Binary Tuberculosis

This past Sunday I grabbed some sushi at Minado and a flick at the IMAX with a couple friends. Both co-workers, one of them a new intern from Austria that I’m “officially” mentoring. Yeah, I’m kinda sorta in charge of this 23 year old grad student for about 8 months, gotta show him the ropes in Bioinformatics. Good thing unofficially it isn’t that big of a deal and he’s totally cool and another guy is helping me out, so at least now he’s both our responsibility.

So onto the movie. Transformers, only one of the greatest animated shows in existence, uber nostalgia here. The movie? Hit the right spots in action and Shia LaBeouf is a dork so he’s extra cool in my book (he was Even Stevens people!). What was wrong with the movie?…

• Effing Michael Bay…EVERY girl is a hottie. Nice to look at, but honestly, why why why?
• A bit too “kid like” in some scenes (the garden scene).
• Action was too up close, a bit tough to make out what was going on.
• Even the geeky NSA chick was super hot…and with an Australian accent…with a sexy neck tattoo! Effing Michael Bay.
• Some parts were just absurd, not the “sciency” parts, common sense stuff (I’m not writing any spoilers, so no examples here).

It was a good action non-thinking nostalgic flick. A perfect popcorn movie if you will, more emotional obviously than a mental exercise, which is fine by me. I’d watch it again.