Comments | readingthedark: dear guy who mocked the Transformers 3 trailer

readingthedark

dear guy who mocked the Transformers 3 trailer

Jun 07, 2011 19:13

I'm with you on mocking Transformers. I was just old enough that I wasn't even into the toys and Michael Bay tends to blow stuff up willy-nilly with little regard for the audience. Your voice sounded like a retired professor and I can see how that Transformers 3 trailer might set you off. I can't remember which Transformers I sat through, but some ( Read more... )

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darke_conteur June 7 2011, 23:29:16 UTC

Don't wrake(?) your brain trying to figure him out. Apparently he doesn't get it.

How was the movie

readingthedark June 7 2011, 23:58:14 UTC

Many good moments that didn't quite hold together. For a period movie, Zoe Kravitz felt too 2011. Whoever decided to give her tattoos like that in 1962 made a serious mistake. Across the board, some of the costuming and acting was period and some wasn't--as if all the continuity glitches from the comics and the previous films had them jumping back and forth in time for no apparent reason ( ... )

greygirlbeast June 8 2011, 00:05:28 UTC

On the one hand, this is fucking hilarious. Thank you.

On the other hand, if we want to consider comics and graphic novels as art, in any sense, then I'm a little more inclined to see his point. Literature (albiet comics)-based film versus toy-based film. Which of course might beg the question: Can stupid toys from the 80s be art?

readingthedark June 8 2011, 00:18:53 UTC

My pleasure to entertain you, my dear. You're right. It could be pro-mutant and anti-robot bias or pro-comic and anti-toy bias. Then again, in a world where Disney rides inspire films...who knows?

This movie also amped the mutants as outsider angle in ways Bay would never dare by playing Magneto and Charles as if they should've walked off into the sunset together (which I really liked).

buymeaclue June 8 2011, 01:19:21 UTC

You are magnificent. That is all.

readingthedark June 8 2011, 02:00:29 UTC

As are you. (And yay on jump clinics paying off and all that.)

lokilokust June 8 2011, 14:16:15 UTC

and this is one of the many reasons i have so much difficulty relating to and navigating the current world of 'fandom.'
(for the record, i honestly didn't think that 'x-men: first class' was incredibly worse than the first 'transformers' movie. and, for the record, that's a condemnation of the 'x-men' movie, not a positive statement on 'transformers.')

readingthedark June 8 2011, 14:53:53 UTC

Yes. My deep and existential confusion was certainly grounded in trying to figure out how someone who had not yet seen X-Men 4 or Transformers 3 could see an inherent and preconceived gulf of Shakespearean proportions between the two...

muffyjo June 9 2011, 01:48:22 UTC

Ah yes. :) It's nice to know he was so clearly connecting his actions and words. Shakespeare always makes you sounds so clever! Perhaps it was more a case of "As You Like It" being more of "A Comedy of Errors" such that it was important to make a "Tempest" of it. Or maybe you simply need to compare Transformers 3 to Pericles, Prince of Tyre (which I've seen done well for what it is, but it remains a pretty bad play).