Let’s make something clear about my reviewing Transformers One: I have no horses in this race. Transformers is not my fandom. I have no notable history with it. I am aware of it through other people talking about it, but that’s about it. So, I can speak on it without nostalgia, without a sense of fan betrayal for whatever aspect they changed. I am not objective—this is a critical media review—but I’m judging it as a standalone movie.
Sliding in a bit under the radar is Transformers: The Last Knight opening this week. Curiously, there don’t seem to be many early reviews, which may not be good news. Although the movie officially opens on Wednesday June 21st, a special OPTIMUS PRIME preview screening is happening at 7pm on June 20th. Attendees will receive…
As if the world needed another film about Transformers, it appears that we will be getting another Transformers universe, which we definitely didn’t ask for. However, it’s hard to argue that it’s a bad decision since the movies still tend to rake in massive amounts of money. Even Transformers: Age of Extinction which was released…
Lately, it seems as though the primary rule when producing a science fiction film has become “it has to be a remake,” or, “it has to be a reboot,” or the infamous, “it has to be a sequel.” This being the case, the creators of the Transformers saga (Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers:…
This week’s Friday Fiction won’t be released until later today, so, for now, you’re just going to have to be satisfied with this. Okay, so let me start by saying I don’t hate the entire Transformers series. The first one was good, the second one was awful, and the third one was somewhere in the middle (we’ll…
My father owns more than 800 Star Trek novels since the 1980s, my brother introduced me to my very first PC game (Starcraft if you’re curious) when I was eight and when I was a youngling, my mother who was a sci-fi/fantasy fan herself allowed me to sit in front of the television if I…
Your MacBook is a beautiful, blank canvas just waiting to be turned into an art piece, and the recent upsurge of creative laptop decals means that you have almost unlimited options for expressing your personal style. That said, Mac is a pretty classy brand, and many of the gaudier decals just don’t do justice to…
Worst 2009 Movies Razzie Awards 2010. Transformers 2, Land of the Lost, All About Steve, The Rise of Cobra, Hannah Montana: The Movie, Battlefield Earth.
