{"id":24033,"date":"2018-12-21T05:25:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T11:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24033"},"modified":"2018-12-21T05:25:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T11:25:55","slug":"reviewer-does-his-best-to-spike-bumblebee-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/21\/reviewer-does-his-best-to-spike-bumblebee-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviewer Does His Best To Spike <em>Bumblebee<\/em> Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t seen a bunch of feminist hype for the new Transformers movie <em>Bumblebee<\/em> akin to the <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> film or reactions akin to <a href=\"https:\/\/ace.mu.nu\" target=\"_new\">Ace<\/a>&#8216;s recent rants against the film <em>Captain Marvel<\/em>.  I&#8217;ve only seen a couple, okay, <em>a lot of<\/em> commercials during football games.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the official trailer:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lcwmDAYt22k\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t play up any Grrrl Power angle, it doesn&#8217;t show some slight teenaged girl beating up large, martially trained men, and it features Bumbleebee as a Volkswagen as God intended (which just means that Volkswagen ponied up the dough to be featured, prolly).<\/p>\n<p>But this AP movie reviewer can&#8217;t help but dial up the Grrrl Power and tweak the target audience\/fan base: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/entertainment\/movies\/reviews\/transformers-gets-a-great-savior-in-bumblebee\/article_4b415eed-ea9f-5685-a33a-c5f0f430ba23.html\" target=\"_new\">&#8216;Transformers&#8217; gets a great savior in &#8216;Bumblebee&#8217;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The \u201cTransformers\u201d movie universe has lately been leaky and rusted out. It\u2019s become shorthand for bad blockbuster moviemaking \u2014 male-driven, mindless spectaculars with sophomoric humor. How can it be saved? Just hand over the keys to some talented women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBumblebee,\u201d the sixth film in the series, is a stand-alone origin story written with disarming skill by Christina Hodson and starring the gifted Hailee Steinfeld. It\u2019s a charming tale of a girl and her adorable car-robot, flipping the script on the tired, bloated franchise. While hard-core fan-boys may complain it\u2019s too soft, this film may turn out to be the perfect way to save \u201cTransformers.\u201d Could Bumblebee rescue Optimus Prime this time?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the other hand, perhaps I should just be greatful that nobody called the president &#8220;literally Megatron.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meh, I&#8217;m not outraged.  I&#8217;m just a little disappointed in my fellow man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t seen a bunch of feminist hype for the new Transformers movie Bumblebee akin to the Ghostbusters film or reactions akin to Ace&#8216;s recent rants against the film Captain Marvel. I&#8217;ve only seen a couple, okay, a lot of commercials during football games. Here&#8217;s the official trailer: It doesn&#8217;t play up any Grrrl Power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24034,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24033\/revisions\/24034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}