Viraj's Weblog

Dawkins has a BBC documentary that's nicely done. Here is part one and part two. My favorite parts are the interviews with religious fanatics like Ted Haggard (pre-amphetamine gayness) who clearly show their hatred of Dawkins. If you liked the show, check out this debate. These types of intelligent forums are needed in American television.

Here's an interesting interview with Con Kolivas. Kind've depressing, but likely truthful in many ways.

Or as referred to by Colbert, Trannies.

"It's directed by Michael Bay. It's gonna suck," warns a co-worker. Michael Bay, if you don't recall, is responsible for such cubic zirconia as Pearl Harbor, The Island, Bad Boys, The Rock, and Playboy Video Centerfold: Kerri Kendall. After seeing Transformers, I do admit he has good technical expertise from the latter.

I thought Trannies was entertaining. What made it enjoyable for me is how much it poke fun at itself, and never took itself too seriously. There are some scenes that almost go overboard with comedy dialogue, almost resembling a Scary Movie or American Pie. The family scenes are almost sitcoms within the 144 minute movie.

There are scenes that are simply GMC and Chevy commercials. This is taken to an extreme, where the logos are shoved down your throat so you know to buy a Camaro as soon as possible. Even though it is very commercial, it is done in a lighthearted way where it's so blatantly obvious it is an advertisement that again it pokes fun at itself. If it weren't for the comedy, I would absolutely hate this movie. Look out for the in-your-face HP laptops too. Though I was rather impressed that one Apple was included. It's hard to have variety in advertising.

The robots themselves were quite animated, with lots of things unnecessarily moving around. It's cool and all, but a bit overdone. The fight scenes are extremely chaotic where it's difficult to tell what is actually going on and leaves a lot to imagination. The effects are rather awesome though.

Also the computer-related dialogue is not as bad as Live Free or Die Hard ("It's an e-bomb!"), but still ridiculous. Anyhow, it's a fun movie, so I recommend it. It even has a cameo by John Turturro as a pretty funny agent.