I saw the movie … and it was EVERYTHING I had hoped for. The cheese was cheesy … the lines were hokey … and the last hour was one solid fight scene between giant shape-changing robots. Megatron was scary, and Prime went hand to hand with him. The animation and effects are stunning, the humor is actually funny … and there were a couple of points where I actually whooped with joy because I had been thinking:<\/p>\n
“Oh please let X happen … oh please oh please let X happen in slow motion”<\/p>\n
And then X happened in EXTRA slow motion … but just for the first moves … and then it sped up to blindingly fast.<\/p>\n
Not that there’s anything even approaching realism in a movie about giant, alien, transforming robots … but the scenes of the deceptions tearing apart a military base sort of look like what would happen if a squad of special forces troops decided to demolish an aboriginal village. An order of magnitude difference in technology means that you just don’t lose. Two orders means that you can be thinking about something else while you win.<\/p>\n
I highly recommend Transformers to one and all. As simianpower<\/a> and I used to say: it’s “nast.” “Nast” is not what you should want … it’s what you *do* want.<\/p>\n –UPDATE–<\/p>\n I am still psyched. This guy<\/a> basically speaks for me when he says:<\/p>\n Transformers is everything you want in a summer popcorn flick. It has humor, beautiful women, amazing set pieces, action that leaves your brain in overdrive and GIANT FREAKING ROBOTS.<\/em><\/p>\n Oh yeah, plus, Megatron is voiced by Hugo Weaving. I just about wet myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I saw the movie … and it was EVERYTHING I had hoped for. The cheese was cheesy … the lines were hokey … and the last hour was one solid fight scene between giant shape-changing robots. Megatron was scary, and Prime went hand to hand with him. The animation and effects are stunning, the humor . . . → Read More: Transformers<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}