Fireworks and Robots
Nina and I were involved in two attempts to see fireworks this year. The first one was on the 4th of July after we hosted ten people on about a days notice in the rain. Those fireworks did not go so well, what with the raining. It was tragic to the point of occasional comedy, with the tragedy kind of outweighing the comedy. But it was atoned for on Friday when Nina and I met Sean and Susan for the East Fishkill fireworks. There was no rain, the entirety of the plan was, "We'll see you at the fireworks," and the show was remarkable.
Then last night we went to see Transformers. It was freakin' awesome. I went into it with a mood best described as cautious optimism, as I do with most of these rob-your-childhood movies, and I was completely blown away. The only strike against it (in my mind) was that there was some hacking of some mainframes by some "'almost biological' viruses" that was standard Hollywood computer bullshit, but right after I had that thought I realized it was silly to bitch about computer terminology while not questioning that a 69 Camaro can turn into a 30-foot high robot with guns and incredible agility. The ending of the movie was slightly marred by an interaction between Mike and I. The problem is that Transformers is the exact kind of movie that I go into planning to enjoy myself and Mike goes into planning to find things to bitch about. The first thing I heard from him after the movie was, "I was just commenting on how terrible the flip to full-render was," to which I replied, "I was just saying how I couldn't give two shits." So maybe that was a slight overreaction. I guess. It's just that I didn't see anything that looked terrible and I'm sick to death of watching movies with people who spend the whole movie looking for flaws. Sure I'm sure a couple of scenes had some bad renders but I was a little busy peeing myself the first time Optimus Prime transformed out of truck mode to notice.
At any rate, if you are in any way curious about this movie, go see it. You will enjoy it.
Then last night we went to see Transformers. It was freakin' awesome. I went into it with a mood best described as cautious optimism, as I do with most of these rob-your-childhood movies, and I was completely blown away. The only strike against it (in my mind) was that there was some hacking of some mainframes by some "'almost biological' viruses" that was standard Hollywood computer bullshit, but right after I had that thought I realized it was silly to bitch about computer terminology while not questioning that a 69 Camaro can turn into a 30-foot high robot with guns and incredible agility. The ending of the movie was slightly marred by an interaction between Mike and I. The problem is that Transformers is the exact kind of movie that I go into planning to enjoy myself and Mike goes into planning to find things to bitch about. The first thing I heard from him after the movie was, "I was just commenting on how terrible the flip to full-render was," to which I replied, "I was just saying how I couldn't give two shits." So maybe that was a slight overreaction. I guess. It's just that I didn't see anything that looked terrible and I'm sick to death of watching movies with people who spend the whole movie looking for flaws. Sure I'm sure a couple of scenes had some bad renders but I was a little busy peeing myself the first time Optimus Prime transformed out of truck mode to notice.
At any rate, if you are in any way curious about this movie, go see it. You will enjoy it.
posted by SomeJerk at 1:00 PM
2 Comments:
I put transformers into the 'good, not great' category. The effects were awesome, but the story line was lacking.
My two biggest complaints is that 1) I want more wide shots of fighting robots and not no much shaky-camera-in-the-middle-of-the-action shots and 2) their robot forms were way larger than their vehicle forms.
Also, what was with the preview of NY being destroyed? No title, nothing. There is the website though, http://www.1-18-08.com/. It looks like Blair Witch and special effects were thrown in a blender together.
That preview pissed me off big time. They clearly wanted to drive traffic to their site in that "ooh it's something cool and we won't really tell you what it is" way that companies do every once in a while (remember ATT and "M-Life" during one of the Super Bowls?) and I refused to follow the bait.
With regards to the movie itself, I agree wider shots would have been nice but that's apparently not the directors style (according to reviews I read), and I had the same "Wait that was a Camaro now it's 30 feet tall" thoughts, but if the Allspark can go from hundreds of feet across to a foot across and the kid can still carry it, I'm just gonna give the robots a free pass on the size thing. That's also an issue that always existed with the cartoons as well and it's basically always been answered with "if you can believe the car can turn into a walking talking robot, then you'd better damn well believe it can be that tall."
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