The Mike Abundo Effect

This is better than Michael Bay’s Transformers parody. Check out this pulse-pounding mashup of 300 and the original 1986 Transformers animated movie — the only Transformers movie that’s actually about Transformers.

Jepoy Bengero attributes the proliferation of n00bs in the Philippines to the absence of educational shows like Batibot (1984-1998). After watching the decline of Philippine TV and reading some of the reactions to my Transformers movie review, I believe him. Watch the Insecticons re-enact a tale from Batibot.

“Stay away, lad! That’s Prime’s fight!”
– Kup, in the original 1986 Transformers animated movie.

I just watched Michael Bay’s Transformers movie at the Gateway Globe Platinum Theater. Believe it or not, it’s even more of an abomination than everyone expected it to be — from jumpy editing to fake graphics to gibberish computerspeak to racial slurs to redneck propaganda to pop culture pandering to hideous character designs to Matrix-wannabe bullet-time to badly-acted overexposed humans. Read the rest of this entry »