Jason Moyer on 5/7/2007 at 04:17
I always feel uncomfortable when people are possessive and obssessive about things being canonical and whatnot, when you're talking about something that only existed in the first place as part of a marketing campaign to sell toys. It's not far off from being upset about Jerry Bruckheimer making a movie about Joe Isuzu or something.
Vivian on 5/7/2007 at 10:32
I think it's more the colossal amount of human effort and precious resources that gets lost up Bay's bum every time he makes a film. It's like watching a thousand years of human progress dissolve before your very eyes.
PS - Scots, that review is brilliant.
Ko0K on 6/7/2007 at 02:42
Quote Posted by Stitch
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.
Oh, is that what the yellow liquid was? Anyway, I admit I mostly spaced out during the non-battle scenes, but they still managed to introduce the characters and drive the plot forward. The premise of the movie, in fact the whole Transformer universe, is that these things are alien metamorphs, so it's not like there was anything that could be done to make it anywhere near Oscar-worthy. Bay was hired because he does one thing well, and he did a great job with this one. This is a trilogy that can only progress by introducing new characters in each installment, as far as I can tell, so maybe that's the reason Spielberg wasn't involved too much in character development. Well, what I'm trying to say is that, given the material to work with, Bay was a logical choice for a director.
Malygris on 6/7/2007 at 03:25
Ooh, it's a trilogy? Does that mean they're going to fit GI Joe in somewhere?
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Fafhrd on 6/7/2007 at 06:20
They were talking about it as a new franchise back when this one was announced. And it's damn close to G.I. Joe vs. Transformers as it is now. Change Josh Duhamel's character's name to Duke and you've pretty much got it.
oudeis on 6/7/2007 at 06:30
from Darkhorizons.com
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Word on a few sequels has come trickly in...
Firstly, there's already buzz - and I'm not surprised - that Dreamworks and Twentieth Century Fox, respectively, has greenlit sequels to their tent-poler's “Transformers” and “Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surfer”.
An insider told Moviehole a few days back that the next “Four” movie will again be dependent on who they can “team the Fantastic Four up with” - speaking, of course, in relation to the Silver Surfer's presence in the latest movie. “That worked, so don't expect to see a solo effort”.
And according to ‘Jeremy', Michael Bay's website is abuzz with talk of a “Transformers 2”. That's pretty much a no-brainer though, right? (Here in Australia, “Transformers” was the second biggest opening day of 2007, behind “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End” and the fifth biggest ever non-sequel opening ever). I'm aware the producers are keen to get moving on film number two... it's just up to Dreamworks to fire the starter pistol.
Meantime, Marvel's Steve Murphy tells readers on his blog that another “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie is likely.
“As of two weeks ago Imagi Entertainment (the TMNT movie animation studio) informed Mirage Studios that there was a 50-50 chance of a CGI film sequel. Last week they upped the odds to 70-30 in favor of a sequel, as talks between Imagi and their distribution partners Warner Brothers and the Weinstein Group seem to be heading in a positive direction...”
mirdza on 6/7/2007 at 13:12
Quote Posted by Stitch
Michael Bay may quite possibly be the worst director operating today.
ever heard of Uwe Boll?
jimjack on 6/7/2007 at 16:39
Megan Fox is offensively hot. The effects were excellant, the fights, flluidity of the robots, and the whole imagery and you were believing the robots in the environment,and Megan Fox is a mjor bonus. It just didn't go wrong for me.:thumb:4 :thumb: s out 5 :thumb: s.
However:
When the battle between Prime and Bonecrusher ends, it's like one second a fight is going on, then it ends and it's cut to next scene. About the time I got right into the pace of the confrontation, its over. But a testosterone paced summer offering it is, and it worked for me. Its made something like $65 million last I'd heard. I'm might wait on the dvd releases for most of the rest of the films showing currently. except for Hot Fuzz.
Stitch on 6/7/2007 at 20:11
This review is just about perfect:
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http://hollywoodbitchslap.com/review.php?movie=155) "Michael Bay is the directorial equivalent of a sociopath. See, a sociopath knows that people express certain emotions and say certain things in specific situations, so he becomes very good at faking it so that nobody realizes that he’s a sociopath. He doesn’t actually feel or understand those emotions that he’s mimicking, but sociopaths are good enough actors that they get away with it."
Aerothorn on 6/7/2007 at 22:09
....what does Les Miserables have to do with Transformers :confused:
