Just seen the Transformers movie and...
...I can now die happy. I know it's a term that's thrown around too freely nowadays, but I ACTUALLY mean it. You could hold a gun to my head right now and all I'd be thinking about would be "What if that car behind you could transform? That would be cool." Seriously. Gohan and I accidentally went down to the car park of the cinema and we just stared. Vehicles look different to me now. More.....awe-inspiring. I walked outside and saw the trail from a plane above and just stood there, hoping it would drop a bomb, fire some lasers and transform. I wouldn't give a damn if it landed on me even. As long as I saw it.
I know this all sounds far fetched and that I'm exaggerating. But you've got to see if from my perspective. This is the culmination of my childhood all wrapped into an adult shaped body. My dreams come to life, yet at the same time it's put a taint on reality. I can't help but think about how much it sucks just to be a human and not a giant robot.....I wish I knew robotics.
The film itself was amazing (spoilers ahead). The effects were out of this world, the little things made it. A hidden Decepticon symbol here, an unexpected profanity there, a bit of giant robot slapstick. I was really worried about the whole ideal they'd planned about revolving the story around humans, but it worked amazingly. For Gods sake, they only had three transformers for the first hour or so.
One criticism I have however (and you know how easy it is for me to pick faults at anything), is that once the Transformers got into a hand to hand scrap you could barely tell them apart. Their designs are so bizarre yet similar they seem to merge somewhat. But when you put that side by side with the slow motion firefight with Ironhide, or Starscream transforming for the first time, it pails into insignificance.
Oh, and the voices are spot on. I was disappointed that Frank Welker (the original voice of Megatron) wasn't involved, but it works (and at least he's voicing Megatron in the game). Starscreams voice is, wow. That reminds me, apparently the game is a big steaming pile....but you know me. I don't think I'll be able to resist...and talking about not being able to resist.....I think I need to buy all the toys. I don't think, I know I'll have to. Damnit, I'm never gonna get my room done out at this rate haha.
A trailer before the film was for an untitled project (see it at http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/), which looks interesting. Godzilla maybe?
Also, Will Smith's latest looks really good. It's called 'I am Legend'. Have a look at the trailer:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/iamlegend/
Oh, and Simpsons is a big pile of shit. I wish I'd watched that before Transformers and not the other way round, but what you gonna do?
I know this all sounds far fetched and that I'm exaggerating. But you've got to see if from my perspective. This is the culmination of my childhood all wrapped into an adult shaped body. My dreams come to life, yet at the same time it's put a taint on reality. I can't help but think about how much it sucks just to be a human and not a giant robot.....I wish I knew robotics.
The film itself was amazing (spoilers ahead). The effects were out of this world, the little things made it. A hidden Decepticon symbol here, an unexpected profanity there, a bit of giant robot slapstick. I was really worried about the whole ideal they'd planned about revolving the story around humans, but it worked amazingly. For Gods sake, they only had three transformers for the first hour or so.
One criticism I have however (and you know how easy it is for me to pick faults at anything), is that once the Transformers got into a hand to hand scrap you could barely tell them apart. Their designs are so bizarre yet similar they seem to merge somewhat. But when you put that side by side with the slow motion firefight with Ironhide, or Starscream transforming for the first time, it pails into insignificance.
Oh, and the voices are spot on. I was disappointed that Frank Welker (the original voice of Megatron) wasn't involved, but it works (and at least he's voicing Megatron in the game). Starscreams voice is, wow. That reminds me, apparently the game is a big steaming pile....but you know me. I don't think I'll be able to resist...and talking about not being able to resist.....I think I need to buy all the toys. I don't think, I know I'll have to. Damnit, I'm never gonna get my room done out at this rate haha.
A trailer before the film was for an untitled project (see it at http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/), which looks interesting. Godzilla maybe?
Also, Will Smith's latest looks really good. It's called 'I am Legend'. Have a look at the trailer:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/iamlegend/
Oh, and Simpsons is a big pile of shit. I wish I'd watched that before Transformers and not the other way round, but what you gonna do?
posted by The Warthog at
10:46 am
2 Comments:
you are a giant poo man. this was ages ago. why do you never blog anymore?
me n holly are gonna come see you soon... possibly sunday. so i urge you not to make plans as i must stress the importance of us all getting immensly drunk like in the good old days. has been ages since we have been able to have a day like that.
plus its summer. so we can even get sunburnt n everything :)
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Anonymous, at 11:24 pm
I wonder why it doesn't put a date on when people comment? Weird. Giant poo man? Most likely. I thought you were going to be coming during the week? Who's the poo man now? Exactly.
Sunburn? Chance would be a fine thing. I can't see that happening for a good year or so now.
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The Warthog, at 5:39 am
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