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Transformers: Dark of the Moon |OT| - Bigger, Badder, Better?
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victreeb3l
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finally got a chacne to see it on imax 3d today.
fuckin loved it. amazing experience. will write full thoughts tomorrow, too tired now.
but wow. what a movie
definitely watching this again
fuckin loved it. amazing experience. will write full thoughts tomorrow, too tired now.
but wow. what a movie
definitely watching this again
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To each his own I guess. When I go into a Transformers film (or any film of this type) I'm literally going for just the action sequences alone. I dont really care why they're fighting as long as the fighting is badass. And it was.Blader5489 said:
Yup Transformers4 is pretty much confirmed, according to rumors Jason Statham might be the star..
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/21090/statham-wanted-for-transformers-4
SneakyStephan
Banned
Second movie was unbelievably bad, still can't believe I went to see that in a theatre.
The novelty of the cgi wore off by the end of the first movie, and now that Fox is gone the last reason to tolerate it is gone.
The novelty of the cgi wore off by the end of the first movie, and now that Fox is gone the last reason to tolerate it is gone.
BigJonsson
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Reboot it with a more serious tone, soft-reboot, whatever
Patriotsbball5460
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pottuvoi said:
Sure hope that doesn't come to fruition. I want someone completely new, that I wouldn't associate with generic action movie #14, like I do with Statham. I'm in the minority that doesn't mind Shia, but I do think he is easily replaceable of course.
ChiTownBuffalo
Either I made up lies about the Boston Bomber or I fell for someone else's crap. Either way, I have absolutely no credibility and you should never pay any attention to anything I say, no matter what the context. Perm me if I claim to be an insider
I saw this tonight.
It made me angry
It made me angry
JimiNutz
Banned
I saw this last night and didn't really like it.
I'm definitely in the camp that acknowledges that the Transformer films are absolutely awful... but I still really enjoy them!!
Yes they are filled with cheesy dialogue, terrible acting, nonsensical plots, and are terribly bloated; however I squeal with glee when giant robots brutally engage in hand to hand combat.
I mean what's not to love about a giant rage filled robot shouting "I'll take you all on!" and then wailing into three other giant robots with burning orange swords, slicing limbs off, kicking ass, and then ripping another robots face in two?!!
That being said, this third film was a HUGE disappointment.
I'm not going to talk about the plot, pacing, acting, or script (I fully expected all to be awful), I'm going to talk about the action...
This felt like an alien invasion film, like Independence Day or something.
I know the Transformers are technically aliens, but I wanted to see more robot on robot action!
I was really looking forward to Optimus Prime charging into a group of Decepticons and beating the living shit out of them
Instead, most of the big final battle sequence was humans trying to take down robots, which is not anywhere near as cool!! The only good bit was the free-way chase and 'Mexican stand-off'.
Huge disappointment for me and didn't think the 3D added anything either - unlike Avatar.
In an ideal worl we'd get an all robt prequel about the Cybertron War... but I know this will never happen.
Booooooooo.
I'm definitely in the camp that acknowledges that the Transformer films are absolutely awful... but I still really enjoy them!!
Yes they are filled with cheesy dialogue, terrible acting, nonsensical plots, and are terribly bloated; however I squeal with glee when giant robots brutally engage in hand to hand combat.
I mean what's not to love about a giant rage filled robot shouting "I'll take you all on!" and then wailing into three other giant robots with burning orange swords, slicing limbs off, kicking ass, and then ripping another robots face in two?!!
That being said, this third film was a HUGE disappointment.
I'm not going to talk about the plot, pacing, acting, or script (I fully expected all to be awful), I'm going to talk about the action...
This felt like an alien invasion film, like Independence Day or something.
I know the Transformers are technically aliens, but I wanted to see more robot on robot action!
I was really looking forward to Optimus Prime charging into a group of Decepticons and beating the living shit out of them
Instead, most of the big final battle sequence was humans trying to take down robots, which is not anywhere near as cool!! The only good bit was the free-way chase and 'Mexican stand-off'.
