Transformers is coming out today and I had to talk about this movie. When I was a kid I loved the Tranformers - of course my family would never get me one. My Dad was always like, "You don't need any Tranformers. You already have everyday objects that turn into toys, here at home! This looks like a trash can - but is really a spaceship." "But Dad, it's full of trash." "I know. Once you take out the trash - it turns into a spaceship."
But now that I'm older - I've starting looking at the Transformers a different way.
As you know the Transformers are robots that have been hiding on earth as typical machines that we use everyday just waiting for the chance to transform into giant robots and take over earth. I have always loved that premise. For many of the characters that's awesome. Optimus Prime - transforms into a 16 wheel- Mack Truck. Another robot turns into a F-14 fighter jet - awesome.
But what about those Transformers that weren't lucky. Like the lead robot in the movie who has been hiding as a old beat-up Pinto for the past 20 years. That sucks for him. Having to hold 30 Mexicans why they try to cross the border. The car is probably like, "Forget the uprising. I want to go home. It's not worth this shit. Why did I have to be the Pinto?"
Or what about Megatron, the head bad guy. The leader of the Decepticons and the most feared robot of them all. Sure, he's all bad ass when he's a robot...but when he transformers - he turns into a GUN!!! A freaking inanimate object. If nobody picks him up he just sits there. That's the most feared robot of them all. What if he runs out of bullets. Then what? Or remember that Robot that Transformed into a freaking BOOM BOX! And it had tape deck - where the tape turned into a wild cat of some kind. He's out of date. In this movie he's probably sitting in the back room of a Crazy Gideons collecting dust.
What machine would you want to be Transformed into?












