Friday, June 26, 2009
Transformers and Movies
I'm just sitting here bored on the computer wondering how is it that the internets could be so huge yet so boring sometimes. I need a job. Anyways, in my browsing of the web of the world I have noticed a ton of previews for the new Transformers movie and I must say that I'm just not really that excited for it and I will tell you why. The first transformer movie just confused the heck out of me. The whole time I had no idea what was going on, if there was a plot, they only talked about it a couple of times. The transformers don't have much of a form at all when they are not in a GM car form, they looked like a giant heap of metal shards, so when they fought it looked like an even more giant heap of metal shards and you had no idea who is who and if the good guy is winning or losing. To make matters even worse, they put these fight scenes on screen with an extreme close up to prevent any coherence. I'm just getting started here, also the real actors were so stupid that nothing ever made sense and I was confused to whole time as to whether something was supposed to be serious or a joke, Like where the FBI or CIA or whoever comes to Lewis Steven's house at first I thought that was a serious part but afterwards I think it may have been intending to be funny, I have no idea. Also the parents are like the biggest morons ever and they need acting lessons so I got confused with them too, I had no idea what was serious or if there was supposed to be anything serious. When I first watched it, I think I enjoyed it some, I loved Transformers as a kid, and so just to see the whole idea brought to a movie was cool for me. But over time, I realize that it was rude of them to tempt me with awesome transformers and make such a crappy movie. And my youthful love of transformers is what brings me to my final point that is the biggest let down of the movie, and is also the main reason that I don't want to see the new one. The Transformers in the movie are totally wimpy! The decepticons are these totally awesome fighters and the autobots are a bunch of pansies. its only the humans that kill the bad guys and the good transformers just get whooped the whole time. When I was little Optimus Prime was the coolest robot ever, and on the cartoon he was so cool. I wonder how the writing process of this film went, they probably thought, "You know what would make a great movie? lets take the greatest hero and make him totally gay and lame." Well it didn't impress me any. If the true Optimus was in this movie, he would have looked less like scrap metal and he would have kicked Megatron's bootay. Instead he gives speeches while being thrown off buildings and ripped to shreds. And in the end Lewis Stevens takes a break from patty cake to put his favorite box on megatron's heart, which is so tender that it breaks his heart and he goes into a coma. Talk about the stupidest ending I have ever witnessed. There are actually a few other movies that embrace the "make the hero look gay at the end" strategy, for example Iron Man, which I did like that movie, but was disappointed at the end when iron man is about to bite the dust and he calls his girlfriend pepperpan on the phone and she kills the bad guy! Bahahaha its like a scooby doo plot development or something! How bout a better ending? I'll write it now, Iron man, after making the bad guy freeze, rips out the real glowy heart thing and powers his suit to 100% and then rips the bad guy's body in half and flips him off as he crashes and burns on the ground below! I got excited just thinking about that ending! I'll just pretend it was the real one! So anyways this post has been very rambly, and I should probably stop, but the moral is, Transformers the first movie sucked and I hope the second is better but I'm not wasting money to see it in the theater. What does everyone else think of these movies? And do you, like me, think that the "make the hero a wuss" strategy is totally lame? Please comment!
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Oh yeah you are right. I was totally ticked that Optimus Prime was a wussy. He was a Bad A in the cartoons. Very disappointing. I also loved Hulk cartoons when I was little, but I hate that in the movies he is as big as skyscrapers, just stupid.
ReplyDeletehahaha. yes! you articulated my sentiments precisely. i felt like transfornicators was meant to make gm and the army look way awesome, and they just kinda forgot about every other element of the movie and half-aced the rest. booo on michael bay! yaaay on adam master exploder sanders!
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