Love your car, but don't LOVE your car.

[odditycollector]

 
You all should go see the Transformers movie. It is awesome.

(Where "Awesome" here is to mean "full of giant robots blowing shit up." Just in case you wanted clarification.)

However, I must admit that despite Awkward Neurotic Boy declaring loudly, "I love my car!" and being otherwise obsessed, I still TOTALLY MISSED half of the romantic subplot.

And so was completely lost going into this scene:

 
Car-Robot: Optimus Prime, I want to remain with Awkward Neurotic Boy.
Optimus Prime: Well, uh, um. Okay. If that's what he wants?
Awkward Neurotic Boy: *choked up* I do. Yes.
Refreshingly Kick-Ass Love Interest: *beaming sappily*
Awkward Neurotic Boy: *beaming sappily*
Car-Robot: *creepy cgi expression of beaming sappily*

Karen: Huh. That was inexplicably charged with emotion.

Movie: CUTS TO MAKE-OUT SCENE
Movie: *Close up on Refreshingly-Kick-Ass-Love-Interest lying on Awkward-Neurotic-Boy lying on Car-Robot*

Karen: OH. I SEE. OKAY THEN.

Movie: PANS TO GIANT ROBOTS SKULKING IN BACKGROUND OF MAKE-OUT SCENE.
Optimus Prime: And we're here watching over you.

Karen: ...
Karen: I THINK POSSIBLY NOT THE MORAL I WAS MEANT TO BRING AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE.
Audience: *giggles in agreement*

 

But no. It's a fun couple hours. Check it out.

Comments

[minim_calibre]

AHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Okay, glad to see someone OTHER than my husband came away from the movie with the same sort of

...

impression of the end.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

BUT THEN THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

Except for the governments maybe because it's not like THEY invited all the giant alien robots in the universe to come live on their planet, but then we've got to have a sequel somehow, right?

[vagabondsal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the ending was kind of...yeah.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Another case of do not write the things you love? That explains the voice over, at least.

It was a movie that worked best when it didn't give you a chance to go "Hey, what? *What* is their plan?" But it made up for most of that by being awesome. I'll end up seeing it again (my Mom's been bugging me to go with her since it came out.)

[pyrae.livejournal.com]

Was it just me, or was that not Bumblebee they were lying on at the end? I mean, I got the same "WHOA ROBOT VOYEURS/ORGY?" vibe, but I was also distracted by how it wasn't his car. It was that OTHER yellow one. *fails at Transformers knowledge* Because wasn't Bumblebee damaged? They never showed him fixed, I don't think.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

I thought it was Bumblebee - they just showed him whole and, uh. whole in that scene as a shortcut for "And then RKSLI fixed him with her mad mechanic skills and then they all lived happily ever after and got to make lots of use of 'hot-wiring' as a euphamism."

'Course, I wasn't paying that much attention, so I could be wrong?

[pyrae.livejournal.com]

I went looking for photographic proof, and am forced to conclude that I was not at all paying attention to what he looked like post-snazzification. There isn't another yellow car, at least, so that must be him, and yeah--wow. Edging into their relationship a bit, in't he? I sense an uncomfortable conversation coming.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

"I do not care how cool your buddy is. You don't climb on top of him and start having sex with your girlfriend!"
"Unless you want him to join in..."
"Hey, hey, SHUT UP. I thought we agreed on how this intervention was going to go."

[pyrae.livejournal.com]

From that emotional "I wish to remain" scene, I think that arrangement is what they agreed to. *haunted look*

[thegameiam.livejournal.com]

I'm with you: I totally took that as a threesome (with voyeurs!) at the end...

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

They had to cut the following scene in order to keep the PG13 rating...

[thegameiam.livejournal.com]

Bwaaaa!

[kerithwyn.livejournal.com]

No, I think that's ENTIRELY the correct moral to take away from this movie.

GIANT ROBOT ORGY FTW

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

I applaud their determination to appeal to EVERY SEGMENT of fandom!