Transformers the sequel June 24

Cafe Society
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I enjoy the action, though a lo of scenes are “let’s do it because we got ass-kicking CG!” A lot of unnecessary explosions, thud, CG and needlessly comedy. There are also way too many shouting, complaining and whining. I felt like I was watching a cartoon somehow drawn live-action.

The first one is way superior. But for a mindless movie…it’s okay.

Now let’s begin the cascade of nitpicking!

  1. Is there only one space body orbiting the entire planet?
  2. The Fallen can move just fine; why wait for Megatron to be revived?
  3. Yes, the US can just send a squadron of F16 and bombers over the Egypt without diplomatic consquences.
  4. Bumblebee can’t tell a robot in disguise when he is one himself. Irony.
  5. They lock the most important piece of MacGauffin in a vault without motion sensor, infrared red detector, electric fences…okay, those can be excused, but they forgot about security cameras.
  6. After 2 years of fighting Decepticon, the army has not reverse-engineer their wreckage and develop anti-Deception weapons
  7. It has been proven that times and times again that fighter get shot down and helicopter are sitting ducks, but yet they still do it.
  8. “An air-craft carrier doesn’t sunk”. That what they do at the Battle of Midway
  9. Aliens had built a sun devouring doomsday machine into the most famous of all pyramid yet it has not been discovered even though it is just under a single layer of rock.
  10. Apparently Decepticon does not have thermal sensors for all their superior technology.
  11. The Law of Movie Explosion: It only kills when the script says so.
  12. Somehow, everyone’s skin is resistant to shrapnel.
  13. Only the US can fight the Decepticon. The entire Republic of China’s few millions strong army count for nothing (to be fair, if this is an anime, only the Japanese can fight the bad guys).
  14. All the Primes died to form a tomb around the key only to have its prison blasted open by just a physical thwack.
  15. For all the talk about the right to owe the matrix of leadership, the Fallen just take it away.
  16. Hint: To destroy a transformer, turn them into million of pieces of junk metal. Do not leave their body whole. Good guys and bad guys make this mistake all the time.
  17. Everyone forgot about the piece of allspark shard with the main female lead when Optimus Prime died.
  18. Despite Megatron announcing his alien invasion plans worldwide, people are still leisurely buying hams instead of raiding malls and hiding in bunkers. If several meteor strikes have not clue us earthlings in, I don’t know what would.
  19. Villagers are apparently fine with US soldiers suddenly appearing in their midst and don’t flee even though it is clear that they are preparing for battle
  20. A second rail-gun shot would have wasted that Doomsday machine, but they didn’t do it…for unexplainable reasons.
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I liked the scene where the helicoptor was transporting Megatron’s body to (I think) Diego Garcia. They lower the body to about 10, 20 feet from the ground… and then drop him. :rolleyes: What, you couldn’t be bothered to lower him the remaining few feet?

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What I didn’t understand was the “cube sliver” and how Sam deals with it. [spoiler]So for days, weeks, or months, since whenever the last movie ended, this sliver has been sitting quietly in his shirt. (I guess he doesn’t do laundry very often.) He takes it out and when he sets it on a table, it melts through it and the floor, starts a fire, and turns household appliances into evil bots.

Why didn’t it melt through his shirt before this?

And faced with this extremely dangerous item, does he call the government so they can put it in their secure facility with the other one? Does he even tell anyone in the government about it?

No, he puts it in a film can and gives it to his girlfriend. Why doesn’t it melt through the film can or the safe she puts it in? [/spoiler]And this is just the start of the stupid that is this film.

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It’s worse than you think.

That is Optimus Prime’s body.

Bet they just do it because “we got the CG and we could!”

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I think everyone already knew about the various killer robots on the loose and simply ignored it, because there’s not much you can do about kilelr robots. Also, it’s clear that the Decepticons don’t really understand the concept of ‘Orbital Bombardment’. To be fair, there’s reason they might want to investigate some things. However, there are time when nothing does the trick except a slug of iron being shot onto a planetary surface at 20,000 mph.

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I had rock bottom expectations because of all the bad reviews, turns out, I can still be disappointed. It was craptastical in the extreme.

Way too much film devoted to things that weren’t giant robots fighting. Now that we know the Transformers, I expected the focus to be on them, not the stupid humans.

The bummer of it is, you’d better see it in the theatre because it just won’t be fun on the small screen.:frowning:

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Y’know, I’ve thought for awhile that the '07 movie (and the new one as well, to some extent) actually worked pretty well as a crossover between Transformers, and whatever weird property most of the human characters come from.

…the slight problem being, of course, that the humans aren’t from an existing franchise. Oops. :smack:

But aside from that detail—hey, I’m telling ya, the story mechanics would make a lot more sense.

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I live in Indy, where there is a new multiplex IMAX, and I know about the whole “screen size thing”, but the entire movie was never supposed to be in IMAX, just “selected scenes”. You could tell what scenes too cuz the screen would get brighter, clearer, and bigger.

As far as the movie goes, it was great, I loved it, and I would see it 100 more times.

