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Aug. 5th, 2007 01:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
outsdrGoing to go see "Transformers" Monday night. Finally. A number of people have asked me already if I've seen it; probably expecting that I did on the first night. But I haven't. For two reasons: one, I hate going to the theatre. But it should be ok Monday night because we can sit in the balcony. Two, the pictures of the actual transformers in the movie that I have seen look like a freaking mess. Like some ground up cars in a blender and then dipped a bar magnet in the remains and stirred it around until it coalesced into something vaguely humanoid shaped.
Transformers to me were so awesome because of the way they transformed... seeing how an axle rod or a helicopter blade turned out to fold up and be an arm or the way Scattershot's cannon can be mis-transformed so that it folds up between his legs and becomes a giant button-activated thrusting penis (Seriously, read the link- I'm not the only one who discovered this). Transformers were cool because they were freaking PUZZLES, that had a visual, artistic logic, that had to be properly controlled.
If every and any piece of a vehicle can move and bend and change shape like paper with no fold limit, it's too easy. And not enough fun. And not... right.
I'll see what I think after I'm done seeing the movie.
PS- He never called. I'm going to the movie alone. Which is oddly appropriate, since I saw the original animated Transformers: The Movie in the theatre alone.
I was the only one there who drove himself to the movie. No one else was old enough. I was 16.
Transformers to me were so awesome because of the way they transformed... seeing how an axle rod or a helicopter blade turned out to fold up and be an arm or the way Scattershot's cannon can be mis-transformed so that it folds up between his legs and becomes a giant button-activated thrusting penis (Seriously, read the link- I'm not the only one who discovered this). Transformers were cool because they were freaking PUZZLES, that had a visual, artistic logic, that had to be properly controlled.
If every and any piece of a vehicle can move and bend and change shape like paper with no fold limit, it's too easy. And not enough fun. And not... right.
I'll see what I think after I'm done seeing the movie.
PS- He never called. I'm going to the movie alone. Which is oddly appropriate, since I saw the original animated Transformers: The Movie in the theatre alone.
I was the only one there who drove himself to the movie. No one else was old enough. I was 16.
