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[faridmon]

Worse than Age of Extinction would be quite the accomplishment.

I enjoyed Age of Extinction

 

[cr0w]

The scene with Optimus hiding in the barn and seething, slowly getting to the point where he's pissed off enough to intervene when Cemetery Wind was threatening Cade's daughter...man. Didn't hurt that they did a fucking awesome job giving him his G1 truck form. That scene alone made the movie for me.

I like fed up Optimus.

 

[Clear]

In absolutely no way is this an artistic triumph. In fact, every single technical triumph is immediatly and completely undermined by the worst possible artistic choices by the director, sound mixer, actors & editor, making it impossible to actually appreciate the technical marvel since it's impossible to dissect, take in or, really, discern what's happening with the way the camera moves, the scenes are edited and the robots look. This is not a good action movie. The action is, again, save for a few scenes at the end, unanimously terrible and there isn't even all that much in there in the first two thirds.

It's like getting the fastest car in the world but the steering wheel is broken, the breaks don't work, you can't shift down and your passenger continously punches you in the face. Yes, you could still drive really fast, but there is absolutely no enjoyment in it.

I'm just judging the trailer, and I stand by my point. Hell even the explosions are ludicrously photogenic in them. No interest in the movie whatsoever, but I have to give props for the technical execution on a shot-by-shot basis.

 

[Martinski43]

30/100 on Metacritic. Good going, Bay's worst critically rated film to date.

http://www.metacritic.com/movie/transformers-the-last-knight?ref=hp

 

[Sub_Level]

Worst movie I've ever seen in theaters.

The Mummy is just dull-bad.

This is a fucking insult to cinema.

Thats how I felt about Age of Extinction. Even when you go in with low expectations, these movies have a way of being surprisingly extra bad.

Its not a forced "lol michael bay xD" meme. They really are genuinely terrible.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

The only thing that stood out for me in Age of Exctinction was the Milk-drinking-sequence and the Budwiser scene and if two product placements are the standout moments for you in a movie, you know whats going on.

 

[jmdajr]

I was really hoping for 30%-40% this outing.

 

[CosmicGroinPull]

Anthony Hopkins didn't get a motorcycle/robot exoskeleton?

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Transformers movies aren't meant to be reviewed, they are meant to he experienced.

 

[Apharmd]

I'm no fan of Bayformers, but this was in no way worse than Age of Extinction or Revenge of the Fallen. Sorry, you people either have shit poor memory, or are attention whoring with your hot takes.

have you seen this fucking movie

worse than rotf is NOT a hot take. As shitty as that film was, we had optimus with hook blades eviscerating deceptions, him using his dead friend as a temporary power up and "GIVE ME YOUR FACE".

I told people already that I love these offensively poorly written scenes of optimus being bloodthirsty BUT

there are no such scenes in the last knight

 

[friskykillface]

The scene with Optimus hiding in the barn and seething, slowly getting to the point where he's pissed off enough to intervene when Cemetery Wind was threatening Cade's daughter...man. Didn't hurt that they did a fucking awesome job giving him his G1 truck form. That scene alone made the movie for me.

I like fed up Optimus.

This.
HERE I AM
Shit was hype, rest of the movie was ok

I'm passing on this one though

 

[jmdajr]

have you seen this fucking movie

worse than rotf is NOT a hot take. As shitty as that film was, we had optimus with hook blades eviscerating deceptions, him using his dead friend as a temporary power up and "GIVE ME YOUR FACE".

I told people already that I love these offensively poorly written scenes of optimus being bloodthirsty BUT

there are no such scenes in the last knight

Forest scene was cool in ROTF

 

[Kickz]

These movies haven't been the same without Anthony Anderson and Bernie Mac =p

 

[Messofanego]

These movies haven't been the same without Anthony Anderson and Bernie Mac =p

Don't worry, this new film continues the tradition of racist stereotypes like those characters, Skids, Mudflap, and Jazz.

 

[Kickz]

Don't worry, this new film continues the tradition of racist stereotypes like those characters, Skids, Mudflap, and Jazz.

Welp, thats why the first movie remains the best, when they actually hired some real comedians to do the jokes

 

[geomon]

A 0.5? I don't think I've ever seen that before.

