Transformers Movie Review: Optimus Prime was Robbed!
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“Stay away, lad! That’s Prime’s fight!” — Kup, in the original 1986 Transformers animated movie. I just watched Michael Bay’s Transformers movie at the Gateway Globe Platinum Theater. Believe it or not, it’s even more of an abomination than everyone expected it to be — from jumpy editing to fake graphics to gibberish computerspeak to […]Click here to continue reading "Transformers Movie Review: Optimus Prime was Robbed!"...Transformers Movie Review: Optimus Prime was Robbed!
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It’s funny how Ruben proudly calls himself a critic.
As if the typical moviegoer is braindead and can’t decide for himself whether a movie is good or bad.
Thing is, I do read critics’ reviews (the legit ones anyway). But I do not rush to the cinema to watch whatever movie they’ve thumbed up.
What I notice is, critics (again, the legit ones) are operating on a different plane when it comes to films. Schooled or not, they have a trained eye for such details as plot, storytelling, visual homages, cinematography and all the nitty-gritty stuff.
Their being film junkies have honed their eyes and brains to look at little details. As they say, God is in the details. And there’s nothing wrong with that. They’re the experts in film and it’s their job to evaluate a film based on the tons and tons of movies they’ve watched, both good and bad.
Similar to a wine taster, they’ve developed a fine taste for what is a good movie and what is not.
However, what I really find hilarious with you, Ruben, is your mistaken assumption that just because you’re a critic (which I don’t really believe because a legit critic doesn’t call himself one but since you insist, I’ll go along with your delusions), your taste for films makes everyone who likes Transformers dumb and brainless.
See, brainless blockbusters are there not because studios like to con the clueless. They’re there because people want to loosen up and have a good time.
If all films would be as dead serious or as artfull as Pan’s Labyrinth (I bet the only “nice” film you ever watched), then it would be a pretty drab and melodramatic world, right? Yes, LOTR and some other films such as the original Star Wars are both big-budget eye-candy spectacles but at the same time well-made masterpieces.
But you cannot eat caviar all your life. There will come a time you’ll crave for fatty-greasy, sinfully delightful big macs. Normal people just want to be jackasses sometimes. If you’re a “normal” human being, you’d want to goof around sometimes and just loosen up.
Those who like Transformers watched it to loosen up and have a good time. It does not necessarily mean they’re dumb.
You cannot blame them if they hurl below-the-belt faggoty insinuations at Mike because first, Mike ain’t a film buff nor a legit film reviewer. He may be well-versed with anime and Transformers but he is not well-versed at reviewing a film properly.
His provocative words reek of sweeping generalizations and implies you are stupid if you enjoy the film. Hence, this long thread filled with hate and personal attacks, with the common contention that Mike has a stick up his ass.
Knowing how to have a good time is not the same as being stupid, so better get your heads right.
If you and Mike fail to realize this and keep to your guns that liking a bad movie makes you stupid, then you’re just giving everyone the liberty to call you names.
If Mike posted a respectable and intelligent “review” in the first place, his differing opinion would have attracted similarly sensible posters. But no, he made it childish and amateurish.
And so it also attracted childish and amateurish remarks.
What you reap is what you sow.
Liking a bad movie does not make you stupid. Calling a bad movie a good movie makes you stupid.
Interacting with humans does not make them weak. Sneaking around human flower gardens makes them weak. Getting killed by humans shooting them between the legs makes them weak. Relying on a human boy to decide their fate makes them weak.
Ugly Robot Pet Owners is nothing. Cole Smithey calls it acid kool-aid for children.
Unfortunately, they try to wave those flaws away with “it’s just entertainment.” That cop-out won’t work on a film that’s not actually entertaining.