deamond9
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It's almost a buddy movie AND a war movie. There's the bigger story of the war, and there's also the smaller story with the guy, the girl and Bumblebee going on at the same time.
The Transformers are all alien robots that possess the ability to scan any other machine and then turn themselves into a copy of it. Usually they tend to add the Autobot or Decepticon symbol somewhere. The Decepticons, at least, also have the ability to produce a holographic representation of a human sitting inside them. The main difference between the Autobots and Decepticons seems to be political; the Autobots refuse to harm humans, whereas the Decepticons want to destroy us all. All of them seem to have learned English and other information about Earth from the Internet.
In the smaller story, Bublebee is a teenager's first car. Bumblebee seems almost over-enthusiastic in trying to help the kid get laid. The girl is hot. Picture "Herbie" meets "American Pie". (Well, maybe not American Pie, they don't go that far, but one of those movies)
The kid and Bublebee were also being pursued by a police car with the Decepticon symbol on the side. This part of the story reminded me a bit of Terminator T but much bigger and more menacing.
One of the great things about this movie, which surprised even me, is that they actually managed to make the Decepticons scary and creepy. Particularly the Helicopter and Soundwave (I think it was Soundwave. The only remotely Soundwave-like thing about it was that it took the form of a DVD player, and Soundwave was a tape player.)
Soundwave is a much smaller Decepticon than the others. He seems to be acting basically as a spy. He's this little, almost gremlin-like creature, constantly sneaking around and hiding when humans might see him. He's roughly 30 or 50 cm tall at his full height, whereas the others average 5, 10 meters tall.
I won't tell you too much about Megatron.
COMPLAINTS;
Unlike the cartoon, their design seems to be over-complicated, they seem to break into too many small parts when they transform. Almost as if they were trying too hard to make it look different from a toy. This creates two main problems; A) it makes it allot more difficult to follow or figure out how they transform, which is exactly what was so interesting about Transformers back in the 80's B) It also makes their faces too complicated, which means it's hard to tell them apart. Particularly the Decepticons.
In some of the action sequences towards the end, they used shaky cameras and dust just to make it look more "real". In fact it just looks shaky. Cinema Varitae is vastly over-rated.
The Transformers are all alien robots that possess the ability to scan any other machine and then turn themselves into a copy of it. Usually they tend to add the Autobot or Decepticon symbol somewhere. The Decepticons, at least, also have the ability to produce a holographic representation of a human sitting inside them. The main difference between the Autobots and Decepticons seems to be political; the Autobots refuse to harm humans, whereas the Decepticons want to destroy us all. All of them seem to have learned English and other information about Earth from the Internet.
In the smaller story, Bublebee is a teenager's first car. Bumblebee seems almost over-enthusiastic in trying to help the kid get laid. The girl is hot. Picture "Herbie" meets "American Pie". (Well, maybe not American Pie, they don't go that far, but one of those movies)
The kid and Bublebee were also being pursued by a police car with the Decepticon symbol on the side. This part of the story reminded me a bit of Terminator T but much bigger and more menacing.
One of the great things about this movie, which surprised even me, is that they actually managed to make the Decepticons scary and creepy. Particularly the Helicopter and Soundwave (I think it was Soundwave. The only remotely Soundwave-like thing about it was that it took the form of a DVD player, and Soundwave was a tape player.)
Soundwave is a much smaller Decepticon than the others. He seems to be acting basically as a spy. He's this little, almost gremlin-like creature, constantly sneaking around and hiding when humans might see him. He's roughly 30 or 50 cm tall at his full height, whereas the others average 5, 10 meters tall.
I won't tell you too much about Megatron.
COMPLAINTS;
Unlike the cartoon, their design seems to be over-complicated, they seem to break into too many small parts when they transform. Almost as if they were trying too hard to make it look different from a toy. This creates two main problems; A) it makes it allot more difficult to follow or figure out how they transform, which is exactly what was so interesting about Transformers back in the 80's B) It also makes their faces too complicated, which means it's hard to tell them apart. Particularly the Decepticons.
In some of the action sequences towards the end, they used shaky cameras and dust just to make it look more "real". In fact it just looks shaky. Cinema Varitae is vastly over-rated.
I know this is "The Classic" version of Dracula. I know it was made decades ago. I'm well aware I'm gonna be accursed of blasphemy for this. I know people were easier to scare then. Oh well, might as well get on with it.
The Bela Lugosi version of Dracula was so inaccurate to the book that I actually had trouble following the story. The Francis Ford Coppola version was much closer to the book.
BOOK; first few chapters are about Johnathan Harker's travels to and stay in Transylvania. Renfield already in madhouse by start of movie.
MOVIE; Harker never leaves England, Renfield goes instead.
