moldavite wrote:I just saw the live-action Transformers movie on DVD with my friend last night. I could not believe all the xenophobic, racist, and sexist messages within it let alone those pertaining to military propaganda and product placement. Very disturbing indeed.
Also, though I tried to view this movie with very low expectations, even I was disappointed. This movie would have been much better had the humor been less prevalent, slapstick, and stupid and had more focus been placed on the movie's namesake: the Transformers. Instead we get an uncaring, insensitive, and less courageous Optimus Prime, among other Autobots, who needs the U.S. military to save his hide. This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It just isn't a bad Transformers movie. It's a bad movie period that insults the intelligence of every American and helps to further our already awful reputation worldwide.
This movie does not need a sequel! Not unless the sequel basically screams "Ignore the first one!" In otherwords, in order to rescue this horrible flick, it can't be just good! It has to basically expel bodily fluids all over this shotty attempt and contain NOT ONE (military propaganda, slapstick humor, sexism, racism, etc.) of the errors this first shotty attempt had. Only then can a series of Transformers movies stand a chance of being viewed as something respectful to this and future generations.
Xenophobia is a fear or contempt of that which is foreign or unknown, especially of strangers or foreign people
Please provide exact examples and I'll believe you.
And Racist and Sexist? How!? Please, once again... if you can provide examples and state why it is the way you say it is, then I will at least consider this argument valid, otherwise it is one thing to say you didn't like the film, but to call it xenophobic, racist and sexist... it had a girl do some heroic things and save the boy too, so that's sexist? It depicted her ex-boyfriend as sexist, but that doesn't mean the movie was sexist... it was showing how dumb it is to be sexist.
as far as racist if you're going to pull the middle-eastern phone-operater card I must say... this is a very REAL depiction and they are commenting on how stupid phone support is these days, if that's what you're about to say.
So Xenophobic? Fear of the unknown? besides the humans fearing giant freaking robots invading.. what's wrong with that? isn't that the POINT of an invasion movie? So please ... details.
All I am saying is, if you're going to make an argument, back it up with source material or you're just barking at nothing.