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Saw "Transformers" last night...
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: mrbigggshot on July 16, 2007, 03:01:59 pm ---Whaaaaa?
I remember the bat fossil stuff, but I remember the explanation being more or less he fell in a pit and woke up a bat. Don't remember him mentioning that Cybertronians have built in scanners, seeing as how everyone else in the show had to use some external method.
This gives me an excuse to watch it again, it's been a while anyways.
EDIT: Yup, looked it up, you're right. I am rightfully shamed.
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No need to be ashamed..... my pop cuture trivia is above average at best, unless we are talking about transformers, ninja turtles or thundercats. ;)
Getting back on topic... I just want to put my stamp of approval on this film yet again. It's been a week and the "buzz" (for lack of a better term) still hasn't left me. Bay got a lot of things wrong, but the scope, action and heart of the transformers remains in tact with this one. And remember, I don't like anything!
RayB:
Seems the people who LOVED this movie are around 33 and younger? I hit my teens when Transformers the cartoon was popular, so I didn't watch it, and therefore I don't feel so fond of the movie. It was OK. The effects were pretty cool and looked "real" (as opposed to looking like composited CGI, so kudos to the CGI team there). But overall it felt a little like a kid's movie, without being too dumb (like kids movies traditionally are). Luckily there was some eye candy in there, but even that felt gratuitous and juvenile ...
Howard_Casto:
Well personally, I thought after you turned around 35 your life was over and therefore you were forbidden to have fun at a genetic level. ;) ;)
NightGod:
--- Quote from: mrbigggshot on July 16, 2007, 12:14:08 pm ---1. They hacked a monitor to send a signal?!
2. The Transformers arrive from space, through our atmosphere, yet the hotter burning rounds are effective against them? Eh?
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1) I assume you mean inside the dam when they did the morse code? Old mainframe terminals used to be just a monitor and keyboard. Usually either the keyboard or the monitor contained all the electronics that did that actual computing. And sending morse code isn't exactly processor intensive-a modern cell phone has about 1000 times the power you'd need.
2) They arrived in stasis pods/some sort of ship thingy. The one that landed outside the bar ("This is even better than Armageddon!!") definitely opened up and let the robot out. Yeah, that leaves a plot hole on the one that hit the pool, I'll definitely agree. Maybe we can call it ablative blast panels like the space shuttle uses and write it off?
RayB:
When they first landed, why didn't they take the form of trees and dirt?
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