fett on 6/5/2008 at 23:35
Also:
"C'mon. You've caught me doing worse things than this."
And:
"Yeah. I can fly."
Scots Taffer on 6/5/2008 at 23:40
Funniest part of the movie bar the ending was him trying to touch down on the roof then doused by the fire extinguisher.
Stitch on 12/5/2008 at 15:49
When I complain about disconnected junk piles of cinematic ejaculate like Transformers and people ask what I expect out of a summer action movie, my answer henceforth shall be the following:
"I expect Iron Man."
Ko0K on 13/5/2008 at 02:52
I'd say $700M worldwide isn't too shabby for a "junk pile." You seem to be pretty hung up on Transformers. What do you have vested in it, anyway?
Scots Taffer on 13/5/2008 at 03:00
Box Office yield is not a measure of critical success.
People use examples as reference points (i.e. Transformers is supposedly a movie of the same summer blockbuster milieu as Iron Man).
Stitch wears Optimus Prime PJs.
Iron Man, with its brief but excellent battle between Iron Monger and Iron Man, probably did a better job of robotic battles than the entirety of Transformers, a movie ostensibly about robotic battles.
MrBosnia on 13/5/2008 at 03:15
Quote Posted by fett
I'm hopeful about this (going tonight) but did I hear someone say they've still managed to shove the Black Fucking Sabbath song in there like the dick of a 400lb prison inmate up the ass of a scrawny white accountant who's been busted for tax fraud? (Yeah, I know - that's like the third anal rape reference in my posts this week. We're paying $3.65 for gas over here and it's on my mind a lot lately).
Why? WHY does Hollywood insist on slopping classic songs together with movie characters that have absolutely no relationship with one another? WHY?
Heavy language there fett.
You're reminding me of one of the Sunnyport smugglers.
Come on, be like Zaya!
Ko0K on 13/5/2008 at 03:20
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Stitch wears Optimus Prime PJs.
Well, there is my answer.
I'm not a Transformers fan, so I don't have the same critical perspective.
(edit) I wouldn't go so far as to call Transformers a 'good' movie, although it was fun for me to watch. Since everyone has a different taste and critical standpoint from everyone else, revenue often seems to be a quasi-objective yardstick to measure intellectual properties such as movies. Then again, people will spend obscene amount of money on pieces of shit all the time, so certainly validity isn't guaranteed that way.
Stitch on 13/5/2008 at 04:00
Quote Posted by Ko0K
Well, there is my answer.
Wrong!
I disliked
Transformers not because it wasn't true to the toyline--I mean, seriously, who could possibly give a shit?--but because it was a wretched movie that failed on every level. Bay's incompetent direction sapped the movie of any tension, excitement, or sense of escalation. Things happen and things happen and more things happen but bereft of pacing and editing it's all unjustified and empty, entire scenes left to die painfully on the vine while the camera swoops around all restless and desperate.
What I wanted was an exciting movie that featured cool ass giant robots knocking each other the ungodly fuck out amidst a display of pornographic explosions but fuck me if Michael Bay didn't even manage to come close to that ridiculously low expectation.
And revenue doesn't mean a damn thing. A cat turd that sells for fifteen dollars is still just a piece of shit.
Scots Taffer on 13/5/2008 at 04:22
Quote Posted by Ko0K
Well, there is my answer.
That you're so bereft of judgement you can't discern humour from serious content?
SubJeff on 13/5/2008 at 07:41
Got to agree with Stitch on Transformers. It was a turd. The only bit that lived up to expectations was the start of the first scene. Oh, and the 5 seconds of slow motion on the motorway.
Iron Man was ok. I didn't hate it, but I felt it was missing something - possibly another "Iron Man destroys the weapons" scene. Otherwise it was pretty solid.
I rewatched Batman Begins. That film... almost, almost awesome. Almost.
