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Transformers Dark of the Moon is garbage

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I hate Bay for everything he's done with the movie franchise.

The first one isn't that bad, but the other two are so horribly shit it makes my five year old self who loves Transformers cry. If you like Transformers, play Fall of Cybertron next week. High Moon Studios knows their shit.
 
1. That's hardly a revolutionary thought.
2. You're still wrong. I don't even like Transformers (Bay should go back to Bad Boys), but Dark of the Moon was one of the best experiences I had in a theater. It had the effect on me that I expected, but didn't get from Avatar.

Shit story, shit dialogue, shit actors, shit sense of scale/place, awesome movie.
 
SonicMegaDrive said:
I'll take your word for it. I only saw the first one and it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Supposedly, that's the 'good one'.
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Yep. Couldn't believe how horrifyingly stupid it was. One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Up there with Signs, National Treasure and a couple more.
 
Milchjon said:
1. That's hardly a revolutionary thought.
2. You're still wrong. I don't even like Transformers (Bay should go back to Bad Boys), but Dark of the Moon was one of the best experiences I had in a theater. It had the effect on me that I expected, but didn't get from Avatar.

Shit story, shit dialogue, shit actors, shit sense of scale/place, awesome movie.
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Never suggested that it was. And LOL @ comparing this drivel to Avatar.
 
Caught Transformers when it came out and was pleasantly surprised. It wasn't great, but better than I had hoped for.

When the second one came out I was invited to a pre-release screening and took my now GF before we were actually dating. We were both horrified at how awful it was. I was so glad that I didn't pay for it, but it was still incredibly shitty. Couldn't believe how many people actually liked it and defended it.

I had zero interest in the third film and swore I'd never watch it. Then I was on some international flight and it was on the plane's entertainment system. I thought, what the hell I have 12 hours to kill, how bad can it be. Turns out, it could be pretty miserable. When it was over, I couldn't believe I still had another 9 hours to go on that flight. The movie felt like it went on for days.
 
I actually enjoyed the whole last half of the movie with the open city battle. Gonna have to pick up this movie one day on Blu-ray. Though that chick who replaced Megan Fox did nothing for me.
 
JB1981 said:
I tried - tried - to watch all of this movie on Netflix last night but just couldn't bring myself to do it. I may be remembering incorrectly, but didn't GAF pretty much like this one? Wasn't this supposed to be a big improvement on Revenge of the Fallen? I heard this was a "great action movie." This movie is an incoherent, messy piece of garbage. Michael Bay just needs to stop.
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If the movie was 1:30.23 long i might not have hated it so much.
Compress everything into nothing but explosions and it would be the movie equivalent of a tech demo.....id be fine with that.
But the movie tries to be clever and drags on and on and on and on......fucking bullshit.

Better than the second but still utter shit.
How and why it grossed so much ill never understand.....theres a difference between a mindless action movie like say The Raid and Transformers.....i dont mind popcorn flicks, but this movie is an insult.
Revenge of the fallen had me vomiting for days.
 
Enjoyed it the most out of the 3, it was fun watching it in the cinema with friends. Although it's not a movie I would buy.

I do wish Michael Bay would make another Bad Boys soon, apart from The Rock they're the best films he's made.
 
JB1981 said:
Never suggested that it was. And LOL @ comparing this drivel to Avatar.
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I'm not comparing it directly. But I expected Avatar to convince me that 3D could be awesome, but then I went and absolutely hated it. But that may have been due to personal preference, I just can't stand the whole design of almost everything in Avatar, whether it's the colors or the weird cratures or anything else. I mean, that movie seriously used Papyrus as a font.

And then I went to the cinema for TF3 and was just blown away. The audiovisual side of the movie was just so awesome, I was grinning throughout the whole thing.

I'd never watch it outside of a theater or without 3D. It's completely dependent on full audiovisual onslaught.
 
Milchjon said:
I'm not comparing it directly. But I expected Avatar to convince me that 3D could be awesome, but then I went and absolutely hated it. But that may have been due to personal preference, I just can't stand the whole design of almost everything in Avatar, whether it's the colors or the weird cratures or anything else. I mean, that movie seriously used Papyrus as a font.

And then I went to the cinema for TF3 and was just blown away. The audiovisual side of the movie was just so awesome, I was grinning throughout the whole thing.

I'd never watch it outside of a theater or without 3D. It's completely dependent on full audiovisual onslaught.
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The design in this is so bad though. Looking at the Transformers is like daggers in the eyes combined with the all the glitzy camerwork and it's just one ugly, shiny, plastic mess. Compare how they look to the clean lines of the AMP suits in Avatar. Avatar's presentation is leagues beyond this. It has a beautifully coherent world that you can lose your self in. Transformers is like the most expensive MTV video ever made. I seriously hate Bay's artistic sensibilities. His camera constantly makes me nauseous too.
 
