Battleship

I took my little lad and one of my big lads to see this film.

As per usual, all those film reviews which gave it one or two stars turned out to be very reliable - the film was AWESOME.

It was about 50% Transformers, 30% Independence Day, and 5% Mars Attacks. They filmed it on the scene of Pearl Harbour, the aliens borrowed the protective shield from the last Harry Potter film and/or War Of The Worlds, the injured veteran was using Gary Sinise's artificial legs from Forrest Gump and to round things off the old guys from the Crimson Permanent Assurance hi-jacked their own ship and saved the day, one of whom was a foul mouthed old yob like the butler in Arthur.

The list goes on: there was a football match between sworn enemies like Escape to Victory, the blonde love interest was basically Kelly McGillis out of Top Gun, it had a female American popstar (Rihanna) in it like Austin Powers in Goldmember (which had Beyoncé), and like Iron Man 2, the soundtrack had two songs by AC/DC, only they used two good ones, "Hard as a rock" and "Thunderstruck".

And so on and so forth. we're still trying to work out which film the two geeks on the mountain were from, Wayne's World, perhaps? Funniest of all is one of the key scenes was towards the end where they are firing at random using grid co-ordinates, like in the good old fashioned game "Battleships" (upon which the Hasbro game is based and in turn on which the film is loosely based).

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

Her Indoors, The Lad and I went to see this film this evening.

It's all good clean fun, incredible CGI effects and so on, but for obvious reasons, I can't tell you the plot.

The Lad reckons that this is the third and final episode, but I don't think it will be. I'm sure somebody in Hollywood is already itching to use the inevitable title... Trans4mers.

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

I took the kids and one of their friends to see this film this afternoon.

It was really rather enjoyable, and either the plot was so complicated and convoluted that all the sub-plots cancelled themselves out (and thus could be cheerfully ignored), or there quite simply wasn't a plot at all. The down-sides were the last battle scene in the desert that went on for about an hour, they really could have edited that one down a bit; and there wasn't nearly as much gratuitous footage of Megan Fox as I'd been led to expect.

Good fun nonetheless.

Transformers - The Movie

The Lad got the DVD of this as an Xmas present. We slapped it straight on and we've just finished watching it, and I must say, it was nowhere near as bad as I expected.

Parts of it were actually moderately funny and the bit towards the end where Mikaela Banes (the heroine) says 'I'm glad I got in that car with you' to Sam Witwicky (the hero) was almost quite moving (but I'm easily moved if I have a hangover)*.

But can anybody explain to me how the co-ordinates of The Cube's hiding place came to etched on Captain Witwicky's spectacles?  I really didn't get that bit.

* This refers back to the beginning of the film where Mikaela nearly walks off and Sam asks her how she'll feel in fifty years' time if she doesn't get back in the car and continue the adventure.