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Getting my Geek On
Went to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen today. It was... it was a good mindless action flick. It had it's good parts and some great special effects, but I left feeling that it could have been a lot better.
I hated the twins, Skids and Mudflap. Not only did I have trouble telling them apart, but, well, it felt like they were trying to set them up as the Bumblebee, which was rather stupid considering there's already a literal Bumblebee in the movie, and they ended up with two Ethnic Scrappies instead. I mean, you have to be careful with Bumblebee-type characters to begin with in order to keep the whole "yeah, sure, this is kid-friendly" veneer that's the main reason for having a Bumblebee without making them reviled. They failed miserably on the twins. Judy Witwicky was actually only better because she wasn't ethnic and she was genuinely hilarious when hopped up on marijuana-laced brownies.
As for the twins I'd rather had showed up, well, there was one, but if I hadn't known going in about who some of the characters were supposed to be, I wouldn't have known it was Sideswipe. I can remember him saying only one line and that's "Damn, I'm good." And that was at the beginning of the movie (which I rather enjoyed). That was actually part of the problem - they started out by setting up a whole cooperative between the humans and the Autobots and then gave it little screen time beyond the first bit and the fact that they were all involved in the battle at the end.
Mostly, I'm disappointed at the lack of Autobots. Bumblebee was the only one with nearly as much screen time as the twins and I thought he was awesome, what with the crying when Sambroke up with him told Bee he couldn't go to college, and I felt like cheering when Bee grabbed the twins (who were brawling with each other in an enclosed room in Petra complete with squishy humans in it for God's sake), literally forced them apart before bringing them roughly back together and tossing them outside so they couldn't do any more damage. I'm still rather amazed by how much emotion they got out of a character who's an alien robot that can't speak.
As for the rest of the Autobots... Optimus Prime was much more involved in the whole movie than they were, and he was dead for at least half of it. *headdesk* At least most of the scenes involving the Decepticons were cool... well, the ones involving Soundwave and Ravage and whoever that really thin one made of nanobots was.
Also, this is a really sweet parody. I certainly LOL'd. "Robots in disguise" indeed.
I hated the twins, Skids and Mudflap. Not only did I have trouble telling them apart, but, well, it felt like they were trying to set them up as the Bumblebee, which was rather stupid considering there's already a literal Bumblebee in the movie, and they ended up with two Ethnic Scrappies instead. I mean, you have to be careful with Bumblebee-type characters to begin with in order to keep the whole "yeah, sure, this is kid-friendly" veneer that's the main reason for having a Bumblebee without making them reviled. They failed miserably on the twins. Judy Witwicky was actually only better because she wasn't ethnic and she was genuinely hilarious when hopped up on marijuana-laced brownies.
As for the twins I'd rather had showed up, well, there was one, but if I hadn't known going in about who some of the characters were supposed to be, I wouldn't have known it was Sideswipe. I can remember him saying only one line and that's "Damn, I'm good." And that was at the beginning of the movie (which I rather enjoyed). That was actually part of the problem - they started out by setting up a whole cooperative between the humans and the Autobots and then gave it little screen time beyond the first bit and the fact that they were all involved in the battle at the end.
Mostly, I'm disappointed at the lack of Autobots. Bumblebee was the only one with nearly as much screen time as the twins and I thought he was awesome, what with the crying when Sam
As for the rest of the Autobots... Optimus Prime was much more involved in the whole movie than they were, and he was dead for at least half of it. *headdesk* At least most of the scenes involving the Decepticons were cool... well, the ones involving Soundwave and Ravage and whoever that really thin one made of nanobots was.
Also, this is a really sweet parody. I certainly LOL'd. "Robots in disguise" indeed.