BloodBoal 7,538 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Have yet to pay to see one of these. Can't see that changing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNOTG 0 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Well, some obviously will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I'll buy a ticket Michael, but only if space dementia is featured in the plot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I saw the first two in the theater. I only saw the second because I actually didn't mind the first. Wasn't that bad. However, after my experience with Revenge of the Fallen, I have no intentions of seeing anymore.This new one is being throttled by the critics, but it will still be successful. I was shocked to see how long the thing was. 165 minutes?! Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I never saw the other three in theaters. I don't know if I'll end up seeing this one in theaters...although Dawn said she wants to (that's where I'm going for my vacation). I'd rather see X-Men Days Of Future Past (again) then see Transformers 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I saw the first two in the theater. I only saw the second because I actually didn't mind the first. Wasn't that bad. However, after my experience with Revenge of the Fallen, I have no intentions of seeing anymore.Same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 BTW I thought I had read a while back after Transformers 3 that there would be no others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 With Shia. This is the start of Marky Mark's trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,990 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I've seen the second one in cinema, but never paid for it. No plans to see others.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 No planes to see others.I'm sure you can find it more locally, maybe within driving distance. SafeUnderHill and Glóin the Dark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I'm not gonna see it, you putz.Let me guess, it's a bunch of slow motion shots of soldiers running to airplanes at sunset with a giant American flag blowing in the wind, awkward extreme close-ups on dramatic faces in slow motion, cars flipping around through the air exploding in slow motion, a bunch of CGI shit crashing and exploding in slow motion, etc.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I never paid to see any of them. Never will, either. I was subjected to the first two through unfortunate circumstances. If there was a third (and I understand from somewhat reliable sources that there was), it hasn't entered even the peripheral of my attention. The notion that a fourth one may or does exist confirms beyond any shadow of doubt all my pessimism about the state of cinema today.And does everyone grasp the unbridled arrogance of that quote? "I can make all the trash I want. I don't even have to try anymore. You'll still kiss my ass." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 What's the over/under on the number of lovingly framed and lingering leg and butt shots of the young Nicola Peltz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 My God . . . even his self-deprecation comes off as arrogance. (Loved Jamie Gertz in that scene, though.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Its all CGI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 The first one was sort of a guilty pleasure of mine, so I figured I'd go to see the second one. Good God it was terrible. Haven't seen a Michael Bay movie since. I was pretty mad when I read he was directing Pain and Gain, since the real story is so fascinating, but I have/had no faith in him to bring it to the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,346 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Yep, in agreement with the 'first one was fun for what it was but the second one was dreadful and left me with no desire to see any more' posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I haven't seen any of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I caught glimpes of the second one. Megan Fox' cleave in aching slo-mo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,626 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 it's at 15% on RTI see most big summer movies so I'll see it at the cinema, and I'm not a big fan of the franchise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt C 452 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 These movies wouldn't be bad if they weren't 2.5 hours each to sit through, but yeah, pretty terrible. Thought the first one was awful, and while I didn't pay to see it, I still wanted my 2.5 hours back. Didn't bother with the second one, but I enjoyed the action in the third one. This latest one doesn't look as aggressively terrible (Mark Wahlberg is far more palatable than Shia), but with Bay on his fourth TF movie... you'd figure he'd be less egotistical, cut the crap and go straight for the action. There's barely enough plot for 80 minutes, let alone 150. I wouldn't mind these movies at all if Bay were a lot more ruthless in the editing suite... 90-105 minutes is more than enough to fit in all that sweet CGI action and have enough plot to string it together. A lot of the filler focuses on obnoxious stereotypes and plot threads that go nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Yep, in agreement with the 'first one was fun for what it was but the second one was dreadful and left me with no desire to see any more' posts. Same here. I might have actually paid to see the first film in theaters - not totally sure - but wherever I saw it, I rather enjoyed it for what it was. Some of the VFX shots were actually very impressive. The second one I remember seeing for free on a big screen in college, and it was so godawful that I still felt like I'd been robbed. I was done after that. Michael Bay can do whatever he wants, and the beautiful thing about capitalism is that if there's a big enough segment of the population that wants his product, he'll continue to make a fortune off of it. More power to him. Personally, I've got better things to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Have yet to pay to see one of these. Can't see that changing. But you still saw them for free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I saw the first of these films when it came out and after that I was entirely certain that I never needed to see the rest. Nor am I going to see any possible future movies in this series. As Datameister pointed out, I have better things to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I've never seen any of them, but I hear good old Stan is in the latest one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Stan Collymore? I saw the first of these films when it came outMe too but I had a good time. But one was enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,327 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 (Loved Jamie Gertz in that scene, though.)And in everything else! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 it's at 15% on RTAnd Godzilla sits at 73 per cent. Not bad at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Have yet to pay to see one of these. Can't see that changing. But you still saw them for free?Saw the first one on telly and decided to leave it at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Ah I get you now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,346 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Yeah, what Matt C said about length ... movies based on a range of toys have no business running to 150 minutes-plus. See also the 3rd Pirates flick running to something like 2hrs 45 ... sorry but aren't you based on a theme-park ride for God's sake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Yeah, what Matt C said about length ... movies based on a range of toys have no business running to 150 minutes-plus. See also the 3rd Pirates flick running to something like 2hrs 45 ... sorry but aren't you based on a theme-park ride for God's sake?The much shorter 4th Pirates Movie felt longer than the 3rd movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,322 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I saw the first Transformers in the theater and hated it so much, I have never seen a second of any other entries. It was the worst movie I've ever seen in a theater and I wanted to walk out several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 The film is shit but I'm keen on the last 45 minutes of robot destruction and awesome Jablonsky music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Stan Collymore?Tucci. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Transformers' On Track for Over $100 Million This WeekendWell, whatever it is these movies do for some folks, the well isn't dry yet. I suspect a sinister brainwashing plot á la MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. Corellian2019 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 I thought general audiences hated long movies. With a few exceptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Transformers' On Track for Over $100 Million This WeekendWell, whatever it is these movies do for some folks, the well isn't dry yet. I suspect a sinister brainwashing plot á la MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.The rumours are true... there really are millions of 13 year old boys in existence... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share Posted June 29, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 The rumours are true... there really are millions of 13 year old boys in existence...13-year old are allowed to see this miserable shit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 See also the 3rd Pirates flick running to something like 2hrs 45 ... sorry but aren't you based on a theme-park ride for God's sake? The third Pirates wasn't based on a theme park ride...it was a sequel to the second film, which was distantly related to the first film, which was inspired by a theme park ride. (That ride, incidentally, is about 15 minutes long. Compare that to the 2 or 3 minutes one normally expects from a ride.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 What's Monkey Island? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share Posted June 29, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 I thought general audiences hated long movies. Not if you blow things up every 5 minutes.Even that gets boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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