Escape to the Movies: Transformers: Dark of the Moon

[Netrigan]

I've gone from hating the idea that a Michael Bay exists to actually kind of liking him. Some of this is because he's curbed some of his more annoying tendencies (like the comic reaction to a major bit of destruction "Someone call 911") and some of it is how he just keeps getting better and better and presenting his action sequences. He's never going to be an intelligent director, but he works the light entertainment action romp extremely well... and I think he has a sincere respect for the men and women of the military and space program that shines through. If he really seemed to be advocating any political position, I'd call his films propaganda because they hit all the notes of well-produced propaganda; but he seems so politically agnostic. Quite often, there's not even truly bad guys in his films (at least of the human variety), with heavy characters being revealed as doing their job in a way that made sense to them and even joining up with the goodies once they all realize they're on the same side.

Does he make good movies? No, not really. He's got talent, but The Island is probably the only movie he's made that even attempted to carry an intellectual idea... before he just decided to blow a bunch of shit up.

 

[Dr. Crawver]

Well... at least they did replace Megan Fox with an actual good looking actress. I mean, i'm still not going to see the movie but... hey, no Megan Fox, it's certainly a pretty big plus.

yeah, no megan fox is a huge plus, but it's a case of one step forward, one step back. She's been replaced with another model with no acting experience, and was probably picked because she's english so her accent could save her, but then I'm english too, which only leads to it being further aggrovating for me

 

[StarkillerisDead]

Not gonna lie, I watched this last night and enjoyed watching it. However the whole time I was aware that it was an awful movie, and I disagree Bob it isn't any better than the last one.

Also the love interest is hotter than Megan Fox but can't act and has a way worse character, and since Bob didn't detail this I'd like to.

Michaela had a pre-existing reason for Sam to be into her (childhood crush) and Sam then spent most of the movie getting to know her and learning stuff about her. She also played a part in the big-ass fight at the end.

Carly comes right the fuck outta nowhere, has no reason at all for Sam to be into her other than the fact that she's hot and does literally NOTHING useful over the course of the whole movie.
She also demonstrates a complete lack of intelligence of any sort multiple times.

 

[munkymp3]

You forgot the part where they played the same song at least 6 times starting from the beginning where it didn't make sense (referring to the constant "Iridescent" by Linkin Park replays. It was only appropriate for one part (the wreckage). And that the whole movie tried a hell of a lot harder to be funny with silly awkwardness. It would have worked if it were a movie aimed towards children and teens. But it's not so it didn't work.

 

[Machine Man 1992]

Okay, quick question: How many of you are voicing you're own opinions?

Because from here, it sounds like a bunch of MovieBob sycophants just gabbing off.

Yes the movie was too long, most movies these days are too long.

Yes there are a lot of army dudes here, why wouldn't the military be involved when there are giant robots tearing up metropolitan centers?

Yes the Transformers aren't on the screen as much as the humans, but you can't really blame them given the design and detail that went into them. Devastator MELTED A COMPUTER!

And yes,

Spoiler

The battle with Megatron was highly disappointing, but then again he came back after having a "cube of raw power" pushed into his chest.

Finally, I address this to Bob himself: If you are reading this, Shut. Up.
I get that you didn't like the Transformers series, you're a child of the eighties who can't let the fact that times change go. But stop belittling people for having different tastes than you, and for going to see a movie that they think looks cool. That doesn't make you a critic, it makes you a troll.

 

[TheTurtleMan]

I saw Transformers and was actually pretty entertained. Not by plot or character developement, which they easily slaughter, but the giant robot fights and even the soldiers getting involved in the fighting. Although I suppose Bob's right, I'm just a non voting retard that can't enjoy movies like he can, guess I'll go steal a car and take it off some dirt ramps instead!

Still, I admit this is a terrible, terrible movie although still entertaining in it's own way. The scenes where they pumped Linkin Parque and anything related to British sex pun made me want to stab myself.

 

[EvilestDeath]

I enjoyed how the first one tried to tell a different type of story more or less new with the Transformers universe. I saw it twice in theaters and took a friend the second time (I paied for his ticket) so I paid for it 3 times over then bough the Blu-Ray version when available.

I saw the second in theaters once and noticed how far the story droped the ball but I was hoping if there was another it would wrap everything up and include the one character every Transformers fan has waited for "Unicron." I got #2 on Blu-Ray to do my part to support the third to get what I was wishing for.

The thrid comes out with more of the human bullcrap story that draged the first two down, it was missing Unicron and I didn't see any indication that Cybertron would activate once again so I sold my first two movies, pirated the 3rd, sat through it and I actually regret almost every second of that. It was so much of a train wreck the announcement of a "reboot" of the series just brings a tear to my eye. Oh Transformers creators just stop with the live action movies, leave it to the ones who can work well with the material like the game devs or cartoon series/animated movies.