Oh may I kick your ass in RISK soon

Shia's story? Good. The FX? Excellent (though I still give the edge to Pirates 3). The robot fights? Fun. The first time. And the second. But afterwards? Man, I was fairly bored by the end of it. I couldn't tell a few of the Autobots and Decepticons apart, and the Optimus Prime/Megatron fight just didn't get me excited like it should have.

I'd typically go B- because of how uninterested I was towards the end, but I'll bump it up a notch due to ILM.

B

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Like most of the reasonable posters here, the final half hour became a wee bit too crowded to truly enjoy. I didn't even realize Jazz died until Optimus was holding what was left of him.

But everything else was good, dumb un-PC fun. I think POTC3 was a better summer blockbuster though?

***/****

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I'm nursing a eyeballs headache right now due to having to sit front row, far right and craning my neck up at the screen. Still it was worth it, enough that I'm actually considering going back again.

I give it a A-, due to what Turrkaa mentioned at the beginning, the fast fight scenes coupled with quick cuts made following them a tad hard. Adding to that fact that once they transformed it was hard to tell Autobot from Deceptacon, except those like OP and BumbleBee who had enough distinctive coloring to follow. As well the plot falls apart once they leave the dam. What was the point of taking the Cube to the city of all places? That's strategically stupid, no army commander would endanger thousand of citizens like that. Why not go out to the desert and have it out? As well the end when Sam lifts the cube-was he trying to push it into OP and Megatron got in the way or was it deliberate on Sam's part? That scene was edited badly.

The other thing that was nice was the comedy throughout the movie. An actionemdy?LOL The crowd at my theater clapped and laughed when the girl revealed her self in Sam's room and the mother cheered Sam on for supposedly scoring,lol. I found most of the humor well placed, always lifting the scene from the heavy action stuff.

The special F/X were magnificent! Very believable and wonderfully done. The transformations were just amazing and graceful, as if someone had actually built a robot. When Optimus Prime showed up I was just cheering him on. He's more man than some actors today, lol.

The actors/actresses, well I forget Megan Fox's characters name but it was obvious she was just eye candy. Thankfully she wasn't the screaming, damsel in distress cliche. Shia is really growing on me. He's not the most handsome guy around, more like the geeky nerd who has some looks to him. Still he carries his scenes well and was the best out of the bunch. If he does well in Indy 4, and he picks good parts I see his growth and popularity skyrocketing. Nothing fancy, just steady good parts and A list popularity.

John Voight started out well, and if he had stayed in the war room, would have good. The moment he left the war room his character just got silly and terrible. He needs to retire, he's become the go to guy for generic male cliches in authority.

PS..Optimus Prime's voice makes me quiver!

x

So...

How about that low-blow at the president? Anyone else crack up?

Shes engaged to Brian Austen Green.

I no longer like her.

I'm sure she'll dump his W list ass after this. That's too embarassing for a hot chick trying to make an Alba-like career.

2500 years and finally someone has the balls to just say fuck having an actual plot. I am so glad to be alive, in this golden age of modern Hollywood, when the perfect blend of product placement and an endless trailer can be sold to the public as 2 1/2 hours of entertainment smoothie. At least there is no pretense this crap is good for you. The sly reference to his previous opus masterpiece, Armegeddon, was the deft touch of a master at work. Bravo Mr. Bay.

Is it just me or has Mr. Bay made his entire career on repackaging Top Gun into what ever movie he happens to be attached.

Hour One-Is this about over, because this seems to have lasted over 2 hrs. Wait Optimus Prime hasn't even shown up, OMG I think there is more than 30 minutes left.

Hour Two-Ok yes there are some cool visuals and FX, but shit couldn't they just get it over. I am concerned that Josh Duhamel may not get to see you his young daughter. I can't believe they would introduce her and not have some slow moving scene where he is reunited with her. However, this movie has got to be close to over and yet no scene. Could Mr. Bay be going for some kind of political statement on the war in Iraq? I think he just might be...

Day 3.. I mean Hour 3-I can't believe this is what passes for the great escape in this country. No wonder we are so fucked. Between blowing our money on crap like this and waiting for Paris Hilton to get arrested again. The President can pardon a convicted felon and know one cares.


