lol at complaining about plot holes and how unrealistic this movie is, there's some fish in a barrel over there here's a shotgun
― 囧 (dyao), Saturday, 19 December 2009 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i47.tinypic.com/30b0l13.jpg
― Cunga, Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
The kid has news anchor hair.
― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 July 2010 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://bayifier.com/
― crude interloper of a once august profession (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Director Admits TRANSFORMERS 2 was no good
ALSO: Fish and water? Who knew?
― Comics can't all be syringes and scalpels poised before eyes. y'know? (R Baez), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
This (second Bay transformers film) was on TV just now
― cardamon, Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
The design and movements of the robots was so slinky it took away from the sense of them as big, dangerous machines, and the constant explosions and arcing missiles and all the times they should have wiped out everyone out but didn't had a similar effect
― cardamon, Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
Iirc I've only ever seen the first of these, but I did read the comic and watch the cartoon and play with the toys and ... why would a giant robot even want to turn into a fucking car? What's the advantage?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 July 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
To get little boys to play with you
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 6 July 2014 03:45 (nine years ago) link
very interesting video damning bay with damning praise.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2THVvshvq0Q
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 6 July 2014 04:04 (nine years ago) link
Good video. Here's the referenced NYT article on watching West Side Story with Bay
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 6 July 2014 04:53 (nine years ago) link
That is a good video
― cardamon, Sunday, 6 July 2014 11:34 (nine years ago) link
a) because the toys came first and it was two toys in one and b) so they could disguise themselves on earth
― cardamon, Sunday, 6 July 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link
Ebert again
This isn't a film so much as a toy tie-in. Children holding a Transformer toy in their hand can invest it with wonder and magic, imagining it doing brave deeds and remaining always their friend. I knew a little boy once who lost his blue toy truck at the movies, and cried as if his heart would break. Such a child might regard "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" with fear and dismay.
― cardamon, Sunday, 6 July 2014 11:37 (nine years ago) link
I didn't even like the first one. monolithic pacing, wince-inducing one-liners, and too much delay in getting to the *real* destruction.
I admit I do enjoy reading the plot summaries on Wikipedia, more entertaining to digest it in bite-sized format in my Bay-less brain
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 July 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
I get the toy stuff, I just mean within the mythology of the movies etc. If you're a giant indestructible robot, why would you want to pretend to be a VW beetle? Disguise yourself on earth *from what*? Can't the bad robots tell which cars - or which, you know, giant robot dinosaur - is actually more than meets the eye.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/04/entertainment/new-transformers-movies-feat/index.html
;_;
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
I'm honestly surprised he didn't try something like this earlier
http://io9.gizmodo.com/according-to-the-last-knight-transformers-have-been-on-1795053150
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
hokay
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 10 May 2017 01:00 (seven years ago) link
still say the original was dire....one of the few times I fell asleep in the theatre at a 7 fucking pm showing
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 June 2017 05:36 (six years ago) link
eh, I have only seen the first one and it was such a trainwreck (except M.Fox maybe :) that I never bothered with the rest although I was so ready for nostalgia !that said, my mega robots nostalgia found a much better recipient with "Pacific Rim".I wish they would finally make that "Robotech" movie, though.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 23 June 2017 08:32 (six years ago) link
https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2017/03/02/the-live-action-robotech-movie-still-lives-on/#314496267307
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 23 June 2017 08:33 (six years ago) link