39 replies to this topic

[Chad]

I am a total whore for the movie

But that still doesn't change the fact that it's awesome.

[Deb]

You're the biggest whore I know

[Chad]

[malfouka]

okay. i never ever thought i'd be admitting this (publicly, no less) but here is the story. will be humiliatingly amending my previous "crap" vote.

[Chad]

It's OK Mally.

[malfouka]

thanks. ~sniff~ this has all been so hard...

[Chad]

I spent more than a year debating ... well flaming with people over the Net defending the movie. I was certain it would be good. So far I feel i was pretty on. I still haven't met someone who has watched it and didn't like it. I'm sure I will. Has Dave seen it yet?

[Deb]

I'm still amazed that Jack liked it because he's a right snob when it comes to movies. Film wise, we don't really have an awful lot in common and I thought that we could at least share in our hate for Transformers but that wasn't to be.

We've talked it to death and the movie was extremely well done.

I haven't read of anyone hating it yet either. That has to be a record...

[malfouka]

see, that's the thing, not only do i NOT have the patience to watch films, but i was completely anti-Transformers (even my kids weren't into it). but fuck it all, if i didn't come out of that theatre loving (more than my three male companions) that film and vowing to see it again...

there were/are a bunch of complaints, but for what it is, it is superb.

Edited by malfouka, 14 July 2007 - 07:43 AM.

[Chad]

There were things I thought that could have been different as well, but any movie has that aspect to it. But all in all I really loved it. The years I spent waiting didn't go to waste

[pizzapussysanta2323]

michael bay is a complete ballbag, so it was very unfortunate that i loved this goddamn movie so much. 3 times and counting plus i dl'ed it and have watched it on dvd many times over.

[Deb]

Some of my closest friends have been ballbags

[Chad]

So you DID like them then they bounce a lot so I wasn't sure

[thegrunter]

I finally saw the entire movie. It was definitely not crap. I thought Megatron's effects were fantastic. And that kid Shia pulled the movie through the beginning before the robots entered. Fun movie.

[Chad]

It made over $700 million. Not bad for a non sequel.

[Dave]

I loved the old cartoon and toys (well, some of them at least) and I love the original Transformers storyline. I tried to put that out of my mind while watching the movie...I approached it like it was it's own thing....separate from my childhood.

The first third of the movie? I really liked.

Once the autobots all arrive and open their mouths? I cringed. I literally cringed.

The bad jokes...the awful banter...it took me out of the movie. You know, like, when you're watching a movie and you're really into it? And then you get a phone call or something and it totally takes you out of the moment?

Those few lines between Ironhide, Jazz and one of the others...totally yanked me from my chair. It wasn't funny. It wasn't cute. It was dumb, insultingly so.

My other serious problem with the movie was that the big action scene at the end was poorly done. Typical Michael Bay...I couldn't follow the action. I didn't know who was where fighting whom. It was just a bunch of stuff thrown together.

The big difference, for example, between a Spielberg and a Michael Bay is Spielberg has a good sense of structuring the action so that the viewer can follow it...whereas Bay just throws stuff on screen.

I can tell that Bay knows a lot about the technological aspect of filmmaking. I just think he's incompetent at the storytelling part of filmmaking. (sort of like George Lucas)

Was the Sam/Mikela relationship totally contrived and unrealistic? Yes, but I overlooked that. The squad of stereotyped American soldiers? Also contrived, but I overlooked that. I was here to see a movie about giant robots fighting other giant robots. It was a monster movie. I love monster movies. I grew up on monster movies. If someone did a movie today that had 90 minutes of a big dinosaur fighting a big insect, with zero minutes of character development, I'd totally watch it.

The big payoff for me in the Transformers movie was the fight at the end. Autobots fighting Decepticons. Godzilla vs. Kong.
Optimus killing Bonecrusher was a nice little teaser of the finale. I thought if that was just a taste of what the ending battle would be, I will come out of the theater a happy man. I could've forgiven the rest of the movie had the final scene been on par of, say, Godzilla vs. Ghidorah.

I couldn't wait.

And all I got was crushing disappointment. The action was impossible to follow. What I WANTED to see was Autobots fighting Decepticons. What I got was a big blur.

I wanted to like the movie. I certainly didn't want to waste 2 hours of my life. I WANTED it to be good (not Citizen Kane good, but Godzilla vs. Smog Monster or Mothra good). Hell, 'Gamera good' would be cool too. You know, "action movie good."

I voted crap.

[patrickd88]

A friend got me this for my birthday last month and I enjoyed it for the fun romp I thought it would be. It's pure adrenaline. I normally frown on someone buying me a movie I haven't seen, but this one is a keeper.

Edited by patrickd88, 28 November 2007 - 05:34 AM.

[Frankie Pitt]

I'm with Dave. I voted crap. Like him, I wanted to like this movie, and for awhile, I was liking it. But things started going wrong around the time the Decepticons showed up. By the end, during the big battle which I think I was supposed to be enjoying, I was too busy trying to figure out what was going on. I couldn't tell the good Transformers from the bad -- hell, I could barely identify what was on screen, let alone who was on screen. It got to a point where I just didn't care anymore.

So yeah...crap. And don't get me wrong, sometimes crap can be good (Friday the 13th: Part Two). Sometimes crap can be awesome (Godzilla: Final Wars). At the very least, crap can be fun (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie). But this was the bad kind. The "I should have rented this from Netflix instead of paying eight bucks" kind.

[Deb]

See I noticed all that blurry stuff but I just assumed it was because I'd downloaded it off the internet and it was a bit of a shady copy.

I still liked it...

[Anticelebrity]

It was way better than I expected. Love the fact that Optimus Prime still has the same voice actor and the little references in the script to the original animated movie.