Guys, mark your spoilers. Seriously, I know there's an expiration date on spoilers, but this movie has been out less than a week, so even minor spoilers might piss some folks off.
Thanks.
That said, I don't get why people had a problem with LaBeouf, I think he did a great job. I also didn't get this 'we can't do this without the armed forces' "propoganda" either. More accurately, I would say, is that you need some sort of human component in this movie and especially the battle sequences simply to help keep the audience connected in a personal way, otherwise it's just robots fighting and unless you're a big Transformers fan it's going to be hard to get emotional about the Autobots. When you see:
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the Marines fighting alongisde Optimus and 'lazing' Megatron so F-22s can drop smart bombs on his ass
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It's a lot easier to cheer on the good guy robots, ya know?
As for the product placement overall, yeah it was blatant. Panasonic, Mountain Dew, HP, GM, MS, iPod, and probably half a dozen more I can't recall, but who gives a shit about product placement?
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