This looks kinda fun in a brainless way, but I can't help but wonder what this film's equivalent of Anthony Anderson eating donuts and shrieking will be.
Or Bumblebee peeing on people. Or the endless, painful masturbation gag. Or the Sector Seven stuff. Or the Beef throwing a hissy fit over Megan's car-thieving past when he should really be worried about evil robots trying to kill him. Or...AAAGH! I just wanted to watch robots fighting other robots! That's all I asked for! Was that so wrong? Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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PT, Who would you have liked to direct? Brainless fun is a good way to describe the movie. I enjoyed it as a good waste of two hours. I didn't expect more than that though. I think a lot of people did.
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Am I the only person getting sick of trailers full of disjointed chaos which tell you nothing about the movie? I mean, maybe I'm getting jaded, but the special effects have gotten boring. Of course the movie is going to be full of cool digital robots, that's a given! You don't need to wow me with them. You need to tell me why I should care enough to go spend money seeing them. Part of that is showing me there's a story involved somewhere.
Ugh. It just looks boring.
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quote:Originally posted by brojack17: Brainless fun is a good way to describe the movie. I enjoyed it as a good waste of two hours. I didn't expect more than that though. I think a lot of people did.
All I expected was to see the title characters. Fighting each other.
What I got was 20-30 minutes of that, plus a couple hours of "human interest" that was neither human nor interesting.
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This looks kinda fun in a brainless way, but I can't help but wonder what this film's equivalent of Anthony Anderson eating donuts and shrieking will be.
Or Bumblebee peeing on people. Or the endless, painful masturbation gag. Or the Sector Seven stuff. Or the Beef throwing a hissy fit over Megan's car-thieving past when he should really be worried about evil robots trying to kill him. Or...AAAGH! I just wanted to watch robots fighting other robots! That's all I asked for! Was that so wrong?
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I agree with "brainless", but not "fun." I thought the first movie was tedious and dull and uninteresting. "Fun" never once crossed my mind.
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quote:Originally posted by Eaquae Legit: Am I the only person getting sick of trailers full of disjointed chaos which tell you nothing about the movie?
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You didn't answer who you would like to direct. I think any big budget summer movie is going to have the same basic premise.
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I'd be interested in seeing what Brad Bird or Genndy Tartakovsky would do with a Transormers film, but I wouldn't want to waste them on it, if that makes sense.
quote: I think any big budget summer movie is going to have the same premise
Yeah, Wall-E and The Dark Knight turned out no better than Transformers.
Replace "big budget summer movie" with "Extremely-padded popcorn flick" and I'll agree. And read my posts in full: I'm not objecting to the budget or the action, I'm objecting to the pointless filler. Who cares if the Beef and Megan Midriff's infatuation hits the skids? Who cares if code-crackin' Aussie chick is best friends with Minstrel Show Sitcom Stereotype #46? No one. And yet, they got more screen time than Starscream. There's something wrong about having a major villain be an afterthought. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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Wall-E and The Dark Knight are two different examples.
Wall-E is Pixar and they have an uncanny knack for making quality films every time. They have great stories FIRST then put the budget around it to get the job done.
The Dark Knight wouldn't have been good had it not been for Heath Ledger. I could hardly sit through Batman Returns.
I was thinking more of Hitchcock. It too was brainless fun. Not a "real" story.
I do agree we should call them Extremely-padded popcorn flicks.
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I would like to see Brad Bird. I love Iron Giant and The Incredibles. I don't know Genndy Tartakovsky. I IMDB'd him, but don't know any of his work.
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quote:Originally posted by brojack17: The Dark Knight wouldn't have been good had it not been for Heath Ledger. I could hardly sit through Batman Returns.
You think that the only difference between The Dark Knight and Batman Returns is Heath Ledger?
quote: Am I the only person getting sick of trailers full of disjointed chaos which tell you nothing about the movie?
I think that's more typical of teaser trailers. When a second trailer comes out it usually has some actual dialogue and gives at least some context for the random chaos. Just wait a couple of months.
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quote: Wall-E is Pixar and they have an uncanny knack for making quality films every time. They have great stories FIRST then put the budget around it to get the job done.
I think that's rather the point. Instead of saying, "Let's cash in on 80s toy nostalgia with a Transformers movie we threw together from scraps of scripts that didn't work" maybe they should have started with a real story.
quote: I was thinking more of Hitchcock. It too was brainless fun. Not a "real" story.
I completely disagree. Hancock may not have had the tightest story ever, but it had a story. One where I couldn't guess every turn a half hour before it happened even. I was pretty darn happy with it.
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quote:Originally posted by Eaquae Legit: Am I the only person getting sick of trailers full of disjointed chaos which tell you nothing about the movie?
The movie is about GIANT ROBOTS FIGHTING. Honestly, what more do you need to know?
Saw this trailer in front of Coraline over the weekend. My son was on the edge of his seat the whole time; he knew what it was the second it started.
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quote:Originally posted by neo-dragon: [QUOTE]Originally posted by brojack17: The Dark Knight wouldn't have been good had it not been for Heath Ledger. I could hardly sit through Batman Returns.
You think that the only difference between The Dark Knight and Batman Returns is Heath Ledger?
Pretty much. I have stated here many times that I do not like Christian Bale at all and especially as Batman. If HL didn't make the movie, I wouldn't have bothered to watch it more than once.
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quote:Originally posted by Eaquae Legit: Am I the only person getting sick of trailers full of disjointed chaos which tell you nothing about the movie?
The movie is about GIANT ROBOTS FIGHTING. Honestly, what more do you need to know?
That it's actually about giant robots fighting?
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All the decepticons need is to dredge up six shot and there needn't be any more Transformer movies.
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quote:Originally posted by Eaquae Legit: Am I the only person getting sick of trailers full of disjointed chaos which tell you nothing about the movie? I mean, maybe I'm getting jaded, but the special effects have gotten boring. Of course the movie is going to be full of cool digital robots, that's a given! You don't need to wow me with them. You need to tell me why I should care enough to go spend money seeing them. Part of that is showing me there's a story involved somewhere.
Ugh. It just looks boring.
Well excuse me if our colonial provincial tastes are too lowly and crude for the Motherlands refined esquisite and refined noble movies your used to across the pond.
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You do know I'm Canadian, right, Blayne? Either way, I'm not complaining about movies (that's a different discussion) - I just hate trailers these days. They're boring.
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quote:Well excuse me if our colonial provincial tastes are too lowly and crude for the Motherlands refined esquisite and refined noble movies your used to across the pond.
She's a medievalist. She expects quality.
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quote:Originally posted by Eaquae Legit: You do know I'm Canadian, right, Blayne? Either way, I'm not complaining about movies (that's a different discussion) - I just hate trailers these days. They're boring.
But you live in England yes? So your on of them now.
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I'm not sure what that says, aside from that I enjoy weird situations. Fighting robots are right up my aisle.
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