shapermc ([info]shapermc) wrote,
@ 2007-07-13 09:26:00
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Bad movie, BAD!
God Transformers was atrocious:

Q. I noticed that several times you referred to the good Transformers as "Transformers" and not as Autobots. In the movie, Optimus Prime tells Sam that he can call his group the Autobots for short. Both the Decepticons and the Autobots are Transformers and of the same race, but over time, as Optimus describes it, a struggle for power ensued and peace was shattered. I just wanted to clear this up for you.
-Dustin Letkeman, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

A. Thanks for clearing that up. What is Autobots short for? Automobile Robots? Robots made of autos? That leads to this question: When Megatron came from space and landed at the North Pole, circa 1900, what was he made from, since he wasn't from Earth and automobiles were presumably unavailable on his home planet?
A-ha. I have the answer right here. "Automobiles were reverse-engineered from Transformer technology," according to film sage Peter Debruge, who pays close attention to these things. "That All Spark contains the potential to turn all modern devices back into killer robots (such as the Mountain Dew vending machine we see in the final showdown)." Yes, of course.
-Roger Ebert

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[info]temjin_2
2007-07-13 03:58 pm UTC (link)
Christ. I'm glad I missed this.

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[info]mrurkel
2007-07-14 12:00 am UTC (link)
Are you serious? Of everyone that I have spoken with, everyone is raving about how great Transformers is.

Tell me why you thought it was bad.

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[info]thatbox
2007-07-14 03:45 am UTC (link)
:(

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[info]shapermc
2007-07-14 09:47 pm UTC (link)
There's just too many reasons it's bad. Writing, acting, writing, writing, acting, writing, special effects too close to tell what's going on, boring action sequences, writing.

You know. All that stuff.

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[info]thatbox
2007-07-14 03:45 am UTC (link)
Ebert rated that shit too highly, man. Still, he's my dawg. No worries.

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[info]unskilledlabor
2007-07-14 05:49 am UTC (link)
I talked to my brother in law, avid watcher of Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter movies, tonight:
"Oh, I just saw the worst movie I've seen in two or three years."

Luckily, Hot Fuzz has provided the perfect antidote to Michael Bay. Every time I feel myself beginning to think about him, I just think about him within the context of Hot Fuzz instead. Brilliant!

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[info]shapermc
2007-07-14 09:48 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I enjoy both LotR and the HP films for what they are. Transformers is plain horribly for whatever it is.

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[info]deep_sea_sharc
2007-07-16 12:52 pm UTC (link)
for what it's worth, i saw this movie at a company outing where we all left work early to see it. which is probably the only way i could have watched it that wouldn't have set my hair on fire.

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