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Midol Girl hugs Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS and escapes with minor abrasions
Hey folks, Harry here... For the past few days, Yoko and I have been playing host to a lovely lass from Vancouver with reel cool dreams, by the alias Midol Girl. She decided she wanted to write about TRANSFORMERS and I figured... ya know, we can't have enough female writers to set us boys straight, instead of all the male ass-slapping in our jingoistic locker rooms here at AICN...
Ain’t It Cool News: Tuesday, July 3rd 2007
Michael “Cocky” Bay, My Little Ponies & Why Bumble Bee is Better off as a Camaro
By: Midol Girl
Transformers the toys were too armed with more nerdy nostalgia for 20- something year old males then I could comfortably begin to even pretend to wrap my head around. I myself was a huge gigantic “My Little Ponies” fan around the same time my brothers were adding the Autobots and Decepticons to their Christmas wish lists, correction- to their Christmas, birthday and their just because “I’ve been so good” wish lists!
I found these fully articulated “sentient machines” extraordinarily frustrating to say the least. I had a hard enough time getting Barbie’s skinny little cigarette jeans up to her disproportionate hips and over her sticky little rubber legs, let alone sitting there during playtime, which should equal “fun time”, manually reconfiguring a piece of jumbled plastic parts into a (in my mind) boring innocuous form like a car or aircraft.
Not to trash the robotic dump tracks or anything, which I’m not sure existed? If there wasn’t, there should have been. They should have come with little garbage men that hung off the backs too, and miniature little trash cans that would double as air-fresheners when they’d turn into robots. That’s beside the point though, which was to say that these toys really truly could capture the imaginations of little boys literally all over the world. Of course I’m sure some little girls too, who most likely are far more technically advanced than myself (it takes me a good five minutes to find the power buttons on the new Macintoshs out there) but, let’s be honest here. It’s mostly boys who like these things and relish in the excitement of opening up a fresh new package with a little “robot in disguise” inside and gleam when they unfold the little inserts (tech specs) which detail all the exciting characteristics of the toys. The toys, that will soon occupy millions of minutes of their time, both in battle play and for years to come in collecting.
Who then would not be better to direct a movie about these toys then Michael Bay? A Hollywood film director critic’s say, “only does movies for teenage boys”. Bay’s response to that;
“I make movies for teenage boys, Oh dear, what a crime!” (Wikipedia quote)
With a career’s early beginnings stemming from stereotypical “guy” media ventures such as directing rock videos, beer commercials and even videos for the Playboy channel it’s no surprise that he moved on to do high box office grossing films such as Bad Boys (1995), The Rock (1996), Armageddon (1998) and Pearl Harbor (2001); Both films nominated for “Razzie” Awards (awards given out for crappy movies and lame directing etc.) because, lets face it. Who mostly goes to big Hollywood movies and takes their sometimes very apathetic wives and girlfriends to them? Teenage boys and men (essentially the same thing). I’m Joking! Now I’m lying, I was only half-joking. In all seriousness…
I went into the movie Transformers with a good understanding of Michael Bay’s cinematic style, one he’s often been negatively criticized for. Cutting to quickly, not making time in scenes for dramatic “moments” of stillness or for having too much stillness in the form of jarring “slow motion” sequences that seem to come out of nowhere and end abruptly. Bay’s also been attacked for using a lot of blatant sexism in his work. The latter I really have zero tolerance for, but I’ve noticed that chauvinism and it’s meaning in cinema has been blurred these days.
What one used to think was the objectification of woman for instance; a “babe” in a bikini holding a gun, is now considered by some as a form of “sexy empowerment”. That said, I went into Transformers expecting every woman to have long hair, a “nice rack”, a tan and technical babble to make the geek boys pitch tents in their pants- and that’s what I got.
I personally think the way to empower a woman on screen is with really good storytelling. By showing the events occur from her perspective once in awhile and having her intelligent decisions be motivated by her need to solve a problem with or without a male side-kick to provide opportunities for her to showcase her skills in all their geeky glory.
