DarkFather said:
Hell, it even has the Leonard Nimoy stamp of approval.

Oh my gosh! The Leonard Nimoy stamp of approval! That is most impressive!

From the exact same Leonard Nimoy who brought us the album Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space, the fine single The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins, and the masterpiece photography book The Full Body Project (featuring photographs of fat women in the buff, taken by good ol' Leonard himself).

Mr. Nimoy has brought us some fine products in his time, glad to see he is still at it.

C3PX said:
generalfrevious said:
Transformers to me represents the zeitgeist of our era, despite being hardly a good film.

Really? I don't know. I have never seen it, nor have I any interest in seeing it. And all my friends who have seen it have basically told me to give it a skip. To me it looks nothing more than your typical summer blockbuster, and carries no more or no less hype than typical. I think zeitgeist may be a little exteme of a word to use. The summer blockbuster has been around forever, and will continue to be.

Generalfrevious, I have to retract my comments. After going to see ST today and sitting through the trailers. The orgasmic squeals of delight and the "OMG! I can't wait!"s from the audience as the trailers for Transformers 2, G.I. Joe, and Terminator Salvation played on the screen I was suddenly reminded of your post. Zeitgesit is absolutely the perfect word to describe these movies after all. I have never heard people getting so excited during the trailers in front of a movie before, not since the days of the Phantom Menace anyway.