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Box
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Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 12:52 am Posts: 25990
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andaroo wrote: The whole "masterbation" thing was pretty funny. The family had great chemistry. Also Ratchet's pheremone line and Ironhide's encounter with the family dog gave me a chuckle.
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Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:11 pm |
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roo
invading your spaces
Joined: Fri May 19, 2006 10:44 pm Posts: 6194
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Box wrote: You're a fraud and a sell-out.
"The price is right bitch!"
Oh god, I just quoted Sandler.
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Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:25 pm |
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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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Just another typical Michael Bay film. It's pretty much a mishmash of all his previous films, with some impressive FX and a silly story added in. Shia's plotline was the only one I really cared about, up until it merges with all the other ones, and it's too bad that it was cut up by lame stories about soldiers and hackers. The slapstick bit with all the autobots at his house while he's trying to retrieve the glasses was brilliant, and the fun found there was sorely lacking in the rest of the film. The big action scenes weren't all that impressive - mostly due to Bay's ineptitude as a director - even if the Transformers themselves looked great. By the time the final battle rolled around, I just wanted the film to end. A big disappointment, but I was foolish to expect anything else.
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Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:26 am |
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xiayun
Extraordinary
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:41 pm Posts: 25109 Location: San Mateo, CA
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Very good first half due to Shia and Bumblebee. Shia definitely has a bright future, and my heart actually sunk when Bumblebee was captured. Also a lot funnier than I anticipated, although the humor was a little overdone. Unfortunately, the Bay reverted back to many of his trademarks, and the actions felt emotionless and empty. I kind of wanted it to end. That dragged down the grade a bunch, but still, the way they transform on the fly is just unbelievable and brought excitement within me every time, so overall I'd give it a B-.
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Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:42 am |
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DIB2
All Star Poster
Joined: Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:57 am Posts: 4669 Location: Anchorage, AK
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the most fun I've had at the theater since 300, this film is Phenomenal. I've seen it Twice and still havent quenched my thurst. The CGI is OUT OF THIS WORLD. Even though some scenes were over the top, they did nothing to harm the film, They just made it 10 times more Entertaining
my favorite scenes
Barricade: Are you User: LadiesMan217?
Bumblebee being Chased by Barricade, with awsome song in the backround
Blackout Annihilating a base at the begging of the film
this hole film is an orgasmic rollercoaster ride from star to finish, EVERONE MUST SEE THIS FILM
best lines
Agent Simmons: She's a criminal. And criminals are HOT!
Autobot Jazz: What's up little bitches?
Frenzy: Oh shit!
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Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:10 am |
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Bradley Witherberry
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Joined: Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:13 pm Posts: 15197 Location: Planet Xatar
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DIB2 wrote: The CGI is OUT OF THIS WORLD.
I can (barely) understand people enjoying the action and the story, but the CGI was the most underwhelming part of this movie. I just don't understand the raves for it. Other than a few scenes where the Transformers were standing still, most of the animated action was too fast, too blurry, and set in poor lighting conditions. The CGI was adequate (though Bay's use of it was poor with shots too tight to show the action properly), but was nowhere near up to the current cutting edge standards...
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Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:42 am |
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Bradley Witherberry
Extraordinary
Joined: Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:13 pm Posts: 15197 Location: Planet Xatar
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loyalfromlondon wrote: bradley witherberry wrote: DIB2 wrote: The CGI is OUT OF THIS WORLD. I can (barely) understand people enjoying the action and the story, but the CGI was the most underwhelming part of this movie. I just don't understand the raves for it. Other than a few scenes where the Transformers were standing still, most of the animated action was too fast, too blurry, and set in poor lighting conditions. The CGI was adequate (though Bay's use of it was poor with shots too tight to show the action properly), but was nowhere near up to the current cutting edge standards... How do you explain everyone raving about the SFX and the probable Oscar win?
Dazzled by shiny stuff and low standards in general.
Does even the mighty loyalfromlondon think the cgi is the best of the best?
(imho, when I look at another current cgi movie like Ratatouille, the motion, textures, and resolution in Transformers don't compare...)
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Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:26 pm |
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JURiNG
ef star star kay
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:45 pm Posts: 3016 Location: Cairo, Egypt
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Hey Bradley..
have you seen 'Ratatouille' yet?
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Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:31 pm |
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Bradley Witherberry
Extraordinary
Joined: Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:13 pm Posts: 15197 Location: Planet Xatar
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JURiNG wrote: Hey Bradley..
have you seen 'Ratatouille' yet?
Just peeked in for 5 minutes so far -- I've got a Pixar posse I gotta wait up for...
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Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:36 pm |
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The Dark Shape
Extraordinary
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 3:56 am Posts: 12119 Location: Adrift in L.A.
