skruffy wrote: Just saw it, I thought it was awesome. As an aside, whoever is responsible for deciding what special edition camaros come out should be shot for not having a bumblebee camaro out TODAY.
Regardless of what you think, it is actually pretty difficult to build a car that can transform into an autonomous, sentient, bipedal robot. With an arm cannon. And a working radio.
confuZion3 wrote:skruffy wrote: Just saw it, I thought it was awesome. As an aside, whoever is responsible for deciding what special edition camaros come out should be shot for not having a bumblebee camaro out TODAY.Regardless of what you think, it is actually pretty difficult to build a car that can transform into an autonomous, sentient, bipedal robot. With an arm cannon. And a working radio.
what kind of mpg's do you think it would get ??
Could a transforming, robot-companion model have saved GM from financial hardship? Who knows.
I just got back from seeing it. It was cheesy.
But it was EPIC. and i would watch it again.
If only my optimus prime toy i had when i was little came with all of the extra accessories....
"The more pathetic Sam gets, the more Fox's lips pout and her nipples point, like little Irish setters."
100% pure win.
ah crap I have to go help my mom move over the next 2 days...guess the girlfriend and I will have to go this weekend or early next week. Hmmm or we could wait and watch it at the drive in.
It's CRAP!
Saw it last night. It's full on full throttle maxed out coked up Michel Bay!!! If you really like that stuff, you will like it. If you really liked the first one you will be disappointed. If you are into stimulants: snort a bunch of coke, take some speed, drink 15 cups of coffee and 7 red bulls, and the movie will be great!
It's no where near as funny as the first one. The story is a bit wacky, some wild inconsistencies (not surprising, but when you walk out the back door of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington and end up at Davis Monthan Air Base in Arizona, it's a bit obvious). Camera work is FRANTIC, always moving, robots are a blur (you have no idea what is actually happening at some times), lots of slow more, way overly dramatic.... just wildly overdone. So yes, it is a typical Bay movie.
Oh, and the Jar Jar Binks like racial stereo typed "hood" robots (complete with gold teeth!), I would be a bit surprised if there weren't a few people offended by those. Hey, at least he didn't paint them black, or make them turn into "donks" or "bubbles".
Probably a lot easier to watch on a small screen. If you are not dieing to see it, wait for the DVD, I guarantee there will be plenty available for Christmas time.
Oh, and I did see Fast and Furiouserly 3,4 or 5 (whatever the latest one is). Possibly one of the worst movies I have seen!! It's a CAR movie, how hard is that! Not a lot of CAR in it, just a lot of soap opera like character crap about the main characters from the movies... oh yah, that's what you want to see when you go to a car movie!!
i have been refering to it as a 2 hour gm car comcerial anywhy for months....but i will still go and see it though....
Tim Baxter wrote: The reviews I've seen have been pretty brutal. I thought the last one was dumb, so I'm probably going to skip it.
Its a movie based on a 1980s cartoon (scratch that: serial toy commercial) about 50' tall robots smashing the crap out of each other. Of COURSE its going to review poorly. If you went to see 50' tall robots smashing the crap out of each other, you will NOT be disappointed. Once review I read said it "lacked a human element." Yes, of course it did, because its not about humans, its about FIFTY FOOT TALL ROBOTS SMASHING THE CRAP OUT OF EACH OTHER.
I loved it! It was better than I thought it would be. One of my favorite parts was when they dealt with the jerk that Obama sent. "Don't pull the chord now, you're still on the plane dumbass!"
And it was cool to see that the humans were really beginning to fight more effectively at the end.
Just stopping by to add more BAYSPLOSIONS!
I thought the, uh, inconsistencies, like the aforementioned Smithsonian-straight-to-Davis-Mothan were, once I got in the proper mood, hysterical.. It was like, "O-kaaaaay, Now we're in Petra, and the audience is all ooooohhh, ahhhh, forgetting that they've seen the very same place in what, a halfdozen other movies, and we're not doing the whole magic-SR71-robot-teleport thing again, so where we gonna go next? What? Giza?! Fine and dandy!" I'm guessing I wouldn't be the first person to guess that ol' Mike Bay has a serious case of ADD...
Jay_W wrote: aforementioned Smithsonian-straight-to-Davis-Mothan
Best part of the movie!
confuZion3 wrote:skruffy wrote: Just saw it, I thought it was awesome. As an aside, whoever is responsible for deciding what special edition camaros come out should be shot for not having a bumblebee camaro out TODAY.Regardless of what you think, it is actually pretty difficult to build a car that can transform into an autonomous, sentient, bipedal robot. With an arm cannon. And a working radio.
