12/21/2023 0 Comments Transformers 2 robotize meWhat’s missing is that great, deep-dish middle-installment feeling that, to me, is the immersive essence of what great comic books are about. I mean, really, what’s next - another, better stab at Green Lantern? ( We swear, we’ll get it right this time!) A reboot of Man of Steel - that is, a reboot of the reboot of the reboot? Even most of the X-Men sequels that aren’t about Wolverine feel, at heart, like origin stories with each new film, the series seems like it’s starting over. (Most of the adventures that come afterward are just filling space.) That’s why series reboots are now such an epidemic: They’re a natural extension of origin-story addiction. With obvious rare exceptions (e.g., The Dark Knight), it hasn’t truly figured out how to do anything else. That’s because when it comes to creating a superhero narrative, Hollywood only really trusts the origin story. The comic-book genre has always spawned sequels, but in recent years it’s been stuck in a shallow repetitive mode of reboots, remakes, and rehashes. What’s the secret of a top-flight superhero movie? As Iron Man 3 reveals, stop thinking in terms of origin stories. Here’s a roundup of some of the trends I’ve spotted, the movies I’ve loved (and, in several key cases, will be seriously considering for my 10 Best list), and the reasons for why thinking of the summer as the anti-season of quality may now be outmoded thinking. In short, the whole notion of the summer as a season of fun but essentially trivial over-the-top 3-D fanboy roller-coaster rides was, in a sense, now doing a disservice to the ambition and achievement of a number of the most prominent of those films. And doing it with a level of honest flair that wasn’t just entertaining but - yes - artful. Telling organic and original stories in bold, surprising ways. They were good movies, period, because in their unabashedly commercial and mainstream way, they were aiming high. Yet this summer, I began to notice something: A lot of the films I was seeing - Iron Man 3, Star Trek Into Darkness, World War Z, This Is the End, Monsters University, 2 Guns - weren’t just “good summer movies” that succeeded in doing what they set out to do. In Exodus, robot modes are referred to as protoforms, presumably because it was a Cybertronian's original form when they emerged from the Well of All Sparks, before they learned how to transform.Personally, I’ve brought that attitude into plenty of reviews I’ve written of summer movies.In the Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo manga, robot mode is called the battle mode.Grimlock's packaging bio calls his robot mode a Dinobot mode, while his Marvel Universe profile calls it an Autobot mode.Early in the Marvel Comic, Prowl called the Autobots' robot modes their defensive modes and defensive configurations The Transformers while the narrator called the Decepticons' robot modes their Decepticon modes.This could've been a typo in the script of "robot mode", or it could've been deliberate, referring to the robot mode as the original form of the Transformer. In the The Transformers cartoon episode " The Autobot Run", Megatron refers to the robot mode as "the root mode".After taking an alternate mode, the robot mode will display characteristics of the alternate mode. Often, the alternate mode will be given or taken to better facilitate the robot mode, such as repair (which is what Teletraan I did with the Autobots and Decepticons aboard the Ark) or for protecting the robot mode (which was done to protect the sparks of the Maximals and Predacons during the Beast Wars). Generally speaking, robot mode provides greater freedom of movement and better combat capabilities (though this can also be said of alternate modes which are designed for combat). Another unique situation concerns the Mutants, Transformers who have lost their robot mode but acquired two beast modes. Prominent examples include the Mini-Cassettes with animal based forms, as the cassette would be considered their alternate mode, while the " beast mode" would be considered their robot mode. Although generally a bipedal humanoid in shape, the robot mode is not always so. Robot mode (also known as "bot-form" ) is the form that Transformers have outside of their alternate mode.
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