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I have, in the past, posted here my admiration for the Transformers Prime cartoon series. Yesterday I finished up by seeing the concluding tv movie, Predacons Rising:


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I guess the sign of a good film is one that you like despite being able to pick many,many things about it that one doesn't like. Pacific Rim has giant mechs fighting monsters! But it still has that horrible yellow lighting that Guillermo del Toro is obsessed with, and afore-mentioned fighting is still somewhat hard to track on screen at times ( ( Read more... )

So, the new Transformers video game (available now!) did away with the unique three player co-op campaign set-up of its predecessor, in the name of setting up a little more variety. Given that this aspect was one of the best parts of War For Cybertron, this seemed like a bad idea when I first heard of it ( Read more... )

I think I was unfairly prejudiced toward future hopes for the Transformers franchise, given how awful the live action films have been, and the dreadful Transformers Armada and Transformers Animated cartoons left me especially ill-disposed toward last year's Transformers Prime. The fact that it was CG-animation rather than traditional made me keep ( Read more... )

I mentioned the possibility that someone would do a better review than I, and they sure did.

Saying that it's better than the last Transformers movie isn't high praise is it? Still too many human takedowns of Cybertronians for my liking, though ( Read more... )

Well, I've just managed to complete the Autobot campaign on easy mode, which was a lot harder than it may sound. This is due mainly to the fact that the AI for your sidekicks is atrocious - it'll probably be a lot better when played in co-op mode ( Read more... )

So, only when I decide to post findings of my latest trawl of the internet at gone half-three in the morning (jeebus) do I realise that I have not yet made any postings to LiveJournal this year. It's kind of a shame that I get to start it off with a reference back to a previous entry that may have come across as similarly scatter-brained ( Read more... )

The new Transformers movie was decent enough, in its way. The plot was preposterous and Michael Bay's drippy love affair with the US military was distracting, but let's not dwell on negatives ( Read more... )