Aside from the “comedy” that was dialed to 11, there isn’t much else with the movie that annoys me to the point that everyone else here is saying.

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I can’t remember hating a movie this much. Ever.

The transforming into cars thing is supposed to be a disguise. Why then are all the paint jobs so flamboyant?

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The only flamboyant paint job I can think of is Prime with his flames. All the others are just a single solid color or two.

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Unless you count the newly tatted Starscream…but he’s not really hiding anymore

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I really enjoyed the first one, despite the camera work, overly complicated robot parts, and some of the deviations from original source.

This one was clearly more expensive, and more Michael Bay. Splosions! Boobies! Robot scrotum!

But it lacked some of the sweetness and characterization of the first one. They just went all out over the top with everything and it was very very silly.

The only thing it was missing was a rousing encore of “America, Fuck YEAH!”.

On the other hand, either I’m getting used to the robot designs or they toned down the overly complex designs, which was nice. And it was enjoyable on a purely Michael Bay level.

But yeah, in every respect besides budget and the hotness that is Sam’s roomate, the first one was superior.

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The Witwickys in one form or another have been a staple of Transformers in virtually every incarnation. The military alliance is new, but makes sense, and with Micheal Bay was inevitable. But they are more NPCs anyway.

The thing I don’t get from both movies is why newly created transformers are always evil.

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Aside from [del]Spike[/del] Sam, I shoulda said (admittedly this sounds like backpedaling on my part, now—though I did say most of the human characters). And even he’s changed enough from his original incarnation to be considered, if not a new character, a severe reboot. Or if one was doing the movie as a weird crossover, he might be a fusion of a Witwicky and one of the characters from the hypothetical human-centric series.

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We went to see it last night with our son.

I went in expect to HATE it from all the bad press and reviews.
I didn’t hate it. I didn’t love it. If there wasn’t any hype about it, just another SMASH-BOOM-DESTRUCTO kinda popcorn brainless flick. Completely brainless violence with some continuity gaps that only the anal retentive movie watcher catches. (Enter the Smithsonian/exit into a desert…though I have to say that I’ve never heard an entire audience go, “Whuh?” at the enter the desert scene.)

It also helped that apparently there is a $5 deal at the AMC on monday nights, so 3 for 15 was a very pleasent surprise. (the $11.50 spent on a large popcorn and large drink was anal rape, but I digress.)

What I found extremely out of place and disjointed was the Naked Butt of John Tuturro. ( What! WHY was this even necessary to what was going on? ) The twins were extremely annoying and I wished them death. There was alot of inappropriate language tossed in there. Bay forgot that kids watch this and threw in the dogs humping (WTH?), a robot humping a leg (WTH) and swearing I think for laughs that it just didn’t work at all. Somewhere in the testoserone filled days of making a tweener action film, Bay must have just said, " FUCK IT." and threw in some " pussy" and “bitch/bitches”.

John Turturo never fails in any of his parts and his bit at the border crossing, " These are my people. I’m 1/30th arab…" was very funny. Possibly the highlight of the film.

Shia was solid and I liked his mental breakdown in astronomy class scene as well as meeting his new roommate. ( whom I expected to die at any moment because of the unwritten rule in hollywood that anyone new added will die so they don’t have to kill off the hero.)

His roommate was forgettable.

Megan Fox’s only purpose was to look hot and be hot. She fulfilled on those parts and really didn’t have to actually speak at all. She didn’t do bad when she acted. She didn’t do good, either. I am sure that if they made a movie where all she did was walk around in high heels,a bikini and fry up bacon it would be the #1 movie of all time.

The Robot heaven thing was ummmmm…what?

ARE there no GIRL ROBOTS? ( I thought I heard a female robot voice towards the end, but there carnage was overwhelming.)

My 11 year old sons favorite bit, " Mojo, stop dominating Frankie" . Ever try to explain dominating/domination/ Alpha dog stuff to an 11 year old? I am pretty liberal when it comes to explaining life questions to my kids, so I can only imagine how difficult it will be for some puritanical parents to deal with this.

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I didn’t watch Transformers growing up so my knowledge of The Fallen is limited to Wikipedia. Was The Fallen really the Emperor to Megatron’s Vader? When Megatron called him “master,” the theatre collectively groaned - it was just so cheesy and pointless.

I mean, Megatron’s already Elrond and Agent Smith but Vader too? That’s overkill man.

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Shirley I think you’re experiencing what we’re experiencing. My anger doesn’t burn with the fury of a thousand suns…it’s just that, I wasn’t expecting a GREAT movie. I wanted a Good movie. There’s was a good movie here, it was just covered with 6 inches of crappy frosting.

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I feel that when I watch it again on DVD I will realize what a pile of dog crap it really is.

It was almost as if it were produced by Walmart. Bland, serviceable, cheap thrills, falls apart after twenty minutes.

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No. If you have three factions, the Autobots (Optimus Prime & Co), the Decepticons (Megatron & Co), and Unicron, The Fallen is on Unicron’s side.

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The three motorcycles were girl robots.

Although I really think it was funny that they only get one line…then immediately die.