Behold - It Is Coming!

I have had a few people discuss this, so I thought it best to air my thoughts in a public manner...

Unless you have spent the last few months blindfolded, your mouth sewn shut, your ears filled with cement and have been living with the Mandiko Tribe in deepest, darkest Africa, then you will no doubt be aware that the latest Transformers movie opens on Thursday (although it is different according to regions across the globe - America don't get it until next week. Take that, suckers!). Now, the deal here in Christchurch (and most of NZ, I'm assuming) is that we get the midnight screening tomorrow night/Thursday morning. However, The Edge are giving away tickets to a special premiere screening tomorrow night at 7pm.

While most people have been curious as to why I am not currently spending most of my time trying to win tickets to that screening, the people who have told me they are going - and the radio station running the competition - really made me certain that this is not the screening for me. Sure, you kids with your free tickets get to see it 5 hours before me - and for free - but in all honesty, I am much happier with the midnight screening.

You see, for most guys my age, Transformers is something like sacred ground. We all watched the cartoon show, we all had the toys (or at least wanted the toys) and we all wanted to go to Cybertron and help Optimus Prime destroy the Decepticons. Most of us also love the movie, hated Rodimus Prime, and couldn't transform the Megatron figure to save our lives. Some of us even wanted to build our own life-size Unicron... but only the really cool kids.

As I was saying...
This movie is pretty much going to be under a lot of scrutiny by people my age. There are already many people that are offended by the way the 'new' Transformers look (personally, I think they look cool - 80's cars and trucks would look very out of place driving around). But for the most part, people who have won free tickets to this premiere are nothing more than young people who didn't grow up with the show or have any idea who Unicron even is. I mean, hello you have to listen to the Edge for tickets - the station for brain dead teenagers who want to hear the same song by untalented people all day every day!

Whereas I feel the midnight screening is where the fans are going to be. The people who remember what it was like to watch Optimus Prime die. The people who remember that classic transforming sound. I people who will all smile when Starscream makes his first appearance. I don't think I could handle seeing this movie with people that don't even know who Starscream is.

No offense to those that have tickets - as I know of a few people that are going to that screening. I hope you enjoy the movie. This is just one of those occasions where age actually makes a difference.

So come 12:01 am Thursdsay morning, I will be sitting in my seat with my Decepticon t-shirt and surrounded by Transformers fans from the Golden Age of Cybertron, ready to relive the excitement we all felt as a child when we first saw the Autobots save Earth from the Decepticons.

Otherwise, a certain movie is going to blasted in my blog Thursday morning.