Transformers: The Last Knight review thread
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More_Badass
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It has nothing to do with Marvel, Star Wars, or somehow needing to above reasonable expectations to not be shit on.
Blockbuster is more than just spectacle. See The Mummy most recently. It's not the critics' fault that most blockbusters this year so far have been so poor in so many aspects.
roflwaffles
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This is the only modern blockbuster franchise I know that aggressively tries to be bad.
I hope I can live long enough to see the day where people ackowlege that this has nothing to do with specific brands and more with how much the film maker invest and care about the certain franchises.
Cause if Bay would invest himself more into Transformers and the origin of the property and wouldnt make one murderbots product placement explosiaton, he would also get better reviews.
GabeTheGrouch76
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Midnight Screenings review is up.
Ether: the shit that makes your soul burn slow.
When the first thing Brad and Brian first take issue with for the film is the Paramount logo, you know you're in for a long show (review is 44 minutes!).
Ether: the shit that makes your soul burn slow.
They will as soon as the things he makes stop making money.
Messofanego
Banned
Imagine defending multi-million franchises to the point where you form a persecution complex about how the poor little Bayformers are being piled on and everyone is out to maliciously berate it.
Oh no. I don't have to do a thing. That movie is the one coming for you.
Mr. Poolman
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I would enjoy more gifs of Optimus brutally murdering more member of his species.
Well, that was terrible.
First hour was surprisingly less awful than I was anticipating... in fact, it was tolerable.
Then when the focus shifted to the humans and their awful dialogue, it just kept getting worse. I haven't been this mortified watching a film since I saw Spider-Man 3.
First hour was surprisingly less awful than I was anticipating... in fact, it was tolerable.
Then when the focus shifted to the humans and their awful dialogue, it just kept getting worse. I haven't been this mortified watching a film since I saw Spider-Man 3.
Mr. PlayStation
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Bad dialogue? Suicide Squad is what that comes to my mind! Spiderman 3 was actually fun and I actually liked the emo peter parker!
"Transformers: The Last Knight is the third best movie in the series!"
I want that quote to be used in a commercial.
You're trying to paint Michael Bay's Transformers as some kind of victim, as if critics are out to get it, but the reality of the situation is simple:
Transformers movies are blockbusters. They are also bad movies.
Marvel Studios and Star Wars movies are also blockbusters. But they're usually not bad movies.
PowderedToast
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eh, I feel like it's an appropriate usage, seeing critics try to one up each other is kind of lame
regardless of the films quality they should still do their job without giving into hyperbole. it's their cultural responsibility.
this comes from a position of someone invested in criticism rather than the transformers series itself
Lmao, GAF is so hilarious regarding Transformers. The holiest art of cinema is getting brutally murdered by Michael Bay! someone call the cops.
I have never seen these movies at the theatre btw. But I always watch them if I catch them on cable. They're fun to watch + my kid loves the toys. What's not to love.
I have never seen these movies at the theatre btw. But I always watch them if I catch them on cable. They're fun to watch + my kid loves the toys. What's not to love.
NealMcCauley
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The "this movie was written by people who's only exposure to England was Monty Python" description was very apt.
And yeah, Bay filmed that teenage girl like eye candy for a few very uncomfortable shots.
Hey...Benghazi is pretty good. People just need to stop paying money to see Bayformers. Hope he makes Bad Boys 3 next.
Dash_Riprock
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In fairness, I don't think Bay is mentally capable of filming in any way other than objectifying. A women who is not eye candy simply does not register in his brain.
Its a junior trying (and failing) to defend Michael Bay. Just ignore.
What does this even mean?
NealMcCauley
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I said it in the spoiler thread but Female British lead came across like Bay still had hangups about working with Kate Beckinsale.
13 hours is his best movie.
According to people in this thread who have seen the movie, it apparently isn't hyperbole: it's really that bad.
And when you're in the fifth movie in the franchise, which has almost consistently been trash the entire time, I don't think critics need to act very respectful of it.
Dash_Riprock
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The Underground Railroad was an ACTUAL underground railroad crewed by transformers, duh!
What's sad his two recent non-TF films are solid, but they bombed at the box office
That's probably why he doesn't even give a fuck about these
Bumblebee invents peanut butter as well.
Maybe if you stop giving shitty movies your money they will.
Bay has some very real issues, particularly how he views women and the military.
I'd rather not support those beliefs, particularly when they're wrapped in a horrible film.
That's the Benghazi movie I was talking about. Forgot the title because it was too long.
Messofanego
Banned
Sure, when you don't have to pay for them and as long as kids are enjoying it, job well done.
Frozenprince
Banned
"It's just like Marvel and Star Wars" well no, I'mma stop you right there.
Those two things have this novel concept called a "plot".
Sure, it's not high theater, but it. At the very least, makes fucking sense.
Bay's movies are nonsensical, they disregard the previous movies on a whim, the entire first movie might as well have never happened. Nothing in them makes any sense what so ever and unlike Fast and the Furious it's actually trying to take it's narrative seriously. When it doesn't even HAVE a narrative.
Those two things have this novel concept called a "plot".
Sure, it's not high theater, but it. At the very least, makes fucking sense.
Bay's movies are nonsensical, they disregard the previous movies on a whim, the entire first movie might as well have never happened. Nothing in them makes any sense what so ever and unlike Fast and the Furious it's actually trying to take it's narrative seriously. When it doesn't even HAVE a narrative.
Sociopath Optimus riding Grimlock was pure insanity, loved that sequence.
Frozenprince
Banned
If I put every scene where a transformer was the POV character, not just action scenes, from all 5 movies, you probably still wouldn't get a full 1 1/2 hour runtime on a single movie.
Messofanego
Banned
This is the thing, why is a franchise about robot toys so joyless? Compared to Fast and Furious, Baby Driver, Wonder Woman, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 from this year, this movie franchise just doesn't know how to have fun or humour. Snyder and Bay are appropriate bedfellows.
Frozenprince
Banned
It's a movie about selling toys to kids that has more cussing in it than some adult oriented comedies I've seen this year.
sems4arsenal
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Devil's advocate here. Why is everyone so hard on what essentialy is a well known commodity. It's a dumb action flick and it knows it. Isn't that what Fast and Furious gets praised for?
Absolutely no difference between both franchises.
Absolutely no difference between both franchises.
Fast and Furious has these things called characters and watchable action.
There's a ton of differences.
Frozenprince
Banned
Yes there are. The characters in fast and furious are meant to be likeable and together, not a random mish mash of pretty people that Bay likes. Fast and the Furious has a plot. A stupid ass plot, but a plot, a narrative, the movies all tie together. Transformers might as well just be fan fiction for how they treat even the preceding movie.
And no, it really doesn't know it's a dumb action flick, and even if it did, it's one done BADLY. The editing, sound direction, scene pacing, set pieces, dialogue and direction are a fucking mess. Fast has proper pacing, it's set pieces are all easily discerned from one another. It's clearly shot and well edited.
Dash_Riprock
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Please stop with the false equivalency bullshit.
Fast and Furious has a coherent plot, likable characters, funny dialogue, and well structured action sequences
Transformers has had NONE of that since arguably the first film.