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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
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I want to note what I'm seeing in this review. This was a movie crafted with care, by the director, the CGI crew,
the sound crew, the camera crew, there are many moments that you can tell were done to stay true to the characters, comic,
and content. And that's worth mentioning these days.
Bumblebee, who they could have completely let fall back with the sheer amount of characters included, had his moments.
In keeping with the last film, they continued him gloriously into this film. Right up to Optimus chiding him to stop
going to drive-throughs when he started backtalking him. The few things Bumblebee voiced at all, were all well placed
with great timing to great story effect, comedy or drama.
It's especially worth noting that when you have two scene stealers like Bumblebee and Mirage (Davidson), aside from
introducing an entirely new crew of bots to the screen, they were clever to balance the timing to give each their
screen time and moments in the movie. This was smart, and gave each their time without taking from the other, or the
rest of the (many) characters.
I think it's important to stop and appreciate that it's a first time Transformers director, relatively young, (Bay exec'd)
including two separate groups of classic bots in the Autobots, and first time Maximals, but also including the Predacons,
and the new Terracons. This is in one movie, in 2 hours, with relatively unknown human character leads. And it is doing
extremely well in the box office U. S. and abroad.
The Maximals are true to form. Anyone who watched Beast Wars will note they did it well. Even when they changed the voice
actor for Optimus Primal, the tone when he told Cheetor and Rhinox to maximize, you know he went back, watched Beast Wars,
and read up on the character. This is missing from soo many movies. Cheetor's agility, Rhinox's force, Primal's rapid
strategy and coordination in the moment, it's all there. They knew what they were doing. And most movies these days do
not, lets be honest.
The action scenes were stellar. Coherent, you could see what was going on. Emotional. Your brain doesn't shut off while
everything's blasting for 20 minutes. You're wondering what happens to the bots as you growing to like their adaptation
on screen. The baddies have tricks up their sleeves, no empty monologuing, they get right to business.
Optimus is clearly stumbling into his role on this planet, and what he's doing here. He's dealing with regret, he doesn't
trust humans, he fears for the safety of his people, and he's a jerk about it. But he's made more real from it. In the
final battles you can see the change imprinted on him that leads to the later movies.
I could go on. But don't miss this one, because if your issue here is color the world is moving on. And in, and outside of
America, they are speaking with their wallets very loudly.
The Imperfects (2022)
Solid Bingeworthy show
If you like character chemistry, good pacing, lighthearted dry humor, and talented actors, all while delivering dark and well written plot developments, this is an original to see. It is it's own show, and compared to shows that have a team of writers on hamster wheels butchering a good show with no source material to steer them, this is well written and engaging on its own even without source, which is rare.
Even if you're not into the themes of sci-fi, thriller, horror, action, it touches on each without overdoing any specific theme. I'm writing this review and I don't even write reviews, because the 1babies need to come off it already. I want to support this show for giving me an entertaining binge to add to my lexicon.
Yes there are shows out there that push a certain group or demographic that is not white/male/straight/lead and even insults you by writing badly on top of it. This show is not one of them. Any time you see the word 'Agenda' , 'Hollywood', '90s etc was better' in a 1 star review, it's a 1baby that's rating bashing that watched for 10 minutes enough to feed their confirmation bias. Ignore the negative reviews and see for your yourself.