Thursday, July 12, 2007

Product Placement

If I read one more line in one more review or one more comment bitching about product placement in the Transformers movie, I'm going to punch Lizett in the crotch. Personally I have no real beef with product placement anyway--I find it preferable to most traditional advertisements--but I can see how it starts to detract from the entertainment value of its vehicle when it becomes too gratuitous. Transformers, however, is based on a cartoon which existed solely to sell action figures. The irony of your bitchery is making my brain hurt. Two Transformers posts in a row combined with the fact that I'm mildly riled about something Transformers-related has already sealed my uber-nerdery, so I might as well dive in--the little silver dude was Frenzy, Nemo, and he did indeed exist in the original series. He was one of the cassettes who hung out with Soundwave.

I'm so very sorry and this will never happen again.

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Blogger miaminemo said...
I would be entirely okay if that little silver dude was frenzy, (or ravage or lazerbeak - wikipedia to the rescue)
but how does a little silver guy at all resemble this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Frenzy-boxart.jpg

And unless I recall incorrectly, frenzy was a tape, not a stereo himself. I did a little nerd research and it turns out that the producer decided accuracy didnt matter and merged shockwave and frenzy - you can read about the comments from producer Tom DeSanto published in issue #15 of the Transformers Collectors Club Magazine. (I dont know where to find that, but someone probably does)

Who goes around merging characters?? Why not just merge in voltron while your at it and have the transformers combine to kill megatron with a blazing sword?

(I wanted to try and merge jenna jamison into the movie, but i dont advocate human on robot sex.. which you know would happen if JJ was let onto the set)

4:40 PM, July 12, 2007  

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Sorry Nemo....Transformers was way better than the new Harry Potter. But Potter 5 was enjoyable and definately worth seeing. Apparently if I had read any of the books though....I would not have liked it. So the critics tell me at least...

Also, Live Free or Die Hard makes my pee-pee hurt. Alert Georgia.... (translation: it was freakin awesome)

9:24 AM, July 16, 2007  

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Even though you never post anymore, I'm going to post a comment based on your previous post to this one....yeah, I know....

So the friggin teaser trailer for the next Batman movie (The Dark Knight) was off the hook awesome.

Also, Christian Bale has been hanging out in Erica's neighborhood lately while shooting in Chi-town. I have yet to see him, but I have seen the Gotham Police Station and was almost hit by a Gotham SWAT vehicle....I'm praying I'll end up a random extra in the movie. Or at least in the blooper clips when I finally see Christian Bale in the Batman outfit and go hump his leg....yeah....

1:26 PM, August 13, 2007  

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