Drunken Comics Rage

We have finally found THE movie of summer 2007.

If you haven't seen Transformers yet, do so soon. And then don't bothering seeing another movie the rest of the summer. At least not major release movies. If you wanna go and hit some art house flick that only four people not related to the cast have ever heard of, be my guest. But as summer blockbusters go, Transformers was all you could ask for. Great effects, tons of action, hot chicks, bits o' comedy, and vehicles turning into giant fucking robots and beating the shit out each other. Really I don't even think I should have needed to say anything beyond vehicles turning into giant fucking robots and beating the shit out of each other.

There were a few plot holes you could drive Optimus Prime through, but once you've accepted the part about vehicles turning into giant fucking robots and beating the shit out each other, you gotta let some shit slide. They did a helluva job of making the robots look like they were "real". And by "real" I mean real in that "Damn ain't that Steven Speilberg somethin'?" kinda way.

It was also refreshing to see the humans solve their problems with guns . . .and succeed for once. Thank God  Jeff Goldblum wasn't there to reverse engineer some computer virus and upload it into Megatron. Because that would be . . .well . . .incredible stupid. Thank Gawd we've never done that in a movie.

The only serious letdown of the whole flick was walking back out to my car and coming to the sad realization that it was not going to turn into a giant fucking robot and start beating the shit out of other giant fucking robots. Such a disappointment. If I can't get the whole robot transformation, can a man at least get better gas mileage out of the deal?

It now occurs to me that perhaps the Autobots could help us resolve this whole Skrull invasion problem. Although between robots turning into cars and aliens shapeshifting into humans, I'm not sure we would ever truly know who was kicking the shit out of who. Clearly we would have to call in the ninjas to turn the tide.

This week's reading list:

1. Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America (Iron Man)
2. Ultimate Power #6
3. Chronicles of Wormwood #5
4. Thor #1
5. Y The Last Man #57 (three more to go)
6. All Star Superman #8 (The All Star book with 50% less crazy that actualy ships more often than annually).

Tonight's wine selection is a Cambria Pinot Noir. It's one of the few Pinots I actually like.

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