Transformers Movie
If Movies Were Realistic….
DailySkew conducted another Yahoo chat session with Angel Jimenez:
DAILYSKEW: “Angel…it took you long enough, but you’ve finally seen The Transformers, one of the most successful movies of 2007 that exceeded everyone’s expectations this year! How would you start off a review of this movie for our blog?”
ANGEL JIMENEZ: “In the movie Transformers, there’s a scene where Glen the computer geek is asked to “Hotwire a computer” to transmit Morse Code through an antiquated radio from the 1930’s. Of course, he figures it out in five minutes. “
DS: “Right…”
AJ: “What a bunch of crap.”
DS: “Now, wait a-”
AJ: “First off — there’s no WAY he can hotwire a computer to do anything. He’s portrayed as a software guy in the movie, not hardware.
AND, even if he does know hardware, how in the heck is he going to interface modern technology with something built over 70 years ago? Did he have the right cables? RCA to USB? Did they even have RCA back then?
So, right there, the movie falls apart for me.”
DS: “Okay…”
AJ: “Second — you mean to tell me there was some Air Force cadet who just HAPPENED to be listening for Morse Code at the same time? AND that cadet understands Morse Code? Yeah, right. Talk about UNREALISTIC.
And, what’s with Morse Code being used in movies when all other technology fails? Didn’t they do that in Independence Day? Give me a break. It’s so cliché. You can’t coordinate instantaneous military strikes with Morse Code.”
DS: “Alright…that being said, did you enjoy the movie?”
AJ: “I’m sick of unrealistic scenes in movies. It totally ruined Transformers for me.
I’m rolling out.”
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I’m still trying to figure out what’s going on here.
Pick up Crisis on Infinite Earths today, A-A-L, available in softcover at Borders and Barnes and Noble. The Alex Ross-painted cover may confuse you as much as this crazy article, but once you’ve read it, cover to cover, you’ll understand, just as much as the last character to appear in the comic understood.
Jimenez, you’re a dork.
Transformers ruled, brother. You should’ve seen it in 3-D.
So, let me get this straight — some hacker using a computer to send morse code through an old radio transmitter is unrealistic, but alien robots that transform into cars and planes are not a problem for you?
Excuse me, while I take shoes off.
Look, the Transformers is SCI-FI AT ITS BEST. I can suspend belief for Optimus Prime. I can’t suspend belief for a computer hacker who can eat a dozen donuts in one scene.
Personally — I love the movie. It’s addictive.
Sorry. Maybe I’m under too much stress, and love the mindless escape!
Anyway, I rented it this weekend.
They pay homage to the 80’s cartoon several times.I suspect they paid homage to all kinds of things … was there a “Sector Seven” in the comic book?
For me, it’s a fun summer blockbuster, on par with Terminator 2 and Independence Day. I wish I had seen it on the digital screen.
Definitely one of those movies that, years from now, will be playing on TBS or TNT and people will start watching, even though they have no desire to watch it. And like T2 and ID (hahaha), or Yoda fighting Dooku, it broke ground with crazy special effects.
Oh, and John Turturro has a funny role in the movie.
It’s definitely a Ron Marz special, if you know what I mean.
The child in me is happy that Transformers has officially surpassed He-Man in popularity. I loved both, but my preference was Transformers. And, not only did it surpass it, but it did so in a manner that was respectful of the show’s history. What more can I ask for?
I see why my friend loved this movie. It makes you feel young again, watching this … the thing I didn’t like about the cartoon was that I could never tell who was a good guy or bad guy. They did a nice job making it clear.
My grandson loved it
Best movie ever
I can see this movie over and over again
Hey VanSee,
On my earth, Megatron is grey, and shrinks down into a gun, which Soundwave- who had the best voice of all time- fires the trigger.
On my earth, Bumblebee was a yellow Beetle.
On my earth, humans play such a minor role in the struggle between Deceps and Autobots, that they might as well be background props.
On my earth, Starscream is voiced by the same guy that did Cobra Commander.
On my earth, 3D computerized graphics doesn’t exist.
On my earth, T2 and ID SUCKED.
On my earth, He-Man would chop Optimus Prime in half.
On my earth, grown men don’t get excited movies with giant Japanese robots blow each other up.
Well, I finally caved in and popped in the DVD for my daughter, and man, lemme tell ya somethin’ bruda- that was the best summer movie in the history of the universe.
DONT LISSEN TO ANGEL!!!!!!! HE WORKS FOR ANOTHE RMOVIE STUDO
I already saw Transformers 2, and I gotta say, it has this one beat!
E.T. was 100000000000000000000000
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better than Transformers.
sigh
Star Wars: A New Hope was a “fun summer movie”
So was Spider-Man, Batman, Jurassic Park, The Sixth Sense, The Mummy, POTC:DMC, Raiders of the Lost Ark, POTC: CBP, Batman Begins, Matrix: Reloaded, Star Wars: TPM, Star Wars: AOTC, Forest Gump, Die Hard, Ghost Busters,The Fugitive, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones and the last Crusade, Star Wars: ROTJ, Stars Wars: ESB, Gladiator, Signs, Braveheart, Gremlins, Superman Returns, Predator, Spider-Man 2 and even Star Wars: ROS.
