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post #76 of 89
6/26/09 at 4:12am
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Originally Posted by LexSenthur View Post
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...IEWS/906239997 Ebert had a pretty funny review. Now I have even less reason to see the first one.
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If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.
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The human actors are in a witless sitcom part of the time, and lot of the rest of their time is spent running in slo-mo away from explosions, although--hello!--you can't outrun an explosion.
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The humans, including lots of U.S. troops, shoot at the Transformers a lot, although never in the history of science fiction has an alien been harmed by gunfire.
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There are many great-looking babes in the film, who are made up to a flawless perfection and look just like real women, if you are a junior fanboy whose experience of the gender is limited to lad magazines.
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They take their son away to Princeton, apparently a party school, where Judy eats some pot and goes berserk.
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Footnote 6/24: Does it strike you as a lapse of Pyramid security that no one notices a gigantic Deceptibot ripping off the top of the Great Pyramid? Not anyone watching on the live PyramidCam? Not even a traffic copter?
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He is bullish on the box office: it "feels destined to be the biggest movie of all time." It’s certainly the biggest something of all time.
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post #77 of 89
6/26/09 at 7:49am
Watching it at the IMAX for the robot fights and toe thumbs alone.
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post #78 of 89
6/26/09 at 10:53am
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Originally Posted by mafoofan View Post
Nah, I think most Transformers fans will enjoy it, but I defy anyone to say it's an objectively good film.



I tried to, but my wife didn't want to dress up and she had already agreed to see it opening night with me.


I hope you at least wore a tie....
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post #79 of 89
6/28/09 at 11:41am
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Originally Posted by Mauro View Post
^^ a better thing would be a robot in megan fox

I heard rumors that there will be another to the robocop franchise, and this time they are giving him some metal loving scenes...
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post #80 of 89
6/28/09 at 12:13pm
a lot of you have unrealistic expectations of this movie. I knew what I wanted to see, I watched it, and I'm a satisfied happy camper. if you were to watch an arnold/stallone movie, you aren't expecting any great dialogues or sentimental emotional expressions. Or say you are in a porno flick store, you want romantic settings and fantasy roleplays? YOU ARE IN THE WRONG AISLE, THIS IS HARDCORE!

if I have to say anything bad about it, is it's probably too fast for the eye. I'm really considering getting a whole HD (or blueray?) set, flat screen, player, surround sound and the whole 9 yards, and watch it later on blueray just to pause it and watch the film again frame by frame to enjoy the awesomeness of its pure awesomeness!

in the end I'd like to add, I request megan fox's sex scene in the 3rd installment.
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post #81 of 89
6/28/09 at 12:20pm
Just came back from seeing it. It was not better than the first one, but it had more action and explosions, which is good. The acting was average at best, but no one is going to see it for the acting. The storyline was decent and Michael Bay kept it interesting enough. Overall, I enjoyed it.
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post #82 of 89
6/28/09 at 12:22pm
Terrible movie for sure. Awful acting, zero story, lots of explosions. Thanks again, Michael Bay.
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post #83 of 89
6/28/09 at 2:36pm
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Originally Posted by superfans124 View Post
a lot of you have unrealistic expectations of this movie. I knew what I wanted to see, I watched it, and I'm a satisfied happy camper. if you were to watch an arnold/stallone movie, you aren't expecting any great dialogues or sentimental emotional expressions. Or say you are in a porno flick store, you want romantic settings and fantasy roleplays? YOU ARE IN THE WRONG AISLE, THIS IS HARDCORE!

if I have to say anything bad about it, is it's probably too fast for the eye. I'm really considering getting a whole HD (or blueray?) set, flat screen, player, surround sound and the whole 9 yards, and watch it later on blueray just to pause it and watch the film again frame by frame to enjoy the awesomeness of its pure awesomeness!

in the end I'd like to add, I request megan fox's sex scene in the 3rd installment.