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Pirates 3 still looks better, FX-wise. Sorry, guys, but shiny robots are a lot easier to pull off than living creatures.
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Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:16 pm |
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The Dark Shape
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Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 3:56 am Posts: 12119 Location: Adrift in L.A.
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I'm not sure if I agree with that (I loved the look of Pirates 3's finale), but even then, I tend to talk about the visuals as a whole, not just when they're spinning around in slow-motion.
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Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:27 pm |
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Jonathan
Begging Naked
Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:07 pm Posts: 14737 Location: The Present (Duh)
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The Dark Shape wrote: Pirates 3 still looks better, FX-wise. Sorry, guys, but shiny robots are a lot easier to pull off than living creatures.
Thank you.
I'm fine with Transformers winning the Oscar though, considering Pirates 2 won last year for most of the same SFX.
And POTC3's climax > Transformers' climax
There, I said it.
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Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:34 pm |
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The Dark Shape
Extraordinary
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 3:56 am Posts: 12119 Location: Adrift in L.A.
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ILM did both films, didn't they? Either way, I'm pretty sure they are guaranteed the Oscar this year (it'll be incredibly funny if Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix picks up the third nomination).
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Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:41 pm |
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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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I was more impressed with Die Hard's visuals than Pirates' visuals or Transformers' visuals....
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Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:43 pm |
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Anita Hussein Briem
Yes we can call dibs on the mountain guide
Joined: Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:47 pm Posts: 3290 Location: Houston
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Solid A. In fact, the most solid actioner since ID4, in my opinion. There hasn't been a real epic-scale action film in a long time -- lots of tentpole blockbusters with sparingly rationed action scenes, but nothing like this, no! Transformers just doesn't relent; when there isn't action, there's humour, and there's a whole lot more humour than most people could've anticipated.
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Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:52 pm |
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Mannyisthebest
Forum General
Joined: Wed May 10, 2006 3:53 pm Posts: 8636 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Well i live in South Asian area and when the call centre guy came up, the roof exploded in laughter that i missed like 2 mins. The Berni mac scenes made everyone howl in laughter.
Quote: Incredible entertainment...and I'm a film elitist.
My thoughts as well. Film elitists don't mind mind-less but good entertaining flicks.
The action was amazing but blurred but the slow motion scenes made up for that. The comedy was just beyond anything from the other blockbusters this year. I was disappointed with the big three this summer and this film easily made up for it. It will have great legs for sure.
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Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:57 pm |
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Excel
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Joined: Sat Aug 20, 2005 12:54 am Posts: 21931 Location: Places
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EH...TRANSFORMERS ISNT EVEN CLOSE TO THE SCALE OF ID4.
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Sun Jul 08, 2007 12:44 am |
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Mannyisthebest
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Its headed to about 20 million near it total though.
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Sun Jul 08, 2007 12:51 am |
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Anita Hussein Briem
Yes we can call dibs on the mountain guide
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Excel wrote: EH...TRANSFORMERS ISNT EVEN CLOSE TO THE SCALE OF ID4.
In a way, it is. Different kinds of large-scale action, I might say.
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Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 38315
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One of the best blockbusters since T2? Definitley right up there for being bad ass in all its action entertainment glory. Loved it.
Just so fun. Shia and Fox do very good jobs with the roles their given, and I definitley agree that humor is a strong point in the film. The glasses searching scene almost cites silent film humor, with the movement and reaction gags and all. Impressive stuff for sure. I'd love to see Bay make a comedy once, just to see if he could do it. Because a lot of his films, Transformers, The Rock, Bad Boys 1 and 2, do a good job at humor.
I have to agree though that the final battle was actually the weakest part of the film. Too much shit going on, too much smashing. Though it was still VERY impressive... just not as perfect as the first 2 hours. The earlier action scenes like the opening, Scorponak's attack, the Barricade-Bumblebee chase though, are fantastic... Some of the, if not the, best action scenes since T2, once again.
I missed Barricade in the final battle, he fucking RULED in his one scene. I wanna see more of him in the sequel.
But I definitley have to credit half the experience to the visuals... ho.ly. fuck. Revolutionary. Insane. I wanted to scream "oh my goddd" about 5 times. It really did cross the line of "wow, those visuals are great", and became "holy fuck there's robots on my screen", as one review said. This is definitley one of those benchmark visual blockbusters. Bay also did a good job not just with the SFX, but setting up the shots as well. When Shia sees Bumblebee looking up to the heavens, the meteor crash landings, the autobots scaling the dam, there was a handful of shots in here that genuinly gave me goosebumps.
