Of Narcissists and Mice

I never knew I could enjoy a movie so much. It had all the elements anyone could ever want of a movie.

• Military hardware
• Robots
• Gadgets
• Hot women
• Fast cars
• Indecipherable scientific jargon
• Crazy ass fight scenes
• Humor
• Bullies getting their collective asses whopped

The list goes on and on. It was highly enjoyable. I watched this movie in the afternoon on Saturday. You might not believe this, but the last time I had slept was on Thursday, and I never felt sleepy during any part of the movie.

Don’t get me wrong, this was not one those movies that make you think of the human condition and life in general. This was an ‘in-your-face-up-and-at-em-take-no-prisoners’ kind of action movie that everyone enjoys. The only people who would not enjoy this movie would be pontifical art critics, Jahufar and some dude named Ernesto.

Making a movie with robots in it would have been a hit. Making a movie with kick ass vehicles would have been an even bigger hit. Combine the best of both worlds and what did you get? We got kick ass vehicles AND robots! And these were not the lumbering clumsy robots depicted in Star Wars or War of the Worlds, no, these were robots that could do martial arts and packed enough fire power to wipe out a military or civilian installation (which they did in the movie, several times). It even had a couple of G.I. Joes sprinkled on it.

As it is, even the credits were not boring, some of you may have missed it but there was a highly sarcastic interview by Sam’s parents. The only way they could have made the movie better would have been to add a fight scene during the credits as well. And maybe have a few of the actresses could run around in bikinis. It’s a good rule of thumb to have the womenfolk running around in bikinis; this is not a sexist remark. Having a guy running around in a bikini is rather awkward to watch and is a sure fire way to alienate 75% of your audience (it’s a known fact that 25% of any amount of people are up for anything). Unless you’re Borat of course. In which case the bikini is fine.

I was actually going to write a long article about the movie praising it but I have seem to have forgotten most of the stuff since I got out of the shower (I think best when I am in the shower). At any rate I will be going to watch the movie again once the crowds have lessened. I will also buy the toys, t-shirts and posters associated with the movie. In short I am going to be a fanboy. If I’m going to be a fanboy of anything, it might as well be a fanboy of kickass robots with fast cars as alternated modes. And before you send me pointed emails detailing how Transformers are not real, let me just tell you that you have the imagination of the common doorknob.

This is as unbiased as it gets.

Trivia

• Hasbro initially planned to create a film based on their G.I. Joe line of toys but because of the Iraqi invasion they decided on Transformers instead.
• Apparently they are planning two sequels for this movie. The writers are also playing around with the idea to have a transforming aircraft carrier.
• Each of Ironhide’s guns is made of ten thousand parts
• ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) had to upgrade their systems because some of the highly detailed parts took as much as 38 hours to render each frame

This was a copy paste job from Wikipedia