The fight sequences were jaw dropping and the storyline and characters were much better than I expected.
True but it wasn't worth a perfect score. Sounds to me like you've fallen for the "summer blockbuster" formula of films if you think this is that good.
GONNAFISTYA wrote:I saw it tonite and thought it was cool and all but....ffs...someone please shoot Micheal Bay.
Funny, awesome action and visual fx, terrific sound and nicely shot....but utterly laden with Bay cheese and that shitty Hans Zimmer-style music that was literally copy/pasted from The Island.
Good flick and entertaining but crap at the same time.
But Transformers with more blood and profanity would be close with Die Hard with blood and profanity. Stupid fucking meatbags should have gotten popped like water balloons.
Grudge wrote:Ok I saw it yesterday, and I have to say that sure, the visuals were very nice, but some things were horribly, horriby stupid.
*SPOILERS*
Good things:
- Very nice visuals in general, as usual when Michael Bay is directing
- A couple of really top notch visual scenes, for example in the beginning when that Deceptecon was sending Hummers and tanks flying in the attack on the US base, and then when they called in the AC-130 to take out that scorpion robot, that was pure ownage. Then there was one scene right after Bumblebee got his legs shot off, when the main characters was recovering from the explosion, they found each other's hands and it was really campy, but it did look really good.
- The teenage main characters weren't as annoying as I had expected, that teeny-love subplot was ok I think, and expected regarding this film's main target audience.
- Some genuinely funny moments, for examples when the guy's mother started talking about masturbation, I was loling irl. John Turturro had a couple of lol moments too.
- Robots using the Internet to find information (ebay etc.), very nice touch, again good thinking regarding the target audience.
Bad things:
- That entire "hacking" subplot. I mean, come on! Wtf were they thinking there? Hacking a system with a "sound", and then a virus taking out every network in the world? Credit people with some fucking intelligence ffs.
- That annoying little robot that was doing the hacking. Seemed more to me like a spawn of George Lucas' sick and demented imagination than anything else. I half expected Jar-Jar Binks to step onto the stage there every time I saw that robot.
- Some genuinely unfunny moments, for example those fat black dudes, very contrieved and meh. But the kids in the theatre were laughing and applauding, so I guess target audience etc. etc.
- Most of the transformers were nothing but extras, lacking any kind of character. The Deceptacons weren't even properly presented, they just got a caption with their name and then everyone started shooting. No introductions, no motivations, no nothing. That aspect felt just like another episode of a Saturday morning cartoon, which is ok I guess regarding the heritage, but that doesn't really make for good cinema.
- Some minor stupid plot points, like why go into the middle of a city and call for air support? (because it makes for a good place to have a visually impressive final fight, I guess).
Why that whole thing about "putting the cube in my chest" without offering any explanation as to why that would destroy it and kill the robot? (because it provides a way for the weak main character to actually kill the big and almost indestructable bad guy, that's why), and finally why dump the remaining "dead" robots into the ocean where "the pressure and cold will destroy any trace of them" (yeah right, because you have already 2 more films planned, and you can't kill of the main bad guy in the first one).
Summing all this up I can't really see how some of you guys can give it a 10/10 (which would imply that the movie is essentially perfect, and the best movie ever made) or even a 9/10, when there are so many incongrueties and stupid plot points. But sure, slap enough impressive visuals on top of a shitty script, and people will gobble it up regardless and become too dazzled to think beyond the glossy CG-animated surface and Wagneresqe soundtrack.
In that scene where the mom asks the kid if he was masturbating, this kid who looked 7 or 8 was sitting in front of me said to his dad "Daddy what is masturbation??" I'd have killed to see his face then lol
Flags of our Fathers - 7/10
Letters from Iwo Jima - 8/10
Flags was more like a history lesson. It was interesting, but it didn't make you feel anything for the characters. Letters had a lot more character development and you identify with the soldiers.
Watching the two movies gives you a good picture of both sides of the war. Watching them back to back though, you'll notice that they recycled a few of the CG scenes. Lazy Clint Eastwood! :icon33:
I just got finished watching Rattatoulie and Even Almighty at the Drive-In theater and I though both movies were pretty stupid.
I had high expectations for Evan Almighty, but it was not as funny as I hoped.
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Die Hard 4 - Cant beat the first one of course, but damn an entertaining piece. Even the missus who hates random shooting/blowing shit flicks liked it.
And the use of the single F-Bomb was well placed, I even thought old Brucie killed himself. Would of made a fitting, heroic end for the series.
Sure, it was pretty entertaining and fast paced (expecially at the beginning) but man, i expected a lot more whacking of people and general mafia madness... Plus there was this completely nonsensical love triangle story woven in, i could have done without that. I don't see what all the fuss was about in this one.
I'd give it a 6/10 but Leo got brutally capped completely unexpectedly, and it made me laugh quite hard, so i give a whole extra point for that. :icon14:
I just finished watching 8 Films To Die For-After Dark Horrorfest. All blood, guts, gore and veins hanging from the teeth kind of movies. I like them all except Reincarnation 7/10
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Really good character drama. I enjoyed it immensely. Also, it had an absolutely amazing soundtrack.
Without giving too much away, does Samuel L. Jackson play a purely bad guy in that movie, or is there something redeeming about his actions that make him a protagonist of sorts?
Really good character drama. I enjoyed it immensely. Also, it had an absolutely amazing soundtrack.
Without giving too much away, does Samuel L. Jackson play a purely bad guy in that movie, or is there something redeeming about his actions that make him a protagonist of sorts?
He's not a bad guy at all. Sure he chains a girl up but she's so reprehensible that it seems like he's doing her a favor.
