You Will Believe a Robot Can Die
How Transformers the Animated Movie taught me about narrative stakes
Last Sunday I went to see the 35th Anniversary showing of Transformers The Animated movie. It was the first time I got to see this piece of personally formative cinematic storytelling in theaters, and I thought I’d write about just how and why this movie has been so influential to me, and what it led to in my movie watching life.
During the cold open of …