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06-27-11, 01:55 PM
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
Pre-release and non-review related discussion here.
Movie:
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson, Patrick Dempsey, Alan Tudyk, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich)
Release Date:
6/29/2011
Rating:
PG-13 (for intense prolonged sequences of sci-fi action violence, mayhem and destruction, language, some sexuality and innuendo, outer space madcapness, earth space madcapness, cheesy one-liners, over-the-top-glossy-action-set-pieces-with-stilted-dialogue-even-the-seasoned-vets-of-acting-can-muck-up-and-that-only-Michael Bay-can overuse throughout)
Running Time:
154min. (2h. 34m.)
Budget:
$195 million
IMDb Synopsis:
IMDb Info and Rating:
6.7 (54,484 votes as of 7/27/11)
Rotten Tomatoes:
Fresh:81 Rotten:146 (36% as of 7/27/11)
Metacritic:
42 metascore ('Mixed or average reviews' as of 7/27/11)
Trailer:
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Movie:
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson, Patrick Dempsey, Alan Tudyk, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich)
Release Date:
6/29/2011
Rating:
PG-13 (for intense prolonged sequences of sci-fi action violence, mayhem and destruction, language, some sexuality and innuendo, outer space madcapness, earth space madcapness, cheesy one-liners, over-the-top-glossy-action-set-pieces-with-stilted-dialogue-even-the-seasoned-vets-of-acting-can-muck-up-and-that-only-Michael Bay-can overuse throughout)
Running Time:
154min. (2h. 34m.)
Budget:
$195 million
IMDb Synopsis:
Spoiler:
IMDb Info and Rating:
6.7 (54,484 votes as of 7/27/11)
Rotten Tomatoes:
Fresh:81 Rotten:146 (36% as of 7/27/11)
Metacritic:
42 metascore ('Mixed or average reviews' as of 7/27/11)
Trailer:
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06-27-11, 02:13 PM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
If Shockwave is the main villain, why is Soundwave featured so prominently in that poster?
06-27-11, 02:27 PM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
I think it's just a random poster...possibly, and most likely, fan designed.
06-27-11, 03:28 PM
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06-27-11, 03:32 PM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
Harry @ AICN says it's the best of the series
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/50176
Which really isn't saying much, especially compared to the last film.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/50176
Which really isn't saying much, especially compared to the last film.
06-27-11, 03:32 PM
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06-27-11, 03:34 PM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
why can't bay and company put some colors into the decepticons? Since all the decpticons are freaking silver, i don't know who is who in the decepticons side.
06-27-11, 03:34 PM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
Harry @ AICN says it's the best of the series
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/50176
Which really isn't saying much, especially compared to the last film.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/50176
Which really isn't saying much, especially compared to the last film.
06-27-11, 04:15 PM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
Final, dubstep laden, official trailer for TF3
<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ms4mKKw6nbA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ms4mKKw6nbA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
06-27-11, 04:23 PM
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06-27-11, 04:52 PM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
I love this Rotten Tomatoes critic blurb:
Fantastic logic. I expect nothing more than a terrible script from Ehren Kruger. Why couldn't Bay just shoot a two-and-a-half-hour film of robots blowing shit up good in 3D for the entire duration of that running time? That's what the people we want.
Originally Posted by The Vine
The look of the movie is worth five stars, but when you stir in a one-star script, you end up somewhere in the middle.
Fantastic logic. I expect nothing more than a terrible script from Ehren Kruger. Why couldn't Bay just shoot a two-and-a-half-hour film of robots blowing shit up good in 3D for the entire duration of that running time? That's what
06-27-11, 05:06 PM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
I'm still confused how someone can not make a cool script w/ Transformers just blowing shit up and destroying each other on Earth w/ the humans stuck in the middle. It's all this subplot bs that kills it.
It's all this jumping around to the Humans and their problems that kill it.
Decepticons attempt to take over the earth. Autobots vs. Decepticons, w/ US Army helping out, shit exploding (well Bay gets this right), huge drama in the warfare, Autobots win...we all win in the end
sadly...I have to care about Sam's friends and family, w/ bad humor, and somehow Sam has to be in he fight as well...I don't know why. I didn't mind him being involved in the 1st...but after that it makes no sense in shoving him into fucking warfare all the time.
