Tuesday, July 3, 2007
posted by IChiban at Tuesday, July 03, 2007


As a kid there was only 3 things on my mind Yankees, GI Joe, and Transformers. So I guess it was not too hard to imagine that would stay up until 3:30 am on a workday for this movie.
I think that there is an 8-year-old boy inside every man, Transformers is just the ticket to bring the kid out.

I my opinion the graphics were stunning and most of scenes were pretty good, particularly the fight scene between Optimus Prime and Bone Crusher. I thought Optimus Prime possibly could have kicked a bit more arse, but I won't put that against the movie as it was done much better then I have expected. The movie does showcase spectacular chases and animated transformation sequences seamlessly blended into live-action surroundings. There's no longer any question whether special effects can be made more realistic: The issue is whether disposable actors can be trained to play better with bluescreens.

Like any Hollywood action blockbuster, you can't go into Transformers expecting it to make a lot of sense, it is a movie about giant robots who shift shape, after all. The plot is cliché at the best, he human characters are as stiff and inhuman as the robots; they include Sam Witwicky a Hero, nerd, geek then of course, Sam's unattainable dream girl Mikaela, she is a stone-cold hottie who knows cars and engines inside and out; then lastly, our group of soldiers under attack in Qatar is led by the dedicated Sergeant Lennox, who only wants to get home to see his wife and baby girl. On the other hand, complaining about Hollywood movie contains clichés is like complaining about paying too much in taxes, it is just a part of life.

Here are a few gripes, some scenes were too quickly-cut and closely-shot to be clear or comprehensible, also I have no idea why does this film have to have the faintly racist idea that comedic relief consists of, mostly, Black men (Bernie Mac) shouting at women?

Nevertheless, the movie was the best movie I have seen this year, (I only saw 3 movies) and I haven't seen a movie as good or left a cinema feeling i got my money worth in a very long time.

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4 Comments:


At Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 9:57:00 AM EDT, Blogger Mini-DV

I heard it's pretty good. Let me "get it"..:-)

 

At Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 9:31:00 PM EDT, Blogger riceman

no man, a movie like this needs to be watched on a big screen ...

 

At Friday, July 6, 2007 at 12:38:00 AM EDT, Blogger IChiban

Rice did you watch it growing up?