The final fight scene between Sentinal and Optimus Prime was prettty cool, but the rest of the film is trash. I hated how they treated Megatron in this film like he was nothing.
 
JB1981 said:
The design in this is so bad though. Looking at the Transformers is like daggers in the eyes combined with the all the glitzy camerwork and it's just one ugly, shiny, plastic mess. Compare how they look to the clean lines of the AMP suits in Avatar. Avatar's presentation is leagues beyond this. It has a beautifully coherent world that you can lose your self in. Transformers is like the most expensive MTV video ever made. I seriously hate Bay's artistic sensibilities. His camera constantly makes me nauseous too.
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I'm not sure Bay has a lot of artistic sensibilities :-D I think it's only fitting that he started out with car commercials, everything looks clean and glossy and perfect, every single image from the movies could be used as a great still.

Avatar's design may have been coherent, but it was coherently the opposite of what I like.
 
Busty said:
You are everything that is wrong with modern cinema.

Get. Out.
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Don't act like there's only one way to enjoy something. Sometimes I like classical music, sometimes I like bluegrass, sometimes I like dubstep. Everything has its time and place.
 
RotF still has the forest scene, which in my opinion is still the 'best' action sequence to come out of this trilogy.
 
SonicMegaDrive said:
I have yet to figure out if Michael Bay is a genius who knows exactly how to make money by pandering to the lowest common denominator, or if he actually believes that what he makes is genuinely good. Because at times I've noticed his films try really hard at pulling off a straight face only to flop on their face hard.
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I think Bay is Uwe Boll levels of bad, just with better production values.
 
Scullibundo said:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: for somebody who is called the king of explosions, his explosions sure don't have any way factor whatsoever. He has so many explosions that they lose their effectiveness. He manages to make explosions stale, pithy and ultimately boring. They might as well be firecrackers.
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I agree with this, it's highly overdone imo.

richiek said:
The final fight scene between Sentinal and Optimus Prime was prettty cool, but the rest of the film is trash. I hated how they treated Megatron in this film like he was nothing.
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I agree with this too. This was the only memorable scene that I found in the movie. The other fights didn't feel as focused.

And putting Bumble Bee in that near death situation was annoying. IIRC, Bay did the same thing in TF2.
 
Busty said:
You are everything that is wrong with modern cinema.

Get. Out.
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Sometimes I like to eat fast food when I'm not in the mood to sit down and enjoy my meal at a restaurant.

Other times I'd like a quiet, enjoyable dinner at Olive Garden when I'm not in the mood for fast food.

Get it?
 
Busty said:
When exactly is the time to 'turn off ones brain'?
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When you feel like it? I mean, like 3/4 of all video games fall in that category, and probably just as big a prcentage of all entertainment.

-NinjaBoiX- said:
Sooo, awesome boom bangs and shiny things.

Gotcha.
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Basically. And I don't think there's anything wrong with it. When I want something deep that makes me think, I read a book or watch some TV show. Watching movies has become too expensive for low production values, and if the production values come without substance, hell, I'll take it.
 
zoukka said:
First 15 seconds and you can't tell if it's Batman, Inception or Crapformers.

Movie composing is in a hole nowadays.
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Oh noes 15 seconds is like something else, it's terrible! Anyway the first 15 seconds isn't even what I pointed out or like about that track.

And the only reason I might agree with you is simply because John Williams isn't that active anymore, and people want Hans Zimmer on everything. So yes, there's some truth to your words, but it isn't all bad. Alexandre Desplat and Michael Giacchino are very much keeping me on the film scoring scene, as well as James Newton Howard whenever he does decide to score something.
 
TacticalFox88 said:
Sometimes I like to eat fast food when I'm not in the mood to sit down and enjoy my meal at a restaurant.

Other times I'd like a quiet, enjoyable dinner at Olive Garden when I'm not in the mood for fast food.

Get it?
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I get it! You like shit food, it's just about how fast you want to consume it.
 
Milchjon said:
When you feel like it? I mean, like 3/4 of all video games fall in that category, and probably just as big a prcentage of all entertainment.



Basically. And I don't think there's anything wrong with it. When I want something deep that makes me think, I read a book or watch some TV show. Watching movies has become too expensive for low production values, and if the production values come without substance, hell, I'll take it.
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Fair enough, you make some good points. I'm not taking the piss this time!
 
I love how close the endings of Dark of the Moon and Avengers are, just for the fact that despite their similarities in structure and special effects quality (and number of explosions), the latter is some hype badass awesome while the former makes you want to take a nap.
 
Kung Fu Jedi said:
I get it! You like shit food, it's just about how fast you want to consume it.
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My comment had nothing to do with the quality of the film more to do with certain people thinking that EVERY fucking film needs to be some type of deep thinker or Citizen's Kane type of shit.

Thanks for missing the point.
 
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