Movies -- The Transformers
Jul. 21st, 2007 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
etumukutenyakWe saw the Transformers today, which is based on a tv show that I never watched. Hey, when it first came along, I was in college being a nerd, plus I didn't have a tv. Anyways, it can be summed up thusly: "Machines + fighting". Lots of machines, doing lots of transformations, and fighting lots of long drawn-out scenes. Manly men doing manly things, and -- surprisingly enough -- two strong female characters not entirely relegated to the background, and contributing to the "defense".
My only real complaint about the movie is that there was too much reliance on the "hand-held camera" effect, with subsequent blurring and jigging all around -- I couldn't see the action well enough. The sound was muddy too, making dialogue sometimes difficult to understand. Some of thecardboard subordinate characters were a little obvious.
All in all: not bad. A decent summer blockbuster, but probably easier to follow on a small screen.
My only real complaint about the movie is that there was too much reliance on the "hand-held camera" effect, with subsequent blurring and jigging all around -- I couldn't see the action well enough. The sound was muddy too, making dialogue sometimes difficult to understand. Some of the
All in all: not bad. A decent summer blockbuster, but probably easier to follow on a small screen.
