T2 sucked. Embarrassingly bad. T3 sounds like they took the criticism from the last movie to heart. I didn’t have the gripes about this one that others have mentioned…yes, I see what you’re saying, but it didn’t have as many Giant Swinging Balls above the Great Pyramid moments.
It’s a Big Dumb Explodey Summer Blockbuster, and it did it better than the last one.
Just saw this tonight and figured I’d drop a few random comments in this thread:
I know MB loves T&A in his movies but did we really need a full minute long shot of the new chicks pantied ass as the opening shot of the movie? She was better looking than Megan Fox and she has a nice ass but is that really the best way to start this movie?
Every chick in this movie, even the extras, were 23-25yr olds wearing the shortest skirts possible and were dolled up to look like they were gearing up for a Maxim shoot. It was excessive.
The special effects were outstanding. I really feel like we’ve reached the point where, with enough money and talent, anything you can imagine can be realistically placed into a live action seen. The robots looked like they were really on the ground and touching things etc…
Fights were much better than the others.
To the poster above who said that the autobots didn’t have any permanent damage I disagree. When they were in robot form they were banged up from the very beginning of the movie. For some reason though when they turned into vehicles they always looked like they just rolled off the line at the factory. Was kind of jarring.
Why didn’t Cybertron get sucked back into the black hole the first time they shut the gate down mid-transport? The second time they did the planet got sucked back to wherever it came from.
Why bring Cybertron to Earth? Wasn’t the planet, and all of it’s people, dead?
Shia Labeouf has pretty good comedic delivery.
When they were loaded up on the shuttle and the thing was shot down, the robots said they had hidden compartments in the strap on boosters and they survived when it destaged during the boost phase. Ok, so the strap on was full of robots. How did the thing launch then?
The biggest plot hole I couldn’t understand was when Optimus comes back to save the day and says something to the effect of “We had to let them think we had left so they would come out and try to destroy you”. You’re telling me that part of the autobots plan was to let the Decepticons destroy Chicago and kill 1000’s of people just to draw them out or something? That doesn’t fit at all and makes no sense for Optimus Prime.
I ‘internet know’ someone from ILM that did some work on it, you cannot believe the requirements some of the shots had:
I am a little surprised no one else has complained how dumb it was to have another planet appear in our orbit and have it not effect our world at all. There should have been earthquakes and natural disasters from the gravity. The freaking cartoon that this movie stole it’s plot from even had that! In fact the disasters were the point. Megatron planed for Cybertron’s gravity to tear the Earth apart and he would extract the energon from it.
I find it shocking so many people liked this. Sure some of the fight scenes and special effects were pretty good but the story was completely idiotic.
I’m sorry but…why in god’s name are you watching this movie if you want a story? There was never any indication from the moment Transformers (the first movie) was announced as a movie, much less a Michael Bay one, that these movies would have any type of actual story element to them. The first movie gets a semi-pass because origin stories make for actual stories…but the other ones are just excuses to cash in on the franchise and for summer movie goers to watch shit get blow’d up. Any expectation of this movie to be different than what it exactly is is just an attempt to be pretentious about movies.
Because a story and characters that matter turn a crap fest into a decent movie or a decent movie into a great one and I like to be entertained by great movies. But clearly that is just more of my pretentious film snobbery.
Besides, even all that aside, I can be forgiving if the crap fest in question overcomes its stupidity with amazing visuals and this was just two more hours of something we saw twice already inter cut with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s gynecological exam.
But you’re right, we shouldn’t expect anything from expensive movies that come out in months when it’s hot outside. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to attend a screening of !Khung’s 67 hour long Masterpiece Ode to a Dandelion at the Kirkgaard Theatre (curse this keyboard for not having an umlaut! Sigh…).