ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

If you love big robots that can change into cars and trucks, here's 144 minutes of pure nirvana.

It made over $700 million dollars, so apparently there are plenty of big robot fans out there just purring like a cat in granny's lap while they watch Optimus Prime and the Autobots (a great name for a garage band if ever I heard one) fight to keep the Allspark away from the Decepticons.

You gotta love the way the story involves a decades-long struggle between giant mechanisms from the stars and shady government agencies like Sector 7, a secret government organization created by President Herbert Hoover, who hid the AllSpark by building the Hoover Dam around it to mask its energy emissions.

That's the kind of thinking that earned Mr. Hoover the right to promise stuff like "The buck stops here!"

There's certainly no shortage of attractive people in this movie, and when Megan Fox (wearing shorts that got caught under a lawn mower) leans over for a real close look a car engine, it's a wonder the poor thing didn't experience premature ignition right then and there!



Hero Shia LaBeouf manages to impress Miss Fox by driving around in a badass yellow Camaro that gets rubber in all four gears and folds out into a mechanical warrior who can fight like an drunken Irishman on Saint Patty's Day.

A few of the critics hated it, but most of them liked it, even though none of them came right out and said they loved it — despite the fact that some of them probably did. They just didn't want to admit it and have the school bullies steal their lunch money on the way to home room.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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I didn't mention it in the post above, but I really don't like any of the Transformer movies. Oh sure, I like cars and trucks and robots and Megan Fox tuning engines in revealing outfits — but somehow the sum of the parts (even with Megan's parts thrown in) just doesn't exceed the whole in this case.

I need to watch them again, I guess. I'll start with this trailer.

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And if that does work, I'll watch this Meg Fox montage of moments in which her acting skills are put to the test. Oh my goodness . . .


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

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[Dr Acula]

For me, there was nothing to hold onto (though I am a Megan Fox fan). I was just a little too old for the toys, so I never got into any of the stuff related to it, and then I couldn't tell the good guy robots from the bad guy robots in the film.

[Bud Brewster]

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Yes, well, that motorcycle up there isn't too bad. Along with its nice . . . seat cushion.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)