What's The Last Movie You Watched? VIII - Part 4
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Salt - The MacGuyver stuff was really interesting to see, but that crappy post action direction just killed it. I'm all for completely implausable plots, but the sequel should really dial it back. While Jolie is by all means an attractive woman, someone needs to give her a bloody cheeseburger and some donuts. 2/5
Knight & Day - Some no frills fun. But if James Mangold is going to do Wolverine he really needs to bring his Copland/3:10 to Yuma working boots. Tom Cruise was great in this BTW, his character is a clearly insane individual and they make no attempt to explain why. 3/5
Spoilers for both films.
Knight & Day - Some no frills fun. But if James Mangold is going to do Wolverine he really needs to bring his Copland/3:10 to Yuma working boots. Tom Cruise was great in this BTW, his character is a clearly insane individual and they make no attempt to explain why. 3/5
Spoilers for both films.
There's a large portion in the second acts of both films where they make the audience second guess the protagonist and make them possibly think they're actually the heels of the movie. Sadly neither had the nads to execute the heel turn. Ok, Knight & Day didn't need it, but Jolie was ruling as an unstoppable heel for a bit, just Steven Seagaling her way through cops, she should definitely play a heel one of these days. But she should gain some weight first.
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Tales from the Script
A great look inside the writers of Hollywood and the trials and tribulations they go through.
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Wow, this seems interesting. I should check this out.
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon - 3/5
Scenes from the Suburbs - 4/5
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But everything was so much better than I expected!!!!
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Between this and the original Dirty Harry, I can't really pick a favorite.
Between this and the original Dirty Harry, I can't really pick a favorite.
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I liked it, got close to really liking it several times but never quite got there. I thought the ending...well...sucked. Jeff Bridges was hilarious.
7.5/10....could of been higher.
I liked it, got close to really liking it several times but never quite got there. I thought the ending...well...sucked. Jeff Bridges was hilarious.
7.5/10....could of been higher.
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon - 5/10
After coming off of the godawfullness of the previous film, and after Bay admitting how bad it was, and even going as far to say it's a lot better than the second, when this film started, I just let that all go and sat back to hopefully watch a good film. I was into it with the first scene on Cybertron. In fact, all the robot scenes with the Autobots and Decepticons in this film are great. I could always understand the budget for not showing the robots all the time, and the fact that I think it's vital to show the human side to the robots on Earth, and Bay gets that too, but here they have a hefty amount to do.
I was digging the whole 60's opening sequence. You just go with it. It's kind of cool to see how the robots figure into Apollo 11 and the moon mission. It's a shame, as solid as the idea of the moon conspiracy plot is, gets lost in the cluster**** that is this film. The problem is the length and the fact that Bay tried to insert heart and apologize for the second, yet still doesn't know how to show restraint with the humor and little attention to the main plot. That's lost within Sam's story. Which is uninteresting as hell. I don't give a damn he can't find a job and is going on interviews and is angry about it. I was so bored by it. That's where you could have trimmed it. All of that **** was a huge time waster that doesn't belong in a film like this. Like the humor. Ken Jeong was one of the most uneccessary things to be included. Where once again, where he and his scenes and a lot of the humor would have been great if it had been in the context of another Michael Bay film or the context of a completely different film, (like you know, an actual comedy. Maybe if Bay did a comedy I would actually love it and not feel like this) but Bay plays off of the forced humor just for the sake of laughs. The Obama references, the Twitter, etc. All stuff that made my eyes roll. That stuff isn't going to mean **** in 50 years. The heart is attempted, yet falls under the mess of a plot and destruction. Ehren Kruger should have never been allowed back from the second. There's no writer's strike now. You still can't write a cohesive script for ****. The movie is too damn long, coming in at 157 minutes. Where a lot of the first act could have been cut. Like the Malkovich and job ****. There are more nitpicks that go along with that I won't say here.
Now onto the pros. Bay knows how to shoot an action scene. And here, by God, is definitely not an exception. The action is jaw dropping. The robot action is incredible. The best of the three films. Despite the finale feeling like an hour, all of the action keeps your attention. It's the best action I've seen this year.
Also, Rose Huntington Whitley acts as a fine replacement to Megan Fox, who actually feels like "the one" as Sam describes. No use crying over Mikaela's absense. Because who really cared for her that much anyway? This actually feels natural to Sam's character. Where Mickaela was more of a phase for a young boy's wet dream, Carley signifies Sam growing into adulthood. She actually means something. Which is amazing that Bay did that. And she's smoking hot, so that's a nice bonus when Bay can do both things.
So yeah, those were the pluses right there. Good action and robot action, a smoking hot chick with some nice cinematography and locations thrown in. You could say this is what Bay's movie's usually consist of, and are, but are used to good effect because in his good movies, there's a good story to get hooked into. Bay can even elevate material if he wants to. At least make a visually incredible film. But in the case of Transformers, where pretty much everything worked in the first Transformers (where Kurtzman and Orci had a solid, straightforward screenplay with memorable characters that had heart) this and the second didn't. He needs to have self control with things and go easy. Before, he got away with his "Bay-isms" because they weren't Transformers films where they weren't out of place or uneccessary.
This is only better than the second for one or two reasons: One of those being testicle jokes. Thankfully they didn't get as out of hand as that, but I got "Vietnam flashbacks" to the second still. I feel like I'm being too generous by giving this a six. The action was just too good to make it lower than that.
