- 2,760
Saw it last night in Digital. Was it loud? Exponentially so. I kept thinking about the poor people trying to enjoy Up in the next theatre over.
There wasn't much to it; everything from the first movie done to the power of 10 this time around. Even Sam's mom gets more screen time to do her drunken psycho emotionally overburdened shtick.
Devastator was totally underwhelming and pointless; it hardly did anything except move around slowly and try to climb a pyramid with little success.
Jetfire was ultra-cool, as he's always been. The problem here though was a plague throughout the movie: I could hardly make out what most of the Transformers were saying. Megatron and Optimus were clearly pronouncing their lines, as were Ironhide and Soundwave. But Jetfire? Starscream? Forget about it. They may as well have been grunting and moaning. Perhaps they were.
The Fallen was cool to look at. Not enough display of what he was capable of though. I needed to see him pwning some Autobots and humans on a large scale before I was going to believe this was the baddest Decepticon of all time.
The plot is full of holes. It's Michael Bay's fault. But guess what? Optimus Prime is on screen, moving around, voiced by Peter Cullen. AND THAT'S MICHAEL BAY'S FAULT TOO. He is HARDLY the worst thing to happen to Hollywood. He's FAR from the worst director working in Tinseltown today.
Megan Fox: never saw the appeal before. To me she just looks like a bitch who's full of herself and is having a violent, torrid affair with a bottle of bronzer.
Now on to the Twins. Skids and Mudflap are their names. And they are HORRIBLE. Seriously, EVERYTHING you have heard about them is true. Every time they're on screen, it makes you cringe. Each successive phrase that escapes their robotic mouths is so bad, so racially stereotyping, so UNfunny, you start to wonder why Bay insisted they be in the movie, and then you stop quickly, because your head starts to hurt and your nose starts to bleed.
Best part of the movie: Optimus Prime's last stand in the forest. The best fighting in the entire movie is found in this six- or seven-minute fragment.
Still WAYYYY better than that Terminator 4 movie. And if you wait to see this in the comfort of your own home, you've missed the point of the whole venture. Bay blows stuff up real good. He ain't useful for much more than that. I remember reading a review where someone claimed this movie was mercifully free of sunset shots. After seeing it for myself, and noticing a sunset about every four shots, I realized that this particular reviewer had most likely been pummelled so completely into a mental and emotional stupor from all the noise and banging metal, his retinas could no longer recognize the setting sun for what it is.
3.5 out of 5.
There wasn't much to it; everything from the first movie done to the power of 10 this time around. Even Sam's mom gets more screen time to do her drunken psycho emotionally overburdened shtick.
Devastator was totally underwhelming and pointless; it hardly did anything except move around slowly and try to climb a pyramid with little success.
Jetfire was ultra-cool, as he's always been. The problem here though was a plague throughout the movie: I could hardly make out what most of the Transformers were saying. Megatron and Optimus were clearly pronouncing their lines, as were Ironhide and Soundwave. But Jetfire? Starscream? Forget about it. They may as well have been grunting and moaning. Perhaps they were.
The Fallen was cool to look at. Not enough display of what he was capable of though. I needed to see him pwning some Autobots and humans on a large scale before I was going to believe this was the baddest Decepticon of all time.
The plot is full of holes. It's Michael Bay's fault. But guess what? Optimus Prime is on screen, moving around, voiced by Peter Cullen. AND THAT'S MICHAEL BAY'S FAULT TOO. He is HARDLY the worst thing to happen to Hollywood. He's FAR from the worst director working in Tinseltown today.
Megan Fox: never saw the appeal before. To me she just looks like a bitch who's full of herself and is having a violent, torrid affair with a bottle of bronzer.
Now on to the Twins. Skids and Mudflap are their names. And they are HORRIBLE. Seriously, EVERYTHING you have heard about them is true. Every time they're on screen, it makes you cringe. Each successive phrase that escapes their robotic mouths is so bad, so racially stereotyping, so UNfunny, you start to wonder why Bay insisted they be in the movie, and then you stop quickly, because your head starts to hurt and your nose starts to bleed.
Best part of the movie: Optimus Prime's last stand in the forest. The best fighting in the entire movie is found in this six- or seven-minute fragment.
Still WAYYYY better than that Terminator 4 movie. And if you wait to see this in the comfort of your own home, you've missed the point of the whole venture. Bay blows stuff up real good. He ain't useful for much more than that. I remember reading a review where someone claimed this movie was mercifully free of sunset shots. After seeing it for myself, and noticing a sunset about every four shots, I realized that this particular reviewer had most likely been pummelled so completely into a mental and emotional stupor from all the noise and banging metal, his retinas could no longer recognize the setting sun for what it is.
3.5 out of 5.
Dont think there are many unless you count movies like Saving Private Ryan... but thats not really considered an action genre movie... Now if I want in-depth plots and good acting I would watch something like "The Departed" to name something off the top of my head... But this is Transformers, my expectations when going to a movie like this is full on action, fighting and destruction, possibly total mayhem... thats what I think about when the word Transformers drops... Now I am blabbing on here without even having seen the movie, so maybe I should just go watch it and see what the hub bub is about 
