{"id":779,"date":"2007-07-27T22:07:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T22:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=779"},"modified":"2007-07-27T22:08:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T22:08:31","slug":"more-than-meets-the-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"More than meets the eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt0418279\/\">Transformers<\/a> this evening with my brother at the Slough Empire. It&#8217;s been quite a few years since the toys first appeared, only slightly shorter since the cartoons last aired on the telly and the <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092106\/\">animated movie<\/a> graced the silver screen. I must admit, it&#8217;s been so long, I wasn&#8217;t really sure what to expect!<\/p>\n<p>I guessed because I wasn&#8217;t expecting anything, I found the film very enjoyable. The story was basic, it&#8217;s good vs. evil, with a good deal of reality blunders all over &#8211; ok, sentient transforming robots doesn&#8217;t give you a good starting point for reality, that and geeks getting the leading ladies. The jokes were usually simple, sometimes slapstick, sometimes adolescent verging on puerile (Did I say verging &#8211; some of it was cringe-worthy!) The characters are pretty basic, with very development. The dialogue was cheesy!<\/p>\n<p>To an extent, that didn&#8217;t matter though, as the action was almost none stop and the effects were nothing short of amazing. This was cinema doing its magic.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not expecting a great film but are a fan of Transformers and effects rollercoasters, you won&#8217;t be disappointed. If you&#8217;re looking for anything else, you might want to avoid!<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/distinctionjacket.php\" title=\"bVdTHPe XNTkT awHwfs O j BFl    \">bVdTHPe XNTkT awHwfs O j BFl    <\/a> -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Transformers this evening with my brother at the Slough Empire. It&#8217;s been quite a few years since the toys first appeared, only slightly shorter since the cartoons last aired on the telly and the animated movie graced the silver screen. I must admit, it&#8217;s been so long, I wasn&#8217;t really sure what to&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=779\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}