Tuesday, July 03, 2007

TRANSFORMERS! Everything my eyes expected to meet, plus lots more that met my eyes that they were not anticipating!!!

A.K.A "More than meets the eye".

Let me start off by saying that this movie effing rocked (censored for the kiddies). I mean, it totally fucking rocked! (oops, pardon my french). But seriously, I had a lot of fun at this flick. Insane amounts of special effects, great action, and pretty good humor too. And yes, of course they incorporated some cheeseball stuff, but I think it was all in stupid fun, and you have to take it with a grain of salt...they were poking fun at themselves, and Michael Bay's (the director) attempt to make this movie more fun and less "robotic", if you will, and not stick exactly to the original storyline and characters. There sure are some crazy uptight freaks out there that are mad at stupid little shit, like that Bay put flames on Optimus or Megatron doesn't turn into what he was originally turned into from the series (which was a tiny WWII hand pistol). Who cares?!?! As Bay put it, that would be like having Darth Vader turn into his own light saber then having someone else swinging him around. Lame! I don't go to these movie looking for accuracy to the original. New movies will always be different, and books are always better, so suck it up!

Forget that the movie is a 2 hour ad for General Motors, that Megatron is now a flying ad for the US Armed Forces, or that there are only 13 transformers in the whole movie. Did you know that the reason they transform into different cars than the original series was because the makers of Volkswagen and Porsche didn't want their vehicles associated with "war toys"? They didn't do it just to piss people off. And do you realize that it took them 38 HOURS of CGI work for EVERY FRAME of those Transformers? Any more Transformers in the movie and it wouldn't be coming out until 2019.

I totally dorked out to this movie, and loved every second of it. If you have a giant Matrix of Leadership (google it) stuck up your ass then I don't know what to tell you. Our theater was laughing and cheering and letting it be known how much they were completely enjoying the movie. It's been a very long time since I've seen that kind of enthusiasm at a summer show. If this movie doesn't spank Spidey 3 at the box office, I will defecate in my pants numerous times then smear it on my chest (no promises).

Trans4mers 4 Life! ;-)