The Spoileriffic Movie Discussion Thread

[138 Scourge]

Nah, the first one was okay. ROTF was godawfully boring.

[Sparky Prime]

ROTF was godawfully boring.

I'd say it got a little slow when Jetfire spacebridged them to Egypt and they were trying to figure out where the Matrix was, but other than that... I didn't find the movie boring at all.

[Dominic]

I'm working towards a film project this semester, and I reached a realization: I want to make the project "cool", obviously, but I don't want to lose the honesty in it. A project that's honest or personal is going to be so much more interesting than something that's just trying so hard to be awesome. Bay's Transformers are devoid of honesty or heart for sake of being cool. I don't see any honesty in them, just dumb fake posturing.

kinda drunk and can't think up other words for honest or cool
--Donosaur

By "honest", I meant that Bay and co are not looking anyone in the eye, (as far as I know), and claiming the movie is anything other than a summer trash-fest. Contrast that with Marvel or DC, who will claim that the worst of their event books are important or otherwise worth reading.

Dom
-tends to avoid "personal" works all the same.

[donosaur]

I guess I prefer a movie like Iron Man, where you can sense a sort of joy and whimsy worked into all of the actiony bits, or Sam raimi's little weird tributaries in Spider-Man 2 and 3 (there are lots of problems with SM3, but I don't think the strutting around part was one of them)

[Shockwave]

Nah, the first one was okay. ROTF was godawfully boring.

I don't think it was boring, but I do think it was a little too long. Round the time of the forest battle I checked my watch and thought "wow this is a long movie and we've still got all of this other stuff to go." I just wish there weren't so many glaring plot holes.

[Dominic]

joy and whimsy

"Joy and whimsy" can be dangerously close to "mastering the idiom" though, indulging the worst elements of the writer's personality, or audience members who want a show how pointless the story is.

Dom

[andersonh1]

Nah, the first one was okay. ROTF was godawfully boring.

I don't think it was boring, but I do think it was a little too long. Round the time of the forest battle I checked my watch and thought "wow this is a long movie and we've still got all of this other stuff to go." I just wish there weren't so many glaring plot holes.

The forest battle was one of the highlights of the movie for me. Watching Optimus Prime fight off Megatron, Starscream and redshirt Decepticon #72 was good stuff. The movie needed more of that and less of the crap with the Twins and Simmons.

[Shockwave]

redshirt Decepticon #72

Also, good point. I didn't think the forest battle was boring, it's actually one of my favorite parts, it just happened to be the part where I checked my watch.

[138 Scourge]

Yeah, the forest battle was cool. There were some moments at the beginning, despite there being no reason for the fight there, it was still neat. And of course, every scene with Ravage in it was fantastic (/Synjo impression). The movie had it's entertaining moments and all. However, pretty much everything after the forest battle had me wishing the movie about giant robots beating each other was over.

You see how wrong that last sentence is? It takes a lot to get me to type that out.

[Shockwave]

You see how wrong that last sentence is? It takes a lot to get me to type that out.

About as much as it takes for me to type that I agree with you. Except for the Devastator merge sequence. I freakin' loved that. And the part where Megs beats Starscream with his own severed arm.