Escape to the Movies: Transformers: Age of Extinction - Better Than The First Three

[IrisNetwork]

The Dinobots do NOT speak. No "ME GRIMLOCK!"
Of all the reviews, I found Bob's to be the most positive. Maybe cause he's taken out all the negativity on Spider Man.

JeremyJahns, who I thought was overly positive of the 3rd movie, gave this one a big whooping.

 

[faefrost]

OK who are you and what have you done with Bob!?!?!

No seriously Bob, is Michael Bay in your house holding a gun to your cat's head? do you need help? Snark once for yes and twise for no and we will send in Boston's finest SWAT teams.

 

[Remus]

Did anyone else need to check today's date to be sure that it wasn't 1st of April?

Or Friday the 13th? This is so weird, to see Moviebob enjoying a movie Jeremy Jahns labeled "Dogshit". While this is not a new phenomenon, it is definitely rare and worthy of note. Still dunno if I wanna shell out the bucks to watch it in theater. I'll call it a "Maybe".

 

[Lictor Face]

So much bile and disdain on this thread. Honestly though, we're HARDLY movie connoisseur by ragging on a film we haven't watched and that has an abysmal rotten tomato score.

As someone in the thread said, its a popcorn film. And should be watched as a popcorn film.

I don't go to children's art festivals looking for Mona Lisa's, so tone it down already jeez.

Its like the majority of the posts are variations of

LOL BOB R U JOKING LOL

LOL ITS SKORE IS BAD

LOL IS SO BAD

Wow

 

[Steve the Pocket]

Hmm. So the military secretly wiped out most of the first batch of Transformers in between films and the second-generation characters that were originally introduced in the 1986 movie are actually man-made bots based on reverse-engineering the remains of the destroyed ones?

Well, as ways to reimagine specific story beats in a remake go, it's pretty clever. Especially considering the last time someone tried to do that, we got Benedict Cumberbatch's Khan. Hmm, maybe that's why Bob is so upbeat about this; since the last Transformers movie, he's had to sit through Spider-Man, Superman, and Star Trek fail miserably at being rebooted. And let's face it, those were much better franchises to begin with, so it's much easier to get mad at people clumsily reinterpreting them.

 

[Malisteen]

Nice to hear it wasn't as loathsome as the previous three, but in Revenge of the Fallen we got a chance to see who Michael Bay is when a studio has let him off his chain, and after that unforgivable glimpse into his revolting psyche, I'll be damned if I watch any movie that man so much a breathes on ever again.

 

[Jman1236]

1st movie: oh...kay???
2nd movie: zzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
3rd movie: At least it's better than the 2nd.
4th movie: Okay so he's learning what a "plot" is and how it works.

 

[KungFuJazzHands]

So much bile and disdain on this thread. Honestly though, we're HARDLY movie connoisseur by ragging on a film we haven't watched and that has an abysmal rotten tomato score.

As someone in the thread said, its a popcorn film. And should be watched as a popcorn film.

I don't go to children's art festivals looking for Mona Lisa's, so tone it down already jeez.

Its like the majority of the posts are variations of

LOL BOB R U JOKING LOL

LOL ITS SKORE IS BAD

LOL IS SO BAD

Wow

It may surprise you, but many of us here know what we like and know what we don't like, and sometimes we know that we won't like something even without actually seeing it. I've refined my personal tastes to razor-sharp lucidity, and I can tell you with no uncertain terms that lowest-common-denominator schlock like Bay's Transformers is something you couldn't even drag me to see under threat of torture. Hell, you couldn't offer to pay my way in to see those freaking films -- that's how much I value my own preferences.

Labeling something a "popcorn film" is not an excuse for incompetent filmmakers to make incompetent products. I've seen plenty of popcorn films that have logical plots, compelling characters, believable action, and real emotion, but the Transformers movies as directed by Michael "Sexplosion" Bay will never have any of those things. Not only does he sell his pointy-headed artistic vision to the highest bidder (*cough*budweiserburgerkingmountaindewetcetera*cough*), he's also a hack director that is only lucky enough to make movies because he blatantly kowtows governments and military institutions whom are always eager to see themselves cast in any kind of positive public light. Seriously, screw that guy and his troglodytic perspective on cinema.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

So much bile and disdain on this thread. Honestly though, we're HARDLY movie connoisseur by ragging on a film we haven't watched and that has an abysmal rotten tomato score.

As someone in the thread said, its a popcorn film. And should be watched as a popcorn film.

I don't go to children's art festivals looking for Mona Lisa's, so tone it down already jeez.

Please define "popcorn film", because it honestly sounds like bad scapegoating.

 

[Strazdas]

i saw original 3, they were quite bad. this sounds much better. but then looks like they didnt got rid of the "boy and his girlfriend" bullshit in a movie about GIANT ROBOTS. thought i probably wont skip this, but more out of "yeah i watch a lot of stuff and baiscally everything popular just out of interest" rather than actually wait for it.

 

[GamemasterAnthony]

*walks in with morbidly scared look on face*

Guys...um...can anyone confirm something for me? I may have just seen something which just made me groan about the movie even more than the movie itself.

Namely an obviously blatant cameo by...well, just look [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2014/06/rainbow-dash-cameo-confirmed-in.html].

There are just no words. None at all.

