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Did you hear? Michael Bay reused a shot? You'll hate it.
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just got back. its amazing.
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well first of all its more of a kids movie, they are robots that transform, remember? remember the cartoon? i think some of the things in the movie can be excused due to this fact. we arent watching meryl streep movie afterall, and its directed by michael bay.
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cause im sure you went into the movie with a name of TRANSFORMERS expecting an oscar-worthy product.
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so what would be your version of an oscar-worthy transformers movie?
ITS A TRANSFORMERS MOVIE. MADE FROM A CARTOON.
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I don't think many people want it that faithful to the cartoon. The comic books would be a better source to go off of.
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Needs more 1985 with Ronald Regan & Gorbachev with the Decepticon base in Chinese waters. Remake the story with a political slant. :D
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Transformers Oscar worthy?
Are you insane?
At no point would anyone, anywhere thing this - before word one was written for that script thinking of creating an Oscar-worthy piece of cinema (except for effects) would be the silliest thing ever. -
Take "Oscar worthy" out of your argument and it makes sense.
Look at Alien or Duel, or fucking Pirates Of The Carribean. On paper these are all ridiculous stories, especially Pirates which is based on a goddamn animatronic ride. They were all executed really really well and are all really entertaining movies, and that's all that counts.
Michael Bay can't fucking direct action which is really funny since he's considered an action guy. When someone shoots action like they have Parkinson's Disease, with shots that are on screen for one second, where geography and continuity means nothing, where there is no concept of rhythm or tempo, they obviously have no idea what the fuck they are doing because they are covering their lack of ability by desperately beating the audience with a rubber hose for two and a half hours.
And this isn't me breaking down a checklist as to why he sucks from some handbook, the reasons are a result of my gut reaction to watching his movies and not enjoying them. The last movie he made that was any good was The Rock. -
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Don't read Optimus Prime's review. That idiot went in with too many expectations that ruined it for him.
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Oh and check this out http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=4489
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Perfect time to pimp my review: http://pithyreview.blogspot.com
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Yes, because then I wouldn't get the hits on my blog; and that's what's important.
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ignore the haters. I thought it was great.
Cheesy? yes.
Silly? yes.
Completely ridiculous at points? of course.
It's a movie about giant robots blowing shit up. It is not fucking Citizen Kane. I don't need complex character development, and important social commentary. I expected giant fucking Saturday morning cartoon robots to beat the ever-loving piss out of each other and blow shit up. It completely delivered.-
exactly. i dont see why people have the need to disect these things just so they can be haters. especially on a movie like this. you dont have to like it obviously, but some things that are pointed out come with the territory, so it shouldnt be unexpected as some have come to feel.
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I think anyone who quotes or references aicn to back up their argument automatically loses.
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I definitely agree with some of those points, but once the big fuckin' robot fight started, I was happy as shit.
This movie was filled with cliche, product placement, stereotypes, too frequent culture references, and scenes of pure idiocy ( the sneaking around the yard scene was painful ), but every time a machine transformed and started firing rounds, I forgot about how bad the rest of the movie was.
I am, however, confused as to just how Megatron was killed. I didn't recall any clues that the All Spark could be lethal in any way other than being combined with the one held by Prime. What am I missing?-
All Transformers have a Spark (essentially a soul), it's what seperates them from the Feral robots the AllSpark created out of earth machines - Mountain Dew bot, Xbox360 bot, etc. Prime states earlier on in discussion with the other Autobots that if he can't Stop Megatron he'll join the AllSpark with his Spark, which Ratchet states will likely destroy them both. Sam just joins it with Megatron's Spark instead.
Incidentally, both Sparks, and the AllSpark are concepts that have been part of TF lore since Beast Wars. Contrary to what a lot of people may think, there isn't that much in the movie that hasn't already been covered in one of the many TF universes.
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exactly. That's exactly what I expected and it fully delivered.
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Its great. Don't worry. Go have fun, just don't walk into it hoping it to be extremely serious and catering to the 80's nerdboys.
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why does everyone either love it or hate it? is there no one who thinks it was just okay?
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I thought it was entertaining, nothing more. It's just cool explosions and CGI. If you expect more, you're gonna hate it, but dude, it's freaking *transformers*. I mean, it's a movie based on a show based on a toy! What else was it gonna be?
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Lets just say some people have a lot invested in Transformers.
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yeah, and they're gonna be making $$$$
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yeah that's about right. If only Bay reined back on a lot of the mega-cheese (that parents house scene went on waaay too long) it would have a better movie. Also the final fight scenes needed to be a little more easier to see what was happening (half the time I didn't know who was fighting who), and the end fight, was uh, anti-climactic to say the least...
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i walked away thinking it was ok. The best part for me was the amazing hot chick.
It has some serious flow issues, even for an action movie. The story is not much, but in the end it was well worth the $10 to see it. And yeah i would actually go back and see it again. And I would probably get the DVD.
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I thought it was just OK. CG was amazing, movie was bad, evens out to OK.
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Man, good film. The chick in the film had the personality of a bag of hammers.
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Sorry, I was talking about the dark-headed chick that was with what's-his-nuts the whole time.
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lol @ the bag of hammers bit. Way too true.
I guess I'm one of the few that doesn't think she was hot...
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I'm "Meh" about it. I was pleasantly surprised on my way out of the theater, but the more I think about the movie, the less I like it. I still think it was a "fun" movie, but I think I enjoyed myself far, far more at Die Hard than I did Transformers.
The shaky camera was mind-numbingly annoying at times. The robot designs were cool, even if they bear very, very little resemblance to the originals, but they're not very easily-identifiable from one another, and the asininely shaky camera made some action scenes completely useless -- I just had to figure out what the hell happened by what the characters discussed immediately afterwards. It really, for me, ruined what should have been some epic, destructive, robot awesomeness.
Some of the comic relief was enjoyable, but some of the scenes (the lawn scene) just went on and on and were more annoying than anything else. And I found my friends laughing riotously at jokes that made just ask "... Why?"
And the focus on the human characters was frustrating; a lot of the time developing their "story" could have been spent into more Autobot/Decepticon awesomeness.
Still, a fun movie, but I feel let down the more I think about it. Without the Transformer factor, though, this movie would have no redeeming features outside the two chicks.-
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The makeup was to cover up her retarded tats.
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*shudders* Ebert in tights.
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I think the guy sitting next to me's girlfriend didn't speak English because he spoke to her in Spanish EVERY 10 seconds FOR THE ENTIRE FILM. Thank god most of the film was loud enough to drown them out, but I was this close to screaming at them. This is not unusual- seen the same thing like 3 other times here in DFW! I always knew the old 'black people talk too loud/too much and talk back to the screen, at the movies' deal - didn't realize there was a 'Mexicans talk to each other in Spanish the entire film as if talking in a different language means no one can hear them' deal.
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Oh FFS, why didn't you kill him?
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