Iron Edge
Iron Edge => Off Topic Discussion => Computer Chair Film Appreciation Club => Topic started by: Douchebag on June 19, 2009, 01:41:04 pm
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From what I've picked up most people in Iron edge love Transformers, so has anyone seen it yet and what did they think?
Lets try and keep it spoiler free?!
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snot out here yet 24th of june (in holland that is) gonna drag some friends to it to watch
hopefully it doesnt have a shit love story like the last movie other then that i cant wait
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Watching it tonight.
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Gee, thanks for inviting me.
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Gee, thanks for inviting me.
Its my brother's birthday meal/movie family thing, or i would have.
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:(
I'll just ask my other frien--- oh wait.
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Pfft, you're gidruaring anyway!
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So...
First thing you should know, its that its a long movie, approaching 3 hours.
Basically the director has taken everything people liked about the first movie, explosions, collosial robot fights, gratitous property damage, embarresing parents, astornishingly hot girls, etc, and made a movie with just lots of that.
All of the same characters from the first movie are there (with the exception of the fat black dude). The awkward, yet loveable nerd, struggling to maintain a normal life, starting college, and then enevitably being drawn back in to the war, and then attempting to stay alive. The embarrasing parents, forever saying the most inappropriate things, and giving us gems of comedy. The Stupendously Hot Girl (deserves the caps.). The manic "agent", amusing us with his quirky dialoge. They are all there, and very entertaining to watch.
Megan Fox. Yes, she deserves her own paragraph. She is still ridiculously hot, and the crafty director knows it. You can tell this by the fact that the first scene we see her in, she is bending over a motor bike, wearing short shorts. The rest of the movie, she is either: 1. pouting and looking fine, 2. attempting to look scared/anxious while looking fine, or (my favorite) running away from explosions, towards the camera, while wearing a loose bloose, and (you guessed it) looking exceptionally fine. If you took out all the Transformers, just left in the Megan Fox parts, called it "Megan Fox, running", it would probably still be worth the cinema ticket.
The Transformers themselves. As to be expected with a sequel, they are bigger, badder, and more destructive. The fight scenes are fast, visually very impressive, and retardedly collateral damage heavy. The scences are entertaining to watch, however, they are very repetative, don't vary much.
With out giving away too much, they introduce some new bots. A couple of whom i could accurately describe as "getto bots". They also introduce a "Grandfather" transformer, who is somewhat amusing. Not really anything new.
There is the traditional: (US military) "we don't need no stinking Autobots to beat these Deceptacons!", "OMG we just got PWNED!" and "Its ok, the Autobots are here to save us!" scences. The plot is quickly rushed in between the "OMG BIG ROBOTS FIGHTING OTHER BIG ROBOTS!" scenes.
There is the director's attempt at "lets make in an epic trillogy like Star Wars, and have like the first movie as a decisive victory for the good guys, while the secound (like the Empire Strikes Back) is where the the good guys take a beating, suffer losses and death, but are ultimately victorous at the end, thus setting us up for the final part of the epic trillogy", which is unoriginal, and quite lame.
So, all in all it ends up being a slightly above adverage American action blockbuster. It doesn't requre you to think, at all, just watch. Its failing is the extremly repetative robot fight scenes, which thought entertaining, after an hour of a half of, you get kinda bored, and you still have over an hour left of them. The redeeming factors are the human cast, who generally keep you amused, and interested. Its not an oscar winner, and its no great story.
Its worth a watch, just for Shia LaBeouf (who IMO is a talented, and entertaining actor, who you easily sympathize with) and Megan Fox (who is just so damm watchable).
7/10
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3 hours! Chrikee.
Great review, made even better by your best typo ever: "a loose bloose".
Hahahaha.
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I think what most people wanted to always see was huge robots fighting each other, IMO.
Also, I feel your post had some spoilers in it, mostly the star wars part, still sounds like a decent watch!
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Also, I feel your post had some spoilers in it, mostly the star wars part,
Not really. If you have watched any of the trailers, teasers or advetising posters; they all scream "the Deceptacons strike back!". Most of them end with just the Deceptacon icon, and the tag line "Revenge is coming", so what i said is hardly unexpected.
Or was it that i told you that the good guys win in the end, that spoilted it for you? I am sorry, I didn't mean to spoil your first movie. Its probably a bad idea to tell you that Bambi's mum dies then, huh?
Great review, made even better by your best typo ever: "a loose bloose".
How dare you mock Megan Fox's bloose!
P.S. I am still disappointed, that they don't do the "switching between the Autobots and Deceptacon icons", when they change POV, with the "Da, daa da, daaaaaa", music, liike they did in the cartoons.
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It came more across as "The bad guys win"
But I was reading it late.
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bad guys win? IN MY HOLYWOOD? UNPOSSIBLE
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bad guys win? IN MY HOLYWOOD? UNPOSSIBLE
Yeah, thats how I was reading it I guess, wrong I know but still, would of been awesome plot twist if they did win.
Also Hugman, sequal?
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sigh. The first "The bad guy wins" movie that comes out will be like the ultimate revolution of movies. I have alwayz felt that it was shit the way the good guys ALWAYZ fucking faceroll the OP bad guy in the end. I feel that it has contibuted to why i liked Dungeon keeper so much.
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Seeing this today, really can't wait for it \o/
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Hugman would you mind if I used your review for school? I get to see the movie for school and make a report about it, but I have to get some 'before-after' reviews.
