Thursday, September 17, 2009

Transformers: Why is Michael Bay raping my childhood?












Transformers: Revenge of the fallen has finally come out on DVD and Blu Ray. Hence I have to comment on the fact that I do not like the current direction Hasbro has taken with the Transformers property, at least as far as the movies go. I feel that Hasbro/Michael Bay, Paramount or whatever powers behind the movies, simply have taken the names and sometimes the likenesses and just cobbled a bunch of random stuff together for profit. Without caring about the original subject matter of the 80's cartoon series, comics and toy line that started it all way back when. Almost no one and nothing is actually recognizable in the movies, aside from Optimus Prime, as almost no one looks or acts like they did in the original cartoon/toy line or should act based on their already established characters ( All the original toys had bio cards that detailed their personalities and part of their respective character histories). Like the only twins in the original Transformer universe are Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, not the racist black-ghetto stereotypes of Skids and Mudlfap. In fact Skids in the original cartoon was an intellectual theoretician , not some gold toothed black stereotype idiot they have him be in the film. And what is even more insulting is that Sideswipe was in the film, but not his twin Sunstreaker. He was also voiced by a black actor in semi stereotypical slang/speech patterns as well, adding further insult to injury. As for the overall humor of the films, I think it's pretty low brow and pandering in general. Plus I do not think that robots should fart, cough, spit, cry or piss like they have in both films thus far.

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