 

[More_Badass]

You liked Hardcore Henry, didn't you? 😉

On first watch

My opinion of that movie has dropped considerably

 

[Snaku]

have you seen this fucking movie

worse than rotf is NOT a hot take. As shitty as that film was, we had optimus with hook blades eviscerating deceptions, him using his dead friend as a temporary power up and "GIVE ME YOUR FACE".

I told people already that I love these offensively poorly written scenes of optimus being bloodthirsty BUT

there are no such scenes in the last knight

I don't think you understood my post.

Or maybe you did.

People enjoy the character assassination of Optimus Prime?

 

[J_Viper]

Managed to cancel my tickets. That was a close one.

To hear they even dropped the ball on the action means it truly must be an abomination

 

[Kickz]

At least next year's Bumblebee spinoff has a chance. Different writers, no Bay. And Bumblebee is Bestformer.

Watch it be by fuckin' far the best one.

Hopefully it runs more like the first Bayformers which was actually funny and good

 

[Apharmd]

I don't think you understood my post.

Or maybe you did.

People enjoy the character assassination of Optimus Prime?

deliciously so, snaku

in the same vein that i enjoyed batman being a wanton murderer in BvS and having just the right amount of cognitive dissonance to want to put superman down

i'm telling you that this movie is so positively awful that i couldn't even find enjoyment in the majority of the action scenes

 

[Saya]

copypasta from Spoiler thread

My review of this movie;

What the fuck was this movie lol


i sincerely mean that in a positive way, kinda! i have a particular affinity for this series and Michael Bay as a filmmaker in general, this was probably the best one of the series, (of course you rate that on the Transformers Scale) and even the most that felt like the original G1 series, lots more robot interaction and screentime it seemed

but man, the Bayman saw this was his Totally For Sure Gonna Be His Last One and pulled out all the stops and got real WEIRD with it. Shit is bananas.

This a movie that has

Spoiler

Anthony Hopkins being part of a secret society who helped Transformers on Earth
Anthony Hopkins with a cane thats actually a machine gun
Anthony Hopkins with a Watch Transformer who is referred to as "The Watch That Killed Hitler" (the actual line in the movie)
Anthony Hopkins in general
Hot Rod being french
Megatron negotiating with lawyers (which leads into....)
.....Suicide Squad but with Decepticons
A psychotic ninja butler C3PO who fights off his urges of wanting nothing more than to murder things
Marky Mark becoming a member of a secret intergalactic order of Knights and able to will a giant-ass sword into existence that he only does once
Drunk Stanley Tucci as Merlin the wizard in ye olde times
Harriet Tubman being part of that Secret Society Who Helped Transformers On Earth
Steve Buscami as a Autobot salesman
Optimus Prime being EVILLLLL, for like 5 minutes

i might be making this sound wayyyyyyyyy cooler than it might actually be to some people, idk i'm just weird and enjoyed the hell out of this for it's absurdness

You just sold me on this movie.

Spoiler

Will watch when it's on netflix.

 

[Solemn_In_Berlin]

copypasta from Spoiler thread

My review of this movie;

What the fuck was this movie lol


i sincerely mean that in a positive way, kinda! i have a particular affinity for this series and Michael Bay as a filmmaker in general, this was probably the best one of the series, (of course you rate that on the Transformers Scale) and even the most that felt like the original G1 series, lots more robot interaction and screentime it seemed

but man, the Bayman saw this was his Totally For Sure Gonna Be His Last One and pulled out all the stops and got real WEIRD with it. Shit is bananas.

This a movie that has

Spoiler

Anthony Hopkins being part of a secret society who helped Transformers on Earth
Anthony Hopkins with a cane thats actually a machine gun
Anthony Hopkins with a Watch Transformer who is referred to as "The Watch That Killed Hitler" (the actual line in the movie)
Anthony Hopkins in general
Hot Rod being french
Megatron negotiating with lawyers (which leads into....)
.....Suicide Squad but with Decepticons
A psychotic ninja butler C3PO who fights off his urges of wanting nothing more than to murder things
Marky Mark becoming a member of a secret intergalactic order of Knights and able to will a giant-ass sword into existence that he only does once
Drunk Stanley Tucci as Merlin the wizard in ye olde times
Harriet Tubman being part of that Secret Society Who Helped Transformers On Earth
Steve Buscami as a Autobot salesman
Optimus Prime being EVILLLLL, for like 5 minutes

i might be making this sound wayyyyyyyyy cooler than it might actually be to some people, idk i'm just weird and enjoyed the hell out of this for it's absurdness

