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Saw Transformers tonight. That was a lot of fun. Good action, which is really what it's all about.
It was a little distracting when I realized very quickly that one of the new characters is voiced by Lenard Nemoy (and they even gave him one of Spock's more famous lines). Also, Megan Fox's replacement is a walking stick figure. Even in 3D. It's kind of scary.
Oh, and FedEx gets the best product placement, mostly because it's actually very subtle. Seriously, blink and you miss it.
I'm also fairly sure that they reused the tilting office building floor set from Spider-Man 3.
But the thing that hit me after the movie was from the beginning. Sam is out doing job interviews. In one of them, he mentions having gotten a medal from the president. The guy says, "Obama?" Sam confirms. "The thing is... We're mostly Republicans here." And that's pretty much the end of the interview. It got laughs from most of the people in the theater, me included.
And then, when I got home, I thought about it. That really says something about where we are as a country. Can you see that line having worked with any other president? Even Bush. (Though, granted, he had a proclivity for handing out praise and medals to people who'd just majorly screwed up...)
Think about that. You get a medal from the president, and the other guy says he's from the other party, so that actually counts against you. That would have been unthinkable before. Even if you disagreed with the president, there was a dignity to the office, a respect for it. But now, as far as Republicans are concerned, anything Obama touches is automatically tainted, to be despised and deplored. That's... not right. And I don't know what to do about it.
It was a little distracting when I realized very quickly that one of the new characters is voiced by Lenard Nemoy (and they even gave him one of Spock's more famous lines). Also, Megan Fox's replacement is a walking stick figure. Even in 3D. It's kind of scary.
Oh, and FedEx gets the best product placement, mostly because it's actually very subtle. Seriously, blink and you miss it.
I'm also fairly sure that they reused the tilting office building floor set from Spider-Man 3.
But the thing that hit me after the movie was from the beginning. Sam is out doing job interviews. In one of them, he mentions having gotten a medal from the president. The guy says, "Obama?" Sam confirms. "The thing is... We're mostly Republicans here." And that's pretty much the end of the interview. It got laughs from most of the people in the theater, me included.
And then, when I got home, I thought about it. That really says something about where we are as a country. Can you see that line having worked with any other president? Even Bush. (Though, granted, he had a proclivity for handing out praise and medals to people who'd just majorly screwed up...)
Think about that. You get a medal from the president, and the other guy says he's from the other party, so that actually counts against you. That would have been unthinkable before. Even if you disagreed with the president, there was a dignity to the office, a respect for it. But now, as far as Republicans are concerned, anything Obama touches is automatically tainted, to be despised and deplored. That's... not right. And I don't know what to do about it.