Thursday, July 05, 2007

Sci-Fi Drive-In Theater

On a cool summer night [Tuesday], we took in a science fiction double feature at the Mendon Drive In - Transformers and Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer. For 20 bucks, you can take a car load of people to the movies and enjoy two full length features in one sitting [the other screen had Ratatouille and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End]. The really nice thing about this drive in is they are very family friendly and the snack bar is quite reasonably priced.

Now about the films, Transformers was visually stunning and provides the groundwork for the sure to be released Transformers 2 and 3. This film did a nice job with the human element and of course the bot-on-bot battle royale was awesome. The film overall felt a bit too long but it is what the summer blockbuster has become and should make a gazzillion dollars [$27 million on the first day is not too shabby]. As for Fantastic Four 2, it picked up where the first one left off and was pretty good. The silver surfer was a cool character, considering it was all cgi and "he" had very few lines. Not a bad no-brainer when it comes out on DVD this fall.

All-in-all a good night. Now if they could find a way to get us home before 2 am from the movies, it would be perfect.

posted by TheWino @ 9:22 AM

1 Comments:

At 10:25 AM, July 06, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I took the girls to see Transformers, and it was very good. I liked everything about it, save one thing. Every review I have read says that the CGI effects were revolutionary, and I don't think they were. They were current, but not groundbreaking. My reasons for this:

1) Static metal robots with no skin deformations are relatively easy to model and animate.

2) There is so much camera shake and motion blur in the movie that the transformers could change from a car into "My Little Pony" and THEN into a robot, and everything is so blurry that you might not notice.

This said, I must admit that every time I saw a shiny new car on the ride home, I half expected it to transform in front of my eyes. So in that regard, mission accomplished, ILM!

 

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