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Hugman would you mind if I used your review for school? I get to see the movie for school and make a report about it, but I have to get some 'before-after' reviews.
Sure. Not sure how good it would be as a review for a school report though, maybe take out my "Megan Fox is awesome!" paragraph.
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No, that's the most awesome thing in it!
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This movie was 2.5 hours of facepalms.
But awesome action and megan fox is very hot (but not THAT hot)
2/5 stars (one star for effects and one for action)
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This movie was 2.5 hours of facepalms.
But awesome action and megan fox is very hot (but not THAT hot)
2/5 stars (one star for effects and one for action)
For me that was 2.5 of pure win.
I loved every part of it litreally, I think that's was one of the most memorable movies I have ever seen.
JUST YEAH, fkn loved it, would watch it again
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Well I think I was just not in the target group it seemed like it was made for ages 12-14.(no offense)
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i wont bother with this one thanks to you hugman. good review!
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Well I think I was just not in the target group it seemed like it was made for ages 12-14.(no offense)
None taken, as I said, I'm easily impressed.
so it might just be me, my friends really enjoyed it aswell and they are all in there 20's.
I didn't even see anyone under 18 in there actually, nobody seemed to have anything bad to say.
Giant robots fighting each other, some comic humor, Megan fox etc etc.
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Let me translate:
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBS
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yes snugglez it has robots a hot girl and massive action.
And I should have come to the cinema knowing that that was what I was gonna get.
I just thought that a bit more effort could have gone in to the script and the story.
The basic concept is so awesome but the execution was in my opinion very poor.
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Let me translate:
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBS
I'm more of an ass man
Normally Ipal, if you overhype something for yourself it tends to not meet your expectations, I did quite overhype this movie and it didn't meet ALL of my expectations, but a good deal of them, I enjoyed this more then Star trek.
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(http://bayimg.com/image/gabnaaack.jpg)
mmmmm
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(http://bayimg.com/image/gabnaaack.jpg)
mmmmm
MMMMMMM! :D
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Seen it just now.
EPIC. I loved every part of it. It's a no-nonsense movie. Just watch and enjoy. No deep storyline shit. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.
I love it <3 And I love Megan Fox, and I love Camaro's :D
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This movie was 2.5 hours of facepalms.
This.
Well, more specific the first half of the movie was an enormous facepalm, the second half (once they get to egypt) was way better. I was actually feeling ashamed watching the movie, the acting/dialogue is so bad, and wtf is up with the fucking clichés already. Yeah there's a college full of superbabes, and the lol omg they are so outta there nerd roommates that talk bullshit for 5 minutes for no reason whatsoever. Also, everyone is apparently on speed all the time, shouting(!) wtf bullshit right into the viewer's face all the time. God, my brain was raped. And yes, I went into the movie expecting a brainless popcorn blockbuster, but I wasn't prepared for that abysmal writing.
What's so fucking annoying is that there's really no need for this braindead dialogue, acting nor hectic pace! What's wrong with directors thinking your movie is only cool when everyone is acting like an idiot and yelling moron lines right at the viewer's face all the time. Just cut it out of your movie and it autoimproves! Also, I cannot sympathize with moron characters on screen - I WANT THEM DEAD ASAP! BUT THAT'S KINDA BAD WHEN YOUR MOVIE IS ALL ABOUT KEEPING THEM ALIVE LOL!
The 2nd half gets better as there's less silly "lol mom is stoned haha" and actually the action gets more scripted. Btw action: Somehow there are gigantic robots destroying everything on the screen, and yet I am left cold by the special fx and action. When you spend millions on fx, please have some interesting ideas and not just bigger explosions. The action sequences are totally uninspired. Also, dozens of different robots show up without any introduction whatsoever and get shot to pieces in seconds. TREAT YOUR FX CREATURES LIKE ACTORS AND NOT STAR TREK REDSHIRTS! Only ~5 bots have defined roles in the movie, everyone else is just cannon fodder or fillers. Also, thank you Michael Bay for not one, but two Jar Jar Binks (http://i39.tinypic.com/1z3criq.jpg). And those annoying shitcans actually got two of the bigger screentime roles, wtf! Yes, everyone loves Jar Jar...
However, the movie didn't feel like ~3h to me, so at least it's not boring.
tl;dr: It's so disappointing that a director fucks up his work with moron dialogue aimed at pubescent boys and characters fresh out of the nuthouse. It wrecks a potential fun popcorn rampage into something you feel embarred to watch.
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Thank you Goza!
I am not alone.
(Guess we are getting too old for teenage flicks)
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TF is a movie to watch for the CGI and the hot bod of megan fox. fullstop.
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I've seen the new trailer on GI:JOE movie. LAME!
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Iron man 2 is what I am looking forward to now.
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Well, Downey Jr... how can it not be awesome? :P
Impressive review, Goza, and great use of English throughout.
Even if our epic-farming capabilities have dropped in recent months, I can see we're still churning out people with better English language capabilities...!
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I just went to see it and while I agree with grax/goza I don't see the problem. It is exactly what I had expected from it and in that sense it was an enjoyable movie.
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Necro posting ftw :P
Just watched the biggest failure opening scene ever and it only took them 10 seconds!
* Downtown Africa way back in the past (17k) and a native tribe is hunting a tiger.... a tiger in africa WTF! :o