I saw Transformers again recently, I think it's great fun. My friend actually cheered (in the cinema) when Optimus Prime appeared.
Xander: We just saw the zebras mating! Thank you, very exciting... Willow: It was like the Heimlich, with stripes!
'Him'
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Kevin - Mar 25, 2008 9:19:35 am PDT #4553 of 10000
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Polter-Cow - Mar 25, 2008 9:26:47 am PDT #4554 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Thank you. Silly movie.
It was written by Alias writers. Of course there was a cube-shaped McGuffin that suddenly became bad at the end.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 25, 2008 9:28:46 am PDT #4555 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
BOOM! Ren & Stimpy x-post!
Awesome!
High-fives MM
Nutty - Mar 25, 2008 9:35:24 am PDT #4556 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I hated The Rock, but at least it actually knew that Alcatraz is a national park, and not, say a secret government research facility.
X-Men #3, I am talking to you.
The problem with Michael Bay movies overall, for me, is that he appears intent on positing the human species as too dumb to live. Blow stuff up all you like, bub, but don't piss up my leg and tell me it's raining.
Fred Pete - Mar 25, 2008 9:38:19 am PDT #4557 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Certainly infinitely better than remembering that scene in ARMAGEDDON.
That's why I mentioned it. I figured it could only help. Not that I've seen Armageddon.
Aims - Mar 25, 2008 9:41:10 am PDT #4558 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
but don't piss up my leg and tell me it's raining.
Nutty is Judge Judy!
DavidS - Mar 25, 2008 9:51:22 am PDT #4559 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The problem with Michael Bay movies overall, for me, is that he appears intent on positing the human species as too dumb to live. Blow stuff up all you like, bub, but don't piss up my leg and tell me it's raining.
Please, feel free to make my points for me. Not an artist.
§ ita § - Mar 25, 2008 9:54:44 am PDT #4560 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hec, how do you define artist? I agree with Nutty's suspicion of the romantic and tortured definition making the whole point.
Whatever Michael Bay is, I think there's a lot more legwork to be done in terms of assessing the frequency of mental illness in the arts and outside them.
Jesse - Mar 25, 2008 9:57:41 am PDT #4561 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I want to do one of those magazine pages with the two axes -- artistic and crazy. So Van Gogh gets to be way over in the artistic/crazy area, say -5 on both axes, and I'd put Michael Bay at -1 on artistic, +2 on crazy, or so.
Does that make any sense without a picture?
§ ita § - Mar 25, 2008 10:00:58 am PDT #4562 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd put Michael Bay at -1 on artistic
Where would you put your UPS guy? Margaret Thatcher? Your high school math teacher?