Yeah, they actually have discernible plots, and the acting in them is better than the average porno. Those things take time away from trying to cram as many big ass explosions into a 2 hour movie as humanly possible.
Star Trek and Iron Man don't hold a candle to Transformers
I went to see this movie yesterday with friends in an iMax. I had hoped that the reviews I read before going to see the movie were exaggerated or just full of hate because it's a movie about metal robots beating the snot out of each other.
The first Transformers was surprisingly decent, but of course some of that had to do with my low expectations for the film.
I went in with a pretty open mind for T2.
What I saw was unreal.
I want to write about how good it is. I want to be sarcastic and say it's the greatest thing I've ever seen on the silver screen.
The movie was so bad that I can't even be satirical about it. The coolest part happened before the movie, actually, as I road-tripped down to see it in a brand new 2010 Camaro SS (the kid's car in the movie, for those of you who are not car buffs).
This movie was seriously one of the biggest wastes of 2.5 hours (yeah, it's that long) of my life. It is putrid. I could write a better script for a movie in a week, and I'm not exaggerating. There ARE several funny moments, but they are so few and far between that it doesn't even begin to justify the utter suck that is this movie.
Even the combat sucks. At times, the camera is so close to the robots, you have no sense of scale and even your basic visual perception of what's happening is ruined. At times, you cannot discern where the camera is even situated, so you get a nauseating sense of disorientation. And there are SO many combat scenes in this movie, that even myself, a tech-junky with a fetish for fast cars and things that go "boom" was, by the end, thinking, "Oh look, another scene where people shoot stuff."
I wanted to walk out of the theater. Some of the quotes from the movie are bizarre, without any relation to the plot or present events around the characters.
SLIGHT SPOILER ALERT: "Give me your face" is an actual quote from this movie. Uttered in a battle scene. What. The .
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Everyone is complaining about Megan Fox's acting, but seriously? It's a high point of the movie compared to some of the other junior high level tripe that completely overwhelms the dialog most of the way through. Let me ask you this: Would YOU be able to act well in a movie like this? Not to defend Ms. Fox, she's little more than a pretty face, but even so, I'm pretty sure Tom Hanks wouldn't be able to find a decent role in this movie. Some of the lines of dialogue are so... bizarre...
I was with a huge group of friends and almost walked out of this movie to sit alone by myself in the lobby. That's how putrid this movie was. I cannot fathom how someone who has any respect for a plot or moderate dialogue or even a watchable film could enjoy this.
Jacob1983 has offered the challenge that it's an "action movie", so you shouldn't expect it to be good. He evidently has never seen such films as Fight Club, The Dark Knight, Pulp Fiction, Gladiator, Braveheart, Iron Man.... the list of stellar action films is very long. And those are just the best of the best, let alone the "just good" or "acceptable" movies full of action and suspense, or larger than life characters. And it's not just prejudice against films involving large metal creatures (for a good film, watch the animated "The Iron Giant").
All in all, this is not necessarily the worst movie I've ever seen by any means, but it is probably in that category. It is the ultimate 13 year olds film. It's sad when I was taking over/under bets on the number of times they'd show Megan Fox from a chest-high camera angle running in slow motion... and the over prevailed.
Or, to put it the most succinctly, my friend who just bought the new Camaro, the guy driving the same car that's in the movie, hated it. Ridiculed and mocked it. This movie is entertainment at it's most base, devalued form.
Considering the amount of feces contained with Transformers, if you held a candle to it, you'd have quite the fire on your hands.
Star Trek and Iron Man don't hold a candle to Transformers
what a waste of time this movie. even fox's slow motion running couldnt save it. although i must give praise for the first time you see fox in the film. on that bike wow! anyways her acting i could care less about. too much going on. the last battle lasted all of 10 seconds, he just takes the heart out. wtf was the point of the previous 30 min!
Terrible, terrible movie. Had to take a 10 year old cousin to see it. This movie is geared toward the stupid america - how else would you explain Bay deciding to tell us that the egyptians are "friendliss"?