In the first, it took nearly an hour for the Autobots to show up, yet I was still attached to all the human characters and their stories. All memorable with actual characters the just the right amount of humor that this type of film that we should see and expect from Bay. He did a great job simultaneously telling the multiple aspects of the humans until it was one great culmination in the third act, with a satisfying pay off. With the second, that all went to hell. Here, you can see hints of it. The heart is attempted, yet falls under the mess of a plot and destruction. Is hard to tell where the heart is. Can you help me find it? Maybe if I go back and watch the first film then I will, and think how sad the road this franchise has gone down.
After coming off of the godawfullness of the previous film, and after Bay admitting how bad it was, and even going as far to say it's a lot better than the second, when this film started, I just let that all go and sat back to hopefully watch a good film. I was into it with the first scene on Cybertron. In fact, all the robot scenes with the Autobots and Decepticons in this film are great. I could always understand the budget for not showing the robots all the time, and the fact that I think it's vital to show the human side to the robots on Earth, and Bay gets that too, but here they have a hefty amount to do.
I was digging the whole 60's opening sequence. You just go with it. It's kind of cool to see how the robots figure into Apollo 11 and the moon mission. It's a shame, as solid as the idea of the moon conspiracy plot is, gets lost in the cluster**** that is this film. The problem is the length and the fact that Bay tried to insert heart and apologize for the second, yet still doesn't know how to show restraint with the humor and little attention to the main plot. That's lost within Sam's story. Which is uninteresting as hell. I don't give a damn he can't find a job and is going on interviews and is angry about it. I was so bored by it. That's where you could have trimmed it. All of that **** was a huge time waster that doesn't belong in a film like this. Like the humor. Ken Jeong was one of the most uneccessary things to be included. Where once again, where he and his scenes and a lot of the humor would have been great if it had been in the context of another Michael Bay film or the context of a completely different film, (like you know, an actual comedy. Maybe if Bay did a comedy I would actually love it and not feel like this) but Bay plays off of the forced humor just for the sake of laughs. The Obama references, the Twitter, etc. All stuff that made my eyes roll. That stuff isn't going to mean **** in 50 years. The heart is attempted, yet falls under the mess of a plot and destruction. Ehren Kruger should have never been allowed back from the second. There's no writer's strike now. You still can't write a cohesive script for ****. The movie is too damn long, coming in at 157 minutes. Where a lot of the first act could have been cut. Like the Malkovich and job ****. There are more nitpicks that go along with that I won't say here.
Now onto the pros. Bay knows how to shoot an action scene. And here, by God, is definitely not an exception. The action is jaw dropping. The robot action is incredible. The best of the three films. Despite the finale feeling like an hour, all of the action keeps your attention. It's the best action I've seen this year.
Also, Rose Huntington Whitley acts as a fine replacement to Megan Fox, who actually feels like "the one" as Sam describes. No use crying over Mikaela's absense. Because who really cared for her that much anyway? This actually feels natural to Sam's character. Where Mickaela was more of a phase for a young boy's wet dream, Carley signifies Sam growing into adulthood. She actually means something. Which is amazing that Bay did that. And she's smoking hot, so that's a nice bonus when Bay can do both things.
So yeah, those were the pluses right there. Good action and robot action, a smoking hot chick with some nice cinematography and locations thrown in. You could say this is what Bay's movie's usually consist of, and are, but are used to good effect because in his good movies, there's a good story to get hooked into. Bay can even elevate material if he wants to. At least make a visually incredible film. But in the case of Transformers, where pretty much everything worked in the first Transformers (where Kurtzman and Orci had a solid, straightforward screenplay with memorable characters that had heart) this and the second didn't. He needs to have self control with things and go easy. Before, he got away with his "Bay-isms" because they weren't Transformers films where they weren't out of place or uneccessary.
This is only better than the second for one or two reasons: One of those being testicle jokes. Thankfully they didn't get as out of hand as that, but I got "Vietnam flashbacks" to the second still. I feel like I'm being too generous by giving this a six. The action was just too good to make it lower than that.
In the first, it took nearly an hour for the Autobots to show up, yet I was still attached to all the human characters and their stories. All memorable with actual characters the just the right amount of humor that this type of film that we should see and expect from Bay. He did a great job simultaneously telling the multiple aspects of the humans until it was one great culmination in the third act, with a satisfying pay off. With the second, that all went to hell. Here, you can see hints of it. The heart is attempted, yet falls under the mess of a plot and destruction. Is hard to tell where the heart is. Can you help me find it? Maybe if I go back and watch the first film then I will, and think how sad the road this franchise has gone down.
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Transformers 3 - 3/10
I try not to use the word "boring" when I give my thoughts on something. I think it's too subjective of a term to apply to anything, even if I give fine support to my feelings. But this movie fits. Revenge of the Fallen reveled in its mean spirit, awful as it was. This is more of the same cartoon as that, but even more mechanical. Bay and Co. go through the motions of insensitive jokes to incomprehensible action and it's as joyless as it's now routine. If this movie is your idea of a good time, that's ok. But it's not mine. Transformers 3 - Rated "Argh!" for pirates. **** you.
I try not to use the word "boring" when I give my thoughts on something. I think it's too subjective of a term to apply to anything, even if I give fine support to my feelings. But this movie fits. Revenge of the Fallen reveled in its mean spirit, awful as it was. This is more of the same cartoon as that, but even more mechanical. Bay and Co. go through the motions of insensitive jokes to incomprehensible action and it's as joyless as it's now routine. If this movie is your idea of a good time, that's ok. But it's not mine. Transformers 3 - Rated "Argh!" for pirates. **** you.
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Yes they do. It's what the Russian guy says in Russian before he detonates the bomb.
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