Tag Archives: Transformers

Cage Matched

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: April 30, 2013

The world is one giant complicated mess, and as humans, we aren’t wired to deal with that. Given a chance, we will always simplify, reduce, and otherwise ignore rather than deal with possibilities. This is a gross generalization, and not everyone does this all the time. But we all do it sometime. And some of [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Also tagged Action Hero, Aesthetic Choices, Aesthetically, Bad Guys, Beasts, Cop, Copycats, Gross Generalization, Heck, Lethal Weapon, Men In Black, Notion, Pacific Rim, Religious Connotations, Ripoff, Robots, Set Pieces, Tango And Cash, Waves | Leave a comment

Haters

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: September 13, 2012

Blogs are weird. I don’t know what I find weirder about them. That people write them. Or that there is, right now, a generation growing up who won’t find them weird at all. To them, the notion of broadcasting your thoughts across the internet where anyone can (and hopefully will) read them will be perfectly [...]

Posted in Blog | Also tagged Amazon, Battlefield, Bile, Cannon Shells, Comments Section, Critcism, Dinobot, Dinosaurs, Dlc, Game, Hard Time, Hater, Haters, Hell, Horde, Killer Moon, Meat And Potatoes, Monsters, Notion, Online Game, Player Campaign, Single Player, Skins, Stomps, T Rex, Three Games, Youtube Video | 8 Comments

Transformed

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: September 5, 2012

While playing Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, I was struck by the realization that what started out as a line of toys became something more dynamic and dramatic than it really has any right to be. I don’t know exactly when it happened or at what point a bunch of space robots locked in eternal war [...]

Posted in Blog, Video Games, Writing | Also tagged Character Work, Decepticons, Dinosaurs, Fanfiction, Few Movies, G I Joe, Heroism, Jets, Obsession, Personalities, Premise, Rainbow Brite, Realization, Shockwave, Short Answer, Space Robots, Story Continuity, Storytelling, Tremendous Marketing | 3 Comments

Passing on Robot Gore

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: July 8, 2011

I haven’t seen the new Transformers film, and I really don’t have any desire to. I’m not going to bother judging it on the basis of quality. Quality is an ethereal thing, and it all boils down to opinion. I might think Green Lantern was a really fun and cool superhero movie (and one of [...]