Post by garbulky on Jun 30, 2014 13:59:29 GMT -5
Ever since I saw a T-rex robot breathing fire and Optimus Prime riding on it with a sword held high, I knew I had to go see this stupid stupid movie. 
Here's the basic thing - if you have seen any transformers movie, nothing has really changed except that the humans are now even more forgettable.
However I think they have reached a physical limit as to how much awe inspiring action scenes they can cram into a movie.
In case nobody has figured out - I am a rather huge fan of the movies though not so much the old cartoons.
My favorite transformers movie was dark of the moon. With the absolute pits choice being Revenge of the fallen. Other than revenge of the fallen I think Michael Bay was able to pull off a pretty fun thrill ride.
The dinobots looked great!
Hehe!
Though I do wish there was some more development to their story. The T-rex known as Grimlock definitely owned his screen time blowing fire, eating transformers and generally curbstomping whatever city he was in. I would say they were the best addition for completely non-verbal characters. And yes, they don't speak - at all. But they make up for it in dinosoaur robot - robot team up mayhem.
Onto the cars: the cars were GORGEOUS. They had a Bugatti Veyron
, a Pagani Zonda as well as some classic cars and even a rally car.
Drool.
The action comes hard and fast. There was one segment where a "gravity" ship has lifted ships, cars and large metal objects and transformers into the air. These transformers happened to include all the massive dinobots etc. And then just crashed them down in slow motion. Think a T-rex who may have been breathing fire going through a ship, buses flying everywhere etc. That was just one of probably a hundred action scenes like that.
There were also some very nice scenes showing the interior of a massive robot ship. In it, a huge plot point: biological alien life were shown in captivity and then promptly dispatched with (by the good guys!) for no good reason. But they did show Bay's take on aliens.
My theater doesn't have as good sound as my home system but I could tell that there was as usual a star class sound track to show off any home theater system.
Here's where they did mess up though.
They stuck in two completely unrelated bad guys in. One of whom (Galvatron) has his own personal army of bland faceless unrecognizable bad guys to face off against. Because of this, there was no personality to any of these minions and yet it took up a large amount of screen time. It was sort of reminicent of the alien invasion in Avengers where a bunch of faceless soldiers just provided fodder.
In Transformers 1, these minions were given at least some minimal personalities for instance - the big chopper robot, the tank robot etc and they created gleeful mayhem. But these minions had none of that.
It would have been better if they simply spent more time developing a more specialized bad guy team.
The other mess up is - and I can't believe I'm saying this. Shia leboef actually did better than the current cast. I kept thinking how much did they pay Mark Whalberg to say those terrible terrible lines? In the previous movies, they put minimal amount of time developing the robots while spending more time annoying us with shia's story line. Well in this movie they spent even less time on the human storyline. The only mildly entertaining character was axed early on so I ended up not really caring at all about what happened to anybody in the movie.
The facial expressions. This was a bad idea. Look I can accept a robot with a beard, a beer belly and a cigar - yes there is one like that here. But don't give them human facial expressions. Why? Because it doesn't look convincing.
Verdict:
Go in expecting brainless action with a cool concept storyline, amazing cars and action sequences and great CGI.
Go in expecting DINOBOTS!
Do not expect to care about anything happening to anyone anywhere at anytime.
I rank this the second or third best transformers movie made.
Here's the basic thing - if you have seen any transformers movie, nothing has really changed except that the humans are now even more forgettable.
However I think they have reached a physical limit as to how much awe inspiring action scenes they can cram into a movie.
In case nobody has figured out - I am a rather huge fan of the movies though not so much the old cartoons.
My favorite transformers movie was dark of the moon. With the absolute pits choice being Revenge of the fallen. Other than revenge of the fallen I think Michael Bay was able to pull off a pretty fun thrill ride.
The dinobots looked great!
Hehe!
Though I do wish there was some more development to their story. The T-rex known as Grimlock definitely owned his screen time blowing fire, eating transformers and generally curbstomping whatever city he was in. I would say they were the best addition for completely non-verbal characters. And yes, they don't speak - at all. But they make up for it in dinosoaur robot - robot team up mayhem.
Onto the cars: the cars were GORGEOUS. They had a Bugatti Veyron
, a Pagani Zonda as well as some classic cars and even a rally car. Drool.
The action comes hard and fast. There was one segment where a "gravity" ship has lifted ships, cars and large metal objects and transformers into the air. These transformers happened to include all the massive dinobots etc. And then just crashed them down in slow motion. Think a T-rex who may have been breathing fire going through a ship, buses flying everywhere etc. That was just one of probably a hundred action scenes like that.
There were also some very nice scenes showing the interior of a massive robot ship. In it, a huge plot point: biological alien life were shown in captivity and then promptly dispatched with (by the good guys!) for no good reason. But they did show Bay's take on aliens.
My theater doesn't have as good sound as my home system but I could tell that there was as usual a star class sound track to show off any home theater system.
Here's where they did mess up though.
They stuck in two completely unrelated bad guys in. One of whom (Galvatron) has his own personal army of bland faceless unrecognizable bad guys to face off against. Because of this, there was no personality to any of these minions and yet it took up a large amount of screen time. It was sort of reminicent of the alien invasion in Avengers where a bunch of faceless soldiers just provided fodder.
In Transformers 1, these minions were given at least some minimal personalities for instance - the big chopper robot, the tank robot etc and they created gleeful mayhem. But these minions had none of that.
It would have been better if they simply spent more time developing a more specialized bad guy team.
The other mess up is - and I can't believe I'm saying this. Shia leboef actually did better than the current cast. I kept thinking how much did they pay Mark Whalberg to say those terrible terrible lines? In the previous movies, they put minimal amount of time developing the robots while spending more time annoying us with shia's story line. Well in this movie they spent even less time on the human storyline. The only mildly entertaining character was axed early on so I ended up not really caring at all about what happened to anybody in the movie.
The facial expressions. This was a bad idea. Look I can accept a robot with a beard, a beer belly and a cigar - yes there is one like that here. But don't give them human facial expressions. Why? Because it doesn't look convincing.
Verdict:
Go in expecting brainless action with a cool concept storyline, amazing cars and action sequences and great CGI.
Go in expecting DINOBOTS!
Do not expect to care about anything happening to anyone anywhere at anytime.
I rank this the second or third best transformers movie made.
