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Dolla Dolla on 08 July 2007
roadkillers said:
You know what made the movie perfect though? Was it had a good mix of humor and action which blends together to make perfection.

This is true. I think I enjoyed 300 a bit more than Transformers though. I think Transformers should've been a bit shorter.



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ckmlb on 08 July 2007
BenKenobi88 said:
A motto perhaps: It's better than Spiderman 3 or Pirates 3. And especially Fantastic Four 2.

Pretty much all the big blockbusters of the year have been crappy overblown Special Effects affairs with little to no story and bad acting and writing.

 

That goes triple for Spiderman which has hit a new low.



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Legend11 on 09 July 2007
Gballzack said:
Movie was a dissapointment.

- Poor Pacing
- Spent too much time focusing on sub plots and not the actual plot
- Spent too much damn time in the house trying to find the glasses
- And the introduction to the Autobots and their personalities was an awkward and hand fisted series of cliches and gag humor.
- Frenzy was over played.
- Never exlained why the All Spark only ever turned machines into lifeforms that wanted to kill humans.
- The designs for the transformers were too busy and hard for the eye to lock onto. That combined with forced blurr in the fight scenes and you are left not even knowing what's going on until one robot walks away from the battle at the end.
- The failure to even try to adhere to the orginal archetypes of the transformer characters made even giving them the same names a frustration exercise of comparison from what the original was to what Michael Bay says it is now.
- Would it have killed them to name the Kid Spike to go along with the original as well?
- And why did they essentially just turn Bumblebee into E.T. as a character? Bumblebee was a fucking robot E.T. in this movie. Fuck you Speilberg!

Michael Bay does wonderful action sequences but can't handle human drama, so we end up with long drawn out overly dramatic scenes that don't progress the story or benefit the viewer's enjoyment. Spielberg added his own flavor of shmaltzy corniness to the mix as well.

I wasn't expecting it to be great but I wasn't expecting it to hurt me this much. Just another icon from the 80s exploited for the sake of a quick buck.

I did like Megatron though, too bad he's dead now. Starscream survived, pity he's nothing like the original, not that we would know given how little dialogue was built up between the decepticons.

The movie ultimately felt overworked in the areas that didn't matter and underworked in the areas that drew people to see the movie. It's just one of those movies that leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth and is an aching pain in theside of anyone who was ever a fan of the original fandom.

Take Michael bay's limited directing skills, combine them with speilberg's atrophying producer and directing skills and make the movie appeal as much as possible to kids and teenagers and you get this. Why does hollywood have to rape everything that was ever dear to me in my childhood?

Ok I never thought I'd ever say this but I completely agree with what Gballzack said.



Gballzack on 09 July 2007

I think poor pacing is the defining factor of this age of cinematography.