![]() ![]() Until the past few years, Chicago wasn’t destroyed as often as other metropolises in pop culture. But hearing that Chicago- my city, the only city I knew-had been reduced to rubble and ash, struck a special cord. I knew how King Kong treated the Big Apple. I loved watching Godzilla stomp through a cardboard Tokyo. Bank Tower, only to get a hot stream of high energy right to the face.Īs a child growing up with monster movies, I knew cities were often roughed up. ![]() A bunch of hippies greeted the aliens on top of Los Angeles’s U.S. A laser split the Empire State Building in half. ![]() Other American cities were destroyed first. Whitmore told the audience Chicago was dead, incinerated by fire or, as Will Smith’s character put it, that “green shit.” It was the summer of 1996 and Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day was on a rampage. Transformers: Dark of the Moon is streaming on Netflix.I was 9 the first time I heard Chicago had been destroyed. But while watching Transformers: Dark of the Moon you’ll almost certainly have one reaction: You won’t be able to believe this movie exists. Just when you think the bad taste of sullying our memory of the moon landing can’t get worse, Transformers owns it by getting Aldrin to appear.ĭoes the involvement of Frances McDormand, Leonard Nimoy, or Buzz Aldrin legitimatize the film? Do they elevate the material to a point beyond that of an over-the-top Michael Bay movie? No, absolutely not. In an attempt to own its absurd premise, the film also boasts a cameo from none other than Buzz Aldrin. Veteran Transformers voice actor Peter Cullen is on fire as Optimus Prime, but even if you’re not sold on Nimoy versus Cullen there’s one more trick Dark of the Moon has up its sleeve. What makes the stacked cast of Dark of the Moon so fun is that you can actually just put it on in the background and listen. In 1987, Nimoy voiced the villainous Galvatron, a reincarnated Megatron, briefly proving that, like Mark Hamill, Nimoy had an acting range that included cartoon villains. For ‘80s kids, the casting of Nimoy as a Transformers villain is even more meta than Marky Mark appearing in the subsequent sequel, Age of Extinction. ![]()
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