A lot of the plot(make that most of the plot) was stupid, but I didn't really care. I actually liked what Bay did with his actors and writing though, the movie had genuine charm... and that's all someone could ask for.
A damn good ride.
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Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:15 am |
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Jmart
Superman: The Movie
Joined: Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:47 am Posts: 21165 Location: Massachusetts
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It's a fantastic film and one of the more enjoyable times I have at a movie in sometime..................until the final act.
It is wall to wall action. That's not the problem. My problem is it was too enclosed and because of that, too chaotic. I know this has been mentioned before, but hell, one of the five Transformers gets ripped apart and it's glossed over. Outside the few shots of the fighter jets, everything takes place inside that city, in the middle of all those buildings. Maybe it's just me, but shouldn't the final showdown be in a place where you can see everything and everyone spread out? Yes I know that would ruin the whole flare thing with Shia, and would also ruin the potential body count (Was anyone shown being killed in the finale?) but at least you could see the robots in all their glory? Everything just seemed to blend in and that didn't quite work as well as the previous action scenes before it. It's also about ten minutes too long.
And speaking of flares, does every Bay film have to feature one?
That saying, everything else pretty much works. The film has spectacular action sequences. That's not to be unexpected from a Bay film. Actually, early on, the action reminded me a lot of Pearl Harbor (Also liked the Armageddon reference). What caught me off guard though was the amount of comedy this film had, much of it coming from that small robot whose name escapes me. The best scene in the film works because of the comedic timing, which is amazing because it involves five CGI characters. I'm talking about the scene at Shia's house with him and Fox trying to find the glasses, while having the robots outside the window (Aka - The Masturbation Scene). That was very well done.
So if I had to grade each act of the film, I would grade each....
I - A+
II - A+
III - B-
Overall grad: A-
The film gets bonus points though for Jon Turturro and having Jon Voight shooting a shotgun.
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Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:13 am |
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Thegun
On autopilot for the summer
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Overall very solid and the most satisfying of the tentpoles after Die Hard. Good humor, amazing effects, and overall very polished film, action was good but not spectacular, (At times I was like, I can't see anything) The actual ending was as I feared being very cheesy, but I can overlook it.
After seeing this, I think Speilberg made a great choice putting Shia in Indy 4. He's easily the best actor of his generation right now.
A-
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Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:53 pm |
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roo
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Jmart007 wrote: Outside the few shots of the fighter jets, everything takes place inside that city, in the middle of all those buildings. Maybe it's just me, but shouldn't the final showdown be in a place where you can see everything and everyone spread out?
Visually? No. Explosions, debris, familiar environements help sell it. If the Transformers were all fighting out in the open in the mountains or the desert it would not have been as interesting as it was.
There's no story reason in the movie for them to go into the city, Duhamel's character is just like "Let's take it to the city!". If I put on my fanboy cap for a second, you could make a case that maybe he thought that the concrete in the buildings and city in general would dampen the detectability of the cube until they could get it to the military, since that's the reason they gave for building the Hoover Dam around the AllSpark. That would have been a good additional line to add to that scene, but whatever...
But really it's just because city destruction is cool and explosions are hot
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Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:58 pm |
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Jmart
Superman: The Movie
Joined: Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:47 am Posts: 21165 Location: Massachusetts
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andaroo wrote: Jmart007 wrote: Outside the few shots of the fighter jets, everything takes place inside that city, in the middle of all those buildings. Maybe it's just me, but shouldn't the final showdown be in a place where you can see everything and everyone spread out? Visually? No. Explosions, debris, familiar environements help sell it. If the Transformers were all fighting out in the open in the mountains or the desert it would not have been as interesting as it was. There's no story reason in the movie for them to go into the city, Duhamel's character is just like "Let's take it to the city!". If I put on my fanboy cap for a second, you could make a case that maybe he thought that the concrete in the buildings and city in general would dampen the detectability of the cube until they could get it to the military, since that's the reason they gave for building the Hoover Dam around the AllSpark. That would have been a good additional line to add to that scene, but whatever... But really it's just because city destruction is cool and explosions are hot
I didn't mean like out in a open space like the chase scene in Hulk. Although that looked visually impressive, it became somewhat boring. I don't really have a good alternate location where they could've put the scene, but everything just felt compressed. Don't get me wrong, visually it looked great, but it was a little too hectic for me. It might have been because I was drained at that point in the film, so that could've been a reason. I'll eventually see the film again though and I'll see if I feel differently.
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Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:05 pm |
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Shack
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I only wish there wasn't so much cutting. It kind of reminded me of my reaction to the Bourne movies, where I was like "Dammit, I don't want my camera to seizure, I just want to see Bourne beat the shit out of this guy". I definitley lost track of who was blowing up who. But it was still awesome.
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