Desmond Reddick from Earth-2.net (”Geek Culture at it’s Finest) interviewed me for “The Show 119″ and we talked about Lovecraft, film & acting (voice work), and of course The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Listen to it at http://www.earth-2.net/theshow/episodes/e2ts_119.mp3
So I just got back from seeing Transformers. Warning: Spoilertron!
Cons:
- Extremely Hollywood (this is only a con if you’re not expecting and wanting it to be Hollywood, which I think at least everyone is expecting it).
- When I saw the early previews I noted that the bots looked excessively pointy and “cool” - I got used to that throughout the movie but I still think they could have been at least distinguished more by colour or shape - they all looked very similar and it was hard to tell who was fighting whom, sometimes.
- Weak plot overall.
- They didn’t get Frank Welker to voice Megatron, and there’s no good reason.
Pros:
- Best robots fighting you’ve ever seen.
- Unexpectedly good jokes.
- Lots of good “wow” moments, if you’re in to that sort of thing.
- They did get Peter Cullen to voice Optimus Prime.
In short, definitely worth seeing on the big screen, and you can’t go wrong with The Rio.
ps - the original Jazz was voiced by Scatman “The Shining” Crothers, who as you may know died some time ago.