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      <![CDATA[i visited Wesleyan a few years back when i was looking at colleges, and the day i happened to be there, the film school was planning on screening the first Transformers for students. due to logistical reasons, DreamWorks wouldn't give the school a copy (it hadn't come out on DVD yet, which is my best guess as to why), so they called up Michael Bay who's he's a film school alum, and he flew over and brought his own reel with him. anyway, after the screening he did a Q&A and--this being Wesleyan mind you--one kid asked something along the lines of: "How do you deal with the fact that you're basically glorifying militarism and war and fighting but at the same time there's one scene where you make fun of President Bush. And it's pretty much the same in a lot of your other movies. What kind of message are you trying to get across here?" And Bay just looks at the kid for a few seconds and says, "I make action movies to entertain millions of people, not to make them think." <br>
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you know...just putting it out there.
        
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      <![CDATA[... Thanks? (Welcome to Blockbluster!)<br>
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pk, thanks for your corrective note. Perhaps it makes more sense to liken the island bunker where the last shard of the first Transformers film's cube is kept to the Guantanamo Bay detention center, being that it's much more heavily guarded, and its contents is kept a secret from the rest of the world (and, you know, is supposedly a threat to national security, but turns out to be something of a dead end/McGuffin).
        
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      <![CDATA[this article was more incoherent than the film.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ben,<br>
The Autobot base is in Diego Garcia, an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.  The real military base there is shared between the Brits and Americans.
        
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