July 15, 2007
More than meets the eye
“Oh yeah,” I said to myself, “summer time is the time of blockbuster movies, and more importantly, movies are air conditioned.”
Since I am a male child of the 80′s, I had to see Transformers. Since I am a Transformers nerd, I really could have done with more giant robots and less “Teen guy gets the girl who is “out of his league”, but really isn’t because she has %secret backstory making them compatible%.” Not that I’m bitter or anything, what with the number of times I stole the girl away from the football star back in high school, I’m just thinking it may not be the ideal primary plot thread for a movie whose main audience will be A) Children who want to see giant robots blow things up and B) Adults who would willingly go see a movie based on toys from their childhood, not to mention the blowing up of things. Very important is the blowing up of things.
Anyways, if I have a point, it’s that the movie is named Transformers, so, perhaps the primary story should focus on the Transformers. If I had a second point it would be rabid fanboy ranting about character design, which could easily go on for days. Fortunately, I do no have a second point, because I’m trying hard to avoid the trade off in extra geek cred for the loss of whatever normal person cred I’ve ever acquired. Which isn’t much, but it’s all I have. And I’m probably down to a sliver after somehow finding a reason to discuss lich paralysis at work on Friday.
It’s just sometimes, the words that come out of my mouth don’t get run through the “appropriate context” filter. It all looks good in the moment, you touch a spider, it falls over on its side motionless, you say it’s paralyzed because you are a lich, and lich paralysis is permanent. And then the context filter catches up. I blame the new guy at work, fresh out of college, has that shiny passion for life coating still on him. Makes me move back towards my college memories and things I’m passionate about. Both of which tend to fall into the geeky subculture.
Looking back, I see that I’m supposed to be talking about a movie. So, yeah, I felt it was a pretty good movie if it is judged for itself in terms that there is action and some sort of plot. It can’t compete with one’s memories of childhood though, which I guess would be hard to do.
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2 Comments
July 15th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
oh matthew, you’re such a geek.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Yeah, but not enough of one to keep XHTML from stealing part of my post because I used the wrong character to set of that section.