My partner usually pics the movies we watch any given weekend, so I was really surprised when he announced that he wanted to see "Transformers". It wasn't on MY "must see" list
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The role I really had problems with was that played by Anthony Anderson, an actor who I think is really cute. I'm not sure whether to blame the director or the script, but could a role BE more embarrassing? Was the cast so Conspicuously Caucasian that they felt they had to throw a Black guy in there? Was Anderson so strapped for cash that he'd set aside his dignity to take on the "Cowardly Fat Nerd" role? I may not have liked John Turturro's character (or the fact that it spanned the dramatic range from A to B), but at least it didn't make me cringe.
You, sir, have no Magical Whimsy! You probably also like to hang around malls every Christmas season and tell the kids there's no Santa Claus. And every time you go see "Peter Pan" in the theater, you're the only one telling everyone around you not to clap when Tinkerbell is dying!
DON'T THE PUPPY DOGS AND UNICORNS AND MAGICAL RAINBOWS MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU?!
Okay, so that's probably an overreaction - but the thought of applying mere "Earth-based physics" to a movie like Transformers just amuses me. I didn't go see it and have no wish to - because the cartoon was before my time and I have no emotional investment in it - but based solely on what I've heard, if ever a movie depended 100% on the suspension not just of "disbelief" but of ALL rational thought, this is that movie!
There is no such thing as "earth-based" physics, because the laws of physics are universal.
Now, I can believe the possibility of off-world metals and metal alloys that don't behave like Earth metals (Stronger, lighter, more flexible), but even they're bound by physicals laws. I'd be willing to suspend disbelief if the writers obeyed their own laws.
Here we have intelegent machines able to withstand the heat of atmosphereic entry, as well as the extreme cold of interstellar travel(near absolute zero), but they're brought down by over-sized fire extinguishers because they can't stand the cold??? Good thing they landed in LA and the middle east, because they'd never last in Hurley, WI in January.
It's these gaping inconsistancies that just make me throw up my hands and say, "Oh, please!"
As for a lack of "magical wimsy", come back to Madison next April. I plan to be in a production of the ballet "Peter Pan". Yeah...me in a ballet. Now THAT'S suspension of disbelief!
Technically, it's "you in a dance belt" that constitutes suspension of disbelief.
But yeah - I ruined Die Hard 2 for a lot of people when I kept yelling "Follow the damn tracks in the snow!" The terrorists keep striking the airport again and again and retreating to their super-secret, hidden base that the good guys never can find throughout the whole movie - and yet they keep coming and going from their super-secret hidden base in a bunch of CARS AND TRUCKS driving through the FOOT OF SNOW on the ground, and not once does anyone think to just follow the f***ing tracks in the snow! The movie could have been over a good 90 minutes earlier!
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DON'T THE PUPPY DOGS AND UNICORNS AND MAGICAL RAINBOWS MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU?!
Okay, so that's probably an overreaction - but the thought of applying mere "Earth-based physics" to a movie like Transformers just amuses me. I didn't go see it and have no wish to - because the cartoon was before my time and I have no emotional investment in it - but based solely on what I've heard, if ever a movie depended 100% on the suspension not just of "disbelief" but of ALL rational thought, this is that movie!
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Now, I can believe the possibility of off-world metals and metal alloys that don't behave like Earth metals (Stronger, lighter, more flexible), but even they're bound by physicals laws. I'd be willing to suspend disbelief if the writers obeyed their own laws.
Here we have intelegent machines able to withstand the heat of atmosphereic entry, as well as the extreme cold of interstellar travel(near absolute zero), but they're brought down by over-sized fire extinguishers because they can't stand the cold??? Good thing they landed in LA and the middle east, because they'd never last in Hurley, WI in January.
It's these gaping inconsistancies that just make me throw up my hands and say, "Oh, please!"
As for a lack of "magical wimsy", come back to Madison next April. I plan to be in a production of the ballet "Peter Pan". Yeah...me in a ballet. Now THAT'S suspension of disbelief!
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But yeah - I ruined Die Hard 2 for a lot of people when I kept yelling "Follow the damn tracks in the snow!" The terrorists keep striking the airport again and again and retreating to their super-secret, hidden base that the good guys never can find throughout the whole movie - and yet they keep coming and going from their super-secret hidden base in a bunch of CARS AND TRUCKS driving through the FOOT OF SNOW on the ground, and not once does anyone think to just follow the f***ing tracks in the snow! The movie could have been over a good 90 minutes earlier!
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