One of my all time favorite movie scenes was in the movie, "Thank You For Smoking". The tobacco industry guy is trying to get cigarettes placed in a sci-fi movie where the heroes all smoked. The director says, "But you can't smoke in space! There's no oxygen!" The tobacco replies, "Just have one of the actors say, "I'm glad they invented xxxx so that now we can smoke."
That takes care of that.
Last night to escape the heat and nothing on TV, I went and saw "Transformers 3" again. Carol had not seen it yet and I needed popcorn.
The "smoking" scene came back to me as I watched several of that kind of scene:
1. BumbleBee, the Camaro Autobot, is always dirty and scratched when a robot, but when it becomes a car it is shiny and clean.
2. The "damsel in distress" falls off and through buildings with flying glass, and many 40 foot drops and does not get dirty or cut up (and wearing white). Her boyfriend, the star, is with her through all this and gets all messed up.
3. The movie makers go to great detail to show fabulous detail in downtown Chicago but none of the humans seem to be human. If the have speaking roles, they can't be hurt!
4. All the autobots become fully functional vehicles except the NASCAR looking robots! When they become cars, they still have gun turrets and rockets all over them, but the sound of the engine is that of a race car.
The soldiers just jump out of planes and deploy their chutes and about 15 minutes later they jump off buildings and other chutes suddenly appear. They must have said, "let's create parachutes that are 6" x 6"!
I have spoken about "the suspension of disbelief" is necessary for all movies like this but try just a little!
I have downgraded this to ** stars.
2011 movie #37
No comments:
Post a Comment