THB #591: Transformers One

We are in a moment of enormous challenges to the idea of what a theatrical movie is… whether it makes any real sense to be so or not.

Everything ends up on TV for pretty much ever. This has been true for 4 decades already. You may get to see some a movie years after release in a revival house or if it is successful enough the first time around, perhaps a distributor will mount an anniversary release.

This has been framed like it’s a debate by a lot of media writers and even smart people in the industry… but it’s not. It’s neither debatable or new.

And then you come across a movie like Transformers One that is - here we go - so much more than meets the eye. Because it is a story of unexpected heroes and The Overreaching State and eventually, unexpected villains… as cool and clean and dare I say about a visual marvel, simple as the great films those of us who love the last 70 years of movies (some longer) love to see on a big screen with a bucket of popcorn and an audience of strangers…