This is the greatest postmodern film of our era

 

[kunonabi]

copypasta from Spoiler thread

My review of this movie;

What the fuck was this movie lol


i sincerely mean that in a positive way, kinda! i have a particular affinity for this series and Michael Bay as a filmmaker in general, this was probably the best one of the series, (of course you rate that on the Transformers Scale) and even the most that felt like the original G1 series, lots more robot interaction and screentime it seemed

but man, the Bayman saw this was his Totally For Sure Gonna Be His Last One and pulled out all the stops and got real WEIRD with it. Shit is bananas.

This a movie that has

Spoiler

Anthony Hopkins being part of a secret society who helped Transformers on Earth
Anthony Hopkins with a cane thats actually a machine gun
Anthony Hopkins with a Watch Transformer who is referred to as "The Watch That Killed Hitler" (the actual line in the movie)
Anthony Hopkins in general
Hot Rod being french
Megatron negotiating with lawyers (which leads into....)
.....Suicide Squad but with Decepticons
A psychotic ninja butler C3PO who fights off his urges of wanting nothing more than to murder things
Marky Mark becoming a member of a secret intergalactic order of Knights and able to will a giant-ass sword into existence that he only does once
Drunk Stanley Tucci as Merlin the wizard in ye olde times
Harriet Tubman being part of that Secret Society Who Helped Transformers On Earth
Steve Buscami as a Autobot salesman
Optimus Prime being EVILLLLL, for like 5 minutes

i might be making this sound wayyyyyyyyy cooler than it might actually be to some people, idk i'm just weird and enjoyed the hell out of this for it's absurdness

Aside from Hot rod being freakin french that sounds like it should be the best bayformers flick yet. Too bad its just worse garbage than the rest of them apparently.

 

[Monocle]

This movie is bad and dumb and too long, but also strewn with enough delightful moments big and small that it was an experience worth having.

To get the three major positives out of the way: 1) Anthony Hopkins is predictably great and unfailingly hilarious as testy historian Sir Burton, 2) Cogman, his spry and wonderfully demented robot butler, is the highlight of the entire movie, and 3) Optimus Prime remains a scene stealing badass.

The negatives are obvious and you know them already. A contrived, brain dead story with questionable direction and I'll conceived design choices, physically impossible events (what's gravity?), etc. Tonally, it's all over the place. The off-color humor and racially insensitive stereotypes are still present, and still unfunny as ever.

With some exceptions, the movie's world is full of a stupid person's idea of what's clever and funny. If you've got even moderate intelligence, expect it to be insulted. You need to be able to turn your brain all the way off until Sir Burton and Cogman sweep in and take the reins, and the action gets good.

Some scattered complaints:

- This movie has the tiresome trope of a scientist acting like an unprofessional fool who's duly shamed for his narrow-minded worldview. Because science is for the dogmatic and irrational, and blind belief is the best policy, kids!

- The big threat makes no sense and defies physics.

- The reveal that

Spoiler

Earth is Unicron

is a bizarre and disappointing choice that all but ensures we won't get

Spoiler

a sweet planet-devouring robot in the next film, assuming there is one. (It's almost as lame as making Galactus a giant cloud in that one Fantastic Four movie.) The writers should have Unicron possess Cybertron somehow. That way he could be his glorious self without Earth getting destroyed in the process.

- The robots' mouths still look weird.

- Maybe this was just me zoning out during the exposition, but why did

Spoiler

those early Transformers give Merlin the super special staff in the first place? Are they really going to hand their most powerful artifact to some random human, much less a drunken goof?

- The Transformers being

Spoiler

present throughout history is kind of alright up until that painfully ridiculous scene of the robots fighting Nazis with rad gunplay.

- That's not Hot Rod. Come on.

- Half of Megatron's team is bizarre useless weirdos. (Watch out you guys, it's MOHAWK! He's so cray.) Why even take them along? Seriously.

- This isn't a complaint: Stanley Tucci is a laugh as

Spoiler

Merlin

. Totally anachronistic and wacky, but for me it worked.

