The New Trasnformers Movie

[Rhekatou]

Well, was it a compete waste of money like everyone says, should the only reason I go be because of Megan Fox, or is it worth that $7.50 admission?

[Izzy]

Well, there's also a new Transformers movie. If you like explosions and robot fights, watch it.

[SlappyMcGee]

I fucking love this movie. Seriously. I thought it was a rollickingly good time.

[Tunco]

Well, there's also a new Transformers movie. If you like explosions and robot fights, watch it.

And cars.












And action, of course.

[Pixon]

The only reason that I would go to the Transformers movies would be if they had the original TV theme song in them. But they don't ;_;

[a happy song]

The first was one of the worst films I've ever seen. I didn't even manage to watch the thing in one sitting, I think I finally digested it in about five smaller pieces. It was a valiant effort, trust, me.

Bay seems to be the only director who can mange to make explosions dull, I've little faith in ROTF. I'd might like to see the new film in Imax simply for the spectacle, I think it's the only way I'll manage to sit through it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no film snob: The Underworld series is one of my favourite collections of fantasy film making, and the movies are clearly trash ;)

[SlappyMcGee]

The first was one of the worst films I've ever seen. I didn't even manage to watch the thing in one sitting, I think I finally digested it in about five smaller pieces. It was a valiant effort, trust, me.

Bay seems to be the only director who can mange to make explosions dull, I've little faith in ROTF. I'd might like to see the new film in Imax simply for the spectacle, I think it's the only way I'll manage to sit through it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no film snob: The Underworld series is one of my favourite collections of fantasy film making, and the movies are clearly trash ;)

Oh, it stands to mention I saw it in IMAX, and it looked fantastic.

[a happy song]

The first was one of the worst films I've ever seen. I didn't even manage to watch the thing in one sitting, I think I finally digested it in about five smaller pieces. It was a valiant effort, trust, me.

Bay seems to be the only director who can mange to make explosions dull, I've little faith in ROTF. I'd might like to see the new film in Imax simply for the spectacle, I think it's the only way I'll manage to sit through it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no film snob: The Underworld series is one of my favourite collections of fantasy film making, and the movies are clearly trash ;)

Oh, it stands to mention I saw it in IMAX, and it looked fantastic.

I bet. I've yet to experience IMAX, and as portions were filmed specifically for it I'll probably fold. I do love a flashy spectacle. :)

[jean-luc]

Pity. The only IMAX theater near me is OMNIMAX, and everything not filmed for the OMNI- format automatically looks like crap on it. I might have to trek to the Evergreen Aviation Museum, hopefully they'll pick it up. They've shown a tendency to not like third-party films, though.

[sheganican]

I dont know why everyone hated the first one.

I liked it and the second one looks amazing to me.

Maybe i only like the series because of the insane robot battles, but i like it nonetheless.

[Spawn of Yanni]

I liked the first movie.

I went into this movie aware that the "sophisticated" opinion about it would be "Pfft whatever boom boom big deal it was shit etc" so I almost tried to expect it to be bad.

To be honest, I think it worked at the start with the odd humour dotted about the place - ROTF has got a lot more Pirates of the Caribbean moments than the first one does, with humour at practically every turn, and I'm not sure if it worked to begin with. But Jesus, by the end I think I needed five new pairs of pants. The action is so very, very awesome.

[Animator]

They killed off Sideways in the commercial for ROTH.

I'll never forgive them for that. ;_;

As for the movie, it's not that bad, but that's only because I enjoy pretty explosions, flashy bang bangs, and have the attention span of a goldfish. As for accuracy of the plot with the actual Transformers line, I'd say it's a giant 'Go to hell' with a side of 'fuck you'. If you're a die-hard for old transformers movies, don't watch.

[Ampersand]

After having seen twelve hundred of the same fucking action movie, action movies stopped doing it for me about eleven hundred and fifty movies ago. Too bad.

[Slayr]

i cant believe you guys liked that movie, i thought it was about as good as lacerating my gum's on a rusty tin, an imaginative 10 year old could have developed a better plot, the plot they did was a rip off of Eric Von Daniken(look him up) combined with Scientology, and the first 45 minutes of him leaving for school were not even part of the plot, and i don't know if you guys noticed but it seems Michael Bay decided it would be fun to take scenes from the first movie and colour them with a different marker. It was almost as if Michael Bay was in a mental state of twelve when writing the jokes. Overall the special effects were pretty good but there was no plot.
EDIT: remember in the first one when it shows the autobots falling from space(the look like comets with orange tails) well in the second one it shows that for a couple decepticons but the comet tails are blue, and remember the town they fought the scorpion in yeah. it was in there. oh yeah forgot to mention shia lebouf/sam witwicky and his seeming immunity to injuries except rolling on rocks.