Transformers was everything I bewilderedly knew I was going to get, but so hoped would surprise me by not being the cheesy, thin robot-storyline meets “hot chicks” and explosions Michael Bay cliché that I expected. I think he tried to be cool, modern and “non-sexist” by having a “hot” blonde New Zealand woman as a government advisor/ code breaker but he fell short at his attempt (kind of like a lot of the movie’s sub-plots). She herself had to get a guy to do most of the work for her, and the hacker who was (despite his nerdy computer skills), basically just an idiot who was in the movie simply for more bumbling fattist “comic relief” that wasn’t really funny at all. This movie was full of bad attempts at humor. Don’t even get me started on the little robot piece of shit that transformed from a boom box!
The only human character that I could stand to watch for more then a few seconds was the lead guy Shia LaBeouf, and he redeemed a LOT of scenes that could have been super duper lame-ass. You can thank his brunette teenage boy crush, arm-piece of a bad actress for pretty much nothing in this movie. The whole love storyline didn’t add anything to this movie. But I guess a lot of Michael Bay fans (knowing them) would call him “gay” (which to Bay would most likely be as painful as someone dipping his face in lava) if he didn’t show a horny heterosexual guy with only one thing on his brain trying to get a girlfriend in the film.
That’s the other thing too, the way the women were dressed, hair styled, lit and shot was so cheesy and blatantly just there for “eye-candy” that it didn’t matter what kind of smart, gutsy dialog was written in the screenplay behind them. Michael Bay’s love for Playboy seeped out of every camera position and cut, and totally drown the women’s motivations to be credible, and mine to take them seriously.
Enough of the crappy stuff! What’s the good you ask? That makes me touch back to the little boy Transformers nostalgia factor I spoke of earlier. Transformers was chalk full of it and I loved it! Yes me, proud mouthy young female critic who was whining earlier how I preferred “My Little Ponies” to Autobots & Decepticons. I loved every freaking second of the robots in disguise and out of disguise on screen. I loved the way they moved, talked and transformed, and yes I even loved that Bumble Bee was a Camero.
A lot of geeks out there are righteously pissed that their beloved black and yellow VW Bug bee was changed to a slick striped speed racing GMC. I wasn’t, especially in this kind-of a movie. If Michel Bay is going to continue to be Michael Bay in all his glory, and let’s just let him go ahead with it because is box office numbers speak to the smiles he’s giving people- many who may be simply laughing at him and his oh so obvious hormonal “boy” choices , but still laughing right? And really? Who wants the peace-loving beetle mixed up in all of that redneck nonsense anyway? It wouldn’t be the little Volkswagon style to kill and fight in a war over a planet, so lets leave him out of it and let the cocky Camaro do the macho dirty work, and Michael Bay too.
Quite frankly I find his movies entertaining and exciting. If I were to skip out on the Hollywood movies that offended my female sensibilities I would never been seen at a movie theatre, let alone writing about and critiquing film on the WWW.
When I got to Michael Bay movies, the gray matter in my scull gives me plenty of warning that I’ll be pausing for head shaking and eye-rolling, if the camera isn’t already doing that for me. Would it hurt to throw in one static shot Michael? Just one? Maybe next time, and yes there will be a next time I will like most of you lining up and paying to see it.
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..and this girl CANNOT write.
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..what kind of sentences if she pulling together? It reminds me of the stupid Asian girl in my first English community college class, who wrote as she talked.
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I've not heard anything about it
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..find me :)
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I can die happy, right? IM one of the those FIRST shitheads.
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I went in knowing this was going to be 100% visuals, but what the fuck? Everything was out of focus and shaky cam! I couldnt make out a goddamn thing!
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AICN and civility being mutually exclusive. Nice review, a little off kilter, but I don't come to AICN for a university thesis.
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SO you liked it? You liked the robots but not the movie? I know you like My Little Pony but that's about it. Also, you shouldn't find Michael bay exciting, that's just gross.
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But Bay thanks you for your 10 bucks. This movie was great, I went to see a great action flick with awesome CGI, movie delivered. I'm not trying to see the next great American snob film here.
Also, the peace loving VW in the midst of rednecks? Lets remember the humble Nazi upbringing of VW before we get too high and mighty. -
I am all for giving the chicks a shot at some reviews, but this wasn't very good. Can you get the "face book princess", other wise know as the Florida State Cowgirl a shot? She is hot, plus she can write, and she likes football.
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If you are emotionally invested in the Transformers (esp. 1st gen) don't go.