 

[strafer]

Here's a track from the score.

https://soundcloud.com/lalalandrecords/merlins-staff

And it's out on friday apparently.

 

[Toa TAK]

Here's a track from the score.

https://soundcloud.com/lalalandrecords/merlins-staff

And it's out on friday apparently.

SWEET!

 

[Alter_Fridge]

The scene with Optimus hiding in the barn and seething, slowly getting to the point where he's pissed off enough to intervene when Cemetery Wind was threatening Cade's daughter...man. Didn't hurt that they did a fucking awesome job giving him his G1 truck form. That scene alone made the movie for me.

I like fed up Optimus.

How come every single other Transformer is nothing like their G1 form then? Doesn't that piss you off?

 

[VeryGooster]

Rolling Stone: 0 stars

'Transformers: The Last Knight' Review: Michael Bay's Latest Is 2017's Most Toxic Movie
Michael Bay's latest mega-bots monstrosity makes this summer's other blockbuster misfires look like masterpieces

My dream is that this whole tapped-out robo series will transform into a turd and audiences will have the good sense to flush it. That's an ending for you.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/...nsformers-5-is-2017s-most-toxic-movie-w488595

 

[LotusHD]

Rolling Stone: 0 stars

Jesus...

 

[Omega Kirby]

Sounds likea a pleasant movie to not watch

 

[Toa TAK]

Rolling Stone: 0 stars

Wrong.

The worst movie is The Mummy this summer.

 

[cr0w]

How come every single other Transformer is nothing like their G1 form then? Doesn't that piss you off?

No, not at all because it's not G1. I like small nods to previous iterations, like the truck mode, Prime having his trailer in AoE, etc. For this style of movie, straight adaptations of the G1 designs wouldn't work on-screen, as they don't fit the aesthetic. Maybe IDW-inspired ones would, but I've honestly never been against the Bayformers designs at all. In fact I think AoE Prime in particular is one of the most visually striking Primes in the entire franchise.

G1 designs would work in a CGI movie, I suppose, but not for this particular iteration of the franchise. They're too simple.

But then again, I've always been a bigger fan of the toys than the various shows and comics and have very little attachment to the characters outside of Optimus Prime and Megatron, so my views are less rigid than many peoples'. I'm fine with different versions and interpretations of them.

 

[NealMcCauley]

Double Toasted review is up.

 

[MechaX]

The scene with Optimus hiding in the barn and seething, slowly getting to the point where he's pissed off enough to intervene when Cemetery Wind was threatening Cade's daughter...man. Didn't hurt that they did a fucking awesome job giving him his G1 truck form. That scene alone made the movie for me.

I like fed up Optimus.

Cemetery Wind... was that the "my face is a warrant!" guy?

 

[PowderedToast]

the critical dogpile is a bit cringey to be honest

 

[HammerOfThor]

the critical dogpile is a bit cringey to be honest

this movie wholeheartedly deserves it.

 

[cr0w]

Cemetery Wind... was that the "my face is a warrant!" guy?

Titus Welliver, yeah.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

the critical dogpile is a bit cringey to be honest

That you, Michael?

 

[Messofanego]

the critical dogpile is a bit cringey to be honest

Are you about to trout out "it's for the fans, not the critics"?

 

[strafer]

Titus Wellinger was amazing...greatest role ever.

 

[Ray Down]

the critical dogpile is a bit cringey to be honest

This movie is trash and deserves to get trashed.

 

[GravityInsanity]

You guys forgot this gem:

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

I enjoyed Age of Extinction

I'm sorry.

 

[J_Viper]

the critical dogpile is a bit cringey to be honest

The word "cringe" has truly lost all meaning

 

[Snaku]

the critical dogpile is a bit cringey to be honest

You're not wrong. It's easily the third best in the series, but it seems that any blockbuster not Marvel or Star Wars has to go above and beyond any and all reasonable expectations to avoid becoming this week's worst movie of the year. I'm not a fan of Bay's Transformers, but come the fuck on, these reviews are just clickbait hyperbole.

 

[Insane Metal]

Surprising reviews.

Well not really lol

 

[ZeoVGM]

the critical dogpile is a bit cringey to be honest

It might be time to retire the word 'cringe.'

 

[Toa TAK]

Cwingee

 

[Kalamari]

Sometimes I enjoy terrible movies more than the good ones, Im going to see it