Blackout -You know, the real problem has nothing to do with the fact that you don't like the movie. No one cares about that, Wingbaby. It's that you are on some strange crusade againts the movie when you should have better things to do. I'm not saying "
oh get out of here hater, we cant stand your opinion". What I mean is that you seem to see 'sin' where there really isn't. Or, more probably, chose to focus on Bay and ignore the rest of the movie and television
business. Bay utilised GMC to make it cheaper to film TFs - just like thousands of movies (there's more product placement in
Close Encounters) and TV shows. And what is
objectively wrong with the Mountaindew machine? You act as though it's evil

. In the context of the film or story, it's use is blameless. To wit: it doesn't alter the narrative or scene in anyway. However, you've made a major error in thinking it somehow detracts from the scene because it's a 'capitalist thing'. If it helped Bay make a cheaper movie, yes. But beyond that, the product placement is meaningless and hardly a crime. Sure, you can act 'noble' and make petty comments about Bay and doing something to 'a's with dollar signs attached to them

but you probably will conviently forget the entire TF story has really been one big advertisement.

Wow that's awesome...Attack my posting style as if that advances any argument...Don't get hype, I've posted like this for year$ and like I said earlier some people like it some people hate it (sorta like this movie and Bay's birth)...
All too easy...Ok where to begin? Ah,...
Tran$former$ has always been a capitalist venture
Bay didn't invent capitalism folks;
Only heard this flawed argument a thousand times...As I said before every cartoon, every comic book, every toy franchise (The ones that have been most prevelant in marketing that is) has been motivated by making money...Surely your mommy bought you more than TF-toys when you were a kid..Just because something is out to sell something doesn't mean it can't have integrity and sensibility that doesn't just cater to the most generic aspect of society...Those whose lives revolve around the lowest common denominator of entertainment will flock regardless...TF would have made however many millions it made whether you whored GMC and Burger King or handled the advertisement with subtelty...
My argument isn't merely based upon product placement but
WHO places the product and Micheal Bay is a human set of external speakers, a woofer box who has no clue that you can't hear the music as clearly when you have the volume so loud the knob twists off the console...Some people can hear the music without it blasting their eardrums off...That's called a metaphor BTW...
You can whore products two kinds of ways, The prostitute with 6-inch red pumps on the corner with flashy sequence way and the elegant call-girl who meets you in a swanky hotel way...Both sex for pay, one subtle, one over the top...Guess who Bay's sleeping with?
Finally Bay has a plethora of source material that only enhances his handling of commercialism...There's a evolution there not an isolated and//or random occurance that takes place in all movies like you want to make it out to be...I own like a hundred blockbuster films, and prolly a tenth of them whore on Bay's level (and I wish I was just talking commercial products)...
Its funny how you're totally against product placement in the Transformers film. You're against the Mountain Dew Decepticon, yet you don't say anything about the Optimus Prime Pepsi edition.... You're ragging on Bay as a commercial director; he makes ads for GMC. Yet you don't say anything about the G1 toys where the tires had "Dunlop" on them. Oh, and let's not forget about the Nike Sports Label Transformers. Now thats some product placement right there, isn't it? Theres so much crap out there thats on the Transformers label, yet you speak nothing of it. I'm pretty sure you seen these toys, heck you might even own some. And yet, you only talk **** on the Transformers movie and Michael Bay. If you're gonna talk mess, broaden your horizons. You shouldn't only be hating on the TF movie and Bay, cause if you're against them for product placement, you should be against the whole Transformers line. So you shouldn't even be here, and go to some anti-capitalist forum instead. peace.
Same goes to you
Brokaw, so spare me your wack-analysis when you are missing my point...Oh I'm against all product placment huh?--Read between the lines (Good God)cause I never said that, just against Bay's Heavy-handed approach to
EVERYTHING he does as a director...This is the type of guy that if he had to blow on a hot bowl of soup he'd bring a windmill with him...