I'll probably take my little brother to see this one. I've taken him to the previous 3 and most of the Marvel stuff, so it's kind of a tradition now. I enjoyed the first 3. 2nd was probably my least fav out of them.
I honestly don't know why we even bother allowing threads about the Transformer movies anymore. They just get bashed into oblivion by the majority of people that don't like it, but yet can't stop talking about it. Then admit they go to see it, and then continue to bash it here.
I'll probably take my little brother to see this one. I've taken him to the previous 3 and most of the Marvel stuff, so it's kind of a tradition now. I enjoyed the first 3. 2nd was probably my least fav out of them.
I honestly don't know why we even bother allowing threads about the Transformer movies anymore. They just get bashed into oblivion by the majority of people that don't like it, but yet can't stop talking about it. Then admit they go to see it, and then continue to bash it here.
Well, in that sense it would become a 'so bad its good' sort of movie.
As for why we have the threads.... because sometimes we just can't stop hoping, even if we know that hope is about as fake and artificial as your adult star of choice performance.
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Well, in that sense it would become a 'so bad its good' sort of movie.
As for why we have the threads.... because sometimes we just can't stop hoping, even if we know that hope is about as fake and artificial as your adult star of choice performance.
oh, i can understand hoping for a movie to be a home run type of flick in all aspects. Realistically? Probably not. It's the mindless bashing that disturbs me most.
And I've probably been guilty of it myself in the past. I have problems with my memory, so that doesn't help any.
Hey guys, Asia it seems is showing this movie earlier. I took my two kids to watch this yesterday and i can say it was better than the prior 3 movies (not a good movie but better than the three piles that came before it).
Ill put on a spoilers for stuff and yes there will be a lot of spoilers there
1. I hated the girl, omg it was like watching all the worst aspects of teenage drama or jersey girls or some other similar ***** all condensed into this one character...
2. The boyfriend... yeah this guy had no reason to even be here... it was just so we could have the typical money shot kiss scene (because Tucci kissing Lin would have been funny... not 'Bay awesome' or something...)
3. The 'new' decepticons are hilariously everything you would expect from something "made in china"
4. The dinobots are not "Legendary Warriors" who understand Cybertronian but apparently need to be beaten into submission in order to work for optimus (and there's a rather heavy 'slavery' undertone to that part... well at least until he releases them)
5. Following point 4, the dinobots showed up for the last 15convoluted minutes of the movie, and they are completely absent from the climax, they are just there as a sort of Deux ex Machina....machina.
6. Cinematography is slightly better this time, i mean i can almost follow all that happens during those confusing battle scenes.
7. A 'sword' that turns into a rifle... that is human sized, but has enough power to hurt and kill autobots AND they get it from inside an alien spaceship where everyone is at least 15m tall... and would have no reason to keep or use that kind of stuff... overly convenient....
8. The hyenabots get so underplayed...
9. Drift is all the stereotypical racism you could imagine ('I KILL YOU' in a fake japanese like voice also "YOU DEAD")
10. Crossfire is like an autobot version of starscream... i mean like all the sassy twisted personality but on the autobots side so you know he is actually badass there
I could actually keep going but honestly the rest of my notes on the movie is more like me being all lemons over this latest Bay movie-rape
OH but one super important spoiler that is more like a cameo and it actually spoils nothing of the movie but you guys may not like to know about it (but bronies might).
RAINBOW DASH shows up!!!!!
I honestly started laughing out loud when that happened and i dont care if the people around me thought i was rude
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I saw this last week and enjoyed it. Having not seen the previous 3 films and only a vague memory of the 80's cartoon probably greased the wheels of enjoyment. *sigh* Had this been a Beast Wars movie I probably would have more to say about it. It's just liquid entertainment inside easy to digest capsules! No more, no less.
This is what I have told everyone.
Don't try to make sense of it, it is TRANSFORMERS. Just go in, have fun, and remember it is a Michael Bay movie.
Probably should use this same formula for Ninja Turtles in a couple weeks too.
Give it to Guillermo Del Toro and take the humans out of the equation or give it a limited human cast. The perfect setting would be a deep-space exploration mission leads to a small ship of maybe 3 or 5 humans discovering Cybertron in the middle of an ongoing war. Guillermo can do giant robots beating the piss out of each other, Pacific Rim proved that and I know a movie just about the war on Cybertron would draw in a nice crowd that yearns for Gen-1 content.
None of this stupid mixing of the all-spark, the matrix and this transformium bullcrap or "Humans are ebil". The vehicle forms could resemble human cars easily with a little bit of tweaking to give them that Cybertronian feel and it would give them a chance to really dig into lore.
This would be cool if the warring on cybertron didnt go on before dinosaurs even roamed the earth. I think the fact that every movie shows another random time they came here in the past and apparently forgot is a little silly, but honestly take it for what it is, which is a fairly entertaining distraction, and pretend that other than the names it is a different universe than the one most of us grew up with.
I wonder how much longer their gonna keep the series going. Who knows, maybe next they'll try a revised cartoon version.