And the working radio was the hard part 
Went and saw it today at the "fake" IMAX. It's larger than a normal movie screen, but smaller than a real 3 story IMAX screen. The movie is very good. Special effects are awesome. Every scene looks so real and lifelike. Action is almost nonstop. Some of the attempts at humor seemed a little out of place, but overall a big thumbs up.
Osterkraut wrote:Jay_W wrote: aforementioned Smithsonian-straight-to-Davis-MothanBest part of the movie!
The whole thing was sorta Ed Wood-ish, but I mean that in the nicest possible way...
Went and saw it last weekend with the girlfriend. We both really liked it. Loved seeing the concept Vette in there with Bumblebee. You could really tell they were trying to get some butts in the seats with with one set of twins, while another set was annoying.
Oh as for the action being to fast and a blur I had no problem being able to follow the battles and tell what was going on and who was who. I did find the room mate to be annoying and the scene where Shia started screaming like a girl. Other then that good flick to just kick back and have fun with.
I'm disappointed that I spent 15 bucks for the IMAX experience, I would have enjoyed it just the same on a regular screen if I sat about the middle front row.
The action in this movie would be entirely off the charts, if you made some charts...we're talking Japanese cartoon on drugs here, so much action has NEVER been packed into a movie before...the storyline is ho-hum and the humor is crude and childish, often obnoxious really...but there's a giant robot fighting other giant robots with two swords, so it's not like I care about any of that artsy-fartsy stuff 
Jay_W wrote: I thought the, uh, inconsistencies, like the aforementioned Smithsonian-straight-to-Davis-Mothan were, once I got in the proper mood, *hysterical*.. It was like, "O-kaaaaay, Now we're in Petra, and the audience is all ooooohhh, ahhhh, forgetting that they've seen the very same place in what, a halfdozen other movies, and we're not doing the whole magic-SR71-robot-teleport thing again, so where we gonna go next? What? Giza?! Fine and dandy!" I'm guessing I wouldn't be the first person to guess that ol' Mike Bay has a serious case of ADD...
Haha. Transformers was not the only movie to do this. Did you see Live Free or Die Hard? Yeah, much of the part of Washington DC was played by Baltimore!
Go see The Proposal. It takes place in Canada. Want to know how I know it wasn't filmed in Canada? It was filmed my aunt and uncle's house. In Massachusetts.
Yah well this flick goes above and beyond that picayune level on discontinuity...but it does make for some awesome movie reviews! Here's another, not to be missed: http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/bonus_robs_transformers_2_faqs.php?page=1
Just a small part of the T2 movie FAQ; "So how do the Decepticons plan to get the symbols, I guess? Well, the Decepticons have very cunningly created a hot chick robot who they enrolled in the same college and put in the same astronomy class as Sam. And they made her a huge slut.
Wait. Waiting.
There's a slutty Decepticon? Yeah, she's a real ho. The Decepticons apparently have an incredibly powerful slut-making program, because she has it down, man. Anyways--
Didn't Sam touch the shard and get the symbols stuck in his head on his first day of college? Yes.
So the Decepticons made a slutty robot to attend his college and enrolled her in classes and put her in on-campus housing just in case Sam ended up being important at some point in the future? Apparently. It was an elaborate plan, but it sure paid off."
"I am standing directly beneath the enemy's scrotum."
confuZion3 wrote: Go see The Proposal. It takes place in Canada. Want to know how I know it wasn't filmed in Canada? It was filmed my aunt and uncle's house. In Massachusetts.
Uh, not to be a pedantic ass, but it is supposed to be in Alaska. Sandra Bullock's character is supposed to be from Toronto.
Now back to the BAYSPLOSIONS!
"He went to buy you a tighter shirt."
"There is none, we checked."
I almost started ROFLCOPTERing at that scene. I liked the movie but not as much as I did the first one.
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My son, who turns 6 tomorrow, can talk of nothing else. My wife and I have not decided if we are going to take him to see it or not. Any thoughts?He has seen the first one and did not get scared or anything but what do some of you think that have seen it?
I'm not really interested in seeing the movie, but I will say this:
My wife's aunt took our nephews to see it. They can typically handle the PG-13 stuff; though mom doesn't let them watch it. Anyway, according to said aunt: The F-Bomb was dropped more than once, and there was lots of overt sexual innuendo. Probably not appropriate for a 6-year-old, unless you find the idea of him walking around shouting "berkeley this E36 M3" amusing.
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