After more than 7 months cut off from going to the cinema, we finally took our daughter to see one. First attempt was a failure, 10 minutes of Pirates of the Caribbean was enough to make the little princess uneasy and decided to try our luck another time. The second one was a success! It was Fantastic Four, and the princess was sleeping from start to finish. Two other movies afterward (on another week of course!) made her got the feeling and ready for the grand prize: TRANSFORMERS!

Here in Indonesia, in order to prevent movies from being hijacked we got the priviledge to see  blockbusters launched earlier than in the States. Although I don't see much improvement in reducing the crime, it's nice anyway to know you're one of the first to see it :D Back to Transformers, it's amazing to see the characters come alive from the cartoon version, especially if you watched the original movie from the 80s. Simply said, Michael Bay really pulled this one off! Set a high standard for the new Harry Potter and new Bourne movie this year.

To see the extent of it (from tech point of view), just see the excerpt from Wired Mag:
"Bumblebee's transformation from 1974 Chevrolet Camaro to towering Autobot was just one part of a 14-month-long f/x process that required more than 60,000 virtual parts and 34,000 texture maps. The project pushed Industrial Light & Magic's 5,500 rendering processors and 280 terabytes of disk storage to max capacity. — Erik Malinowski"

Well then, enough said! I'm not a movie reviewer, so you have to see the movie firsthand to know what I'm talking about. Although there are two things I want to see in the next Transformers movie (surely they have to make the sequels): Megatron transforms into a gun, and the death of Optimus Prime! :D