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Saturday, July 14, 2007 Is it possible for summer blockbusters to come any more bland and tasteless than Transformers? I had rather high hopes after the intriguing trailers and glowing recommendations from friends but I was rather disappointed.To be fair, it started off with a promise(the scene at the Qatar US Army base was quite good). It all went downhill after the Hollywood staple scenes started taking up all the screen time. Hero = geek, bullied in class, lusts after hot girl in class CHECK. Hero wins affections of chick by being a smart alec, getting into trouble and becomes the next guy in line to save the world CHECK Balding poker-faced old men in suits giving a ra-ra speech to all the military folk CHECK It didnt help that the movie had little semblance of a plot, other than the lame story about the All Spark and some nonsense about taking over all the machinery in the world to destroy all humans. Given the technological prowess of the Decepticons, one of them could probably burn down the world by himself, saving all the trouble of searching for the All Spark. It would have helped if the Transformers themselves were more interesting. With the exception of a few of them, notably Bumble-Bee and Optimus Prime, I found it hard to tell the difference between the robots.(You could tell a Decepticon from an Auto-bot easily enough. The baddies had evil red glows around their eyes, how original.) The Decepticon in the guise of a scorpion was the only one that I felt was cool enough. The others were basically humaniod in shape and forgettable. Watching big, boring robots tear each other up for close to 20 minutes nearly sent me off to Dreamland. How convenient it was to shove the All Spark into poor Megatron. Now Optimus Prime didnt even need to die for the show to end :) You just cant understand the Autobots. They came to Earth to find the All Spark, supposedly the key to restoring their civilization which mysteriously collapsed(happens a lot these days, look at poor Clark Kent, slaving away at the Daily Planet, waiting for his occasional minutes of fame) but they are perfectly happy to destroy it to save Earth which has no value or relation to them whatsoever except that Optimus favours its little inhabitants. It seems likely that the poor Auto-bots are doomed to spend the rest of their mechanical existence disguised as a truck and a Chevrolet among other vehicles.... |
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