We’ll see if people will rank Transvestites in the same class as the above Summer Movies.
Let me sum it up as best I can people.
Movies about moving-talking-morphing robots=FICTION. Anything is possible. And that equals FUN.
Movies about aliens-world domination-and earth-forces retaliation=FICTION. Anything is possible. And that equals FUN.
Who cares if they used morse code to talk to Ben Kenobi on the planet Bum-Frak. Get over it. Move on.
Hendry out.
* If the tapping sound or flashing light represents morse code, there’s always someone around that can interpret the message.
* When Morse Code is used, the interpreter will call out words as they are being sent, rather than letters. Furthermore, a single word is represented by a few “beeps”, and all words are sent at the same rate, no matter how long the word is. Example:
beep-beep-be-beep…
“Help…”
be-be-beep beep…
“Us…”
beep-be-be-beep beep…
“We’re…”
beep beep-be-beep…
“Surrounded…”
be-beep beep beep…
“Send…”
be-be-be-beep beep…
“Reinforcements…”
beep be-beep beep…
“Hurry…”
etc.
* A message in Morse Code will start several seconds before someone actually interprets it; however, no information is lost, as the message actually begins when the interpreter starts to read it.
The following is a list of things that I did not know until I saw “Independence Day”:
* It is reasonable to assume that the quality of the training of United States Marine Corps pilots is such that any Marine fly boy could hop into an alien spacecraft and immediately be able to fly it into deep space
* The White House press secretary has a listed phone number
* When stuck in a tunnel and faced with Armageddon in the form of a fireball that is capable of obliterating all life in Los Angeles, simply duck into a maintenance closet and let the end of the world pass you by
* Despite the fact that we are able to send a fax from a beeper on our hip while walking down a street in San Francisco to a Range Rover in Johannesburg, alien spacecraft need to be hardwired to a satellite to speak to each other
* High class strippers with a heart of gold can operate most heavy equipment
* It is not beyond the realm of imagination that the President of the United States would be a fighter jock and would be willing to return to active duty to do battle with invincible alien bad guys
* Alien spacecraft the size of Australia can be taken out with one well-placed sidewinder missile
* Most laptops are configured with interfaces powerful enough to override the communications systems of the most sophisticated futuristic societies
* Despite the fact that they wear biomechanical body armor that can only be removed with a scalpel and the fact that they possess hyper-developed brains that allow them to destroy their enemies simply by thinking about it, alien fighter pilots have a glass jaw and can be knocked unconscious for hours with one punch
* If you are a woman who: 1)survives a blast from an alien spacecraft that wipes out Los Angeles 2)lives through the ensuing helicopter crash 3)survives while buried by rubble 4)survives despite being transported by open backed diesel truck across the worst terrain ever created…do not check into a military hospital with the best medical help money can buy because YOU WILL DIE
* Despite the fact that no living person, even on a clear day with a map and two state troopers providing an escort, can negotiate the Los Angeles freeway system without getting lost, nearly-blown-up women can drive through the shattered ruins of a decimated Los Angeles straight to El Toro
* When you crash an alien spacecraft into the high desert because you were hurtled back through the earth’s atmosphere by an atomic blast you set off, the fact that you do not have a parachute or any other visible means of slowing your fall does not mean that you should not walk away from the wreckage completely unscathed and straight into your girl’s arms
* The standard trip home from space, when assisted by an atomic blast, lasts approximately two to three pulls on a cigar
* Although aliens possess technological capabilities millions of years beyond our own that enables them to embed secret codes in our satellite network, they can be stymied by Morse Code, which is generally printed on the front panel of a child’s walkie talkie
* The most sophisticated labs in the world have impenetrable vault doors buried 30 stories into mountains but use regular hardware store glass panes for observation rooms in the lab nerve center
* Although aliens possess tentacles dexterous enough to manipulate human vocal cords from outside the throat when the need to speak strikes them, they can not open a door for themselves
* The correct military honor for a hero who saves the world by sacrificing his own life by flying directly into the alien death ray is to clap and cheer wildly in front of the hero’s family immediately after he perishes
* Any vehicle, including clunkers, can make the trip down from Manhattan to Washington D.C. in just a few hours in gridlocked end-of-the-world type traffic
nicely done “cbg from the simpsons”.
you win.
im convinced.
the creators of independence day should now be shot dead by a firing squad.
i think something vansee, angel jimenz, and frankenstein dont understand is that movies like id and transformers contrubute to lazy writing and that stuff is praised and accepted by millions of people
Power Ring, your earth got wiped out, and you were in love with Ultra-Man. You moaned like a b%#@$ before the anti-matter cloud erased you.
But I was updated by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely in JLA: Earth 2. And I even came back during Morrison’s Animal Man run with the Psycho Pirate. What did YOU do?