Robots in Disguise

[robotnik2004]

Slate article on “why the 1986 Transformers movie was better than Michael Bay’s” contains a marvelous quote from Orson Welles, who voiced the planet-eating planet Unicron (typecasting?) five days before his death: “I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I’m destroyed.”

Cross-posted from Old is the New New. Comments welcome.