Transformers cannot be awesome until someone explains it to me, and no one will explain it to me. Why will no one explain things to me? I just want to understand.
Now, this would be the perfect time for a swear word.
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§ ita § - Mar 25, 2008 8:55:43 am PDT #4533 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
beekaytee - Mar 25, 2008 8:55:57 am PDT #4534 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
I still love The Rock. I also liked Bad Boys. I think I thought Armageddon was fine. And The Island was better than I had heard, though flawed. And Transformers was pretty awesome.
I'm with P-C on all but the Transformers bit.
I had such a crush on Optimus Prime as a wee thing, I don't think any live action rendering...without that voice could ever do the character justice in my mind. Not Bay's fault. The over the top emotional manipulation of Bumblebee's quartering? I can blame Bay for that.
Miracleman - Mar 25, 2008 8:57:51 am PDT #4535 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Transformers cannot be awesome until someone explains it to me, and no one will explain it to me. Why will no one explain things to me? I just want to understand.
There's these alien robots that turn into cars and trucks and things explode.
What's not to get?
Miracleman - Mar 25, 2008 8:59:53 am PDT #4536 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I don't think any live action rendering...without that voice could ever do the character justice in my mind.
Wait, are you saying that Prime's voice was different from the cartoon to the movie?
Because Peter Cullen did the voice of Prime for both.
Aims - Mar 25, 2008 9:00:58 am PDT #4537 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Optimus Prime is Eeyore???
amych - Mar 25, 2008 9:01:42 am PDT #4538 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Eeyore is Jewish????
Aims - Mar 25, 2008 9:02:52 am PDT #4539 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Well hell, I knew he was Jewish. And a grandmother!
"Don't mind me, I'll just live in the wet."
"Don't mind me, I'l just be hungry."
"Don't mind me, I'll find something to do."
Fred Pete - Mar 25, 2008 9:04:35 am PDT #4540 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
is there such a thing as bad art?
That is, if it's bad, does it count as art?
If so, doesn't that render the label "art" as practically useless?
I'll risk a definition of "art" as "anything created for nonfunctional purposes." By that definition (and I won't say it's definitive), anything that's intended to be nonfunctional and (unintentionally) poorly executed counts as "bad art."
beekaytee - Mar 25, 2008 9:04:36 am PDT #4541 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
Because Peter Cullen did the voice of Prime for both.
I didn't know that...which says something about how different my ears are now than they were then...or the resonance has taken on epic proportions in my memory.
Not that I didn't like the voice in the film, it just didn't make me all wibbly like it used to.
I'm just old and crusty I guess.
-t - Mar 25, 2008 9:05:33 am PDT #4542 of 10000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I tend to think of most of those Michael Bay movies (as listed by P-C) as Bruckheimer movies. And, the ones I've seen, I liked fine. Except Transformers. Transformers was just not spectacular enough, it did not wow me like I expected to be wowed.