Ironik

I first saw those during the new Roy Cooling arc, but I don't know if they're new maps or just ones I hadn't seen before.

Yep! 2 - 1 = less fun!

I was on Guardian last night during primetime. Guess how many people were in the Ouroboros area looking for a team? I'll give you a clue: it rhymes with "hero."

Yeah, super awesome. One way to beat him now. Used to be two. Say, this DOES add fun!

Well ****.

"Momma always said, stupid is as stupid does." -- Forrest Gump

Fixed.

This turns the encounter from something that offers a variety of strategies for different characters into yet another big bag of hit points you have to outgun. Boring. This is a terrible idea.

"Complete this mission?" Yes.

Isn't it? I thought that was the point.

It's not like that one Steve Seagal movie which is *supposed* to be in Chicago but you can clearly see palm trees and mountains in the background.

You can't count all shots where the interiors were filmed in one place and exteriors in another, that's just SOP. It's when it's egregious and smacks you in the face that it becomes a case of laziness. Almost every movie substitutes one location for another, Toronto for NYC being the most common lately. For a few years it seemed as if a lot of movies were intentionally filmed on some sort of hybrid alternate Earth, where filmmakers consciously decided that since audiences were aware this was going on they might as well play with it. Because of the weird blend of locations and props, it's hard to say definitively where movies like The Matrix, The Frighteners or Mousetrap take place. New Zealand? New York? Australia? America?

"Simpsons Geography" is an excellent term. There was a line in one of the MST3K episodes where Crowe goes, "The geography of this film is becoming suspicious!" The T. rex paddock in Jurassic Park is an excellent example of this, where the area morphs instantly into whatever shape the plot demands. The shot in Trans2 is just like that, and it's annoying because they don't care if we're paying attention or not.

Say my name! Say it!

Reincarnation hat.

I would grant you that if they hadn't shown the outside of the building right before that. I thought the DVD had skipped scenes, honestly.

What's dumb about that? It's not complicated by any means, but anyone who says Robert Patrick is not downright hilarious needs to have their head adjusted. Few of the characters are mere spear chuckers or cannon fodder and there's one exchange in the woods between the "dumb grunts" that's worth the price of admission. Dumb movies don't do that sort of thing. Yes, it's an action movie, but the cinematography is cool and the stunts are great and the explosions generous. In short, everything you want in an action flick. Plus brains. It's like the cinematic equivalent of the hot chick who likes to read Science Fiction novels.

Which is exactly how I tried to enjoy the Bayformers, but the sheer dumbness kept dropping me out of it. When I'm deliberately not thinking about a movie's story, it takes quite a lot to get that puzzled look on my face.



I think the best movie to compare transformers to is Iron Man. IM has all the cool toys, the explosions, the kinetic action scenes, even not-quite-as-giant robot analogues, but would anyone actually claim it's dumb? Sure, you can quibble with technical things that simply aren't physics-ly possible, but so what? It's a comic book action movie. But at no time does it ever make you say, "Why the hell is this happening and why the hell am I watching this?"



Oh yeah: no way ANY action movie is more tongue-in-cheek than the awesome Flash Gordon.



Admit it: that movie is so powerful that as soon as you saw that image you immediately heard Freddy Mercury sing, "Flash! Ah-ahhh! Savior of the universe!"

In Trans2 aren't they in Washington and walk through a door to end up in Arizona? How does that happen, exactly? My brother the geography dude pointed out there's no Jordan-Egypt border for them to cross, which I wouldn't have known, but it's kind of obvious to even the dumbest person that you can't be on the east coast on one side of a door and then in the southwest desert on the other side without it being a magic door. I mean, I'm not looking for rocket surgery from these flicks, but come on, that's simply retarded. Nevermind your higher cognitive functions, they don't even care enough about your brain stem to pretend any of this makes sense.