If you aren't then check it out. The ending is a little anticlimactic though.
Also every freaking car was GM so that whole VW anti-war thing reeks of c.o.c.k. -
My wife and I saw this last night and I cursed the entire way out of the Alamo. I was offended to the very core of my being that the movie was filled to overflowing with absolutely moronic humor, a dull and cliche "kids save the day" storyline, and completely overwrought special effects. Further, this great robotic chaos that all the reviewers keep harping about SUCKED!!!!!! Most of the time you could barely see what the hell was happening on the screen...it was just a mess of mechanical parts flailing about. After awhile, I was numb from the jerky camera movements, fast cuts, and just the MESS that was on screen. More is NOT better in this case. Furthermore, what was up with the stupid sound effect voice on the smaller robot...he sounded like a cartoon. And the equally sophmoric scenes like the little robot saying "Oh Shit" and giving the finger as he dies (this is too crude and simple-minded to even fathom that these were inserted in this film) followed by such classic moments (sic) as an autobot "urinating" on a bad guy. This is absolutely horrendous storytelling appealing to the absolute lowest common denominator...and yet Moriarty and Massawyrm had nothing but positives to say about the movie!!!! What the fuck happened to you guys?!?!? The only single positive I could say about the entire movie was that the voice of Optimus Prime was spot on. Otherwise, this movie was the dumbest, low-IQ flick I've seen in a very long time....and I'm horribly disappointed that the reviewers on AintItCool didn't have the decency to say so. Michael Bay had absolutely NO respect for the source material. The comics were serious while the movie was filled with ignorant low-brow humor that ruined the entire movie. It turned it into a joke. Sure, the robots tore shit up on screen, but did we ever once feel the human impact of all the destruction and chaos? Nope not once...and this is really unforgivable. I felt like I was watching Jar Jar every time that little robot was on the screen. And we couldn't even take some small measure of joy at watching him because most of his movements were so quick that you couldn't make them out. It completely took all the fun out of the film and lowered my opinion of AintItCool.
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"Man, Bay is a shitty filmmaker, and this movie is no exception...but I fond it so exciting and enjoyable anyway!"Michael Bay is the abusive boyfriend that you think you love...
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Peter Cullen was great, i just wish optimus had more strategy.
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You forgot the John Woo "bullet-time" robot battle sequence.
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With all due respect (if any is due), I don't think this review(er) is ready for prime time.
No wonder I visit this site less and less. -
that's what this review was... a pre-menstrual bitch-fest. i'll make you a deal, honey... you don't review transformers, and i won't review my little pony.... sound fair?
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Seriously, she and Vern are the best guest writers to ever grace this site. Alex would've really added some well-needed perspective on Bay's latest retard-o-thon.
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sucked. Didn't he?
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You'd think SOMEONE would've caught that incredibly foible. For God's sake, it's mispelled in the friggin' article heading.
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attempting to read this just gave me a huge migrane.
please AICN, show at least some respect for your readers, and keep this 7th grade shit off the boards. -
in a 6th grade English class I don't think it would pass. Now how do I get all this red marker off my monitor? I really feel we have enough Transformers reviews...unless Neil Cumpston wants to chime in.
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Oh, so Michael Bay has been negatively reviewed for his films in the past? AND they tend to skewer towards teenage boys..Well, I have learned something new today. And the Razzies are for "bad and lame" films..THIS girl must be an insider with the kind of info she's dishin'.
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Born in Tasmania. Many a meter from the shores of New Zealand.This is a better review then Harry's if only for the fact that Harry spent most the entire article explaining what he wanted and didn't get.
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Man, I just don't know what's wrong with some of you people. Did you think that William Shakespeare was going to claw his way out of the grave to make this thing? Did you think that God Himself was going to say, 'Transformers is My favorite cartoon show, let it follow the exact plot of the show.' People like you and Van Rant--whose 'party' thing is really getting annoying--can't take these things so personally, or you're going to have heart attacks before you turn forty. Jesus, they couldn't have a super serious storyline that only G1 Transformers fans would get, because that's not the way the movie industry works. You have to appeal to all audiences, give them a way to relate to the subject matter, and comedy does that. The action was a little badly filmed at first, but got WAAAAAAAY better by the end. I am just as much a fanboy as the rest of you claim to be, but I'm apparently not a close-minded prick, and will happily take this movie over nothing. If you want to make it your way, get rich, produce it, and see how many people come to it and if you make your money back. TF was awesome, it will make a trillion buckazoids, there will be a sequel, and you're in the minority. Deal with it.
