Well it is still an awful film but last night it was at least a bit funnier.
Yup.
Kelmeister suggested I download the recent Rifftrax mp3 for Transformers. She and the husband came over and we synched up the movie and the mp3 and sure enough, it made the film a bit tolerable.
Now many of you may not have heard of Rifftrax yet.
They are mp3 commentary audio files for current films done by Mike Nelson and the others from Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame.
I know a lot of you disagree but I have yet to see how I can agree with anyone that this is either a 1) cool film or that it is 2) even a C-grade film.
Transformers is truly a sorry excuse for a film that has made that kind of money. It is a jumbled mess of often demeaning stereotypical Bay chaos.
Watching the new film with this commentary rekindled some of the same feelings I had while watching this at the Star Wars Holiday special and the prequel films.
In fact, one of my favorite moments in the TF track was actually during one of the utterly drawn out pointless scenes without any robots in it and Mike Nelson says something to the effect of "Oh my god I can't believe I'm saying this but I would so go for a pod race now!".
Well... and also the brilliant comment about Archibald Witwicky and Moe Greene!
Get your Rifftrax today!