As long as Transformers keeps selling, Hasbro will keep it going. I think Transformers is their third most profitable franchise behind MLP and Magic. There is a huge market for Transformers toys and Hasbro has several Japanese toy manufacturers who re-release old figures with new molds (The next one up is Optimal Optimus from Beast Wars)
Just.... no. I tried to watch it, and even attempting to not take it at all seriously (and the fact that that's become the only way to stomach these kinda bums me out a bit), I couldn't make it through the whole thing. If I had to point out a single good thing it would be that I thought Marky Mark was miles better then Shia TheBeef, but beyond that - crap. As a kid who grew up watching the cartoon and reading the comics, it would be nice if it actually felt like there was some connection to the history laid out back then, rather than feeling like whoever's doing the writing for the movies is just dredging up names from the old series because they sound cool, and using them on characters that don't resemble the originals at all. I shudder to think at what'll happen if Bay gets it in his head to tackle Unicron.
I wonder how much longer their gonna keep the series going. Who knows, maybe next they'll try a revised cartoon version.
I would love it if they could actually go back and adapt stuff straight out of the cartoon series. Maybe start with a slightly updated version of the original animated movie from 1986, and use that as a starting point to move forward. Unlikely, but still.
I realize that I'm putting the whiny fanboy vibe out there fairly strong. Sorry about that.
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Thoughts?
Optimus riding Grimlock..... this.... i dont know how to feel about it...
Idk man...
It's Michael Bay
but....Grimlock....but....Michael Bay
I have mixed feelings clearly
I honestly don't know why we even bother allowing threads about the Transformer movies anymore. They just get bashed into oblivion by the majority of people that don't like it, but yet can't stop talking about it. Then admit they go to see it, and then continue to bash it here.
Well, in that sense it would become a 'so bad its good' sort of movie.
As for why we have the threads.... because sometimes we just can't stop hoping, even if we know that hope is about as fake and artificial as your adult star of choice performance.
oh, i can understand hoping for a movie to be a home run type of flick in all aspects. Realistically? Probably not. It's the mindless bashing that disturbs me most.
And I've probably been guilty of it myself in the past. I have problems with my memory, so that doesn't help any.
Ill put on a spoilers for stuff and yes there will be a lot of spoilers there
1. I hated the girl, omg it was like watching all the worst aspects of teenage drama or jersey girls or some other similar ***** all condensed into this one character...
2. The boyfriend... yeah this guy had no reason to even be here... it was just so we could have the typical money shot kiss scene (because Tucci kissing Lin would have been funny... not 'Bay awesome' or something...)
3. The 'new' decepticons are hilariously everything you would expect from something "made in china"
4. The dinobots are not "Legendary Warriors" who understand Cybertronian but apparently need to be beaten into submission in order to work for optimus (and there's a rather heavy 'slavery' undertone to that part... well at least until he releases them)
5. Following point 4, the dinobots showed up for the last 15convoluted minutes of the movie, and they are completely absent from the climax, they are just there as a sort of Deux ex Machina....machina.
6. Cinematography is slightly better this time, i mean i can almost follow all that happens during those confusing battle scenes.
7. A 'sword' that turns into a rifle... that is human sized, but has enough power to hurt and kill autobots AND they get it from inside an alien spaceship where everyone is at least 15m tall... and would have no reason to keep or use that kind of stuff... overly convenient....
8. The hyenabots get so underplayed...
9. Drift is all the stereotypical racism you could imagine ('I KILL YOU' in a fake japanese like voice also "YOU DEAD")
10. Crossfire is like an autobot version of starscream... i mean like all the sassy twisted personality but on the autobots side so you know he is actually badass there
OH but one super important spoiler that is more like a cameo and it actually spoils nothing of the movie but you guys may not like to know about it (but bronies might).
I honestly started laughing out loud when that happened and i dont care if the people around me thought i was rude
Just revel in the absurdity and you'll enjoy it.
Don't try to make sense of it, it is TRANSFORMERS. Just go in, have fun, and remember it is a Michael Bay movie.
Probably should use this same formula for Ninja Turtles in a couple weeks too.
Give it to Guillermo Del Toro and take the humans out of the equation or give it a limited human cast. The perfect setting would be a deep-space exploration mission leads to a small ship of maybe 3 or 5 humans discovering Cybertron in the middle of an ongoing war. Guillermo can do giant robots beating the piss out of each other, Pacific Rim proved that and I know a movie just about the war on Cybertron would draw in a nice crowd that yearns for Gen-1 content.
None of this stupid mixing of the all-spark, the matrix and this transformium bullcrap or "Humans are ebil". The vehicle forms could resemble human cars easily with a little bit of tweaking to give them that Cybertronian feel and it would give them a chance to really dig into lore.
As long as Transformers keeps selling, Hasbro will keep it going. I think Transformers is their third most profitable franchise behind MLP and Magic. There is a huge market for Transformers toys and Hasbro has several Japanese toy manufacturers who re-release old figures with new molds (The next one up is Optimal Optimus from Beast Wars)
I would love it if they could actually go back and adapt stuff straight out of the cartoon series. Maybe start with a slightly updated version of the original animated movie from 1986, and use that as a starting point to move forward. Unlikely, but still.
I realize that I'm putting the whiny fanboy vibe out there fairly strong. Sorry about that.
Is it thief, thug or whore? There's one at the door...
And there's room for one more till the end of creation.
Neil Gaiman, Sandman #4 - A Hope in Hell