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No seriously, wtf is this shit? I agree with Gus Van Rant, show your tits, thats what most women are good at. And some fella's too.
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THANK YOU! The house has been very interesting today
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..why not try playing proofreader instead? Holy shit, my eyes were watering trying to read that.
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Yep.
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Serisouly, did we really need THAT much of her background? She did so much meandering around I almost forgot what movie she was reviewing. Let's not have her back for any more movie reviews, shall we?
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There's extra boobs in the house, no time for proof reading Dr Jones
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to get you to post this horribly written review, Harry?
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Seriously we need this kind of perspective. Don't you want more female readers/Talkbackers? Give her a cartoon icon and send her to more movies.
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I find when one reviews a film on giant robots, one needs to examine the heart of the story, the characterization and plot. Because, ultimately, if these elements aren't in there, then the giant robots just don't matter.
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Christ, people act like they've never seen the modern girl/woman before. They way she was dressed is the way chicks dress. Bare mid-drifts and showing more and more skin is how the whores do it these days, and this was totally believable in the film. Nothing wrong with her acting, either.
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The humor, for the most part, is consistent 110% with the 80s TV series. It's there, you just don't remember. Overwrought special effects? What kind of jackass would say something like that in this film? That's the point, over the top, super realistic, perfectly integrated/composited giant robots in the world. Nothing overwrought about it. Perfect.
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A friend of his asked nicely if she could post a review and he said "sure." Because it's not f'n TIME.com. Just like when Harry lets pretty much ANYONE review a movie with a little effort up to the first 24 hours of its release. I've used this strategy before. I'm not a friend of Harry's but I asked him and Mori nicely a while back if I could post up a review of a high-profile DVD I'd acquired as a preview disc. I didn't do the best job but fuck it! Of course, Harry probably told her beforehand there were some pretty vicious children on the board who would be spitting out some criticism far more amateurish than Midol Girl could muster that she didn't need to take seriously. Some of your overly-opinionated people crack me up, but then I guess if you put a monkey in front of an audience, eventually he'll toss poop at someone.
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Gotta stop rushing through these things...
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Didn't think to use it-whoopsies.
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So it would probably be the perfect car for destruction and mayhem.
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Looong but witty "intro"... I really liked this piece. I hope you return, Midol Girl.
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She's been too distracted by my flashing boobies!
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I was actually referring to my own posting, not yours. I never call out someone for spelling and grammar when they're writing for free. Now show us your...
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And this review will improve ten fold.
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Decided this review was post-worthy? For all the talk that this girl gave about smart women and having intellect and the like, this girl certainly could write a run on sentence...and a buttload of misspellings, bad grammar, the whole nine...
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...and it's terrible. The humor is forced and stereotypical and falls incredibly flat. The "boy's first car" angle is completely under-realized. The human characters are one-dimensional at best.And the real stars of the movie, the robots? I can't completely comment on them, because I only got about two milliseconds of them in clear view when the camera and animation wasn't blurred and jarring and hyperkinetic.I'm no "things were better in 1982" movie snob guy... I can appreciate the way spectacle movie-making has evolved. But Jesus H. Christ, this entire movie was half-baked from the start.I went in with pretty low expectations, and I have to admit when Optimus' voice first boomed out of the speakers I got a little thrill, but once the actual movie started... ugh.
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i'm not gonna complain about flames, or no character development i will just bitch about too many humans, not enough robots, too many cut scenes, too many humans fighting robots, not NEARLY enough robot vs robot scenes like prime vs bonecrusher. so all baysupporters stop saying we're complaining about the littlest things. oh and by the way I've seen the original movie and all the g1 episodes and I don't remember this many pee jokes
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or just shite..new zealand hacker? what the hell? damn ignorant peoplE.
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girls on the site? nerds unite and hide! i now await the forth horseman of the Apocalypse
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oh transformers...right.
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now!!!!!
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--or the possibility of it---was such an excitement I almost crapped myself. Memorable enough?
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I've been waiting for someone to get really IN-DEPTH on the sexual politics of Transformers.
