Sweet ass teaser poster for Transformers!

[adam]

I always liked the Combaticons. Only group that I had all five.

[kid cue]

i actually had no Dinobots. my favorite that i had was a Decepticon that turned into a hovercraft, i don't remember his name

[Tom]

I had that one too, the hovercraft.

My fave was a big fat die-cast metal Prowl. You could literally kill someone with it.

I really wish I kept all my old toys

[grady]

Originally Posted by Tom

You disliked 300 as well, though, and like MGS for the story, so, you know...

But 300 is best viewed as an extended trailer set to that nin song rather than a two hour film.

[Tom]

You're siding with adam.

Think about it.

[adam]

Actually, it occured to me in 300 that I would have enjoyed it much more if I were just listening to The Fragile.

I so wish I had kept all my toys too.

[cured]

A buddy of mine caught the advance screening of Transformers a couple weeks back, I figured some of you may want to read his review:

***MILD SPOILERS BELOW***

After much anticipation, Friday night I finally saw it.

There's a lot to love about it and a lot to hate about it.

I mean, look, it's a movie about giant robots fighting and yes, we get that....but you have to wait for it.

There's a great opening set piece where a military base in Iraq is attacked by Bonecrusher (I think that's who it was - the helicopter) and then an even better sequence with Scorponok fighting the Marines in the desert.

But how's the robot on robot action? Barricade and Bumblebee go at it, first as a car chase then in full blown fight sequence, which is poorly shot and edited to the point where you have no idea what's going on.

Luckily, however, they fix that problem.

The second act gets very corny and when Optimus arrives on Earth and explains a lot of what's going on, he and his cohorts, Jazz, Ratchet, etc, speak like kids at a mall. They learned how to speak English on the world wide web. Yikes. I know. When Optimus says "My bad' after crushing a bird fountain you start to wonder if this whole thing is going to go South completely.

Then Megatron arrives and all hell breaks loose. Gone are the campy, corny comic moments and bad, cheesy dialogue and after enduring a painfully paced second act, Michael Bay rewards you for sticking with the build up. It starts with a freeway chase in which most of the robots are transforming and fighting literally in mid chase then fighting and falling from freeway overpass to freeway overpass...and Bay slows down the action so you can see metal grinding and crunching against metal.

Then the war is on and they nearly level all of downtown L.A. in an epic 30 foot high robot battle sequence that has the Autobots fighting the Decepticons with the Marines in the crossfire. Cars are flying through the air, people are being flung every which way. Glass is shattering, and buildings are crushed. It's a whirlwind finale that proves the age old adage, an audience will forgive a lame first or second act if you wow them with the third. Bay does just that.

So, the bottom line is this....if you're up for seeing a fighting robot movie, you'll be entertained. It is NOT as serious or intense as the trailer indicates. The film is definitely more light-hearted and retains some of the goofiness of the cartoons. It is VERY LOUD and pretty much the definition of the mainstream popcorn picture. It's better than everything else that has opened this summer....but I'm still waiting to see DIE HARD 4.0 (I will NOT recognize the US title, Live Free or Die Hard. Fuck that.)

[Tom]

Movie of the Year.

[Tom]

I liked it when the transformers came on the screen and transformed and had fights.



Come on adam. Fight me.

[adam]

Seriously, Tom. WTF. 300? Transformers? I bet you like the Saw trilogy, too. I can't handle the fact that you like such absolute garbage.