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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I just want to say thanks to Mike Abundo for posting his opinion here. I was starting to feel I was the only one who thinks this movie sucks.
This is pretty easy. Look, usually, the coating on a story is its most frivolous section. That is why there is a huge industry putting out stories with no coating whatsoever… these instruments are called books. There is also a lighter industry reversed ( all coating, no higher brain functions needed ) and its usually aimed at the lower demographics whose underdeveloped brain usually panders to “kick ass” with little regard for ideas.
As if this wasnt enough, the struggling plot of transformers is hidden by flashy transitives and rough action, leaving little time for someone to actually decode whatever small elements one should to piece some of it together.
Transformers is by no means an easy piece … most of my friends came out of the room with a big question mark over their head ( few of them actually saw the start of the franchise ). Couldnt even name most of the robots … that would surely go down as cinematic deficit to some, but others somehow balance that with the fight scenes as if there is some kind of cinematic arithmetic between story and numb action sequences. Well, in my view, such a mechanism does not exist … a gratuitous shock and awe commercial with numerous plot lines is a big mistake, even more if most of the time is spent on developing a modernized version of american pie, but there are numerous exemples out there that show how well a thick wad of information with numerous roles and numerous rules can be put together in a little over two hours.
But most of all, when someone actually gets to see some movies a year and transformers comes along, predictable, superficial and glued together by little more than some action-stops used for some enlightened actor to keep us at pace with the plot and give us some more to figure out, then you got a bad script and bad editing, combined with bay’s peculiar and annoying directing moves.
Sure there are complex stories out there and usually a good one relies on you to intelligently and critically figure out most of the story, but this reliance has to stand on some kind of mutual understanding about the basic rules for that fictional universe. Transformers has no rules, zero reliance, and if things get too complicated, you can solve it with a missile or with some one liner from a respected computer hacker.
I would put it together with snakes on a train, way, way down there, and if someone wants to get a glimpse of the future, watch Ass midway thru Idiocracy.
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“I just want to say thanks to Mike Abundo for posting his opinion here. I was starting to feel I was the only one who thinks this movie sucks.”
Nyx E., You felt that way ‘coz majority of people are normal. They don’t have bleeding buttholes.
Guys, overheard this while I’m having coffee at Starbucks.
Guy1: I read this thread about Transformers, pare it was so funny. These four guys are ganging up on the blog owner and they were calling him Bleeding Buthole.
Guy2: Why Bleeding Butthole?
Guy1: He’s got a stick up his ass daw.
Guy2: How come?
Guy1: He thinks Transformers is stupid.
Guy2: Well it is stupid, duh! Was he expecting it to be like LOTR?
Guy1: Don’t know, he just thinks it sucks.
Guy2: Well he’s the dumbass if he was expecting more. He deserves to be called Bleeding Butthole.
Guy1: Haha! I guess.
It’s so funny! You guys rock!