Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Freedom is the right of every sentient being.
One shall stand. One shall fall.
Who knows what line comes after this quote from the original 1986 movie and by whom?
This is gonna be a pointless review, since everybody is gonna watch this summerblock movie anyhow. Let me just point out that if you haven't already seen the movie cuz of the full house during weekends' theaters, its probably why the weekend theaters are so full. Its not just another Jet Li badass hardcore action movie. Its a next armageddon out of this world hardcore action movie and the at 60 frames per second, some of the action scenes looks too confine to fit into a 16:9 widescreen. They shud prolly see this film in the Omnimax.
There are many kinds of Transformer fans out there. The toy collector fans. The Beast Wars fans. The Generation 1 fans and so on. I happen to be more of the original movie fan of the franchise first movie film back in the 1986. Watched it a zillion times. Memorised the entire script of the original film from start to finish so I could irritate the hell out of you guys out there. Heheh! But more than Optimus Prime, I was a fan of Rodimus Prime. The autobot's slightly younger, more athletic muscle of the group, who took over Optimus Prime as leader after the autobot Matrix was passed to him after Optimus departed. Actually bought the toy from the classic series which is the best looking toy of Rodimus Prime up to date. I hope the sequel would feature Rodimus of the original, and maybe also Unicron, a monster eating planet that devours moons and other orbiting planets. But back to the main film.
The initial stages of the film was to me a reminiscent of Terminator 2. Everything was futuristic, very metal. Humans being attacked by the machines. Industrial light and magic stuff. Barricade police automobile mistaken for the good cop but actually the bad guy himself. Machines protecting humans against other evil machines. Protect and destroy.
Bumblebee reminds me of Mikey from Ninja Turtles, another classic turned movie this year.
As the pieces set in, we learn that the Transformers are more humanlike in nature then they look. They mimic the way we talk and move. They show concern towards their other sentient beings and they felt they haf a responsibility towards the humans. All which leads to Megatron, the Allspark and a very explosive ending to boot. The plot is pretty direct. Autobots vs Decepticons trying to find the Allspark, a cube energy that gives cybernetic life to simple machines. The action is pretty intense. The sequence is very well thought out and the goofiness didn't hurt. This is the best cartoon to movie port release from the past series to date. I'm glad to have grown up at e time where cartoons then have become classics now. Seriously.
צ λ ε ς ъ ר װ ζ
All hail MEGATRON!
If not, get Unicron to bring back Galvatron in the sequel!
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