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Transformers: Age of Extinction reviews

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alfredofroylan

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Brace yourself, reviews are coming:

Belying its ominous title, Age of Extinction barely skirts the idea that humankind and planet Earth are about to be totally annihilated. What is extinguished is the audience's consciousness after being bombarded for nearly three hours with overwrought emotions ("There's a missile in the living room!" Tessa hollers — twice), bad one-liners and battles that rarely rise above the banal. A trio of editors make a technical marvel out of the fight scenes, but can do little to link the story's multiple threads into something coherent.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie/transformers-age-extinction/review/713864

Even at a staggering 165 minutes, it is inconceivable that Age Of Extinction will be anything other than a titanic success in both domestic and international markets, especially in China. Pacing is a genuine issue, especially in the film’s early stages, but for audiences seeking the same polished, vacuous grand scale spectacle that has become synonymous with both the series and its director, Transformers: Age Of Extinction gives the series a new lease of life.
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http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/...e?blocktitle=LATEST-FILM-NEWS&contentID=40562

Whatever the case, "Transformers: Age Of Extinction" more than delivers on whatever promises Bay makes to an audience at this point. Giant robots. Giant mayhem. Destruction on a global scale. You know what you're in for if you buy a ticket, and Bay seems determined to wear you down with the biggest craziest "Transformers" movie yet.
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captur...weirdest-franchise-around#kghLrM6froD5OfsG.99
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http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captur...tion-of-the-biggest-weirdest-franchise-around

It’s not just that the Autobots look more distinctive and easier to tell apart than ever in “Transformers: Age of Extinction” — as Optimus Prime never tires of reminding us, these robots have actual souls. So who cares if the human characters are even more dispensable and the plot even more scattershot than usual?
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http://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-transformers-age-of-extinction-1201238365/

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_age_of_extinction/
 
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kswiston

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This is the most review proof film of the year. After the last two films, anyone paying money to see Age of Extinction knows what they are in for.
 
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Dead

well not really...yet
like someone posted in one of the earlier threads, it will be the best movie named "Transformers: Age of Extinction" released in the past 10 years
 
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.GqueB.

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kswiston said:
This is the most review proof film of the year. After the last two films, anyone paying money to see Age of Extinction knows what they are in for.
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Pretty much. I'm there day 1 because I can't get enough of these movies. Too damn fun for me.
 
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daviyoung

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I'm so ready for this

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TitusGroan

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You have to hand it to Bay. At this point, his films are fucking nuclear bomb proof when it comes to critical reception. Every critic in the world could form an alliance and launch the most scathing critical campaign against Transformers ever, films would still print money.

Ah well... for people who want to see robot dinosaurs, I'm sure it'll be a blast. I'll look forward to Mark Kermode's inevitable mental breakdown trying to review the film.
 
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.GqueB.

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TitusGroan said:
You have to hand it to Bay. At this point, his films are fucking nuclear bomb proof when it comes to critical reception. Every critic in the world could form an alliance and launch the most scathing critical campaign against Transformers ever, films would still print money.

Ah well... for people who want to see robot dinosaurs, I'm sure it'll be a blast. I'll look forward to Mark Kermode's inevitable mental breakdown trying to review the film.
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Did pain and gain do well? I feel like that movie was there and gone really fast.

But I think the main takeaway here is that at this point, you either like Bay movies or you don't. All of the reviews read exactly the same. Change the name and swap minor plot details from the other movies into those in the op and you couldn't tell the difference.
 
Sub_Level

Sub_Level

wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Haven't seen one since the first one.

I...I kind of want to see it. With popcorn and hot dog in packed theatre full of middle school, high school, and college kids. I am regressing.
 
Corpsepyre

Corpsepyre

Banned
Yeah, I don't think reviews for this series matter anymore. This will make a billion bucks and spawn 10 more Bayformers.
 
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Aquamarine

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TitusGroan said:
You have to hand it to Bay. At this point, his films are fucking nuclear bomb proof when it comes to critical reception. Every critic in the world could form an alliance and launch the most scathing critical campaign against Transformers ever, films would still print money.

Ah well... for people who want to see robot dinosaurs, I'm sure it'll be a blast. I'll look forward to Mark Kermode's inevitable mental breakdown trying to review the film.
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Pretty much.

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He just doesn't give a shit about any of the criticism.

In a way I gotta commend the guy.
 
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WyndhamPrice

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Michael Bay is one of modern cinema's greatest auteurs and I will gladly exchange American dollars for two and a half hours of Bayhem every 2 to 3 years.
 
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Zombine

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Transformers movies mean summer time to me. If it has a sappy love story, some ridiculously hard to follow robot fights, and some inappropriate humor and explosions I'm good.
 
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Darkgran

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165 minutes? get an editor you freaking hack.

Movie will suck like all the rest..people will see it..it will make lots of money..get ready for the next one.
 
