other day about Transformers and all the product placement. It mentioned that Bay wasnt too excited about using a Solstice for Jazz, but couldnt really say no to the 4 million dollar savings.
For my own part I didnt mind the product placement. I think it added a bit of realism to the movie. People dont drive generic cars, because they dont really exist. I think, to a certain extent (and it can be over done), it helps put the watcher in world.
We were thinking about doing something similar when I was working for NC Soft on City of Heroes. We had talked with people about putting real world businesses in the game world, just to make it feel a bit more real. From the research we did, we found that players for the most part would either not have minded it, or would prefer it.