**TRANSFORMERS MOVIE** The review you've been waiting for! v.all that shit by me

I've liked most of Bay's movies in recent years with the exception of Con Air mainly..

Personally, I felt this was one of his worst. The first 1/3 of the movie flowed well, but towards the beginning of the second act, after the rest of the autobots came to earth, the film just seemed to fall apart in terms of character development, scene development, plot holes, and transitions from one scene to the next..

Here's an example..

The transition from Hoover damn to L.A.. Bumblebee is being escorted via convoy. Prime and the rest of the autobots intercept the convoy, turn and follow in close proximity.. Bay then cuts to wide shots showcasing GM products ..

Enter the final act.. All the transformers should be in the same location. Bay had been building up the importance of protecting the all spark and Prime is nowhere in sight.. Barricade attacks, starscream attacks. Prime, the autobot leader, is nowhere to be found. 10 minutes later they cut to the shot of Prime rolling in.. Where did he go? Off to the local car wash for a rinse and wax?

Another observation which has been voiced already was about Jazz. He was in the film all of 5 minutes, he could have been cut and nobody would have noticed.

One laughable moment towards the end of the film, Starcream makes a bombing run firing on Bumblebee/Ironhide, both are displaced. The camera focuses on Bumblebee, then pans to sam.. You see Jazz directly in the background in car form doing nothing; parked inbetween two craters. Someone wasn't paying attention or they ran low on the special effects budget..
 
and that his parents didn't HEAR them

it's not like they were whispering or something! There are 40 foot fucking robots on your lawn and they are talking to each other!!!!
 
After Megs and Prime fell from the building, and Megs flicked that "disgusting human" away from him, got a big kick out the theatre too.
One of few moments where you get to see decepticon attitudes.
 
yeah...I got that a long ass time ago

but fuck 7.50...I woulda ordered another one

edit: an excuse to whore a couple of pics I guess
 
i thought that several of the transform sounds took a nice spin of G1. several were pretty close, granted I had to watch it several times to catch on to it
 
Starscream completely didn't matter in the movie....I was really let down by that. The Bonecrusher fight was one of the better ones in the movie cinematography wise, but it was way too short and he was essentially a bitch. I mean, everyone screams that "hey, it's an action fantasy flick" and then he decides to get all "real" when it comes to showing the fight scene at the end? Come on, I actually want to SEE what I paid for.
 
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directed and co-wrote the sequel, 28 Weeks Later. It's a good film, the pace moves along nicely, not much slowdown at all and action scenes are well done. The DOP did a nice job too; the choice of camera shots was refreshing.

You should check it out if you haven't seen it, the pacing is much faster than the first film..

Best Comparison

Alien: suspense, thriller
Alens: action, thriller

28 days later: suspense, thriller
28 weeks later: action, thriller
 
I dont know if i missed an explanation in this thread but i was wondering is someone could clear something up for me. did the glasses have the coordinates for megatron while he was in the arctic? wouldnt that make the glasses worthless since he was moved as soon as he was discovered? it feels like they could have avoided a story altogether and it wouldnt have made a single difference in this case. i dont want to say anything bad about the film cause it would be redundant, but i would like to say it still cracks me up that the only good guy to die in the movie was an 'african american' space robot.
 
you said short of Uwe Bol you dont know who could have been a worse director. Thats completely ridiculous. "Omg the camera shook Omg i cant tell the transformers apart" I mean i liked the shaking camera style, it presented the audience with a perspective of someone being right in the action, and emphasized the height/size of the transformers. And i had no trouble telling the transformers apart.

Say what you will about the man, sure Pearl Harbor was crap. But he made a great transformers movie, the best "transformers" anything since the beast wars cartoon. The movie had plenty of heart, the weakest part of the plot was Shia announcing that the deceptacons want to use the cube to change technology into transformers. That was kinda just added all of a sudden, but thats the script writers. A lot of people worked on this movie, it wasnt a solo project and it wasnt just Michael Bay filming in his basement.

Even if you think the whole thing was shit the action was still great, megatron and prime flying through the building was a great shot. For 150 milliion the movie looked like it had a budget of 300 million. The man isnt completely incompetent. He sounds like an ass in his interviews but he isnt shit
 
I liked the movie a lot, particularly Bumble Bee, but I would agree with a B rating for it thanks to Bay's ham handed direction.

His sappy closeups of the human characters in the "lovey" moments ala Armageddon and the running with the flare shot ala The Rock are such cliche Michael Bay shots I thought I was watching a different movie.

The sneaking around the house scene was completely useless, as was every scene with fat black kid that was the "master hacker" All of that Sector 7 shit should have been different. I kept wondering if I was watching a comedy or an action movie. And WTFguyfromOBrotherWhereArtThou?

Most of the bits with the special ops team were pretty fucking cool, and I was surprisingly entertained with the two lead actors, Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox.

There were also a surprising amount of really decent laughs in the flick, like when the dad takes Sam through the Porsche dealer lot....GOTCHA!
 
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