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DECK'ARD

The Amiga Brotherhood
They are the cinematic equivalent of a multicar pile-up, it's wrong to look but there's always some morbid curiosity to do so.
 
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Aquamarine

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Toa TAK said:
I honestly don't know much about the movie beyond the trailers, so I'm going in blind for the most part.


He was pretty bothered by it when ROTF came out.
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This is what he said:

“I think they reviewed the wrong movie. They just don’t understand the movie and its audience. It’s silly fun. I am convinced that they are born with the anti-fun gene. The reviews are just so vicious. A lot of them are more personal than anything else.”

So basically:

"The critics are stupid and wrong and don't understand movies and it's actually great."


With Bay it's always "LOL those stupid critics don't know a good movie when they see one." He doesn't take the consistently negative critical response to heart. Which, in a way, is commendable.
 
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Tarr

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strafer said:
Yeah but Bad Boys, The Rock and Armageddon are genuinely good movies tho
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Yep, those movies are pretty much classics in their respectful genres.

This metacritic and rotten tomato era is screwing up stuff. I can't put my finger on it, but I just feel weird towards the movie and gaming industry cause of it. Meh.
 
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TitusGroan

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I'm tempted to see it with a bingo card in hand just to see how many of the same previous points it makes as the previous films:

- Introducing the main female character through an extended arse shot?
- Pro-military jingoism?
- Vaguely racist robot characters?
- Vaguely racist human supporting characters?
- Big name A-listers grinning through turgid cameos for the paycheck?
- Crass 'drugs are funny' humour?

...but I don't actually want to let Bay get any of my money, so will probably wait until I can watch it on Netflix, or until a friend gets it on DVD or something.
 
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Dead

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TitusGroan said:
I'm tempted to see it with a bingo card in hand just to see how many of the same previous points it makes as the previous films:

- Introducing the main female character through an extended arse shot?
- Pro-military jingoism?
- Vaguely racist robot characters?
- Vaguely racist human supporting characters?
- Big name A-listers grinning through turgid cameos for the paycheck?
- Crass 'drugs are funny' humour?

...but I don't actually want to let Bay get any of my money, so will probably wait until I can watch it on Netflix, or until a friend gets it on DVD or something.
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got your first one
Dead said:
Movie clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ES2R98Whg

Micheal Bay money shot at :42

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Thatonemoor

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I want to see cause Grimlock but I want to stay away cause Michael Bay. The first movie is meh and I actually enjoy watching it as a guilty transformers pleasure, Dark of the Moon is just boring, but Revenge of the Fallen is just horrible. It is an insult to the human race that piece of shit was actually made.
 
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Garrett Hawke

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I hate these movies. They're utter tripe and they treat women as nothing more than background scenery.

The fucking dumbest bit to me was in the third one, where Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was just standing in the middle of the street while shit blew up around her, looking perfectly photo-shoot ready.

Fuck that.
 
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Savitar

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Wait, this movie actually points out the bots are alive and actually hate dying and all that? Who knew.

Most of the movies treat them as pretty disposable overall.
 
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Delta Assault

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Aquamarine said:
This is what he said:

“I think they reviewed the wrong movie. They just don’t understand the movie and its audience. It’s silly fun. I am convinced that they are born with the anti-fun gene. The reviews are just so vicious. A lot of them are more personal than anything else.”

So basically:

"The critics are stupid and wrong and don't understand movies and it's actually great."


With Bay it's always "LOL those stupid critics don't know a good movie when they see one." He doesn't take the consistently negative critical response to heart. Which, in a way, is commendable.
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He eventually changed his tune:

We made some mistakes. The real fault with [Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen] is that it ran into a mystical world. When I look back at it, that was crap. The writers’ strike was coming hard and fast. It was just terrible to do a movie where you’ve got to have a story in three weeks. I was prepping a movie for months where I only had 14 pages of some idea of what the movie was. It’s a BS way to make a movie, do you know what I’m saying?
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Mortemis

Banned
Who gives a shit about reviews. Dinobots.

I'm not really looking forward to sitting in a theater for 3 hours but transformer movies are too fun for me to pass up.
 
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Garrett Hawke

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Aquamarine said:
This is what he said:

“I think they reviewed the wrong movie. They just don’t understand the movie and its audience. It’s silly fun. I am convinced that they are born with the anti-fun gene. The reviews are just so vicious. A lot of them are more personal than anything else.”

So basically:

"The critics are stupid and wrong and don't understand movies and it's actually great."


With Bay it's always "LOL those stupid critics don't know a good movie when they see one." He doesn't take the consistently negative critical response to heart. Which, in a way, is commendable.
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I don't think it's commendable, at all. If a game dev kept releasing mediocre games with the exact same issues, would that be commendable?

I don't think anyone finds game franchises that refuse to fix burning issues "commendable".
 
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