Transformers

Aight so kill me, its been almost a month since my last blog, I know you have missed me, but I can't tell you enought how much I really don't enjoy writing, if there were some way I could dictate my blogs that would be soooooo much better, but I decided after almost three weeks to get off my duff and get this thing done.


So what summer would be complete without a big shinny, blowing everything in sight-up, Michael Bay movie. The one thing I will say about the guys is that he likes to film the way he likes to film and he gets finding scripts that call for his specific brand of carnage, and Transformers was no exception. For me there were two big hurdles that Bay had to overcome in order to make this work and if done correctly could really make this movie something special. First the transformation had to be legit, he couldn't just give us one or two transformations and then start cutting corners, by pulling the camera away or making the transforming happen when it is dark. If this movie was going to work the tranformations had to be visible, clear and there had to be a bunch of them. To his credit Bay did it. When they Transformers transformed the auidence could see it happening quite clearly. Not only that but the transformations happened different ways. Some transformed standing still, others will moving, other transformed to get into action. There was great variety in the transformations and they all worked. With that all that was left was the second big hurdle; an interesting storyline.

The problemw with adaption movies; comic books to film, or video games, or cartoons, whatever you are adapting to film usually do not have a very compelling origin story or the origin story is part of a larger story that is about more than simply the origin. Comics, video games, cartoons, tv show, all have the luxury of having their stories told over a longer period of time. In a film you get two hours tops before you start to loose people. The writer and director has to find a way to take a series worth of storyline and cram it into 2 hours or find a storyline from the original program, book, whatever that can work in a movie. This is why so few apation movies work. Transformers fell short in that department, there was no story. The Transformers are member of a self desctructive master race of advanced life forms. The survivors have been scouring the globe looking for this cube that if possessed by the wrong one could usher in a new eara of desctruction. And surprise, surprise the cube landed on earth. The Decepticons wanted to possess the cube for themselves, the Autobots want to retrieve the cube and destroy it. Both land on earth in search of the cube and the explosions don't stop till the end.

At the end of the day this movie was not made to win any awards, but you have to do a little better in the story department. Outside of Shia LeBeof and Anthony Anderson no one was really stand out, but to be honest it is hard to stand 0ut with these guys around. Tyreese and Josh Duhamel (Las Vegas) were fine as tough guy marine cammandos, but nothing to get excited about. Honestly and I can't believe I am going to say this, but Tyreese is capable of more than this. Be that has it may the movie delivered everywhere else, so go see it. As far as summer movies go you get more summery than Michael Bay blowing stuff up.


GRADE - B