{"id":330,"date":"2007-07-18T22:53:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T02:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/330"},"modified":"2011-09-24T20:25:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T00:25:57","slug":"transformers-2007-michael-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/330","title":{"rendered":"Transformers (2007, Michael Bay)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Movies <em>Transformers<\/em> Rips Off:<\/p>\n<p> <em>Terminator 2<\/em>: the car chase scene<br \/>\n <em>Short Circuit<\/em>: freedom being the right of all sentient beings<br \/>\n <em>Videodrome<\/em>: O. Prime asking Shia to push the energy cube into his chest<br \/>\n <em>Terminator 2<\/em>: one is sent to protect him<br \/>\n <em>Pearl Harbor<\/em>: directly reused some shots, I&#8217;ve heard<br \/>\n <em>The Rock<\/em>: stand on a building with a flare to signal the jets!<br \/>\n <em>Armageddon<\/em>: lame joke<br \/>\n <em>Terminator 2<\/em>: the other is here&#8230; to destroy him<br \/>\n <em>Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome<\/em>: two robots enter&#8230; one robot leaves.<br \/>\n <em>Alien vs. Predator<\/em>: our world, their war<br \/>\n probably <em>Black Hawk Down<\/em> but I haven&#8217;t seen it<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a real problem with violating the laws of physics, but that&#8217;s just a clean transfer from the bizarre original show.<\/p>\n<p>Marquee on a street theater is showing Paramount studio classics <em>Rose Tattoo<\/em> and <em>A Place In The Sun<\/em> for whatever damn reason.<\/p>\n<p>The Transformers learned their chase technique from Jason Vorhees (or <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/247\">Leslie Vernon<\/a>), because they are giant machines but can&#8217;t catch a teenage boy in a foot race.  They&#8217;re not even as sophisticated as the balls in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/64\">Phantasm 2<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Too much &#8220;comedy&#8221;, not enough GIANT ROBOTS FIGHTING.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movies Transformers Rips Off: Terminator 2: the car chase scene Short Circuit: freedom being the right of all sentient beings Videodrome: O. Prime asking Shia to push the energy cube into his chest Terminator 2: one is sent to protect him Pearl Harbor: directly reused some shots, I&#8217;ve heard The Rock: stand on a building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,169,215,1359],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-awful","tag-drive-in","tag-michael-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6690,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}