Stitch on 4/7/2007 at 15:30
Quote Posted by SD
It's a movie based on toy robots. I suggest you look elsewhere for originality, soul and artistic meaning.
True, but I would have preferred a movie that was at least successful in what it was trying to accomplish.
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
I'm not above enjoying mindless pap as long as it's delivered well enough, but he can't even do that to be honest.
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WingedKagouti on 4/7/2007 at 20:15
Quote Posted by Stitch
True, but I would have preferred a movie that was at least successful in what it was trying to accomplish.
Did you base your opinion on watching the movie or reading the review by someone who let his opinion on the director become his opinion on the movie?
If you have seen the movie and dislike it, then fair enough. Not everyone will like it.
Stitch on 4/7/2007 at 21:13
Quote Posted by WingedKagouti
Not everyone will like it.
People with cinematic taste, for example.
Ko0K on 4/7/2007 at 21:43
More like people with very specific taste. All I've got to say is that it takes some amount of tolerance to be able to switch gears and get into something that is outside of the usual range within the spectrum.
(edit) I don't feel compelled to defend the movie itself. It's a Michael Bay film, for sure. I went in expecting to see a bunch of shape-shifting alien robots beat the crap out of each other on big screen, and that is precisely what was delivered. There is always editing decisions to be made depending on what desired effect was the primary focus (in this case, marketing, since Paramount has lots to make up for the past few slow years), so of course some sacrifices are made in the process. The fan base for Transformers is pretty weak, in my opinion, and I think they made the right decision by focusing more on introducing the franchise to new people, such as myself. Anyway, I'm not tied down to any specific taste, so I find myself in disagreement with a lot of people, apparently. For example, I thought Pan's Labyrinth was a piece of rehashed crap, but only because I could identify almost all elements of the movie as borrowed from a bunch of other movies and folk tales. However, I don't automatically jump to the conclusion that the others have a poor taste in movie simply because they have a different critical standpoint than I do.
New Horizon on 4/7/2007 at 22:02
I saw it last night, and while I have been reading a lot of glowing reviews that claim "wow, zowie, baddassss, awesome", I don't think it is any of these. It's a fun action movie, but suffers from Bay and his inability to actually care about anything beyond the SFX, which were far too busy if you ask me.
It was great to hear Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime again, this time in live action...and it certainly wasn't as bad as I expected it to be. It just wasn't as inspiring as it could have been...there is a LOT of great material to be mined from such a story. The parallels between their world and ours...it's a great allegory in our modern world. A race of mechanical beings actually sharing so much in common with humanity. There were a few little golden moments, when Prime would let loose with some of his morality speeches, but overall it was drowned out by Bay's heavy handed FX.
I enjoyed it...but I'll only see it once.
ignatios on 5/7/2007 at 00:37
That was the worst move I have ever seen.
Phydeaux on 5/7/2007 at 03:23
Quote Posted by ignatios
That was the worst move I have ever seen.
Worse than "Armageddon"? Really? I mean, at least with "Transformers", things like basic physics and rational logic should be easier to brush aside than in a space movie.
I was reading some of the IMDB info on the movie, and was disappointed to learn that Frank Welker was turned down for his original role. For those unfamiliar with the name, just take a look at his (
http://imdb.com/name/nm0919798/) list of credits. The man is one unbelievably talented voice artist, and Bay turning him down is like telling Michelangelo his work went downhill after the Sistine Chapel.
fett on 5/7/2007 at 03:32
I liked it but hold the fucking camera still already. Big blurry things suck on any size screen.
I almost missed the robots completely because of Megan Fox. I'd like to Prime her Optimus.
demagogue on 5/7/2007 at 03:50
I don't think about movies in terms of "like/don't like" so much as "gives me a lot/nothing to talk or think about". Anyway, on that note, fun facts about this movie:
- the Secretary of Defense was one of the main heroes. Uh...
- a robot breaks into the President's top-secure network for the key intelligence ... just to download a 19th century newspaper clipping? :weird: Try any library in the country.
- Notice after the Sec of Defense said to the Aussie signals girl, "I want you to be my chief adviser", and then she insisted the black guy go as her adviser ... and then we almost never heard from those two characters again, except for a few throw-away punchlines. All that set-up for practically nothing.
Also, this has to be the movie with the most shattering glass and tumbling steel per minute this year.
Fun movie.
Stitch on 5/7/2007 at 04:13
Quote Posted by Ko0K
I went in expecting to see a bunch of shape-shifting alien robots beat the crap out of each other on big screen, and that is precisely what was delivered.
Your popcorn apparently was laced with a sedative, as you apparently missed the hour and a half of misfired nothing that came between the robot battles.
