Transformers the sequel June 24

Just saw the movie with my son. If you’re going in expecting high caliber writing and a deeply moving storyline then go see something else. If all you expect out of this movie is giant robots kicking the crap out of each other then this is a must see. My son and I heartily give it two thumbs up.

And the teaser for Avatar: The Last Airbender was awesome. I hope that movie can deliver. The storyline was pretty complex for a kid’s show.

And the controversy begins…

I took my niece to the first one and thought it was one of the stupidest, noisy and nauseating movies I’ve ever seen. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to subject themselves to such torture, never mind actually enjoying it!

I did not like the first one. Too much confusing battling, was not emotionally invested enough to care. Bad guys looked like the good guys, etc. So, I don’t plan on seeing the sequel.

However, I am enjoying the pun, metaphor and snark-fest going on by all the reviewers/critics I am seeing on rottentomatoes.com regarding this movie.

For example, this one from Roger Ebert:

The first one was great solely for the interplay between the Marines, John Turturro, and Jon Voight. Everything else was pretty meh.

OK , finally seen it

Two disapointing scenes

One was the aircraft carrier in the movie getting sunk, this is shown on the teasers so I am not worried about putting spoilers up.

The second

When sam is pretty much dead, then the fuckers brought him back to life, I am pretty much of the opinion that Shia Lebouef was the wrong person to play the juvie lead, I would so rathered Megan Fox take the whole lead role

Otherwise , I enjoyed the movie

scuse , I should have said three disapointments.Unlike the first movie there was no climatic moment when the military calls in strike package bravo in the first movie, and we all get revved. Its there in the fallen , but it lost something in the translation.

The movie is different from the first, but I was no less wowwed.

declan

If they’d cut 3, maybe 4 minutes of film, I could take my 6 year old boys. Who are JAZZED to see it. Now, I can’t. My take:

  1. There’s too big a body count.
  2. I will have to explain what ‘losing his cherry’ means before I want to, I don’t need to do it now.
  3. Humping.
  4. WTF is up with the robot-snot and things wandering around Sam’s brainpan?
  5. Dija get dizzy with all the Camera-spinning-around-the-robot-moments?
  6. If Turturro had just looked UP at the swinging masses and said nothing, it would have been, like, subtle…an shit.
  7. Finally, we get to see Optimus kicking ass…then he’s dead…but he comes back…and gets power-ups (NEW FOR XMAS!)
  8. There are Transformers in Heaven?

It’s definitely the good and bad parts from the original dialed up x10. Overall, I’d say it’s worse than the original, because they tried too hard to have a complex plot this time (and it completely turns into unintelligble crap) and it’s just too long. Too much crappy Bay humor (how many scenes of humping do we need?) Still, the robot fight scenes are pretty awesome. The Prime battle in the forest is simply awesome.

Good lord, can none of you just have FUN anymore? It was supposed to be FUN, people, and my son and I enjoyed the living heck out of it.

I love watching Lawrence of Arabia, and Citizen Kane, and All Quiet on the Western Front, but sometimes you just gotta eat a ton of popcorn, have a garbage-can sized Coke that costs $5.00, and forget about reality for a little while. Maybe I’m just an aberrant intelligent person that doesn’t mind humping dog (and robot) jokes, I guess I am what I am.

I won’t mind humping dog jokes in about 5 years. Yea, okay, Bay doesn’t owe me anything for not having my kids earlier, but this sucker’s owned by HASBRO, it’s got a fuckton of toy sales potential and they KNOW it. So, I cave and expose my kids to something I don’t think they’re ready for (Hash brownies and Mom overhearing cherry popping) and have to take the heat for it.

They could have changed 0.01% of the movie and made it a helluva lot more accessible to THE KIDS THEY’RE SELLING TO. But heck, you know, that PG-13 makes it popular with the 12-18 year old demo.

Just thought I would mention it , but Wheelie is the bomb

Declan

Sure we can, but humour better suited to Transformers Movie by Friedberg and Seltzer is not fun. It is anti-fun. Fun repellent. It takes what should be an enjoyable fast food movie and serves it with a generous portion of sheep manure.

Will be seeing this in about an hour…not exactly excited after reading most of those reviews.

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This was possibly the worst big-budget movie I’ve ever seen. I know that they’re not going to be very good, but this one was just bad. Worse than Pearl Harbor, even.

When the credits rolled, both my wife and I simultaneously shouted “IT’S OVER!” and got the hell out.

