impending squishing doesn't count

[sergebroom]

Well, 7/7/7 is gone and I saw Transformers on that fateful day. It was a popcorn movie all right, but I was rather numbed by the end of the big battle.

Questions...

How many people do you think would die if giant robots were duking it out in the heart of LA, especially if cars were tossed around, and if our military joined the fray with fighter planes? The Answer: not one, according to this movie.

How may women do you think are in our military, or work on Air Force One? The answer: two, and they are both flight attendants on Air Force One.

At least, the movie's two smartest characters were women. Mind you, they were the only women with actual dialog, besides the aforementionned attendants. Screaming when you think you're about to be squished doesn't count.

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

That's an annoying element in a lot of films: women who do nothing but scream at impending danger.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

The two main female characters weren't screamers, especially the greasemonkey one, who rescues one of the robots with a towtruck in the middle of battle in spite of the danger to herself. But the glaring absence of women was... well... glaring.

As for the depiction of the non-military black characters, the less said the better.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Oh dear!