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And finally, just for the fun of it, here's what Simon Pegg ("Scotty" in the last two Trek films) had to say about
Transformers recently:
...
Even Transformers
in 2012. I think science fiction's kind of lost its way over the years, in that people suddenly think it's about the robots. It was never about the robots. It's always been about the people. And robots have been a metaphor for something. And there doesn't seem to be a metaphor now. It's literal destruction....
If you look at Transformers
, Transformers
is a movie version of a toy, which came out of a series about robots, which was aimed at children, and then suddenly it's a thing that's skewed towards adults, but it is just toys fighting. It's all it is. And it doesn't really say anything about us or the world. And in my experience of it, it's just mind-numbingly dull.
(If you feel so inclined, you can read the rest of the interview
here.)
This was all after attendees ranked "Star Trek Into Darkness" as the worst of the Star Trek movies, during a Star Trek fan convention in Las Vegas earlier this month (
link). Talk about lashing out...
Originally Posted by Megatron
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