IF ONLY BAY HAD INCLUDED 20 MINUTES MORE BLONDE HACKER CHICK PLOT, THIS MOVIE COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED!
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Harry's got good flashin' boobies. Someone give him a trucker hat.
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small nipples... but mine are an inch and a half long. Makes some girls hot... Guess I'm lucky that way.
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I think I just barffed in my mouth a little. haha
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The English Patient or A Room With A View. It could've used Ralph Fiennes and Emma Thompson as the leads to give the human scenes more gravitas...With that Nebbish Shia and that Vapid (little) Tart Megan attempting to emote was akin watching an ep of the Power Rangers. I guess i just prefer Michael Bay's earlier efforts, suchas The Rock, Armageddon & his (Citizen Kane - like Masterpiece) Bad Boys 2 before he sold-out.
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Robots vs.Werewolves! That's fucking box office boffo! It would kick the shit out of anything out in 2007...except for the Donny Most bio-pic.
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is like offering to let a houseguest feed your pet Sumatran Rat Monkeys.
Seriously, it's the set-up for a horror film. SHE THOUGHT... IT WAS JUST A VISIT TO THE STATES. "Oh, you'd like to review a movie on my site? Sure, no problem. "
SHE THOUGHT... IT WAS JUST A MOVIE WEB SITE. "Write up a thoughtful review and a feminist perspective, and I'll post it right up." SHE THOUGHT... CRITICISM WAS A ONE-WAY STREET. "There we go, that was easy. Oh, and by the way... have you met THE TAAAALKBACKERS?!??!!?!?
[dramatic music, wilhelm scream]
"THE TALKBACKERS" HAS BEEN RATED R. NO CHILDREN WITH A MENTAL AGE ABOVE 18 WILL BE ADMITTED. -
this review was boring
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Oh man, that's funny.
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No more discriptions of the goings on in your domicile. At least nothing about your man-boobs. Please. Thank you and goodnight.
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Asshole talkbackers are the reason i do this shit ;-)
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Lighten up on the quotation marks! How old are you anyway? By this review, I'd guess no more than 22. As you age, you learn to loosen up a little. I'm a girl, and I can freely admit that I like chick eye candy just as much as male eye candy. Let's all face it, the female body (especially Megan Fox's) is amazing to look at. And I'm as straight as they come. I definitely wish they had shown a little bit more of Josh D's bod though... yum!
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She was an Aussie, not a fucking Kiwi. Do your research.
I know you other nationalities often have difficulty discerning the difference between an Australian and a New Zealand accent, but it's really very simple: listen to the vowels.
For example, when an Aussie say the word "sex" it is pronounced roughly as "secks".
When a Kiwi (New Zealander) says "sex" it's pronounced "sucks". They butcher their vowels.
So chips become chups, fish becomes fush, etc etc, whereas Aussies pronounce vowels the same way as the British do more or less.
The Kiwi accent is heinous, just like the South African one. Totally butchers the vowels.
I must say though, her accent really stuck out amongst all the Yanks. I was telling my mates afterwards, "we all laughed but she isn't even a very Ocker Australian (think Steve Irwin) - that's just how we sound".
She was hot though.
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I can not get the new trailer to the untitled JJ Abrams movie that appears before Transformers (I loved the movie by the way)out of my head. I looked it up online and I see its working title is Cloverfield. It looks like a giant monster movie. The audiance loved it. Any info here?
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But she's a Tasmanian...
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NO MORE! MAN-BOOBS!!
EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah, that was just uncalled for. Nice idea for a gross-out Harryhead cartoon -- based on the Randy Quaid/cold nipples scene from Kingpin, with Moriarty as Woody Harrelson. No comparison to the Eyes Wide Shut 69 horror. ...The horror...
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http://tinyurl.com/gc79d
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Doesn't mean you have to as well, Midol Girl. Good lord, if that movie review had been a date you would have been going dutch about halfway through.
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Hopefully this "Midol Girl" can fufil her "reel" dreams, because she needs to stop writing before she completely kills teh concept of coherent thought.
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"I was a Huge Gigantic My Little Pony Fan"!!! What the Fuck is this SHIT!!!???
