gwax's rumblings

I don’t gen­er­ally ask too much of you, Internet, but this I ask of you for your own good: go see the new Transformers movie and go see it now. I saw the new Transformers movie at the ear­li­est pos­si­ble show­ing, last night at 8pm, and was com­pletely blown away.

The new Transformers movie is every­thing that the first gen­er­a­tion car­toons and movie were and so much more. With this new movie, the trans­form­ers have finally become every­thing that they should have been before. Now, under­stand, as I say these things, that I have loved and wor­shiped the first gen­er­a­tion car­toons since I was a child.

The new Transformers movie improves on the old car­toons in a num­ber of ways and adds depth in ways I could not have imag­ined. The biggest improve­ments come as a result of the free­doms found in PG-13 movies tar­geted at teenagers and twenty-somethings, specif­i­cally the shear bru­tal­ity of the Decepticons and inter­per­sonal inter­ac­tions that haven’t been dumbed down or overly cleaned up. Where Megatron was once a greedy and self-serving mega­lo­ma­niac, he is now a cruel and bru­tally vio­lent sadist; it feels as though Megatron has come into his own as never before. There is a depth and amus­ing fish-out-of-water awk­ward­ness to the Autobots that makes them both endear­ing and sur­pris­ingly human. Michael Bey has done a fan­tas­tic job of direc­tion and, com­bined with fan­tas­tic cin­e­matog­ra­phy, every scene appears to come across as total per­fec­tion; there are times when the ten­sion is pal­pa­ble, oth­ers when the comic relief smooths things over, slow-motion at just the right moments and then the action sequences are amazing.

From about five min­utes into the film, clear through the end, I was stuck in a deer-in-headlights state of paral­y­sis, unable to escape the onslaught of awe­some­ness that was bom­bard­ing my senses. The cul­mi­na­tion of all my expec­ta­tions and the majesty of the films orches­tra­tion left me, quite lit­er­ally, in tears as the cred­its began to roll. If you’ve already seen the new Transformers movie, I’m sure that you already know that I’m right, but if you haven’t seen it yet, I can’t under­stand why you’re still read­ing this instead of going to see it right now. Seriously, go now; it’s more impor­tant than any­thing else you could pos­si­bly be doing.

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