See, I hate it when movies are defended as if it shouldn't have a story. I understand being a big summer blockbuster but to completely ignore and undermind the audience's intelligence is not an excuse. There are a lot of action mopvies that had great stories and pulled it off well; Dark Knight, Terminator II, Iron Man, even the First one had a decent story that made sense. The second have so much inaccuracies and left so many questions un-answered. Some robots were seen in one scene and then completely disappears without explanation (like the twins and wheelie). You can't deny it is stunning to the eye but overall, the story is so all over the place, they have plenty of useless robots and characters, and the editting is just horrible. I mean come on now, at least edit it smoothly.

They could have made this with such a simple, linear story and still have all the action and explosions and it would have been great. The way you guys are defending it seems like you'd be content if they just had a World War III with robots and pretty just kill each other without anyone saying what is going for 3 hours. Of course it'll be 100 Decepticons versus 6 Autobots and in the end the good guys win.
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post #84 of 89
6/28/09 at 3:34pm
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See, I hate it when movies are defended as if it shouldn't have a story. I understand being a big summer blockbuster but to completely ignore and undermind the audience's intelligence is not an excuse. There are a lot of action mopvies that had great stories and pulled it off well; Dark Knight, Terminator II, Iron Man, even the First one had a decent story that made sense. The second have so much inaccuracies and left so many questions un-answered. Some robots were seen in one scene and then completely disappears without explanation (like the twins and wheelie). You can't deny it is stunning to the eye but overall, the story is so all over the place, they have plenty of useless robots and characters, and the editting is just horrible. I mean come on now, at least edit it smoothly.

They could have made this with such a simple, linear story and still have all the action and explosions and it would have been great. The way you guys are defending it seems like you'd be content if they just had a World War III with robots and pretty just kill each other without anyone saying what is going for 3 hours. Of course it'll be 100 Decepticons versus 6 Autobots and in the end the good guys win.


please stop, just stop! you cannot argue against pre-teen girls that jonas brothers suck donkey cahoona compares to oracle-grade rolling stones. if you haven't realized, guess what? we (who love this movie) are the pre-teen girls as the transformers are our jonas brothers there is no logic to justify our zeal, there's no need, we happily submitted ourselves to be brain dead for 2 and a half hours. truth be told, this movie requires least amount of mental participation yet I've had the most fun watching any movies in a long time.
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post #85 of 89
6/28/09 at 4:06pm
Unfortunately, Megan Fox running slowmotion in a white tank top is not enough to recoup ticket cost.
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post #86 of 89
6/28/09 at 4:18pm
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Unfortunately, Megan Fox running slowmotion in a white tank top is not enough to recoup ticket cost.

Hellz yeah!

I saw it last night with my boy (9). He liked it because it told more of the back story with the primes and the history of the transformers on Earth. I liked it because it was exactly what I expected, sit down , lean back in a big ass comfy chair, and be mindlessly entertained for a few hours.
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post #87 of 89
7/7/09 at 1:06pm
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Hellz yeah!

I saw it last night with my boy (9). He liked it because it told more of the back story with the primes and the history of the transformers on Earth. I liked it because it was exactly what I expected, sit down , lean back in a big ass comfy chair, and be mindlessly entertained for a few hours.

You watched a bootleg at home I take it? Can't say I blame you.
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post #88 of 89
7/7/09 at 11:41pm
just saw it and i thought it was a fun watch. the whole part where everyone was trying to get sam to optimus prime was really fkn drawn out but other than that, i thought it was an enjoyable flick.
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post #89 of 89
7/8/09 at 12:22am
Bay managed to make more of the robots into characters this time, but I didn't really like those characters. Most, other than Prime, were offputting or stupid. Everything dragged on too long, and whole subplots went nowhere. Why bother rescuing Megatron if you're not going to do anything with him?

On the positive side, it was nice that Starscream got his personality back, and I liked the first half-hour or so of the movie. But it was downhill after that.

Both my girlfriend and I liked the first one better than the sequel.
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