The last one made tons of money despite critics hating it. So far every big blockbuster this summer has been slammed by critics across the board except for star trek, including wolverine, terminator salvation and now of course transformers revenge of the fallen.
I really am not all suprised this is one of the worst films this summer according to top critics on rotten tomatoes hovering somewhere in the 20% range of positive reviews.
The last one was worth a single rental on dvd. Seriously other than explosions, rock em sock em robots and megan fox, what are people actually expecting here?
I thought the first film was an abomination to the original film and cartoon. But those who did'nt grow up back then love the new movie, and so don't those who do say "do not expect it to be a live action remake of G1."
Brainless summer american crap, not arthouse cinema and not worth seeing more than once. Unless you are like 13 and buy the dvd to pause the megan fox parts or watch them over again.
Transformers is an example of what is exactly wrong with the movies at the moment. An action spectacle with zero story and CGI all around. Unfortunately George Lucas and Steven Spielberg started this with what were pretty good films. in the seventies and eighties.
The destruction of the movies is a byproduct of a certain movie that came out in 1977, which was way better than all these modern pieces of crap. Which is the problem really.
Star Wars may have lead to a short term film renaisance but in the end lead to the destruction of the movies especially through the prequels and the advent of lazy filmaking and over use of cgi and digital everything.
The only thing i think they did right with these films is get Peter Cullen "the real optimus prime" to do ops voice.
The previews and avertisements trailers are probably better than the finished movie. They serve as a highlight of the film and are more than enough. It would be hard to sit through 2 hours of that crap. I hate Michael Bay films. The only good film he ever made was the rock. And the seems to have been a happy accident. Armageddon was ok. Pearl Harbor was an abomination words cannot describe.
The romance in his films is written poorly and extremely sappy and laughable. He must have attended the George Lucas school of writing.
The dialogue and the scripts of all these summer flicks including star trek are very very poorly written in the dialogue department and all have bad jokes. Not really surprising Orci wrote trek and transformers. He is like one of the worst screenwriters i have ever known of next to Akiva Goldsmen and David Koepp.
So is TF ROTF 2 hours of product placement like the last movie? If so when it comes on DVD it belongs in the trash can.
To enjoy films these days you must shut your brain off. you are not allowed to think, if you do the suspension of disbelief is ruined and you are taken out of the films you are watching. We the audience now have to do the work because the filmaker and writers are lazy and expect that.
I hated absolutely every big film this summer. Even Trek barely got a passing grade from my standpoint.
Transformers on the other hand is based on a cartoon that was an elaborate commercial to sell toys. And does not pretend to be other than what it is advertised as. As a dumb action flick i can enjoy it quite a bit.
It is not trying to be something it is not. like say Terminator Salvation, trying to be serious drama in the framework of an action film.
Transformers comes from the robot anime type of shows Japan had been making for years untold. It is Anime. Even though American fans who don't like anime and hate japan culture want it to be something else.