If you loved this movie, no problem. I could see how it could rock your boat, if action scenes are the key criteria for you. If you care about those little intangibles like acting, coherent plot, character devolpment, etc. then this may not be your cup of tea.

If they just could have gotten Megan Fox's dad to warble "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" while they made out on top of old Bumblebee, then all would have been forgiven.

I think this year may have passed 1990 as the nadir of movies as entertainment, when the top five included Home Alone, Ghost, Pretty Woman, and TMNT.

One more thing. If this is being referred to as better than sex, you folks are doing something really wrong. What the hell are you guys and girls doing? It ain't sex, because if it is, then that is probably how Children of Men really starts.

Heh!



(Either that or Children of Men is the start of the movies that might be really be considered as better than sex...)

I have to say that I let the hype get to me on this one which probably is the reason I am a little disappointed. I can accept this movie only as a jump off to a hopefully refined series of sequels. The action was great though and it has some of the best FX seen in a while. As earlier posters mentioned two things really bothered me about the film 1 all the M.Bay movie references! There was another one I noticed from Armegeddon: The scene at the end of the movie with Shia and Megan under the same tree with lights and sunset as Ben and Liv. For 2 slow down some of the good action scenes. It reminded me of Godzilla. In Godzilla they cheated with the effects by filming the movie entirely in the rain to mask some of the terrible effects. I feel by speeding up the fight scenes they didn't want you to see what was really going on. So far I like LFODH better. It will still make a ton of money but I have serious doubts now about anything over $300 mil.

grade:Bee-otch

Oh my God. I agree with basically everything Bradley said. During the first hour, I was was really, really enjoying myself. Then it got steadily worse.

A-Hmmm

http://www.joblo.com/bay-doubles-up

So that's how they kept that budget down.

As a Transformer fan I'll spare you all too many thoughts and say that the biggest praise that I could give this is that I am completely satisfied after seeing it.

It's the first summer blockbuster in awhile that's lived up to the promise of a summer blockbuster.

I didn't like John Turturro at all, but none of the other humans bothered me too much. Would have liked to see the Bumblebee/Barricade fight, and would have actually loved to see a better car chase sequence in this part of the movie.

Really loved the first half, wasn't let down by the rest, but the charm is really in the first half.

The things that really nailed it for me are:

- The relationship between Sam and Bumblebee is primary to the Spike/Bumblebee dynamic of the cartoon series, and it was captured perfectly here.

- The dialog between Optimus and Megatron in the streets is definately cheesy but is so ripped right out of the series.

- All of the 'bots were awesome (even Frenzy didn't bother me). Especially my beloved Ironhide and Ratchet.

Thought it was weird that they didn't really mourn over Jazz though.

Andaroo

There was one thing though taht I didn't like.

its true that decepticons almost always kick the autobot's ass. But in this film, it was a little too excessive.

Except for that one on one of Prime and Bonecrusher, all the fights ended with autobots getting their ass kicked (i don't actually call the barricade and bumblebee fight as a fight cause i don't know how the hell hat ended like that).

Think about it. The humans took out 3 decepticons in the films. Add Megatron and thats 4.

The combined forces of all the autobots could only take out Devastator. Prime took out Bonecrusher.

Ironhide, as cool as he was, got owned as badly as Ratchet.

Great capture of how weak autobots are but a bit excessive

Wow that is genius.

Taking old scenes from Aramageddon to do some of the earth shots and asteroid type shots.

Pearl harbor for that ship scene.

LOL Michael Bay you are one very smart director.

oh and i would have preferred ratchet dying over jazz. I loved jazz always. but i can see him being a neccessity in any sequel.

Jazz was the weakest bot (everything about him sucked) in the film and glad he's the only one of the good bots that died.

Hey HEY HEY


Why are is a Transformers lover going around with box in his username?!?!!!! I demand conclusive answers!


You're giving boxes a bad name by loving this silly toy movie!

Jazz was the only one with the balls to charge into Devastator. Everyone else just covered and fought. and still lost.

When Megatron showed up, Ironhide screamed for a Retreat. Jazz stood his ground.