No, just an entertaining summer movie for kids, with story and characters, action and humour.
Transformers: The Last Knight review thread
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No, just an entertaining summer movie for kids, with story and characters, action and humour.
Yes.
Green and orange robots that speak in Black American vernacular and are portrayed as uneducated, oafish and lazy, characteristics that are a staple of the "coon" caricature in film and literature. They're gross.
Icyflamez96
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Was anyone acting surprised?
pirateluigi
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Just seeing that picture makes me angry. Some of the most offensive characters in a "family" film since the crows in Dumbo.
mattwhite924
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I don't expect good movies, but I hope for good movies because I know the franchise has the potential to do good movies.
One day we'll get a good one.... one day ;___;
Yes, but it wasn't as marketable so studios chose to not let him do it anymore afterwards.
He's the smartest person in hollywood in a way.
Thatonemoor
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Dude you aren't this dense. They both have big ears and buck teeth. One of them has a god tooth for crying out loud. And the way they speak is sterotypical "THAT'S HOW BLACK PEOPLE SPEAK" Hell back when I was in high school when this movie can out I knew people that said "They are funny cause they are the black robots". And them not being able to read is just fucking offensive to my race.
Ah okay I see. I guess I didn't notice since I had a hard time keeping up with the subtitles. It was a stressful race inside my head lol.
DonMigs85
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I also found it amusing that Transformers, even Decepticons, would speak english amongst themselves after the first movie instead of their machine language
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
The big fans clap at everything. People clapped when I saw Jurassic World. Like...really...this? You're clapping for this?
HomerSimpson-Man
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I mean it's Transformers, even as I personally enjoy the movies unapologetically, this is exactly the level of critical reception I expected from it.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Your taste got me hooked. Go on.
Dash_Riprock
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Apparently this movie COMPLETELY contradicts the premise of the first movie and basically retcons it out of existence.
Common Knowledge
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Reading the Blu-ray review, Is this supposed to be the last one? I thought there were going to be six of them.
Holy shit they were black? I thought they were hillbillies/hicks
Yeah, but each movie has done that. The 'continuity' is an incoherent mess.
If it makes $800 million worldwide? You bet it's gonna get sequels. They're even filming the Bumblebee spinoff soon.
AlexFlame116
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Watching it today due to the 4 dollar T-Mobile deal. Got nothing else to do.
I've been waiting for this since the second movie. Still nothing. Also want a cooler looking Hot Rod.
Messofanego
Banned
You know hillbillies/hicks who talk about popping caps in asses or who have gold teeth?
Before Skids and Mudflap in the second movie, there was Jazz in the first movie who is introduced as saying "what's cracking, little bitches? This looks like a cool place to kick it". Being the only black Transformer in that movie, he's the only Autobot to die, subscribing to the black-person-dies-first trope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF7ZGRYNCtg
This is Transformers now.
Lol the last Transformers I saw was 2 and this is fascinating to me. I hate the way their faces look.
??? It was obviously a horrible black stereotype and very offensive/annoying.
All these Transformer movies could be decent summer popcorn flicks if they got rid of about an hour of screen time in every movie. Excise all the Bay humor crap - it is either incredibly cringy or offensive racist stereotypes. Get rid of all the pandering nonsense - scenes with international actor cameos that added nothing to the plot like that border crossing in one of the movies, Chinese officials saying that they must protect their citizens, etc. Cut the runtime of all the action scenes, they seem to go on forever and reduce any impact of any individual scene because by the time it occurs, you are just bored and want to move on... Also, how about not making Optimus Prime so homicidal but instead a noble figure who believes in mercy and is inspirational?
Well the whole golden tooth thing is a hillbilly/hick thing as well, as for terminology I didnt really notice. I am still sad Jazz died.
Choppasmith
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You know I saw your other post regarding Evil Optimus and rolled my eyes, but that...
Transformers Prime did it just fine. Though I imagine the movie somehow messes it up.
To think I defended the first movie when it came out. Hearing about the horrible sequels made me avoid them like the plague. I was kinda hoping maybe, JUST MAYBE, this one would be decent. Here's hoping Bay is gone for good and they can start over.
Soapbox Killer
Grand Nagus
I still say 1 and 3 are solid with 2 being mostly shit and 4 being completely shit. I might go see this with the kids.
polyh3dron
Banned
I want a movie that makes the Transformers the main characters of it instead of window dressing while spending so much time on Mark fucking Wahlberg.
Bay made the Transformers these cold, emotionless things.
He then gave the Ninja Turtles the same type of treatment, deciding to focus more on human characters for the emotional core while relying on the turtles merely for spectacle.
2 and 4 are unwatchable.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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NYT was a fan (of Anthony Hopkins) https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/...partner=IFTTT&referer=https://t.co/3a2goe46Ix
thehypocrite
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Duckroll is ready 😎
firehawk12
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duckroll, are you safe?
AoE is awesome, tha last sequence with the dinos is insane.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
When I saw them on Netflix, TF1 was bad, but nothing completely horrible. It was just a bad film.
TF2 literally was a movie where things just happened. It was a parody of a Michael Bay film.
TF2 literally was a movie where things just happened. It was a parody of a Michael Bay film.
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Hashmal_Bringer_of_Order
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Still gonna watch it day 1 though.
Galactic Specter
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Optimus is a goddamn war criminal with all the screwed up ways he's killed robots in these movies.
This is Transformers now.
GIVE ME YOUR FACE
NealMcCauley
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Chugging a mug of beer before heading over to the theater. Let's do this. Marky Mark was advertising at&t with Lego Batman on the bar tv. That seems ominous.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Some more reviews are popping up on twitter and the floodgates are about to open, so could a mod (duckroll?!) keep the OP updated for me? I'm on the bus on my way to see it. D:
This is Transformers now.
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SunDimension24
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Uproxx: 4/10
Mark Reviews Movies: 0.5/4
Newsday: 0.5/4
The Playlist: D-
Slant Magazine: 0.5/4
Boston Globe: 1/4
Minneapolis Star Tribune: 3.5/4
Detroit News: D
Toronto Sun: 1/5
Chicago Tribune: 1.5/4
Forbes: 3/10
Vanity Fair:
Nerdist: 5/5
Daily Telegraph (UK): 4/5
Newark Star-Ledger:1.5/4
Guardian: 1/5
Village Voice:
Mark Reviews Movies: 0.5/4
Newsday: 0.5/4
The Playlist: D-
Slant Magazine: 0.5/4
Boston Globe: 1/4
Minneapolis Star Tribune: 3.5/4
Detroit News: D
Toronto Sun: 1/5
Chicago Tribune: 1.5/4
Forbes: 3/10
Vanity Fair:
Nerdist: 5/5
Daily Telegraph (UK): 4/5
Newark Star-Ledger:1.5/4
Guardian: 1/5
Village Voice:
lol yup, seems about right.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
lmao the chicago tribune blurb
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I was wondering if the star Tribune was really 3.5/4 and yup, it is hehe
Hellwarden
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This is Transformers now.
Did Optimus just kill a totally defenseless enemy?
That's not very heroic.
This is not your daddy's prime
Seriously tired of the shitty human taking space from the robots and making the bots borderline interchangeable