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Okay, that's probably not the tagline the studio will actually use. I speak, of course, of The Transformers, the trailer for which played before the movie I saw last night. Let me just say, in all sincerity:
Holy Freakin' Mother of God, what the hell were they thinking?
Apparently, the same uber-geniuses who thought that loveable, bad-rubber-suited Godzilla would be much-improved if it more greatly resembled Jurrasic Park have decided that this innocuous bit of kiddie fluff would be much improved by resembling the recent War of the Worlds remake (unsurprisingly, Spielberg is exec producer on Transformers). The overall plan seems to be:
1) Spend $150 million dollars
making the big-screen version of a relatively short-lived cartoon;
2) Potentially alienate your two biggest target audiences by making the movie (a) different enough from the original cartoon to stifle the nostalgia factor, and; (b) too scary for the young kids who would subsequently buy the toy tie-ins; and
3) Just in case the project still has any credibility left, bring in cinematic anti-genius Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor, The Island) to direct.
My daughter and I nearlly pissed ourselved laughing at the trailer (which you can see here), but that was the first I've heard of it. So I ask: is anybody actually looking forward to this thing?
Holy Freakin' Mother of God, what the hell were they thinking?
Apparently, the same uber-geniuses who thought that loveable, bad-rubber-suited Godzilla would be much-improved if it more greatly resembled Jurrasic Park have decided that this innocuous bit of kiddie fluff would be much improved by resembling the recent War of the Worlds remake (unsurprisingly, Spielberg is exec producer on Transformers). The overall plan seems to be:
1) Spend $150 million dollars
making the big-screen version of a relatively short-lived cartoon;2) Potentially alienate your two biggest target audiences by making the movie (a) different enough from the original cartoon to stifle the nostalgia factor, and; (b) too scary for the young kids who would subsequently buy the toy tie-ins; and
3) Just in case the project still has any credibility left, bring in cinematic anti-genius Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor, The Island) to direct.
My daughter and I nearlly pissed ourselved laughing at the trailer (which you can see here), but that was the first I've heard of it. So I ask: is anybody actually looking forward to this thing?
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