God Bless That Man

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Ebert on Transformers 2 is a wonderful thing. He opens with:

“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

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The humans, including lots of U.S. troops, shoot at the Transformers a lot, although never in the history of science fiction has an alien been harmed by gunfire.

5 thoughts on “God Bless That Man”

  1. Nice review indeed, but off the top of my head, I can think of quite a few aliens that would be very susceptible to harm by gunfire:

    1) Independence Day (remember the scene in the lab where they shoot the alien through the glass in Area 51?) 2) Earth Girls are Easy (clumsy moves-on-chicks aliens are obvious vulnerable in many ways) 3) The Puppet Masters (squish) 4) Escape to Witch Mountain (but only if they don’t see you coming) 5) Alien Nation (yay Mandy Patinkin) 6) Star Wars (I promise you, Jar Jar Binks is not invulnerable – soma gonna shoot hes soon) 7) Any Star Trek movie (whale bisque, anyone?) 8) The 5th Element (the diva, lots of baddies by Bruce) 9) Starship Trooper (this was nothing but shooting aliens) 10) E.T. (natch)

  3. Emotional truths are usually not, in my experience.

    Then again, my boss keeps telling me not to be so cynical in meetings. I’m really not clear on what that means, but I’m sure it will cause me to lose my job, my hair and my sanity.

  4. Aliens can be..but evil robots should NOT be. Evil robots are a different class. I’m not going after a zombie with anything less than a 12 gauge, and a killer robot needs nothing less than a huge vat of acid and a lot of ingenuity. This is kinda getting to me in the Sarah Conner Chronicles (I’m way behind and catching up). Sarah seems to feel well armed against a Terminator with a Glock .45 (or with a soda can for that matter). wtf? Gah!