{"id":3783,"date":"2009-06-27T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2009-06-27T17:54:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T21:54:23","slug":"escape-to-the-movies-transformers-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3783","title":{"rendered":"Escape to the Movies: Transformers Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, a new (to me) series at the Escapist is Movie Bob.  As someone who has only a cursory knowledge of movies and directors, I really appreciated his take on Sam Raimi&#8217;s <em>Drag Me to Hell<\/em>. Like Yahtzee, his aggressive and profane style either works for you or it doesn&#8217;t, but I always enjoy reviewers that can educate me on the director, the history of this particular movie, the cast, or whatever else is useful for putting the thing in context.  Drag me to Hell looks like something I would pass up even if it was free, but I still enjoyed his take on it.  <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/videos\/view\/escape-to-the-movies\/797-Transformers-Revenge\">linking<\/a> his Transformers review, because I very much agree with the point he makes mid-way through.  Warning:  This is coarse, profane, rude, and angry:<\/p>\n<p><center><script src=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/videos\/embed\/797\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is something I was trying to say in my <a href=\"?p=1233\">review<\/a> of the <del datetime=\"2009-06-26T22:13:32+00:00\">original<\/del> previous movie: Just because the source material is a &#8220;toy commercial&#8221; doesn&#8217;t get you off the hook for basic fundamental movie making concepts like characterization, cinematography, dialog, casting, and pacing.  Movie Bob says it better, though.  Note that I haven&#8217;t seen the new movie, but everything he says applies just as well to both movies.  <\/p>\n<p>Imagine that Michael Bay&#8217;s Transformers is &#8211; as Movie Bob says &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0118688\/\">Batman &#038; Robin<\/a> of Transformers.  What would the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0468569\/\">Dark Knight<\/a> of Transformers look like? Or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0367594\/\">Charlie &#038; the Chocolate Factory<\/a>. Basically, imagine the fun or interesting movies we <em>could<\/em> have gotten for that $200 million dollars, if they would just put the project in the hands of someone who wanted to do something more than capturing blurry footage of Stuff Blowing Up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a new (to me) series at the Escapist is Movie Bob. As someone who has only a cursory knowledge of movies and directors, I really appreciated his take on Sam Raimi&#8217;s Drag Me to Hell. Like Yahtzee, his aggressive and profane style either works for you or it doesn&#8217;t, but I always enjoy reviewers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}