The newest (and perhaps last) entry into the Michael Bay version of the Transformers franchise came out last night – Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. This review WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS. If you don’t want to know the story come back after you’ve watched the flick.
Before we get started I want to remind readers that I’m a big Transformers geek so this may be a bit biased. If you want to get a historical perspective you can check out my reviews of the first two flicks in the franchise here:
I’m going to write this review in much the same style that I used for my review of the original movie. Before we get started realize that this will contain spoilers so if you want to watch the movie fresh skip this post and come back after viewing.
The Transformers
More of the same goodness that we got in the first movie. Optimus Prime kicks MAJOR ass in this flick. At one point he roars “I’ll take you all on” and I literally got goose bumps. That was of course until he went and got himself “killed”. Silly Optimus. … Continue reading
OK… I will take this step by step and keep this mostly spoiler free (in case you haven’t seen this flick yet). Please keep in mind that I saw this in a DLP theater so it was essentially like watching a high definition version of the movie.
First off… This is NOT a kids movie. Yeah yeah yeah, I know that it’s based on the kids toys from the early 80’s but this is a serious action movie (or as serious as one can get basing a story on robots from another planet that transform into other objects).
This… Continue reading
Is My Childhood Being Raped?
I was born in the mid 70′s. It was before we had hundreds of channels on TV and it was before there was a blockbuster a week in the theaters. There are comic, cartoon and movie properties that are so ingrained into my being that they are a part of me… and they’re all being redone for the sake of the almighty dollar.
Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Halloween, Friday The 13th, Tron… I could go on and on. It seems as if Hollywood is completely devoid of any original ideas these days. Don’t get me wrong – some of… Continue reading →