Jul 19 2007
Transformers
Transformers
Starring: Shia Labeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rachael Taylor, Anthony Anderson, Jon Voight, Jon Turturro, Peter Cullen as the Voice of Optimus Prime, & Hugo Weaving as the Voice of Megatron
Director: Michael Bay
Screenwriters: Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman
Rating: 8.2
Nostalgia is a rather powerful marketing tool, and it has come to be employed with great aplomb and fiscal efficiency by the marketing geniuses that control what comes across our TV and computer screens each and every day. We are encouraged every day, at ever possible moment to reach into the depths and recesses of our psyches, conscious recollections, and subconscious impressions so that we might spend any and all of our discretionary income trying to relive some great memory from our childhood or adolescence as often as possible. Whether it’s men going to fantasy baseball camps, women getting body parts lifted, nipped, and/or tucked, or both men and women purchasing any and all varieties of diversionary toys, we all seem to spend much of our free time harkening back to the halcyon days of our youths. Granted, no one ever wants to return to a time where we had bad facial acne and experienced the social awkwardness of junior high and high school, but (the marketing gurus tell us) if you buy certain products, you can relive all of the great aspects of your younger years without all of the uncomfortable emotions we associate with our early years.
So, when I heard that an updated Transformers movie would be releasing in Summer 2007, I was instantly transported back to those giddy years filled with G.I. Joes, Legos, and those wonderful machines that were “more than meets the eye.†Continue reading “Transformers”
