Fonts seem fine to me
The Transformers movie was pretty cool. I went in with very, very low expectations as far as plot, acting, direction etc. being that it was a Michael Bay film (Pearl Harbour, Armageddon, a long list of other gung-ho shit). The corny dialogue and often redundant human characters (Jon Voight for one, hot Aussie soap-star chick for two, wisecracking, stereotypical, fat African-American hacker for three) didn't disappoint - I was expecting them to suck, and suck they did
Megan Fox was a welcome inclusion as the unbelievably hot chick who's great with cars, though, and the lead kid, whatever his name was, did just fine. I guess.
It was all about the bots, though and they certainly didn't disappoint CGI-wise. The battles were just awesome - brilliantly animated and frantic, fast, immensely and satisfyingly destructive and it was riveting - impossible to take your eyes off the screen. Without a doubt some of the best CGI I've seen in recent times. There were a few nerdy niggles though - some of the bots' names and character traits didn't match up with those of their original cartoon namesakes, but that's irrelevant (even to an original 10yr-old up-at-6am-to-watch-cartoons TF fan like me). This was a flick about giant robots beating the crap out of each other and, on that level, Transformers earned 10/10 :up:
Upon seeing some early shots of the bots I had reservations about the design: too busy, too blingy and not nearly manga-like enough. I still stand by that assessment but in the scheme of things I didn't notice that stuff while watching the movie - all the design decisions made sense when the bots were in motion. Plus the sheer technical genius behind the design & animation was enough to keep me glued to the screen
Here's a nice article about TF art director, Alex Jaeger, with some cool stats about the TF characters - e.g., Optimus Prime tips the scales at 10,108 pieces of geometry. Imagine keeping track of all those while animating him! :eek:
So, in conclusion, TF kicks insane amounts of arse as a brainless, comic-book action flick (and a good mate informs me the new movie-based PS2 game is equally awesome fun). As a serious movie, though? Well, it wasn't even
pretending to be one, so fahgeddaboudit
If I want robots/borg/action heroes/AI philosophising, there's always Star Trek, Ghost In The Shell, Akira, Metal Gear Solid etc. to keep me happy