Reliving My Childhood

I went to see the Transformers film with some friends on Friday evening.

It's all been rather updated for the 21st century with lots of contemporary references to eBay and the like. The Transformers are also don't seem to be bothered about energon cubes in the film, rather they're fixated on another cube - the All Spark. It's a cube from their homeworld, Cybertron which has the power to animate machines and to turn them into Transformers.

It was a rather enjoyable film - the sort to switch your brains off to. Not a good film to bring girls to. I don't think it will appeal to them much, unless they're there to see Shia LeBoeuf and if you don't know who he is, well he's the handsome young man in the pictures below.

Which brings me to the real reason why I went to see the film. I must confess that childhood reminiscing aside, I doubt I would have gone to see the film if the leading man (or boy, as it was in this case) wasn't someone I would have wet dreams about. In Transformers, Shia is mostly running around all sweaty which leads one of the Autobots to make a comment along the lines of his pheromone levels indicates that his character, Sam is wanting to have sex (or was it mate) with the female co-star played by Megan (who the f!@# is she?) Fox. I'm sure there were enough shots of her cleavage and shapely body to appeal to breeder boys watching the film but my attentions were elsewhere.

Shia, despite turning 21 just 2 days after my birthday, believably plays a sex-crazed, angsty adolescent male (weren't we boys all at least sex-crazed, even if not somewhat angsty) who saves the All Spark and thereby Earth from imminent destruction and slavery by the Decepticons. The plot was rather predictable but that was all made up for by the fact that Shia was very enjoyable to watch.

Shia's also starred in 2 (somewhat) recently released films - Disturbia and A Guide To Recognising Your Saints, the latter also starring one of my favourite boys, Channing Tatum. I've not seen Disturbia but I bought the DVD for A Guide To Recognising Your Saints and will watch it at some point, unless I see it in the cinema or on the plane first.