It's all this jumping around to the Humans and their problems that kill it.
Decepticons attempt to take over the earth. Autobots vs. Decepticons, w/ US Army helping out, shit exploding (well Bay gets this right), huge drama in the warfare, Autobots win...we all win in the end
sadly...I have to care about Sam's friends and family, w/ bad humor, and somehow Sam has to be in he fight as well...I don't know why. I didn't mind him being involved in the 1st...but after that it makes no sense in shoving him into fucking warfare all the time.
06-28-11, 01:04 AM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
loved Scott Weinbergs rant on twitter (yes i will still see it tomorrow)
If I was as wealthy as Michael Bay, I would have no interest of waking up every morning to produce something so fucking terrible. I'll be posting my review of TRANSFORMERS 3 at @twitchfilm and then forgetting its existence. Too many rah-rah fanboys on twitter. Yeah, TRANS 3 squeezes a lot of action into its last hour. All of it terrible. Stop. Let's talk about a better film. Like RESIDENT EVIL 3. A question inspired by the film I saw tonight: what's the most worthless complete trilogy you can think of? The STAR WARS prequel trilogy is the STAR WARS original trilogy compared to the TRANSFORMERS trilogy. I mean that.
If I was as wealthy as Michael Bay, I would have no interest of waking up every morning to produce something so fucking terrible. I'll be posting my review of TRANSFORMERS 3 at @twitchfilm and then forgetting its existence. Too many rah-rah fanboys on twitter. Yeah, TRANS 3 squeezes a lot of action into its last hour. All of it terrible. Stop. Let's talk about a better film. Like RESIDENT EVIL 3. A question inspired by the film I saw tonight: what's the most worthless complete trilogy you can think of? The STAR WARS prequel trilogy is the STAR WARS original trilogy compared to the TRANSFORMERS trilogy. I mean that.
06-28-11, 02:09 AM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
I'm still confused how someone can not make a cool script w/ Transformers just blowing shit up and destroying each other on Earth w/ the humans stuck in the middle. It's all this subplot bs that kills it.
It's all this jumping around to the Humans and their problems that kill it.
Decepticons attempt to take over the earth. Autobots vs. Decepticons, w/ US Army helping out, shit exploding (well Bay gets this right), huge drama in the warfare, Autobots win...we all win in the end
sadly...I have to care about Sam's friends and family, w/ bad humor, and somehow Sam has to be in he fight as well...I don't know why. I didn't mind him being involved in the 1st...but after that it makes no sense in shoving him into fucking warfare all the time.
It's all this jumping around to the Humans and their problems that kill it.
Decepticons attempt to take over the earth. Autobots vs. Decepticons, w/ US Army helping out, shit exploding (well Bay gets this right), huge drama in the warfare, Autobots win...we all win in the end
sadly...I have to care about Sam's friends and family, w/ bad humor, and somehow Sam has to be in he fight as well...I don't know why. I didn't mind him being involved in the 1st...but after that it makes no sense in shoving him into fucking warfare all the time.
06-28-11, 05:35 AM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
A huge step up from Revenge of the Fallen, by which I mean it didn't make me physically ill. The action is frequently fantastic. 3D has definitely made Bay think about what he's doing in every frame and it shows.
The stuff that isn't action is more problematic. I wouldn't say the script is one-star worthy, but there is a lot of useless, extraneous stuff. And since the movie is so much darker than the first two, the extra human stuff really sticks out like sore thumb. The parents continue to be the best of the useless human characters.
The fugly model chick turns out to be not an awful actress, but her character is bland and she's still not actually attractive.
It's pretty awesome to hear Nimoy as Sentinel Prime, though. At first I didn't know who was doing the voice, then I said out loud, "Oh it's Spock!"
The stuff that isn't action is more problematic. I wouldn't say the script is one-star worthy, but there is a lot of useless, extraneous stuff. And since the movie is so much darker than the first two, the extra human stuff really sticks out like sore thumb. The parents continue to be the best of the useless human characters.
The fugly model chick turns out to be not an awful actress, but her character is bland and she's still not actually attractive.
