This week @ the Byrd: Transformers
photo credit: Jake Lyell For someone who has never seen an episode of this apparently life-altering cartoon, Transformers sure isn’t a difficult movie to follow. And even if I wasn’t following the basic (er, only) premise – (bad guys want to take over the universe, good guys try to stop them) – I wouldn’t have to wait […]
photo credit:
Jake Lyell
For someone who has never seen an episode of this apparently life-altering cartoon, Transformers sure isn’t a difficult movie to follow. And even if I wasn’t following the basic (er, only) premise – (bad guys want to take over the universe, good guys try to stop them) – I wouldn’t have to wait more than a couple minutes for someone in the film to give me a nice summary. It occurred to me that if I had been as passionate about Transformers as a kid as I was about Anne of Green Gables (omg, Gilbert Blythe), that I might have been irked and/or bored by the endless repetition of the simplest plot points, but my date is a fervent Transformers nerd and still spent the whole time clutching my knee with delight So with that evidence in mind, I’m going to assume that the purists* weren’t let down by the film either, and I’m going to move on. (more…)
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