How is it stupid? Let me count the ways:

  1. Possibly the worst editing in the history of big-budget blockbusters. And I don’t mean “the robots fighting was confusing” bad editing, I mean:

a. Shia and Girlie hopped into Bumblebee in some warehouse by the ocean. The very next cut had them driving up alongside a mountain. The next cut had them in the middle of some forest - though they were just by the docks no less than 20 seconds prior.

b. The gang all ends up in the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. They awaken some sort of British transformer that is a SR 71 airplane. The British transformer blows out a wall so he can get out of the museum. They leave the A&S Museum to walk out into… an abandoned airfield in the middle of a desert.

Literally. I am not making this up.

c. They end up in Egypt. Shia’s driving Bumblebee. Shot one: desert. Next cut: grasslands. Next cut: city. Next cut: desert.

d. The final battle takes place near the pyramids. One shot has Cairo clearly in the background. However, the city disappears for the rest of the movie. Where? Who knows!

  1. (Mentioned earlier). Shia and Co. are in the desert trying to get the MacGuffin to the currently-deceased Optimus Prime. They’re in Bumblebee. Instead of driving the final 2-3 miles to Optimus and getting out of the car right beside him, Shia gets out and walks the rest of the way. WHY???

  2. Shia’s parents: the less said the better. Wait… scratch that. The scene where Dad wouldn’t let go of Shia was so pointless that I fear I damaged my optical nerve from rolling my eyes as much as I did.

  3. What’s with the swearing? And the constant sex jokes? Isn’t this a movie where parents would take their kids? Why have that crap in this movie knowing that a good percentage of the Box Office gross is going to be the 10 and under set?

  4. Why the big deal about the part of the cube being hid by Girlie, when it was forgotten for 65% of the movie? She had it in a safe, back in LA (or wherever)… the little Destructocon (or whatever) was trying to get it. But once she gets on the plane, the thing is forgotten. (Except for the inevitable sequel).

  5. The robot twins sounding like two white kids imitating late-90’s ghetto talk. :rolleyes:

  6. Shia’s dead, or at least unconscious. How did he know Girlie said “I love you” first?

I want my 2.5 hours back. At least I got to see the trailer for the next Roland Emmerich time-waster, which actually had an aircraft carrier destroying the White House… by crashing into it! :smiley: It’s quality entertainment like that which keeps me coming back for more.

Actually they used that part of the cube to awaken Jetfire, the SR-71 Blackbird.

Heh. Oh, of all the things I could start in over this film ('cause everyone’s always interested in my pithy remarks, of course)…

Well, there’s one thing that came to mind: [SPOILERS, of course]

"So, we’ve got a bunch of our men unexpectedly on the ground on the Egypt/Jordan border—which is where the Pyramids are, now, apparently—fighting a major alien robot attack, which by many indications may be vitally important to the fate of our planet. And they say they need immediate air support?

Hmm, let’s see…air support…well, this is important, and time is of the essence…and it’s a major threat, so it needs to be really good air support. I mean really top notch, well equipped, and well armed. And capable of getting to the Egyptian/Jordanian border area really fast…and if the situation gets bad enough, we might need to destroy everything within a couple mile radius of the battlefield, just to save the planet. Hmmm, it’d probably help if at least some of the forces spoke english, too, so the guys on the ground could direct their fire and targeting better. Hmmm…who to pick…

Quick, see what air assets the Jordanians can scrounge up, even if it’s only a couple of choppers full of commandos!"

:smack:

Eh, that’s the intersection of politics, marketing, and filming location arrangements for ya.

My quick reply box does not show up in the iPhone for some strange reason. Anyways, I was tempted to resurect one of the battleship threads, but I will throw it out here. [SPOILER]

In the Egypt scene, our fearless MIB type calls in a NGFS mission from the USS Kidd, using a rail gun that the general public does not know about[/SPOILER]

exactly how far off the coast is the pryamids

Declan

Hard to say, but it must be one hit wonder as they couldn’t use it one more time to…well, I won’t even bother with the spoiler, you know what I’m talkin’ about.

I’m not convinced this new series is marketed towards kids, that struck me as the realm of Transformers Animated. The Bay series strikes me as being marketed to the older teens/20-somethings who liked the earlier Transformers series (whichever ones they watched, be it the Original, Armada, etc).

This is a Transformers movie, isn’t there like an 80% chance Optimus dies, and after that about a 40% chance he comes back in the same movie?

Anyway, the Nostalgia Critic seemed to find it er… adequately satisfying, so I may see it next weekend.