It's pretty awesome to hear Nimoy as Sentinel Prime, though. At first I didn't know who was doing the voice, then I said out loud, "Oh it's Spock!"
06-28-11, 08:12 AM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
Originally Posted by Total Film Magazine
...British model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is awful – awful! – as LaBeouf’s new love interest, sucking the life out of every scene she appears in like some pneumatic Dyson sexbot.
Introduced with a leering pan up her Victoria’s Secret pins, she achieves the unlikely feat of making Megan Fox look like a proper actress, particularly at moments where she is required to be in peril.
Huntington-Whiteley is so terrible, in fact, she makes her co-stars bad too. LaBeouf, for one, has rarely looked so sweatily desperate than in scenes where he is obliged to simulate ardour. But then his own performance isn’t much to write home about either, pitched as it is at such a heightened level of consternation you fear he might pass out at any minute.
...
Verdict:
A largely linear plot and some ingenious appropriation of 20th century history helps T3 correct most of T2’s deficiencies without really matching T1’s superior entertainment value and element of surprise.
3 out of 5 stars.
http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/transformers-3
Introduced with a leering pan up her Victoria’s Secret pins, she achieves the unlikely feat of making Megan Fox look like a proper actress, particularly at moments where she is required to be in peril.
Huntington-Whiteley is so terrible, in fact, she makes her co-stars bad too. LaBeouf, for one, has rarely looked so sweatily desperate than in scenes where he is obliged to simulate ardour. But then his own performance isn’t much to write home about either, pitched as it is at such a heightened level of consternation you fear he might pass out at any minute.
...
Verdict:
A largely linear plot and some ingenious appropriation of 20th century history helps T3 correct most of T2’s deficiencies without really matching T1’s superior entertainment value and element of surprise.
3 out of 5 stars.
http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/transformers-3
06-28-11, 08:27 AM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
If the annoying roommate from ROTF isn't in this, then I don't think I'll mind any of the human stuff. That decision alone should warrant the film a 2 star rating.
06-28-11, 09:41 AM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
Come on... I'm so sick of reading stuff like this. She's "not attractive"... really? So you have much more attractive women coming in and out of your life regularly that you can deem her "not attractive"?
Take a look at this months Maxim and tell me she's not at least "attractive". I know it's subjective but these types of comments just become ridiculous. I guess they should have used the band flute girl from American Pie in her place.
06-28-11, 09:44 AM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
Anne Thompson collects some of the early reviews on her blog:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsono..._reviews/#more
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsono..._reviews/#more
06-28-11, 09:54 AM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
Come on... I'm so sick of reading stuff like this. She's "not attractive"... really? So you have much more attractive women coming in and out of your life regularly that you can deem her "not attractive"?
Take a look at this months Maxim and tell me she's not at least "attractive". I know it's subjective but these types of comments just become ridiculous. I guess they should have used the band flute girl from American Pie in her place.
Take a look at this months Maxim and tell me she's not at least "attractive". I know it's subjective but these types of comments just become ridiculous. I guess they should have used the band flute girl from American Pie in her place.
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06-28-11, 10:11 AM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
Come on... I'm so sick of reading stuff like this. She's "not attractive"... really? So you have much more attractive women coming in and out of your life regularly that you can deem her "not attractive"?
Take a look at this months Maxim and tell me she's not at least "attractive". I know it's subjective but these types of comments just become ridiculous. I guess they should have used the band flute girl from American Pie in her place.
Take a look at this months Maxim and tell me she's not at least "attractive". I know it's subjective but these types of comments just become ridiculous. I guess they should have used the band flute girl from American Pie in her place.
06-28-11, 10:14 AM
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Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011) — The Reviews Thread
Come on... I'm so sick of reading stuff like this. She's "not attractive"... really? So you have much more attractive women coming in and out of your life regularly that you can deem her "not attractive"?
Take a look at this months Maxim and tell me she's not at least "attractive". I know it's subjective but these types of comments just become ridiculous. I guess they should have used the band flute girl from American Pie in her place.
Take a look at this months Maxim and tell me she's not at least "attractive". I know it's subjective but these types of comments just become ridiculous. I guess they should have used the band flute girl from American Pie in her place.
06-28-11, 10:22 AM
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