Courtesy of Pamonh Sisouk
TRANSFORMERS 3 Update... I posted in this previous Blog that if there was one issue that would get me to not watch or at least write about Transformers 3 here, it would be that Rosie Huntington-Whiteley played Mikaela Banes (who was portrayed by Megan Fox in the first two films), and not a new character. Well— It turns out that there’s yet another thing that may at the most prevent me from making repeat viewings of TF3 (unlike the first two films) when it comes out in theaters less than a year from now...and that’s Michael Bay’s lame attempt at making political references in the movie. Check out the photo below, and you’ll notice that there’s an image of President Obama on the apron worn by Huntington-Whiteley. Sure, it’s just a simple drawing on her outfit...but depending on the way it’s shot during production, that drawing could spell the difference between being something that people will only notice for a brief moment even if they watched the film a second time, or completely take audience members (like myself) out of the story right away because of how blatantly noticeable and out-of-place it is. I understand that TF3 is filming in Chicago (Obama's hometown), so the reference would make sense. But this homage is still crap. This happened with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen last year.
In Revenge of the Fallen, Obama is mentioned in a TV newscast right after the Decepticons sink a U.S. aircraft carrier upon arrival on Earth. Unless you’re a Democrat or a disgruntled Republican who proudly voted for the guy in ’08, I found this reference to be quite obnoxious. Not only that, but this completely goes against why a flick like Transformers 2 would be made in the first place. Transformers 2 is a sci-fi fantasy film. It’s a summer blockbuster. Much like Independence Day and Star Wars before it (though George Lucas also made the lousy mistake of substantially alluding to George W. Bush and Civil War-era political crap in the prequels), it’s meant to allow the audience to spend the next 2 hours (or 2 hours, 30 minutes in the case of TF2) escaping reality and delving into the realm where giant alien robots could hide amongst us in this world. BUT NOOOO... Bay had to be yet another sap drinking the Kool-Aid and deciding to pay homage to a political leader whose only true skills are to make grandiose (RE: rhetorical) speeches and predicting champions in pro-sports.
FOR F**K’S SAKE, BAY, let this be the only real flaw that you carried over from Transformers 2. I understand that the movie will have the usual rapid-fire editing, 'splosions and nice cleavage shots of Whiteley (Huntington-Whiteley is becoming too long to re-type) as is the case with Fox in the two previous flicks, but please do not include the unnecessary and obviously homoerotic shot of John Turturro with his pants down, a major objectification of girls (though pretend I didn’t say that if you’ve browsed through the rest of my website. Goooo hypocrisy! Hah) like those college scenes in TF2, or putting nipples on Shockwave—the main villain in TF3 according to online reports—after adding a scrotum to Devastator in Revenge of the Fallen. Oh, and actually telling us the truth in that the "Ghettobot" twins (Skids and Mudflap) will disappear after the opening scene in Transformers 3. Of course, knowing Bay all this pleading will be for naught...and the first Transformers film will most likely be the only one in this current incarnation of the franchise to pleasantly take me by surprise when I watched it in 2007. Oh well.
Courtesy of Pamonh Sisouk
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