Angel Dust on 28/6/2009 at 10:41
Quote Posted by Stitch
For the record, movie viewers like Angel Dust and I don't enter a theater with a measuring stick and a report card.
Ex-fucking-xactly.
I may have misread what you were insinuating with your comment gunsmoke (and all apologies) but now you are making that irritating assumption that I find people make about anyone whose criticism of something goes further than 'it sucks'.
Volitions Advocate on 28/6/2009 at 15:33
one thing is for sure.. It certainly wasn't PG. I can imagine a lot of infurated parents asking why the hell they were told that their young kids would be fine to watch some of the Jar-Jar-Binks-With-A-Boner comedy.
EvaUnit02 on 1/7/2009 at 15:53
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
- Daddy can and WILL fuck up everyone that messes with his little girl (if he's American)
Try as hard as he might, Neeson just can't do an American accent.
Oh my God, what a massive piece of shit this film was.
Horribly shot action that was difficult to follow. Horrible pacing, that
so didn't need to be 2 1/2 hours long. A plot that went absolutely nowhere and was full of holes and gaping wounds where logic lacked. So many pointless scenes. At least a dozen obnoxious characters. Horrible crude humour.
Oh fuck, the racist negro twin robots. Big ears, buck toothed with gold fillings, lazy, illiterate, stoned all of the time. These two characters were so disgustingly offensive and likely had more screen time than both Optimus Prime and Bumblebee. Fuck you Michael Bay.
june gloom on 1/7/2009 at 20:02
If we're gonna talk about movies that aren't Transformers is it okay if I mention that I took my mother to see The Taking of Pelham 123 for her birthday this past Sunday? (It was about the only movie in theaters right now we could agree on)
It was rather good, though I felt like I was watching an episode of CSI: NY at times. Denzel Washington's a lot easier to take seriously now that he's old, and John Travolta is perfectly acceptable as the villian. So yeah, it was rather fast-paced with lots of quick cuts and lots of freezeframing to tell you how much time is left before the villian starts killing hostages, and the movie liked to show you a map of NYC as a transition between scenes, but the acting was all-around solid and it was both serious and funny. Well worth seeing if you like that sort of thing.
"You're my goddamn hero." Indeed.
Angel Dust on 1/7/2009 at 22:31
I haven't seen the remake but the original Taking of Pelham 123 is pretty cool. Robert Shaw is awesome.
One thing about Transformers 2: Why did all the people I know who have seen it and hated it, which is a lot, pay their money (or someone else's, it doesn't really matter) to go see a film they knew would be shit when they went in? People who like this kind of stuff I can understand but the other people?
PigLick on 2/7/2009 at 01:02
for the smug satisfaction of posting on internet boards about how shit it was
also whats up with the tags in this?
also salty pussy!
SubJeff on 3/7/2009 at 18:03
This had considerably better action scenes than part 1 but a totally lame plot and acting. Megan looks lush but so what?
Other things it got right: new Soundwave and Ravage (loved the rear haunch guns, wasn't sooo sure about Soundwave's non-synth voice), better use of sound and slow motion - the bass when the big guns were fired in slo-mo was spot on - and better use of weapons overall.
It got everything else wrong.
Who were the other Decepticons? We just see them as spiky robots in the distance. Not enough Blackout (though he was there), why is Bonecrusher still alive?, wtf was that supposed to be Shockwave at one point? and lets have Ramjet then if we're going to have a lot of nice Starscream action. And why not Hotrod?
Far too much sub-juvenile humour and the twin robots were the stupidest thing this side of Indy 4's monkeys.
nicked on 3/7/2009 at 18:15
Transformers 2 makes the Indy monkeys look like a sparkling diamond of inspired filmmaking.
belboz on 4/7/2009 at 03:50
One thing I've never understood about transformers is if they come from an alien planet how come they transform into earthy transport, wouldn't they transform in to transport that would have existed on there own planet.
Anyway there's so many plot holes in tranformer 2 movie that you could turn it into a sponge.
Fafhrd on 4/7/2009 at 07:07
Because an alien vehicle wouldn't exactly be inconspicuous driving around on Earth, now would it? Hell, the first movie EXPLICITLY SHOWS THEM disguising themselves as human vehicles after arriving on Earth.
And for the record: I liked this one better than the first one (which I also quite liked). As Matthew and Subjective Effect already said, the action is shot quite a bit more coherently than the first. And tonally the whole thing felt a
lot more like the cartoons and comic books than the first one did (barring parental comedy hijinks at Princeton) If you're complaining about a bearded robot in the Transformers universe, (
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c233/AutobotWonko/School%20Projects/wmd_unicron.jpg) these (
http://lirial.20m.com/Galvatron255.jpg) guys would like a word with you.
It's probably not going to be in my Top 10 for the year (it's not even in my Top 5 for the
summer and that's just getting warmed up), and I'm not planning on seeing it theatrically again, but as a movie about giant robots that transform into vehicles and blow shit up, I didn't find anything overly objectionable about it (other than the racist twins, but honestly I didn't feel like they had all that much screen time).