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You wrote this! the evidence is all too clear. The very dodgy spelling gave it away and these sentences-1. 'Huge gigantic “My Little Ponies” fan'2. Transformers was chalk full of it? 3. Transformers was everything I bewilderedly knew I was going to get? 4. I will like most of you lining up and paying to see it???
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HA HA HA HA ho ho hooooo... "It wouldn’t be the little Volkswagon style to kill and fight in a war over a planet" ...*Snort* Ah, WAH HA HA HA!!!
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Won't stop, can't stop. Peter Jackson for JLA!
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Who'd you have direct My little pony? Because we all know it's coming...
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Damn you Michael Bay
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...but where do I find any real 'cool' news?
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You wanted Midol Girl to pick a director for the My Little Pony movie? You're TOO FUCKING LATE! A director has already been picked! South Korean genius, Chan-wook Park! (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance) I can't wait!
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Thats that bitch on MySpace who keeps rejecting me as a friend for absoloutely no reason! Im sorry but fuck her reviews man...shes just rude ya know....I mean I reject people all the time but they're usually bands or guys flogging gay porn-and I stopped my gay porn ring in 2004! QUIT LIVING IN THE PAST!!
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Never heard of it.
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She's needs to go get some dick in her gob and shut the hell up. I mean, you think you can reject people on myspace, then come here and act like you can communicate with us? Sorry I don't have a crappy band to plug, betcha you'd fucking add em, huh? WHAT THE HELL AM I GOING ON ABOUT!?
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Thanks for the review, Midol Girl. But tell Harry to keep his shirt on and his moobs covered, because... eeeyuck! I don't want to be thinking about that. Ever.
To clarify: you liked the robots but didn't like the film, right? This means that when they make a "My Little Pony" film, all us guys who hated "My Little Pony" when our sisters used to play with them and we used to, like, pull the pony's legs off when our sisters weren't looking, can finally embrace ponies.
Um...
Ahh...
Actually, can't do that. Sorry. It's against our genetics. But maybe we can at least respect the pony?
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I dont reject people on myspace..I just never check my friend requests anymore...I barely ever log in! In all honesty most of us where Im from use Facebook.
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I hate FACEBOOK... that is all
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Midol Girl, "In 1933, Adolf Hitler met with Richard Whittle and Ferdinand Porsche to discuss the development of a "Volks-Wagen". During WW2 The Type 1's mechanics and chassis were shared with several German military vehicles of the period, including the Kübelwagen" (from Wiki)
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VW's are evil too! Hahaha there's no winning!
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CLearly someone that never had a grasp on the depth of the source material. That's right, apologists, I wrote "depth."NEXT!
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well, the mom wasn't so hot. There's an exception to every rule.
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"...to kill and fight in a war over a planet"What a shame. She's so very close to grasping the source material, yet succumbs along with the rest into the maelstrom of apologists.
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Facebook is amazing, they have just added all these new user created apps, AINTITCOOLNEWS.com should create one.....get an account!
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They seemed normal to me and she knew how to use a webcam. I didn't say VWs were evil but the Father of the VW did kill 14 million Christians, 7 million Jews and every Gay, Gypsy, Retard, and Deformed person in Germany he could get his hands on. Your quote "Who wants the peace-loving beetle mixed up in all of that redneck nonsense anyway? It wouldn’t be the little Volkswagon style to kill and fight in a war over a planet" Remember your history and have a Happy 4th of July!
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Facebook is lame
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turn off your capslock!
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midol irl, you sure rejeted me...which makes me think Im must be worth rejectin...(cries incessantly)...actually I couldnt care less..sorry if it caused concern....
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nuff said?
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I have yet to reject someone who sends a message first- that's fair isn't it? To request a message before approving a friend request?
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I have to say, as a male, I'm rather fascinated by reading about the film from another perspective; like a westerner going to the middle east or something. Kinda makes you think about the isolation of the human mind.
Anyways though, even though there were a number of red flags that popped up early on for me, as I continued to read the rest of the article, I became content with the writer's position. The opinions were very well founded, and was an interesting peek into the female psyche that you just don't get to see often enough (you know, outside of the stereotypical stuff which just gives women a bad name).
If anything though, this article more than explained to me a number of things I found troublesome about the cinematography. Seriously, after watching Grindhouse, 300, and any Tarantino movie, almost any modern movie feels incredibly inferior.
The pacing was terrible, there were unnecessary slow-mo shots, too many cuts, times when the camera should've been looking at Optimus talking, etc etc. But despite all of this, it was a good film.
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Harry just described his nipples and said that they make some girls hot. The imagery alone makes my stomach turn.
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yeah thats fair...dont concern yourself though-I wasnt actually that offended! Im just joking around led....
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is everyone saying the truth about the movie yet giving it a pass as "entertainment" ?
If you look at the source material even just a little you will see they knew better how to sell the characters and tell a relatively simple story with more clarity than what these people tried to produce with a huge production budget and staff.
I find it remarkable that people would actually invest in these films. But then I see reviews like these, and people with common sense letting it slide, and lining up again and again to be sold scraps from he undercarriage of society.
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... hell, all those "social networking" sites... GAY! No one... and I mean NO ONE gives a rip about your daily fuckin' schedule, your views on contestants on "Hey Look! I Can't Dance!" and your personl life, frankly, creeps me out. As for the whole "keep in touch with friends" excuse... you morons ever here of a little device called a phone?
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... the internet is soooo 1998!
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Weird?
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is simply a method for the alien overlords to catalog their future food source. FEAR. RESIST.
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Ok, I totally did not understand any of what Midol Girl was trying to get across. That being said, Transformers was the type of movie that you check your brain at the door and just enoy.
Was this "My Dinner with Andre"? No. Cmon, was anyone really expecting character development, plot advancement? Nope. IF you were looking for Robots, Explosions, Cars and Hot women? Check Check Check and Check! Then Michael Bay delivered!
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Very gutsy and forward thinking of you to post Midol Girl's review. Despite it not being particularly a SAFE space for anyone to post a review of this ilk, it definitely SHOULD be. That said, I can't say I enjoyed reading this one bit. It might have been a little more contextual had you just posted a link to her blog or something- cuz boy does it read like a junior high girl's diary... I agree with Juanski and a few others. If you're going to jazz up your review with a contemporary, casual voice- you should at LEAST make your point clear so that we can discern the filler and one-liners from the content. Without the content the one-liners and quips don't do anything but read as excessive. I mean... does she like the film but hate Michael Bay Denis? Does she hate the film but think Michael Bay Denis should be allowed to do what he does without criticism? Seriously I dunno. All I DO know is I thought this movie was ALL about Peter Cullen's voiceover. Without it I probably would not have LOVED it the way I actually did. DESPITE being a primo Bay Hater. OR.. Bater, if you prefer. I am pretty much the MASTER Bater. no wait... you get what I'm saying. I walked away feeling like the film's lack of in-depth character relationships was a tribute to fans the world over. I didn't need it cuz I already knew it going in. So all of a sudden this origin story which is SUPPOSED to draw new viewers to the franchise, which we the old-shool fans were so TERRIFIED would ruin the film, is now totally a fan-boy flick. It only takes one line from Megatron for us to know what the deal between him and Starscream is. It only takes one time for Ironhide to draw his weapon on a little dog for us to know "ok- he likes to fight" And that he says "leak" and "lubricant" in the same sentence informs me that the screenwriter KNOWS what his source material is. this one, despite our greatest fears, was TOTALLY made for the fans. And you know? Being one, I have exactly ZERO problem with that. this review on the other hand... that's a different story...
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(sings to the tune of the Transformers theme...) "Mi-chael Bay! Jacks off in your eyes!"
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All this talk about My Little Pony, eh? Maybe this movie will better suit your needs...
http://www.iklipz.com/MovieDetail.aspx?MovieID=9d281a39-ea7a-49ac-82a1-01d432e0b009 -
Hahahahaha! Awesome! Yeah-uh I'm pretty sure that would be worse.
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So what youre saying is maybe if I can talke my wife into seeing this, she may not dislike it?
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I can't speak for all wives, I know if a guy took me I wouldn't hold it against him-if my Dad took my Mom he wouldn't hear the end of it. Depends on your wife. One of the talkbackers who said she was a girl proudly claims she likes to look look up n' down the sexually developed aroused bods that a stereotypical males call "eye candy", and she's straight, so it's hard to say who's going to like what these days. Ask you wife I suppose, that's the easiest way to guess.
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