Junky Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is a lazy prequel even ChatGPT would be embarrassed by
Anthony Ramos, with Mirage, voiced by Pete Davidson in a scene from Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.Noah is a former soldier falling behind on hospital payments for his younger brother’s sickle cell disease treatment. Dominique Fishback, fresh from killing it on Prime Video’s, plays Elena, an intern at a New York museum whose expertise in ancient ruins comes in handy when locating a glowy key thing that poses a belabored threat to Earth.
Following the auto-generated-grade plot, you’ll notice that the writers and director Steven Caple Jr. eventually work in an allegory to immigration and colonization. It’s no coincidence that a major smackdown between the Autobots and Unicron’s cronies takesI imagine this is the filmmaker’s attempt at making the brand more personal, engaged and relevant.
If you ask ChatGPT to write you a lead character that appeals to a millennial audience of colour, it’ll likely tell you the character has swagger, comes from a diverse and struggling neighbourhood, and listens to TLC, Notorious B.I.G. and Wu-Tang. Check, check and, yes, the movie has a bumping soundtrack
I won’t lie. I was a sucker for the needle drops, willing even to excuse some of the more careless selections – such as Biggie’s ‘97 classicwhich wasn’t yet out in the film’s timeline – because hearing hip-hop in a tent-pole movie with a cast that can truly vibe with it is a rare thing.Some of us want to celebrate a cynical product that is as personalized as a skirt kit on a Honda Civic just because it bothered to include our communities in its algorithm.
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