Huge disappointment for me and didn't think the 3D added anything either - unlike Avatar.
In an ideal worl we'd get an all robt prequel about the Cybertron War... but I know this will never happen.
Booooooooo.
ThatCrazyGuy
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DP, sorry.
ThatCrazyGuy
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So I saw this again in 2D. It wasn't as bad to me the 2nd time, but still has the pacing problems and bad acting.
I did notice some things more closely though this time, and have solidified my problems with the movie.
All the Cons die so easily in this movie it seems by the hands of the Autobots (and humans kinda). Makes me wonder how the Bots were losing the war on Cybertron, haha.
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This leads me to this weird feeling. There was no "battle tension", or whatever to the fights. I felt in a one on one there was no danger, the Autobot was gonna win. There was no weight to the fights. They did look cool, in a one sided way. There were were cool killings, but not cool deaths, if that makes sense. I can't really put my finger on it, but fights lacked a certain something for me (be that rage or purpose, or whatever). I only felt some during the
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Plus I never got a feeling of dread or anything from the invasion.
To the individual Con deaths...
Concerning the Carly/hobo Megs scene
I also noticed that cool looking Cloverfield/monster like Decepticon that you see during the initial invasion is on another scene in the background, on top of a building shooting.
I still don't why the Cons had hostages in that one part. Makes so sense when they were just killing on site before. Plus how were they even captured?
I think there was missing points in the movie where they could had fleshed out the Con characters. There is a scene where NEST is above a group of Cons, and the Cons are arguing about something and pushing each other. You can't understand what there are saying. It would had been cool to have it understandable, so we could get a little glimpse of character for these guys and what the beef is.
Overall, just a lot of wasted scenes, and missing scenes. I hope in TF4 they get a new director and new writers. Maybe even if it is still Bay. An action movie can still flow well and be tightly written. See the Rock!!
I did notice some things more closely though this time, and have solidified my problems with the movie.
All the Cons die so easily in this movie it seems by the hands of the Autobots (and humans kinda). Makes me wonder how the Bots were losing the war on Cybertron, haha.
Non of the major Autobots die except Ironhide
Like 9 Autobots can take on a whole army of Cons. It's like they are so overpowered
, so if feels so uneven.
This leads me to this weird feeling. There was no "battle tension", or whatever to the fights. I felt in a one on one there was no danger, the Autobot was gonna win. There was no weight to the fights. They did look cool, in a one sided way. There were were cool killings, but not cool deaths, if that makes sense. I can't really put my finger on it, but fights lacked a certain something for me (be that rage or purpose, or whatever). I only felt some during the
Prime v Prime fight
Plus I never got a feeling of dread or anything from the invasion.
To the individual Con deaths...
Starscream: He death was still dumb on how it went down. Just stupid. It was built up as this powerfull character in TF1, then he goes out by freaking out with a thing on his eye. Just grab the string and pull it, or transform and fly away with Sam on it. The whole sequence felt cheap to me.
Shockwave: Again, out like a bitch. A cloth over his eyes to help take him down? Really? Felt contrived to me. He was supposed to be all powerful, but he really doesn't do much in the movie. Does he just chill inside that worm thing the whole time.
Megatron: Destroyed by a one armed Optimus. Just seemed week for a powerful character. He was like no threat to him.
Shockwave: Again, out like a bitch. A cloth over his eyes to help take him down? Really? Felt contrived to me. He was supposed to be all powerful, but he really doesn't do much in the movie. Does he just chill inside that worm thing the whole time.
Megatron: Destroyed by a one armed Optimus. Just seemed week for a powerful character. He was like no threat to him.
Concerning the Carly/hobo Megs scene
I did notice a couple scenes before that Carly is looking through that telescope at Sentinel and Megs arguing and Megs getting pushed to the ground. I don't know how she heard them talking. I assume this was the set-up for her emotionally manipulating Megs in the alley. I still hated that though, doesn't make sense for the character. I still wish there was a a scene that showed why he was down there.