BOOK; Madness seems to fluctuate. Sometimes he seems normal, sometimes he's even a philosopher, but once he bit Dr. Stewart's arm, screaming, "Blood is the life! Blood is the life!" But most of the time, either eating life things or catching flies, spiders and birds so that he can feed them to each other and later eat them.
MOVIE; You don't see him acting sane much.
(In an odd way, although it never happened in the book, the scene in the Mel Brooks version with Stewart and Renfield in the garden gives a much better example of Renield's frequent fluctuation between sanity and insanity.)
BOOK; Dracula is described as an old man with werewolf-like features, glowing red eyes and a mustache, and gets younger as he drinks blood.
MOVIE; Not even close. And, although fangs are alluded to, you never see them.
BOOK; Dracula only ever converses directly with Harker. (Although he also yells something at Van Helsing)Preys on Lucy only when asleep and/or sleepwalking. Main characters spend most of their time hunting down Dracula and Lucy.
MOVIE; Dracula meets and converse with main characters at opera and later at Lucy's house. (In fact, this seems to mostly be all that happens in the movie.)
BOOK; If you've seen any version of Dracula you'll be well aware of the scene with Harker and Dracula's three brides. As well as a child in a sack. (Note to MATRIX fans; watch "Bram Stoker's Dracula again, you may find it interesting that Neo and Persephone have "met")
MOVIE; This happens to Renfield, but nothing interesting happens.
BOOK; Dracula's arrival in England is very similar to Eddie Murphy's arrival in New Yourk in "A Vampire in Brooklyn"; a ship with a dead crew crash-lands on the beach, with a cargo full of boxes full of clay, and a wolf jumps out.
MOVIE; Doesn't seem to happen. And only seems to assume the form of a bat.
BOOK; main characters chase Dracula all the way back to Transylvania
MOVIE; doesn't happen.
MOVIE; He uses hypnosis on various servants.
BOOK; Well, why the hell not? He does, possibly, have some power over Lucy, she seems to sleepwalk exactly where Dracula wants her to.
Other problems with the movie;
-Seems to be all talking, almost no action.
-Never see Dracula's fangs.
-Extremely limited by early censorship
-Armadillos?
The Bela Lugosi version of Dracula was so inaccurate to the book that I actually had trouble following the story. The Francis Ford Coppola version was much closer to the book.
BOOK; first few chapters are about Johnathan Harker's travels to and stay in Transylvania. Renfield already in madhouse by start of movie.
MOVIE; Harker never leaves England, Renfield goes instead.
BOOK; Madness seems to fluctuate. Sometimes he seems normal, sometimes he's even a philosopher, but once he bit Dr. Stewart's arm, screaming, "Blood is the life! Blood is the life!" But most of the time, either eating life things or catching flies, spiders and birds so that he can feed them to each other and later eat them.
MOVIE; You don't see him acting sane much.
(In an odd way, although it never happened in the book, the scene in the Mel Brooks version with Stewart and Renfield in the garden gives a much better example of Renield's frequent fluctuation between sanity and insanity.)
BOOK; Dracula is described as an old man with werewolf-like features, glowing red eyes and a mustache, and gets younger as he drinks blood.
MOVIE; Not even close. And, although fangs are alluded to, you never see them.
BOOK; Dracula only ever converses directly with Harker. (Although he also yells something at Van Helsing)Preys on Lucy only when asleep and/or sleepwalking. Main characters spend most of their time hunting down Dracula and Lucy.
MOVIE; Dracula meets and converse with main characters at opera and later at Lucy's house. (In fact, this seems to mostly be all that happens in the movie.)
BOOK; If you've seen any version of Dracula you'll be well aware of the scene with Harker and Dracula's three brides. As well as a child in a sack. (Note to MATRIX fans; watch "Bram Stoker's Dracula again, you may find it interesting that Neo and Persephone have "met")
MOVIE; This happens to Renfield, but nothing interesting happens.
BOOK; Dracula's arrival in England is very similar to Eddie Murphy's arrival in New Yourk in "A Vampire in Brooklyn"; a ship with a dead crew crash-lands on the beach, with a cargo full of boxes full of clay, and a wolf jumps out.
MOVIE; Doesn't seem to happen. And only seems to assume the form of a bat.
BOOK; main characters chase Dracula all the way back to Transylvania
MOVIE; doesn't happen.
MOVIE; He uses hypnosis on various servants.
BOOK; Well, why the hell not? He does, possibly, have some power over Lucy, she seems to sleepwalk exactly where Dracula wants her to.
Other problems with the movie;
-Seems to be all talking, almost no action.
-Never see Dracula's fangs.
-Extremely limited by early censorship
-Armadillos?