my quick take on Transformers

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Japking

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i'm 26 - i watched the transformers series as a kid, loved it.

now i just saw the movie. i went into it knowing it would be a GM ad, knowing that characters would be missing, and that it was going to be "too long"

the first three-quarters of the movie made me embarrassed to be a fan. it was clearly a kids movie:

the computer hacking was absurd (high school "experts in signal analysis"? "hack this monitor to put out morse code?" "the signal contains an alien map?")

the transformers were big kids jumping around to avoid the *parents* and play with a puppy

...the first 3/4 of the movie was your typical adults-don't-listen-to-kids-but-kids-are-smart formula movie.

the robot fight scenes at the end, however, delivered.
 
and another thing

instead of that crappy monkey decepticon

WHY COULDN'T WE HAVE SOUNDWAVE? he was a hacker in the original series

and the stupid monkey actually starts off as a cd player!
 
and the whole "here, let me shine this here light into the clouds Batman style to signal the other TFers to come down when I'm a highly technologically advanced robot that should have a fucking com-link intigrated in me that would do this job a lot easier" doesnt pour sand in anyone's vagina?
 
bumblebee: Hey Optimus, I found the map, get your robotass down here
optimus: K, I'm bringing the crew with me
bumblebee: Try not to land in a GM dealership, they are a lot of those around here
optimus: 10-4, see you in 20

thats all we needed
 
the transformers stuff is the fantasy, that's supposed to be the alien stuff.

but the hacking stuff is supposed to be part of our real lives - it happens in tons of movies and just generally leaves a bad taste in my mouth
 
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