Thursday, July 05, 2007
more than meets my attention span.
so I saw transformers yesterday. what else are you supposed to do on a rainy 4th of july? after seeing about fifty different trailers of bot-on-bot action I feared I had seen all the best parts before seeing the actual movie.
not so.
if there's one thing this movie doesn't lack, it's ACTION. you'd expect nothing less from michael bay who'll gladly give you 2 hours of extreme closeup action with dizzying, jarring camera movements.
as you might expect there's not much to the story. nope -- you're there to see the steel-shredding, explosions... exploding, and the casting of unnecessarily gorgeous girls in principal roles. I know that is what this production is about.
but you know what? after a while that just gets very, very tedious.
seeing the "real live" autobots and decepticons transforming was nothing short of amazing. seeing the giant robot warriors clash with one another with seamless integration with the actors and backdrop will blow you away. but after two whole hours even these incredible special effects start looking all the same. especially the way it's shot, how it's so up close and fast and blurry, I couldn't tell the difference -- the final showdown between optimus and megatron didn't look any different from the other ones earlier.
yeah, yeah, it's supposed to be a mindless a blockbuster. I get it. but that doesn't mean it can't be interesting.
i didn't understand all the (overall) praise for the film. upon which, i thought...well, i'm a huge fan of the cartoon (and the die-cast metal figures...boo to plastic) - so i could be looking at the film from stubborn, purist teenage eyes.
but it was crap, except for a few moments, i.e. optimus prime's call to action, "autobots, let's roll out!" otherwise, the moments were far and few between. throughout most of the fight scenes, i thought...what's the point of the intricate CGI work - when michael bay can't hold his camera fuckin' steady? i felt the same when watching "bourne ultimatum." (i was disappointed to know that paul greengrass was returning to direct this installment, when i would've liked to have seen doug liman return from the franchise debut).
ugh, and the forced, cliche "human" sense of humor, i.e. the scene where the autobots surround shilah's character's house while he searches for the glasses...today's intergalactic robots apparently watch too many 80's sitcoms. i could go on about "transformers."
another part of my childhood entertainment swallowed, chewed, and spit back to shit. blah.
god bless christopher nolan. i wasn't even a batman fan.
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not so.
if there's one thing this movie doesn't lack, it's ACTION. you'd expect nothing less from michael bay who'll gladly give you 2 hours of extreme closeup action with dizzying, jarring camera movements.
as you might expect there's not much to the story. nope -- you're there to see the steel-shredding, explosions... exploding, and the casting of unnecessarily gorgeous girls in principal roles. I know that is what this production is about.
but you know what? after a while that just gets very, very tedious.
seeing the "real live" autobots and decepticons transforming was nothing short of amazing. seeing the giant robot warriors clash with one another with seamless integration with the actors and backdrop will blow you away. but after two whole hours even these incredible special effects start looking all the same. especially the way it's shot, how it's so up close and fast and blurry, I couldn't tell the difference -- the final showdown between optimus and megatron didn't look any different from the other ones earlier.
yeah, yeah, it's supposed to be a mindless a blockbuster. I get it. but that doesn't mean it can't be interesting.
i didn't understand all the (overall) praise for the film. upon which, i thought...well, i'm a huge fan of the cartoon (and the die-cast metal figures...boo to plastic) - so i could be looking at the film from stubborn, purist teenage eyes.
but it was crap, except for a few moments, i.e. optimus prime's call to action, "autobots, let's roll out!" otherwise, the moments were far and few between. throughout most of the fight scenes, i thought...what's the point of the intricate CGI work - when michael bay can't hold his camera fuckin' steady? i felt the same when watching "bourne ultimatum." (i was disappointed to know that paul greengrass was returning to direct this installment, when i would've liked to have seen doug liman return from the franchise debut).
ugh, and the forced, cliche "human" sense of humor, i.e. the scene where the autobots surround shilah's character's house while he searches for the glasses...today's intergalactic robots apparently watch too many 80's sitcoms. i could go on about "transformers."
another part of my childhood entertainment swallowed, chewed, and spit back to shit. blah.
god bless christopher nolan. i wasn't even a batman fan.
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