More than meets the eye!

Thoughts from Transformers (the recent movie):

It's a good thing the Transformers learned the driving laws right away. Bad driving would have been a dead give away...on second thought, I bet they never learned the rules and no one noticed.

Michael Bay is very hard on buildings in his movies. It's like he has something against architecture or something.

When the Autobots first show up and reveal themselves to Sam and Mikalea (Megan Fox's character), it's the girl who finally asks them why they came. That's because Sam is almost certainly just wondering if he can use these giant robots to blow stuff up or pick up girls. Ah, who am I kidding...if he can use these giant robots to blow stuff up and pick up girls.

I'm pretty sure that an entire scene was planned out so that they could have a rough-and-tumble army guy yell out "Left cheek! Left cheek! Left cheek!" Of course, he is referring to his buttock.

It was worth the effort.

Now that GM has filed for bankruptcy, what will that mean for the autobots? They were all Chevs, except for Optimus Prime. Does this mean that the next Transformers movie won't actually feature any autobots? The actors will just refer to the characters like they were actually there but the cars will never be shown? Or will bumblebee suddenly be a Toyota Prius?

Michael Bay isn't so great at subtlty. See Optimus' Prime speach an hour and a half into the movie. And yet, he is still much better the George Lucas. See Star Wars Episode Four. And Episode Five. And Episode Six.

The army is keeping a hostile alien robot underneath the Hoover Dam. They claimed there was no credible threat. I say, THEY HAD A HOSTILE ALIEN ROBOT!

Best quote to describe the movie: "Films directed by Michael Bay are usually like being shouted at by a halfwit for two and a half hours, and Transformers is no exception." (Wendy Ide, 2007)

"I'm gonna count to five."
"Well I'm gonna count to three." And then he points a gun at the other man's chest. Yeah, counting to three wins.

Semi-trucks pulling 180s at high speed on the highway is really cool.

Are transformers vulnerable while they transform? Can they stop halfway and defend themselves somehow? Once they start, do they have to change forms or can the change their minds and stop?

"Sam, put the cube in my chest, now!" That line, within the context of the movie, makes sense. It also makes me slightly uncomfortable for reasons I cannot say.

I still say it was a fun movie.