Transformers the last good knight

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slipstream 1985

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12,127 posts

178 months

Thursday 22nd June 2017
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What a crock of st. The first one released in 2007 was great, great lines from the cartoon, proper introduction to each robot good and bad and great sounds remember the first time you got blackouts ground sonic boom on the attack in quatar air base.

Lance Catamaran

24,942 posts

226 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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The first one, whilst certainly flawed, was still fun, mainly because it did feel relatively fresh. The second was an utter abomination though, a complete mess in every single way. The third had a pretty good battle sequence at the end but a dreadful opening, and the fourth was just dull. This one looks to be getting the worst reviews of the lot though, which is saying something.

Problem is the films have always focussed on uninteresting human characters, are far too long, full of cliches and racial stereotypes, Bay wking over military tech just gets dull and him doing the same to the female cast just starts becoming creepy. The fight scenes, whilst impressive on a technical level, are also dreadful because you can't see what is going on half the time. It's just two grey lumps flying around the screen . I forget who said it, but one critic compared the franchise to being made to stare at a washing machine whilst being beaten over the head with the world's most expensive train set

Cold

15,207 posts

89 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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I went to see it tonight. I thought it was a little better than some of the recent ones due in part to some of the fight scenes not being close-up overly fast movement. Total nonsense, of course, and completely over-the-top "storylline" but then, it's a franchise about an alien race of robots, so what would you expect?

The film had a strange concept of the UK's geography, but it was good to see some Brit cars racing through the movie version of London. Oh, and Hopkins stole every scene he was in.

Wouldn't pay to see it again, but in a couple of years I'll watch it when it's on Film 4 on a Saturday evening.

ukaskew

10,642 posts

220 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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slipstream 1985 said:
What a crock of st. The first one released in 2007 was great
I'm not sure what you were expecting..?! The series has been utter bile for some time (some would say it always has, but the first film definitely has its merits).

HTP99

22,443 posts

139 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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The first and second ones were good because they weren't too polished, they were a bit rough around the edges and the robots actually looked real.

Then the budgets went up and as usual there was too much CGI which ironically always makes things look more fake and it all becomes too polished, then there is too much happening and you don't know where to look. The humour became too bad and very childish too.

I won't be seing this one, I tried to watch the previous one on Netflix a few months ago, after half an hour I got bored and did something else.

Lance Catamaran

24,942 posts

226 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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Kev_Mk3

2,740 posts

94 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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like fast and furious films maybe crap but ill still watch it

Guffy

2,310 posts

264 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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It was a bloated, sprawling mess of a movie. How could Bay make such a long film with so little story, and characters that were more annoying than anything. My expectation was low, these are popcorn films after all, so will give it a generous 4/10 as the first 20mins was ok.

Moonhawk

10,730 posts

218 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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Give it a couple of years and I bet we'll be looking at a reboot.

The franchise is far too valuable to drop - but the story to much of a mess to continue in the same universe.


Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Sunday 25th June 2017
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Lance Catamaran said:
Here we go again...
ace.
Washing machine and train set thing was very funny.
Moonhawk said:
Give it a couple of years and I bet we'll be looking at a reboot.

The franchise is far too valuable to drop - but the story to much of a mess to continue in the same universe.
I for one wouldn't mind,,,simply remake the best film, Transformers: The Movie. But this time, don't kill off the best character, a few rejigs here and there, and it'd be a genuinely ace film.

I dislike all the Bay film, (not seen 4, but I wanna watch 5), however I do like to watch bits of 3 when it's on, Spock as Prime chatting to Optimus is just ace.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Sunday 25th June 2017
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I do love Box Office mojo
Transformers 5 v. Transformers 4
Transformers 5, 3-Day Total: $37,485,489
Transformers 4, 3-Day Total:$100,038,390

and yes, I know TF5 might well clean up in China.

viggyp

1,917 posts

134 months

Monday 26th June 2017
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I watched it on release date as I'm a big TF fan and I was disappointed although I'll still buy it when It's released on DVD. Why can't they just get better names for some of the Decepticons and why can't they get Simon Furman to write the scripts. He wrote the majority of the UK comics (and the latter US ones) and some of his ideas have been brought into most of these films.

These live action films will never beat Transformers The Movie though.

stew-S160

8,006 posts

237 months

Monday 26th June 2017
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Watched it yesterday. Whilst a huge fan of the original 80's masterpiece, and sporting an Autobot tattoo, this latest movie just left me feeling meh...

Amazing action scenes, mostly thankfully devoid of shaky close up camera nonsense. The story just felt too much. Didn't seem to fit in with the previous movies in some places.


I'm glad at the inclusion of some of the old/new Transformer characters. Just wish there was more focus on them still.

slipstream 1985

Original Poster:

12,127 posts

178 months

Monday 26th June 2017
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I watched fight scenes from the 2007 movie. They were great. There was also a sense of balance between smaller autobots having to team up against larger deceptacons

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Monday 26th June 2017
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RLM are killing this film currently.

Lance Catamaran

24,942 posts

226 months

Monday 26th June 2017
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Halb said:
RLM are killing this film currently.
I found both their videos on it a little dark though

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Monday 26th June 2017
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Lance Catamaran said:
I found both their videos on it a little dark though
There's now a third, rather illuminating one.

ajprice

27,317 posts

195 months

Tuesday 27th June 2017
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Saw it lastnight, and it is more of the same that went with the others. Now that they have brought Hot Rod into it, will they follow the '86 movie in The 6th film and kill off Optimus to bring in Rodimus Prime?

Otispunkmeyer

12,557 posts

154 months

Tuesday 27th June 2017
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slipstream 1985 said:
What a crock of st. The first one released in 2007 was great, great lines from the cartoon, proper introduction to each robot good and bad and great sounds remember the first time you got blackouts ground sonic boom on the attack in quatar air base.
I really enjoyed the first one. But subsequent ones were just on some really steep slope into incomprehension.... The one before this one was just an incoherent mess: 90 minutes of noise and lights randomly strung together.

I remember reading that Bay had another 13 of these story boarded out at home! No wonder they're complete balls, sounds like he knocks em out in a evening over a couple of beers.

Electronicpants

2,623 posts

187 months

Tuesday 27th June 2017
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Saw this last night with my son, he enjoyed it.

Some how, despite it being one of the stupidest films I've watched it required a lot of attention to work out what the hell was going on, I'm sure I had to concentrate less on a few of Christopher Nolan's finest.

I gave up 2/3 through and finally realised what it was like for my wife watching a film as she 1/2 pays attention while scrolling through her phone at home. Just a bunch of random stuff that makes no sense. Plus I noticed the same scenes as the last films, same flying things, same sliding down things at 45% angles going woooahh, same robots hitting each other (well they looked the same to me), same slow-mo nonsense.