We went to see Transformers on Saturday and found it unexpectedly dull – especially given it’s a movie about massive robots directed by Michael
bloody Bay.
Still, the two hours wasn’t entirely wasted. We enjoyed two scoops of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream (yum!) and formulated a convoluted thesis about why the film was made.
It goes thusly: Transformers (which, let us not forget, first appeared during the Reaganite years) is all about ‘the enemy within’. Robots (ie, terrorists or commies) in disguise. You have to be extremely vigilant to spot them as they move among us. Heck, they’re even turning ‘our’ technology against us. The good guys have to beat the enemy at their own game by donning disguises themselves or acquiring more weaponry. And though they claim they won’t hurt ‘humans’, it’s acceptable for them to injure innocent people as collateral damage. The good guys rationalise this by winning the hearts and minds of decent American folk, while demonising the so-called baddies and emphasising the greater good. They spin tales about how the baddies cannot be trusted and how they have consistently messed things up on their home ‘planet’. Frankly, if they’re not reined in, the war will spread to other ‘planets’…
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Posted by Thin White Duke
Watched it last night and, man, was I disappointed. It was shameless, tedious, had swathes of poorly executed attempts to produce some pathos in the viewer, and trampled all over what I loved about Transformers.
It was painful. The effects didn’t really wow me, ending up looking complex for the sake of it. I used to read the comics where the plot, while wafer thin, was at least acceptable! I just don’t know where to begin in slagging (Slag was a Dinobot by the way, no pun intended) off this juvenile fantasy of a pile of trite…