Absolutely No More Than Meets The Eye
I saw the Transformers movie yesterday.
Simply put, it was by far the most entertaining movie I have seen in decades. Here's why:
Transformers is a wet dream for fanboys, with vehicles that whiz and whir into alien robots, spectacular sci-fi stunt chases, glistening military hardware, overheated computer software and brainy, hot girls who love Popular Mechanics.
I don't know about fanboys, but yes: the movie is amazing, for all of the above reasons, for its shameless product placement, for its gratuitous glorification of the new Camaro (hubba hubba!), for "signal analysis experts" that couldn't pronounce "Fourier transform," and for the decadent, unending potion of explosions it serves. The ceaseless sensory overload is incredible; it is as incredible as the sheer honesty, the sheer lack of pretense displayed by the movie.
Needless to say, I loved the movie, and would (and probably will) watch it again.
Metacritic gives it a "fairly good" rating.
Primary objection? The movie is too "hollow," or too "shallow."
It's a movie about robots that transform into cars and planes. The original show concept was based on a product-placement premise; the entire point was to sell toys. Of course it's going to be shallow, you freakin' idiots! What did you expect, a treatise on human-machine relations, in movie form? Jeebus.
Simply put, it was by far the most entertaining movie I have seen in decades. Here's why:
Transformers is a wet dream for fanboys, with vehicles that whiz and whir into alien robots, spectacular sci-fi stunt chases, glistening military hardware, overheated computer software and brainy, hot girls who love Popular Mechanics.
I don't know about fanboys, but yes: the movie is amazing, for all of the above reasons, for its shameless product placement, for its gratuitous glorification of the new Camaro (hubba hubba!), for "signal analysis experts" that couldn't pronounce "Fourier transform," and for the decadent, unending potion of explosions it serves. The ceaseless sensory overload is incredible; it is as incredible as the sheer honesty, the sheer lack of pretense displayed by the movie.
Needless to say, I loved the movie, and would (and probably will) watch it again.
Metacritic gives it a "fairly good" rating.
Primary objection? The movie is too "hollow," or too "shallow."
It's a movie about robots that transform into cars and planes. The original show concept was based on a product-placement premise; the entire point was to sell toys. Of course it's going to be shallow, you freakin' idiots! What did you expect, a treatise on human-machine relations, in movie form? Jeebus.