[SlappyMcGee]

Ridiculous claim that the plot is anything but fantastic. It isn't a fucking suspense movie, and it isn't supposed to grip us, although it does, at times; it's supposed to harken back to the days of eighties toy commercial TeeVee. And if you're trying to tell me that movie is not an exact representation of the hokey plots from the old series, then you clearly aren't well-versed at all.

Second of all, it would seem that Daniken's work does not believe itself to be fiction, so I don't know if you can rip off the plot from some supposed reality. But, that being said, the part that is at all similar to Daniken is extremely minor to the film, and to say that this film is a ripoff is bizarre; it would be like saying The Da Vinci Code ripped off Arsene Lupin for art heists. And I don't know about ANY connections to Scientology, and I doubt you stuck that into your paragraph as much more than a buzzword to get attention.

And as far as similarities to the first one, which I'll comment on in spite of the fact that all of your examples are largely fallacious, it is a sequel. Were you expecting this to be a talkative Nazi drama? Because it turns out that most of the time, sequels have many elements from previous films. The Delorean in Back to the Future 2 was -so- predictable.

[bobaganuesh_2]

I haven't seen it yet, but according to the guys from spill.com it was pretty bad. I'll save the judgements until I see it, however

[Slayr]

the fight scene with optimus and his 2 swords was pretty darn bad ass, but that was the only good scene

[Spawn of Yanni]

Oh, I'm also a huge fan of Steve Jablonsky's stuff, and his work in both Transformers is magic.

[Snuggletummy]

I loved the movie, I saw it twice and I still can't get enough of it.

[Mae]

The first film is uninspiring and dull. Or maybe that's just my general disinterest for action flicks.

[otters]

I had high hopes for it in the beginning (who the HELL was that giant tan Decepticon??) but by the middle it was getting stupid and losing plot, and the battle at the end...like, I went for two bathroom breaks during that thing. The thing about Transformers is that most of them are made largely of metallic-colored parts, so I couldn't often tell them apart during the battles (except for the Primes and stuff), and the end fight scene dragged ON. and ON. and ON. and ON.

The main problems: (spoiler)

Why is there a fucking 40-minute fight scene? Jesus Christ on a pogo stick.

Why should we root for Major Lennox? In the first movie (which is still, in my opinion, one of the greatest comic book movies, up there with Iron Man and the Hulk), the first thing we see him doing is webcam-ing with his wife and his one-month-old daughter. He's trying to get home, the whole time. Why not cheer for the guy?

Why is Optimus on steroids for the second movie? In the first one the most glaring thing that bothered me was that he got his ass kicked through his torso by Megatron & Co, and in ROTF he did the kicking (except when Megatron snuck up behind him, anyways). I mean, I'm not sure if this is a problem with the content of the movie itself so much as it's a problem with the continuity. I did enjoy the end, when he got juiced up with the parts from that Australian SR-71 Blackbird, but the whole thing bothered me.

Why does the mom feel the need to curse every other line, this movie? The worst thing she said in #1 was "crap," right?

Why do we need to see John Turturro in a thong? Just...why?

Why were the twin robots not understandable, except while saying "bitchin'"?

Why did Mr. Headdress Prime only last about...thirty-seven seconds?

[SlappyMcGee]

I don't agree with any of your points, but I will say this: Maybe the Decepticons were weaker because of their dependance on Energon and the lack thereof.

[SkyPanda]

It's a movie for ten year olds, I am not ten, I did not enjoy the movie

[SlappyMcGee]

It's a movie for ten year olds, I am not ten, I did not enjoy the movie

I'm eighteen. That's hardly justification.

[SkyPanda]

Fair enough. A few of my mates liked it, but that may have been solely due to Megan Fox. :P

Bad:

-the bit where the conspiracy theoriest dude is clinging to the side of a pyramid and rings up a navy battleship and orders them to fire their secret laser cannon (that all battleships secretly come equipped with) at aforementioned pyramid, which they promptly do.

-the bit where after touching a magic alien rock, the lead guy suddenly has the ability to perform complex physics, which he does, in his college class. That didn't fit in with the plot at all, did the director just want to throw that in because he thought it was cool?

-the scene where shia le bouf talks to the spirits(?) of the transformers, and then comes back to life. Why couldn't he just die already, and without the semi-religious rubbish too.

-every scene with those twin robot dudes (and where did they go towards the end of the movie?)

-the action wasn't that great. An okay standard for movies these days, but not worth actually mentioning.

-I was rooting for the bad guys. This is because shia le bouf is a complete tosser, or very good at acting like a complete tosser.

-the evil robots never caused much mass destruction, really. All the action took place in some random desert, with hardly any skyscrapers.

-almost every aspect of the plot is a million miles on the wrong side of implausible.

-every scene without megan fox in it