I also noticed that cool looking Cloverfield/monster like Decepticon that you see during the initial invasion is on another scene in the background, on top of a building shooting.
I still don't why the Cons had hostages in that one part. Makes so sense when they were just killing on site before. Plus how were they even captured?
I think there was missing points in the movie where they could had fleshed out the Con characters. There is a scene where NEST is above a group of Cons, and the Cons are arguing about something and pushing each other. You can't understand what there are saying. It would had been cool to have it understandable, so we could get a little glimpse of character for these guys and what the beef is.
Overall, just a lot of wasted scenes, and missing scenes. I hope in TF4 they get a new director and new writers. Maybe even if it is still Bay. An action movie can still flow well and be tightly written. See the Rock!!
Speedymanic
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pottuvoi said:
Oh fucking hell YES! So begins the Crankification of the Transformers movies.
Havent seen so much reaching since I saw Fantastic Four Rise of the silver surfer. Judging by this, it seems like you think anything that includes "America" is propaganda.GraveRobberX said:
Did you think Eternal Sunshine was American propaganda too because they agreed to meet in Montauk and not somewhere in Canada (which is only a few hours further?)
Tons of haters, but my fiance and I enjoyed this movie immensely. Lots of fun, amazing CG, great fight scenes, and the new girl was the perfect antidote for Megan Fox. Leonard Nemoy and Star Trek references classed it up. We saw it in Imax 3D, a real IMAX, and it was incredible. The 3D makes me want to buy a new TV now when the Blu Ray comes out. We will end up going to see this again before Harry Potter.
drugstore_cowboy
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Grew up with the TV series and Transformers: The Movie, infact my dad took me to see it at the cinema (that didn't happen often) and he said it was the biggest load of shit he's ever seen, now 25 years later having watched these new movies with my own son I can say the same thing.
I do still like the transformers themselves, they survived the transistion from cartoon to movie pretty well and the sfx were amazing but fuck everything else, the humans are so terrible you can't not root for the decepticons.
I do still like the transformers themselves, they survived the transistion from cartoon to movie pretty well and the sfx were amazing but fuck everything else, the humans are so terrible you can't not root for the decepticons.
SilentProtagonist
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Holy shit, it's a robot in power armor.Dead said:I forgot to post this one:
GekigangerV
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Takao said:
They should make figures of them anyways just for the hell of it. Kids (and me) will certainly eat some of them up.
I really like the first armor one. Gives me an Ultra Magnus vibe.
http://transformerslive.blogspot.com/2011/07/don-murphy-no-reboot-new-trilogy.html
Don Murphy (Transformers Producer) has said that there won't be a reboot. At least, he thinks so but who knows whether or not he will remain for the next film. So it looks like for now we could hold out hope that there will be a continuation of the current movie-verse.
Also, Michael Bay has said that Jason Statham isn't going to be the lead in Transformers 4 because no one has even sat down to discuss a 4th film yet. But then how much would Bay know considering he's done with the franchise?
Don Murphy (Transformers Producer) has said that there won't be a reboot. At least, he thinks so but who knows whether or not he will remain for the next film. So it looks like for now we could hold out hope that there will be a continuation of the current movie-verse.
Also, Michael Bay has said that Jason Statham isn't going to be the lead in Transformers 4 because no one has even sat down to discuss a 4th film yet. But then how much would Bay know considering he's done with the franchise?
RegularCitizen
Banned
This movie was good like Green Lantern.
SilentProtagonist said:
Honestly, I'd pay good money for a 2D animated film in this style - with a deeper story.
Going to watch 3 tonight, but I honestly don't know how I feel about that. Since it sounds like the story itself is a shambles, I doubt I will enjoy it. But here is hoping!
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I don't know how the 3rd is any worse than the 1st. Anything in the Transformers movie franchise that doesn't involve robots rampaging has been awful.J2 Cool said:
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