It kinda makes sense considering Rainbow Dash kicked Starscream's ass that one time.

*snerk* I KNEW someone would reference Death Battle in relation to that!

But still...that's a little TOO blatant a product placement for my tastes. Also, I'm kinda picturing the MLP fans going on a rampage because I'm sure they do NOT want their franchise sullied by the likes of Bey. (Quite frankly...I don't blame them after I saw what Shredder looks like in the TMNT movie. *GROANS*)

 

[Dark Knifer]

It sounds sort of like they improved it in the most safe basic way imaginable.

Also why are so many movies so goddamn long these days. You can do a lot in an hour and a half, most movies don't need to be that long.

 

[KikReask]

... Huh. Remember back at the start of Bob's career he straight up massacred Revenge of the Fallen, and of course who wouldn't, that thing was one of the worst movies of all time. And Rotten Tomatoes lists this as much, MUCH worse than Revenge of the Fallen. I guess maybe it's the lack of Shia Labeuof in this one that Bob enjoyed? I might see it, but only because I was a fan of Lockdown in the cartoon and want to see what they do with him here.

Still won't beat the 2013 movie Predacons Rising.

 

[Sanunes]

What I gathered from this review:
-Too much plot
-Dumb plot
-Too long
-Doesn't ring true to the source material
-Action scenes are fun to watch
-Better then the first three

Doesn't seem to be a very positive review of the movie to me, maybe mediocre.

 

[Tiamattt]

I'm happy for Bob, I don't think he could take a rage inducing Spiderman and TF movie in the same year, poor dude might snap. Of course I still don't plan to see this movie, on top of all the other bad reviews and it's shockingly long length I thought the other 3 movies were absolutely terrible and chances are very high that I wouldn't enjoy this one either. Maybe someday if it ever shows up on Netflix

 

[zelda2fanboy]

This is probably the most interesting review I've read of this movie. I kept looking through rottentomatoes to see what exactly was particularly horrible about this one, but every article was a critic whining about the fact that they even have to sit through these anymore. I'm still never going to see it, but at least I have a general impression of it now.

 

[Mr. Q]

Bob... enjoyed it?

wat.

*looks out the window*

I see no streets filled with lava, meteors falling from the sky, or cats co-existing peacefully with dogs. So either its acctually not a bad movie, if not a diposable action flick sort, or Bob got replaced by a T1000 who is controlled by coprorate advertisers.

Anyways, after having watched the third Bayformers movie last night on TV, I don't think it could've possibly been worse than that. I watched out of morbid curiousity, but it went on forever. Turns out, its two-and-a-half hours long. Like, WTF? Who thought that was a good idea?

My first thought was that Bob was mentally worn out by the utter stupidity of Bay's Transformers. I had to get a second opinion on this which led me to watch Brad Jone's midnight review of Transformers: Age of Extinction. Same response; the movie is rock stupid but they enjoyed it. Mainly because most of the worst aspects of the previous three films are gone (no focus on US Army soliders, Sam and his bastard family are absent, etc.). It still has the moronic aspects of a Bay movie like its lack of coherent plot, an explosion every nano-second, and its always shot on planet morning hour. But, despite all that, they enjoyed it.

http://www.thecinemasnob.com/midnight-screenings/midnight-screenings-transformers-age-of-extinction

As curious as their recommendations sound, I can't bring myself to see this movie. After enduring the hell that was Revenge of the Fallen, I got off the Michael Bay train and never looked back. I'm glad I missed out on Dark of the Moon and paid it little to no attention on cable. I can't say Bay is a hack (lord knows I want to directly to his face), but he seems more at home in his hard R, everyone sucks but me, over-hyped fantasy world like Bad Boys 2 (haven't seen Pain and Gain, see first sentence of this paragraph for the reason) instead of a toy franchise like Transformers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. If he couldn't (a) give a fuck about the franchise he was handed and (b) get it right the first time, he should have stepped down from the directors. But most of the blame can be shouldered on Paramount and the clueless fuckwits that saw these movies for keeping this disaster-fest going for so long.

So, to make a long story short (too late), I'm done with Michael Bay and his bullshit. If you like to come with me on this exile, welcome aboard. Anyone who likes these movies, knock yourselves out. Just don't ask me watch them with you.

 

[Atmos Duality]

>Better than the first 3.

Well, that's... backhanded to say the least.

Well, Bays' Transformers 1-3 set the lowest bar in movies this side of Twilight (and Sandler).

 

[Moeez]

So much bile and disdain on this thread. Honestly though, we're HARDLY movie connoisseur by ragging on a film we haven't watched and that has an abysmal rotten tomato score.

As someone in the thread said, its a popcorn film. And should be watched as a popcorn film.

I don't go to children's art festivals looking for Mona Lisa's, so tone it down already jeez.

Its like the majority of the posts are variations of

LOL BOB R U JOKING LOL

LOL ITS SKORE IS BAD

LOL IS SO BAD

Wow

I hate this argument oh so much. Just because you have incredibly low standards, doesn't mean we should too. You know what are popcorn movies and are still considered great?

Jaws

Edge of Tomorrow

Jurassic Park

Star Wars original trilogy

Terminator 1 and 2

Die Hard

Dredd

Raid 2

Bourne movies

Nolan Batman movies, Marvel movies

Edgar Wright movies (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, The World's End)

Casino Royale