toast-formers... kinda
Toast-formers... kinda - part 1 - 27/06/09
This is one is a bit late mostly due to planning the next part, being busy with work, watching Red Dward and not going to sleep until after 1a.m. every night. I'm used to it though.
I went to the midnight showing of Transformers 2 last Thursday night/Friday midnight. I have also been buying some of toys as I do collect them. I don't buy everything under the sun and some of the figures from this film have been bloody terrible. The selling of these products were helped I might add by clever photography and showing a better paint job on the card of the figures to hide, for example, the huge ass that sticks out of one figure (Rampage), the horrible colour choice and tiny feet (Sideways) and how clunky Ironhide really is. Don't worry this isn't a rant or a review. I'm quite jealous of the people who get to make toys and cartoons, which is why I have such a huge fascination with them. Yeah. There. Eat it. I just justified toy collecting at the age of 26.
There are a lot of people complaining about how the movie was too long, how it was rubbish, the humour was god awful, the characters are racial stereotypes, the acting was bad, there wasn't enough character development of the main Transformers, there were too many Transformers and you couldn't tell them apart and so on and so on. I BLOODY LOVED IT! Scenes are short and the movie went by really quickly. Some amazing action scenes and I could tell who was who. There is a point with a big pile of generic Decepticons fighting who are there just to be there and killed mostly, but nothing as bad as not being able to tell them apart. If you know the main characters it does help. You never really see big groups of Decepticons and Autobots on screen shooting the crap out of one another. Any A vs D fighting is close quarters between pretty central characters. The whole not being able to tell who is who becomes a redundant arguement.
There is even is a transforming toaster, hence me blatantly stealing the idea for a new character and pure parody purposes. You don't really see him in the movie, but there's a figure being released and it one of the best toy ideas I've seen for a while. Someone at Hasbro has a sense of humour, "Why don't we make a figure of a transforming toaster? C'mon it will be funny." Credit to them.
Transformers 2 is one huge ass toy commercial. Just like the cartoons (most of which had stupid bloody storylines in the first place, Seaspray falling in love with an alien mermaid anyone?). Don't take it seriously even though it is a more serious realization of the franchise and don't expect it to win any Oscars unless it is for special effects which it would deserve. It's almost too easy to tear into these films than it is to just sit back and watch special effects kick the faces of each other while Mikplosion Bay attempts to kill all the actors by blowing up everything around them. The other issue comes back to "everyone has an opinion and even an expectation". This is so true today, hence why I set up the web-comic. A portal for a viewpoint on things. This is my personal if a little biased viewpoint. It was amazing and I loved it just as much as I enoyed the first movie.
I would also like to throw a shout out to CrazyColours who blogged about the site. Many thanks again for that.
Finally. If something around you did transform into some super robot. Would you just not be in awe? Even if it was bad you'd still follow it and try to help it out. Well OK, helping out a heavily armed machine of death kill everything on the planet probably won't look to good on the criminal record. That's it for this week, the next one should be very soon. Til all are one! - J