I'm going through Harry Potter grief right now. I won't get to see it til the weekend or later :( we have so many appointments and craziness this week that seeing it any sooner won't happen.

No - and I still have no clue what that is. I was born in Cali- but have no idea of what or where the Observatory is other than I know what they do at an Observatory.....

And what if a person likes raw potatos?

My mom loves to go to the movies, and now that my wife is unable to get out of the house I go with her. She wasn't sure about the movie, but knew I wanted to see it. She really enjoyed it, and so did I. Ok, it may not have a lot of value other than a great action movie romp, but hey- that's a fun ride once in a while!

That's a really good comparison. That works for me!

Not once did I think it was LA. Didn't recognize the observatory either. Not a clue. And I live here. Perhaps the entire city background should have been CGI too. Maybe they should have done the entire movie in CGI.

And Steve - Hottie Army Dude is Josh Duhmel from TVs Las Vegas. (which isn't filmed in Las Vegas).

And I don't live there and have never personally seen any of the places I recognized (other than the general downtown LA skyline). Mostly I recognize because they are used in movies so often to represent iconic LA (particularly Griffith Observatory which is probably in a couple hundred movies; Rebel Without a Cause; it is where Schwarzenegger first materialized in the first Terminator movie; more recently Drew Barrymore and Demi Moore beat each other up in Charlie's Angels. It played prominently in The Rocketeer).

Connecting to another summer blockbuster (one I did enjoy) a couple of the aerial shots you can see the U.S. Bank Tower which is the iconic LA skyscraper hovered over and then blown up by the aliens in Independence Day.

I'd like the Mission City : Los Angels :: Gotham City : New York City if they hadn't said Mission City is 20 miles from Hoover Dam. That's like if Batman crossed the George Washington Bridge into St. Louis.



Obviously it is not something that bothers most people watching. And like I've said I wasn't really bothered by it, I just had plenty of time to think about what I was seeing since I wasn't otherwise being entertained.

I was also mildly annoyed at them adding a completely unnecessary line of diaglog about how "NASA/JPL lost the Beagle 2 Mars probe." Why go to the trouble of adding that line just to get it wrong. Yes, only 1 in 500 people probably recognized the problem with it, but why not just say "remember that Mars probe we lost?"

They also said "gravity" when they meant "magnetic belt" in explaining why Megatron crashed. And, unless these robots are for some reason filled with air, dumping them to the deepest part of the ocean won't actually crush them. And unless these incredible pieces of machinery are taken out of action by a chilly October morning, the also won't freeze. The water at the bottom of the ocean is cold, but not that cold. Keep in mind it is still liquid while salinity allows a subfreezing temperature even at the deepest part of the ocean it isn't going to be any colder than 29 or 30 degrees Fahrenheit. In other words, if they have any fear of Megatron coming back to life the government's top people came up with a very stupid plan.

See the things I had to think about? Not because I went in looking to over analyze things but because I was somewhat bored so starting thinking about what I was seeing. So I would say the over analysis was a result of the (in my opinion I'll say again) suckiness and not the other way around.

Maybe that is how they will explain why Megatron is back in the sequels (which I think are a very bad idea).

Heheh, I was going to go thru the litany of Griffith Observatory movie appearances, and why average dweeb moviegoer should recognize it ... but Alex saved me the trouble.



Ok, I've been wondering ... was there a dog named "Mojo" in the cartoon, or was that just a fortuitous coincidence of the movie to our swanky message board?


Also ... to go back to something on page one .... who else besides me and mousepod had that weird J.J. Abrams hoax trailer before the film? At least, I've heard it was a hoax of some sort. I found it far more interesting than The Transformers. Anyone else see it? Know anything about it?

I had that trailer, I shrugged and said "it's J.J. Abrams."

My friend swears it's Godzilla. Rumors are rampant on the internets from a new Godzilla to a LOST! tie in. The website: http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com/ is very bizarre. There is a star on the left that launches my email every time I click it. The URL is http://[mail info I removed]/?view=cm&fs=1&to=van%40ethanhaaswasright.com&su=I' m%20one%20of%20you...%20help%20me!

I sent an email to van@ethanhaaswasright.com (the email address provided) that said "Who Are You" and this was the reply: