Monday, July 02, 2007

Battle of Metal Clumps

In the weekend I went to watch Transformers in Bugis. The executive summary is a one-liner:

It's a battle between clumps of metal for a piece of metal

The longer version is: Once upon a time, there was a group of good metal clumps, calling themselves Autobots. As usual, there was another group of bad metal clumps called the Decepticons. To make this story relevant, they choose planet earth as a place to screw around and are condescend enough to be vehicles, more specifically, they choose to be vehicles in America where the emission control standard is high, and the gas price is expensive. Also note the Transformers series were created mostly by Japanese.

I am still conjecturing with the current technology of GM, can those robots transform properly without losing some parts every time in between the transformations.

Back to the movie, the special effects are horrendous as I spent a lot of effort to differentiate which metal pieces should belong to which robot, and if the loosen piece is a kill, or just a normal transformation. When I got out from the cineplex, my mind boggled with a lot of metal pieces. So much for Transformers.

As a patriotic person, I strongly encourage our national car maker participate and sponsor the making of Transformer 2. In this installment, the third tribe will be added. For lack of better description, I propose let's call it Bolehons. The script shall go this way: these tribe is quite peaceful in nature, and are Proton cars in disguise. Upon transformation, which happens usually for useless reasons like wanting to enter the Book of Guinness, they will just turned into ducks. Yelling 'Proton Boleh!' during transformation is optional.

In view of the technology level Bolehons are currently wielding, Decepticons and Autobots are advised to stay a safe distance during Bolehons' transformations, as they may turn into roasted ducks.

You are warned.

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