Pages Tagged “Transformers”
Reviews
- Transformers (Movie) ★★★☆☆ Better constructed than I expected, with impressive effects, plausible story logic, but a lot of the humor is forced and it feels like they missed the big picture in trying to get the details right.
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ★☆☆☆☆ In some ways it wasn’t as awful as I’d heard, and in some ways it was worse. I’m glad I waited for the second-run showing and only spent $1.75.
Blog Posts
- Recent Links: Chocwave, Hipsters & More
When everyone’s a hipster…no one will be. Also: Transformers cupcakes and emergency preparedness on your phone.
- Obvious Transformers Knockoff is Obvious
It’s not quite as good a title as Transmorphers, but seriously: look at that logo! It’s a dead ringer for Transformers: Armada, down to the extra capital letter.
- National Park Service vs. Robots From Space
If you went out to the movies in the US during 2009, there’s a good chance you saw a turn-off-your-phone PSA in which a movie about “robots from space” tries to negotiate blowing up Mount Rushmore. In a case of life imitating art, the National Park Service is currently battling Transformers 3 — a movie […]
- Officebot
New design for Optimus Prime? Or maybe that should be Office-mus Prime.
- Optimus Prime(s)
Realized why the Japanese name for Optimus Prime bugs me: “Convoy” implies more than one vehicle. Maybe it’s a translation issue?
- Seeing Transformers 2
I finally saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen today. In some ways it wasn’t as awful as I’d heard, and in some ways it was worse. I’m glad I waited for the second-run showing and only spent $1.75. Read on…
- Second-Best. Ripoff. Title. Ever!
From the makers of Alien vs. Hunter and Snakes on a Train, it’s Transmorphers: Fall of Man.
- Video Linkblogging: Mac vs. PC
Found this fun short movie: Mac vs. PC. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. It’s been done a million times. But how many times have the Mac and PC been Transformers? There’s a strong element of Terminator in there, as well. (via Major Spoilers, though it apparently hit Digg a week ago)
- Best Ripoff Title Ever
Several months ago I was browsing the local Blockbuster video store for a movie to rent, and I stumbled across one that made me laugh out loud. It’s the title on the right, and you’ll see why if you compare it to the rather more well-known title on the left. I mean, seriously, look how […]
- Saw Transformers
I finally got out to see Transformers today. Yes, I grew up with the cartoons, the toys and the comics. Yes, I even collected every comic book from the original Marvel series through the Generation 2 series (including the prologue in G.I. Joe) through the first round from DreamWave. But somewhere along the line I just lost […]
- Proto-Autobots
I found this ad from 1972 while looking through old comic books. At first I just found it interesting in a proto-Transformers sort of way, but then I looked more closely at it: It actually uses the phrasing, “more (car) than meets the eye!”
- Neocons, combine!
Is it just the fact that I was up way too late last night, or does the term “neocon” sound like a Transformers faction?
- More Than Meets The Eye
According to the Transportation Security Administration‘s list of Permitted and Prohibited Items for airline passengers, “Toy Transformer Robots” are on the approved list of carry-on items. Which kind of makes you wonder: Before this version of the list was written up, was someone kept off a plane for carrying Megatron or something?