Countdown to Transformers

Days like today make being a nerd really exciting. A year after the first teaser hit the web, it is finally opening day for Transformers. I don't know about everyone else but the cartoon was a pretty big part of my childhood, so I'm thinking today could be a pretty big part of my adulthood, which is still very childlike.

Transformers is unquestionably the most anticipated movie if the year. Interestingly enough, it's the only really big movie of the year that's not a remake or a sequel, and even more interesting is that it's a Michael Bay flick. Seriously, I never thought I would be this excited to go see a Michael Bay movie, but in hindsight this is the first summer that's really been a throwback to the old school blockbuster summers we used to get in the 90's so the fact he's involved in making this summer so big isn't really surprising (see The Rock).

So the million dollar question is, of course, will Transformers live up to the hype? Rotten Tomatoes has it at a 68%, 21 good reviews, 10 bad ones, and most of the bad ones just talk about how there's nothing under the hood. On the flip side, the good reviews claim it's better then sex. In about 10 hours, I'll be the judge of that.

I think since Spielberg is attached to it then it has to be good. I see Spielberg as like the dog owner and Bay as like a crazy fighting pit bull. Bay just wants to go completely ape shit and Spielberg's there to keep him on a leash. Seems like a good relationship. Obviously Spielberg won't let his name be attached to something shitty either (for instance the Island, or all the horror remakes Bay's produced, or Armageddon, or Pearl Harbor, or...).

What sucks is that I'm really expecting a lot, and when that happens it takes even more to make me happy. God I hate Internet hype and movie trailers (see Spiderman 3). Oh well, at 10:55 p.m. I get to see Optimus Prime on a movie screen in all his glory for the first time since I used to play with the toy and make the transforming noise with my mouth as he went from semi truck to bad ass. Can't say that too often.