One shall stand, one shall fall

"Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it." - Kwik-E-Mart clerk

I didn't take this single-appearance Simpsons character's advice today, but I did the next best thing: I went to see enormous transforming robots blow up quite a bit of it. (Note: When it's 117 degrees, outdoor Independence Day activities have a significantly smaller freedom quotient.)

The movie was better than I expected. Lots of action, lots of explosions, a few flashes of actual humor. Took a little long to get into the action (how many not-so-subtle clues do we need that the banged-up Camaro the kid just bought is really Bumblebee?). But once it got going, it kept going until the end. I give it the ol' thumbs up.

I even did research to prepare. A couple nights ago, I watched the animated Transformers: The Movie. I'd never seen it since my Transformer-collecting days had ended by 1986, when the movie came out. Good thing I held off a viewing until I became a mature adult because who knows how much therapy I'd need after watching my entire toy collection get killed off in one 84-minute span. And even at 32, I'm still a bit traumatized that one of the characters yells "Oh shit!"

• Posted by Brian at 7:30 PM
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