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Witness the Transformations
This is a July when metallic colours whirl across all cinemas. With models placed in showcases, and icons printed on posters, the most expected stars in this summer have come to screens – or, in their eyes, screens on the planet Earth.
They are the Transformers! Twenty years after their first popularity on TV, they are now returning for a second surge of the transformation fad, in a film! Transformers, the live action movie, was directed by Michael Bay and presented by DreamWorks and Paramount. Based on the 1980s cartoon series, this June-premiered movie is recalling early pals and recruiting fresh fans.
Story starts still with Allspark, the Cybertron talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. During the fight for such possession, the noble Autobots and the devious Decepticons lost Allspark off the planet. While other transformers were still searching the boundless universe, Megatron the Decepticons Commander managed to find its specific location on Earth. But by the reckless desire he was sent right into the Arctic Ocean and paralyzed in sheer cold. Right before his comatose state, Megatron’s very last energy enabled him only to engrave a map into the Arctic Captain Witwicky’s glasses. Thereupon this very last clue to the ultimate power drew transformers, righteous and evil, all to the human’s world, and to the very last war…
People especially in their twenties can hardly resist such reminiscence of childhood memory, and if anyone could, he will yet have to gape at Transformers – for its sensational effects. By his personal convention, Michael Bay gives absolute emphasis to the special effects; and by the latest technology, such work gives absolute quakes to the audience.
- Absolutely great characters! Unlike the plane images in the TV Classic, the transformers in the movie are 3D models! These full dimensions make the ‘Non Biological Entities’ stand up and show a bulky sense of physical volume, and quite intimidating somehow. Giant as they are, they are elaborately manufactured. Faithful to the prototype vehicles, backstage artists transmit to screen every detail of the machines’ intricacy, from structure to component, and material to texture... If you’ve detected even the scrapes on Optimus Prime’s face, you will learn a new concept of ‘realistic movie’!
- Absolutely great actions! Characters move to make a movie. That is the major challenge for technicians, which however is well solved for the transformers. The actions are animated so naturally that, if the shells peeled off, the steel buddies are humans. In wonder I still remember the scenes when Autobots sneaked about Sam’s house, when Bonecrusher roller-skated along the highway, when Ironhide flipped and leaped in the air, when Megatron stomped Jazz into the building (regrettable though)…, and of course whenEVER transformations happened!
- Absolutely great scenes! The filming team is smart enough on applying all techniques for a gorgeous spectacle. Fast shifts of shots to indicate speed; vast battlegrounds to admit fierceness; explosions to display prowess; music lifted and ebbed to promote the rhythm… For me, the most effective trump is the ‘Mass Project’. In many battle scenes of Transformers, whole fleets are always maneuvered, exhibiting the momentum and forecasting something grand to come. Such scenes as Blackout’s attack on the whole US military base, the summons of Decepticons from wherever they'd been hiding and the rally of Autobots’ transformations all come in magnificence and leave audience with excitement!
‘One shall stand, one shall fall.’ When the special effects stand so terrific, just let go the falling parts, though I actually have minor gripes on the fracted plots and too much close-ups. Anyway, Transformers hits the mark and worth the ticket, for the fans of Hollywood blockbuster especially. So, hesitating still? Let the ‘Ladies' Man 217’ tell, ‘Fifty years from now, when you're looking back at you life, don't you want to be able to say you had the interest to get in the cinema?’
