DOTM burblage.
So. Dark of the Moon. List format, because I am not up to writing paragraphs right now.
- Sam. SAM. WHY DID YOU TURN INTO A DOUCHEBAG. You lost all your redeeming qualities when Mikaela broke up with you or something. I don't know, neither Sam nor Carly did anything at all for me. No chemistry, no humanity. I don't ask the leading couple to be anything like me, but in order to relate with them they at least have to seem like people I would want to spend time with. If I ever get this on DVD, I'm fast-forwarding through all their parts.
- On a related note, the whole Sam-searches-for-Job thing made absolutely no sense to me. First of all, in this economy, three months searching for your first job is hardly unusual even for an Ivy League grad. In the second place, he should have had a job. As the "only human Optimus trusts," he is a huge damn resource. It makes no sense for the government not to use that resource. Stick him in with the Autobots, have him be their cultural attache or whatever, and let him smooth the way between the Autobots and the American government. Maybe he would have been more bearable if he'd had that from the beginning.
- On the opposite end of the scale, OMG OPTIMUS PRIME I WILL HAPPILY HAVE YOUR ROBOT BABIES. Dear god, that mech. *swoons endlessly*
- Storywise, this was definitely the strongest of the three. I mean, lots of dead-Zacks and rushing through important stuff, but I definitely felt the betrayal and the epic takeover and all that. The heavier focus on the MOTHER FUCKING ROBOTS probably helped. It probably would've been damn near perfect if they'd stuck with the robots and NEST guys.
- The bit where Bumblebee is helping train NEST guys on how to take down Decepticons = awesome and cute.
- The bit where Epps and Sam went around gathering their resistance buddies was the only human-centric bit in all three movies that made me go "zomgsqueak."
- Hated Ironhide dying, but at least there was some drama to it.
- The hatesex between Sentinel and Megatron has got to be amazing. And I want some pre-Earth Sentinel/Optimus fic like slagging burning.
- I appreciated the nods to G1 - the writers did their research this time. I think that was partly responsible for a slight shift in tone that I noticed. There was more wildly-handwavey 80s-cartoon sci-fi in the plot, and it seemed like the writers were having a lot more fun with it all. The scene with Starscream's death was a welcome bit of camp. (Most effective use of Starscream in all three movies. Shine on you crazy diamond.)
- Speaking of the G1-plottiness, I wish they had explained further why Cybertron popping out of space that close to Earth would be a bad thing. In the cartoon they showed the earthquakes and tidal waves and all that. As it is it seems like the Autobots wind up destroying Cybertron to no real purpose.
- This is kind of an old complaint, but the Transformers never quite felt to me like they were existing in the same plane as the human actors. They very rarely touch, the humans always seem to be looking off over the TFs' shoulder somewhere when they talk to them and they run right past the giant robots like they're not the most impressive things in the room. (Admit it, if you were crossing a room with an Autobot in it, you wouldn't be able to stop your head from turning as you passed at the very least.) For some reason it struck me the hardest at the launch scene. You could definitely tell it was special effects, which kind of makes it lose its impressiveness a little.
- EDIT OF ALMOST FORGOT: The scene with Megatron feeding the hatchlings was both adorable and really, really disturbing. And I love the cowl thing he had. (But seriously, Megs, do you have to introduce yourself to everything? They're elephants, dude, they don't care. You are not Batman.)
So, going forward, I guess I can read DotM fic now (anyone got recs for some good ones? I've been skipping past them on my flist and I don't feel like going digging.), and maybe write some of my own. Although I will definitely be saying that Sam and Carly settled down in a suburb somewhere and became Sirs Not Appearing In My Fanfic. -_-
I've kind of got a yen for writing some wingthing right now, actually. Whether that's a good or bad thing is up for debate.
- Sam. SAM. WHY DID YOU TURN INTO A DOUCHEBAG. You lost all your redeeming qualities when Mikaela broke up with you or something. I don't know, neither Sam nor Carly did anything at all for me. No chemistry, no humanity. I don't ask the leading couple to be anything like me, but in order to relate with them they at least have to seem like people I would want to spend time with. If I ever get this on DVD, I'm fast-forwarding through all their parts.
- On a related note, the whole Sam-searches-for-Job thing made absolutely no sense to me. First of all, in this economy, three months searching for your first job is hardly unusual even for an Ivy League grad. In the second place, he should have had a job. As the "only human Optimus trusts," he is a huge damn resource. It makes no sense for the government not to use that resource. Stick him in with the Autobots, have him be their cultural attache or whatever, and let him smooth the way between the Autobots and the American government. Maybe he would have been more bearable if he'd had that from the beginning.
- On the opposite end of the scale, OMG OPTIMUS PRIME I WILL HAPPILY HAVE YOUR ROBOT BABIES. Dear god, that mech. *swoons endlessly*
- Storywise, this was definitely the strongest of the three. I mean, lots of dead-Zacks and rushing through important stuff, but I definitely felt the betrayal and the epic takeover and all that. The heavier focus on the MOTHER FUCKING ROBOTS probably helped. It probably would've been damn near perfect if they'd stuck with the robots and NEST guys.
- The bit where Bumblebee is helping train NEST guys on how to take down Decepticons = awesome and cute.
- The bit where Epps and Sam went around gathering their resistance buddies was the only human-centric bit in all three movies that made me go "zomgsqueak."
- Hated Ironhide dying, but at least there was some drama to it.
- The hatesex between Sentinel and Megatron has got to be amazing. And I want some pre-Earth Sentinel/Optimus fic like slagging burning.
- I appreciated the nods to G1 - the writers did their research this time. I think that was partly responsible for a slight shift in tone that I noticed. There was more wildly-handwavey 80s-cartoon sci-fi in the plot, and it seemed like the writers were having a lot more fun with it all. The scene with Starscream's death was a welcome bit of camp. (Most effective use of Starscream in all three movies. Shine on you crazy diamond.)
- Speaking of the G1-plottiness, I wish they had explained further why Cybertron popping out of space that close to Earth would be a bad thing. In the cartoon they showed the earthquakes and tidal waves and all that. As it is it seems like the Autobots wind up destroying Cybertron to no real purpose.
- This is kind of an old complaint, but the Transformers never quite felt to me like they were existing in the same plane as the human actors. They very rarely touch, the humans always seem to be looking off over the TFs' shoulder somewhere when they talk to them and they run right past the giant robots like they're not the most impressive things in the room. (Admit it, if you were crossing a room with an Autobot in it, you wouldn't be able to stop your head from turning as you passed at the very least.) For some reason it struck me the hardest at the launch scene. You could definitely tell it was special effects, which kind of makes it lose its impressiveness a little.
- EDIT OF ALMOST FORGOT: The scene with Megatron feeding the hatchlings was both adorable and really, really disturbing. And I love the cowl thing he had. (But seriously, Megs, do you have to introduce yourself to everything? They're elephants, dude, they don't care. You are not Batman.)
So, going forward, I guess I can read DotM fic now (anyone got recs for some good ones? I've been skipping past them on my flist and I don't feel like going digging.), and maybe write some of my own. Although I will definitely be saying that Sam and Carly settled down in a suburb somewhere and became Sirs Not Appearing In My Fanfic. -_-
I've kind of got a yen for writing some wingthing right now, actually. Whether that's a good or bad thing is up for debate.