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Transformers ROTFL review..

  • Jun. 25th, 2009 at 11:22 AM
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I knew I was following @warrenellis for a reason.

This morning he linked to a fantastic review of the next Transformers installment:
 Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie

Imagine that you went back in time to the late 1960s and found Terry Gilliam, fresh from doing his weird low-fi collage/animations for Monty Python. You proceeded to inject Gilliam with so many steroids his penis shrank to the size of a hair follicle, and you smushed a dozen tabs of LSD under his tongue. And then you gave him the GDP of a few sub-Saharan countries. Gilliam might have made a movie not unlike this one.

I'm reminded of [info]rabbit1080's thesis that the second matrix film is actually a ballet.

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[info]discordia13 wrote:
Jun. 25th, 2009 05:12 am (UTC)
"the critics are wrong. Michael Bay used a squillion dollars and a hundred supercomputers' worth of CG for a brilliant art movie about the illusory nature of plot."

Best Review EVAR
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[info]stephen_dedman wrote:
Jun. 25th, 2009 08:15 am (UTC)
I haven't seen either Transformer movie (the only Michael Bay movie I remember seeing was The Rock, which I enjoyed), but that's the best explanation of the "plot" of Matrix Reloaded that I've ever read. By far.
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[info]rabbit1080 wrote:
Jun. 25th, 2009 08:35 am (UTC)
"synopsis", possibly. :)
(although even that concept may be too precise for either film)
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[info]discordia13 wrote:
Jun. 26th, 2009 01:00 am (UTC)
I loved The Rock. I think it was Bay's last good film as Director. Everything went down hill afterwards with Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and The Island...

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[info]shrydar wrote:
Jun. 26th, 2009 02:30 am (UTC)
Hey, I liked The Island.
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[info]angriest wrote:
Jun. 29th, 2009 12:29 am (UTC)
I liked The Island too, mainly because it was fast, pretty and had a good orchestral score.

Actually that's why I like all of the Michael Bay films that I like.
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[info]discordia13 wrote:
Jun. 29th, 2009 02:42 am (UTC)
Honestly I haven't seen The Island. I simply did not feel compelled to given it was pretty much a remake, and I had seen Armageddon and Pearl Harbour. Oh I also forgot Bad Boys II - that was another groaner he directed after The Rock.
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[info]angriest wrote:
Jun. 29th, 2009 03:23 am (UTC)
Bad Boys II = bad movie with some good action scenes.
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[info]stephen_dedman wrote:
Jun. 26th, 2009 02:54 am (UTC)
Agreed (though I haven't seen Pearl Harbour, nor felt any need to). The Island struck me as an attempt to make an intelligent sf movie (possibly as an apology for Armageddon) let down by someone's desire to throw in mindless action and spectacle - sort of the opposite of Matrix Reloaded, which struck me as mindless action and spectacle let down by someone's desire to throw in a French post-structuralist essay that no-one would publish.

(Looks at watch, waits for [info]angriest to bellow, "No! Matrix Reloaded was a great film! It's just that you non-telepathic Philistines who don't appreciate ballet!")

Maybe if Transformers: ROTFL flops badly enough, maybe Bay will no longer be given carte blanche and blank cheques for any future movies, and will have to go back to making films that make some sort of sense.
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[info]angriest wrote:
Jun. 29th, 2009 12:23 am (UTC)
Hey, people are welcome to like and hate whatever films they want to. It's not so weird I like Matrix Reloaded. Some people even like Starship Troopers.

And oh my god Transformers sucked bad. How bad? Not even I would defend it.
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[info]baby_elvis wrote:
Jun. 25th, 2009 05:31 am (UTC)
Hilarious. Pddly enough, that is pretty much how I felt after seeing Moulin Rogue - the speed and intensity of the images overwhelmed my poor baby boomer brain.
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[info]shrydar wrote:
Jun. 26th, 2009 02:58 am (UTC)
Moulin Rouge was pretty intense.

Must admit, the bit from the Transformers review that I found most encouraging was the comparison to Speed Racer - I quite enjoyed having my visual cortex demolished by the latter experience.
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