Behold WeAreAutobots: via webcam, it turns live video of you into a Transformer by way of facial recognition.
It is pretty cool, even if only for a few minutes.
Let the experiments begin:
• It doesn’t transform two people at a time.
• It works on my neighbor Rachael when I duck out of the way.
• It does not work on my neighbor Rachael’s dog.
• Oddly, it does work on a drawing of a face on my stomach!
“Autobot Belly! Transform and roll out!”
(via Justin Sane)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Gruesome robot deaths!
And an hour-long ad for
the U.S. Army:
“An Army of One . . .
That Turns Into a Sports Car
and F*&%s-up Egypt.”
Movie Pluses:
• The boombox Transformer Soundwave is re-envisioned as a communications satellite.
• The gigantic Transformer Devastator (composed of seven smaller Transformers).
• An unnamed razor-thin Transformer (camouflage: it can’t be seen head-on).
Movie Minuses:
• The film is 150 minutes long.
• Shia LaBeouf doesn’t die.
• Megan Fox’s bad collagen and tanning salon choices.
• Although I’m a big supporter of robot violence, this isn’t a good film for young children.
• About an hour of the film is dedicated to the American Armed Forces and little else; awkward, bordering on annoying.
(images from Columbia Pictures, Renaissance Pictures, Disney Pictures, and New Line Cinema)
(photos: Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox)
• The Bourne Identity – The Jason Bourne orange knit sweater and his stylish Tag Heuer Quartz Chronograph.
• Aliens – Lt. Ripley’s Reebok Alien Stompers.
(photos: Polygram Films, Art Linson Productions, 20th Century Fox)
• The Big Lebowski – The Jeff “the Dude” Lebowski faded brown bathrobe and his Kaoru Betto t-shirt.
• Fight Club – The Tyler Durden stylish orange pleather jacket and the faded pink “coffee cup” bathrobe. Bonus: Durden’s “Sock It to Me” T-shirt.
• Big Trouble in Little China – The Jack Burton “Fu Manchu” tanktop [and again].
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