This probably edges Bad Boys II for Ba's worst movie.
Script?
Are you ing kidding me?
It's a war between giant robots, what did you expect ? Sophie's choice ?
Star Trek and Iron Man don't hold a candle to Transformers
Dude, you have got to be ing kidding me.
Iron Man was up for a couple Oscars, and Star Trek kicks all kinds of ass.
It's fine that you like movies that are made people entertained by shiny things and explosion, but don't act so surprised that most people think these movies suck . Bay makes ty movies, that's just the way it is.
I guess I'm biased since I used to be a fan of the original cartoon as a kid
Dude, you have got to be ing kidding me.
Iron Man was up for a couple Oscars, and Star Trek kicks all kinds of ass.
It's fine that you like movies that are made people entertained by shiny things and explosion, but don't act so surprised that most people think these movies suck . Bay makes ty movies, that's just the way it is.
Best video ever directed by Michael Bay:
Pretty horrible movie. I thought the first was ok, but this one was incredibly bad.
God damn, Michael Bay was truly raped by a ing explosion when he was a kid. He clearly has a major hard on for the U.S. military too.
Overall, the movie was meh. I'm a big fan of G1 transformers, so seeing some G1 throwbacks was cool. The forest battle was full of win. CGI was impressive. Humor was over the top and much of it could have been cut out. Too much damn slow motion and rotating cameras.
I hope Michael Bay isn't back for the third one.
that could've been cut out
the mom being high
the kitchen appliance uprising
the dogs humping
the bag white house rep
bam its under 2 hours
Also this scene is one of the best scenes of the year in terms of sheer badassery
In one of the CNN "reports" during the movie, they talk about President Obama.
that subplot was written in the movie before the presidency was determined, if mccain won "president mccain" would have been on that report if he won
So then people can still say that they were calling Obama weak or whatever, because they were. It's not a big deal, like you said. Either MCcain was going to be weak or Obama, but they did make mention of it, so people CAN make proper assumptions about it. No big deal.
I didn't here anyone ing about the ding dong eating slacker they made Bush out to be in the first one
That's true. I'm not ing either.
What's wrong with Michael Bay being pro-military? Would you rather have him bash the military like some directors do in movies? And what's wrong with explosions? Explosions kick ass. Seriously, you guys need to stop ing about this movie. We get that you hate it but a lot of people went to see it and loved it. And if you think you can do a better job than Michael Bay, then direct a in' blockbuster movie then you can bash him. All of you haters probably had never heard of Transformers until the first one came out in 2007.
My 2 cents....this movie was beyond bad. I love special effects and action, but a good story is what makes me care about said effects, set pieces and action. It was quite disappointing and all of the corny and cheesy things in the first Transformers were amplified here to heights only imagined by the 3 stooges.
I thought it was a good movie. Although, I wished it would have shown less robots and more of Megan Fox on motorcycles.
horrible movie. 2.5 hours!!! I was tempted to walk out about 1.45 hours in but thought, it's almost over....
and NO you're not biased because you loved the cartoon as a kid. EVERYONE did. You're just blind to the fact this movie sucks ass... Cryhavoc was right on in his review. The action would have been cool if the camera wasn't so damn close and you could actually tell what the was going on....
I really enjoyed it and I'd recommend it.
I don't know he managed to do it, but Bay made a movie about robots fighting each other and filled with big explosions boring as .
That its also filled with almost every single predictable movie cliche known to mankind didn't make it any easier to sit through. I literally felt like I'd seen the movie a dozen times before.
If all they'd done was cut to the robots fighting and nothing else, I could live with that, but all the filler made me want to gag.
I'm going to pretend this thread never existed.
that could've been cut out
the mom being high
the kitchen appliance uprising
the dogs humping
the bag white house rep
bam its under 2 hours
Also this scene is one of the best scenes of the year in terms of sheer badassery
i agree 100% on that optimus prime scene.
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