Sunday 20 June 2021

Emma: Robots Can’t Be My Hero

        Someone says “everything I learn; I learn it from movies.” When I do not have to work, I love to spend time learning new things. Sometimes I read a magazine or a book, Sometimes I listen to a podcast on topics that I want to know more. Sometimes I watch movies to gain new perspectives. Although I am a big fan of action sci-fi films such as Avatar, I cannot bear watching the meaningless and boring stories from the Transformers films series. 

        For starters, the stories of Transformers films series are not worth watching, because  they are about a war between the good robots and the devil robots that occurs on Earth, but humanity has accidentally to be in the battles and needs to rely on those heroic robots to save their life—that is not relevant to me at all. I did not engage into the imagination that one day robots would take major parts in governing our society. In addition, although the film director, Michael Bay, hired some capable famous actors and actresses like Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox to be the protagonists, the fighting scenes of the robots dominate their parts. In contrast, Avatar, my favorite action sci-fi film, provides new perspectives on how humanity, as a stranger, learn to understand and embrace those who are totally different from us—that is certainly relevant to me.

        Secondly, even though the Transformers films are of full robots that can disguise themselves as cars, airplanes and tanks, I think they the films are very boring as I can easily predict the endings of the films. In the films, the core concept is goodness versus devil, so it is obvious that in the end the heroic robots will win over the devil robots. I have watched the first film series of Transformers launched in 2007, but when they launched the other five film series in the following years, I did not feel excited to watch them at all. Although the film director applied many virtual effects and included amazing action scenes into the films, his efforts were unable to entertain me. I fell asleep while I was watching Transformers.

        In conclusion, Transformers is the most boring and meaningless film that I have watched. I dislike the idea that humanity needs to rely on heroic robots and I am bored by watching the predictable plot.

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3 comments:

  1. Peter AUA20 June 2021 at 17:22

    Emma, I have to agree. I've never been able to watch more than a few minutes, or perhaps seconds that seemed as painfully long as minutes, of any Transformers film. The son of one of my friends loves them, or at least he used to until he turned ten or so. When we went shopping, he used to buy Transformers toys, and I have to admit that they were fun — it's clever how they transform from trucks into robots, and I didn't mind trying out Ea's latest acquisition while we had ice cream.

    I also like the comparisons you made to other films, such as the excellent Avatar, but I'll save that for a new comment later.

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  2. Aom Nicha22 June 2021 at 13:25

    I totally agree with you. I used to enjoy this kind of movie when I was a child. When you were a child, your imagination world was separated into two groups which were the good side and the bad side. As a result, these movies support the kid’s imagination. However, when I grow up, I realize that the world does not have white and black side, but it is all grey (good and bad in the same person). In addition, for now, it is almost impossible that people can’t save the world, but robots can.

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  3. Poom22 June 2021 at 18:55

    I really agree on that, both movies are very fun for me when I was a kid, watching them and feel excited. But now, there're many more aspect of the view that will take the guarantee that is a good movie, beside the astonishing fight scene and obvious plot. On the contrary to Avatar, there's a subplot that will make you understand more of main character, sometime their motivation is not because they're on the good or bad side, but they do it because they're surviving, one as human, another side as Na'vi.

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