This bizarro universe I seem to have fallen into.

inkblot

Alkthash

How did they rate the Transformers movie, considering it doesn't come out until the 29th?

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It says want to see rather than liked it so...

GLORIOUSLeader

First of all, Cars 2 isn't that bad. Certainly Poxar's worst movie, without a doubt, but I was mildly entertained by it. Which is why I dislike Rotten Tomatoes; that score isn't what peoPle think of the movie, but rather the number that like it, and I have a feeling that many critics are shitting on it just because it's a worse-than-usual Pixar movie, irregardless of the film itself.

Malkavian

DOES NOT COMPUTE DOES NOT COMPUTE!

Mostly, I'm surprised TF 3 isn't getting canned to stay in with the cool kids. Maybe if Ebert gives a good review I'll try it out.

EDIT: Oop, went to RT. The universe seems to have arighted itself.

inkblot

^^ True. It was better than Fondong Nomo, at least.

GLORIOUSLeader

Why do I get the feeling that if I search for that I'll get a porno?

FrodoGoofballCoTV

I remember we used to have a critic in my hometown newspaper that if he hated it, you knew it was good.

It seems to me that critics tend to be biased against films whose "cultural value" is more that they're just plain fun than anything else.

As for TF3, to me it seems odd that they don't put films that haven't been released yet in a separate part of the site.

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From Fast Eddie's page:

The ratio of critics to creators is something like 10,000:1. The ratio of good critics to bad: 1:10,000

Malkavian

Frodo, no. Nobody went into Transformers expecting Hamlet. They did however, demand coherent storytelling, which the film could not deliver on.

SotiCoto

*Looks at the title*

Can I has Stand now plz?

inkblot

And now all is right with the world.

GLORIOUSLeader

I know for a fact that Skids is in the new movie, which is why I refuse to see it. 

Also, the fact that Bad Teacher has a higher score is another reason I hate reviewers with a passion. 

Vivi

Bad Teacher wasn't bad at all.

Chagen

A good majority of those Transformers seem to be pretenetious artfags who hate everything that doesn't take 5 years of research and rewatching to get the plotline.

Sometimes, I just want to see shit blow up. What the fuck is so horrible about that? I've never seen the Transformers movies fully, but I've caught quite a bit of them back when my brother watched them a lot, and they seem to do what they are meant to do well--show off lots of shit blow up.

GLORIOUSLeader

^^ Then I suppose I just didn't like it. Whatever, subjectivity is subjective.

^ Ignoring. 

Chagen

Yes, ignore it becausw it doesn't express the same opinion as you. Truly you are a bastion of maturity.

Oh, wait. That was sarcasm. My bad.

Schitzo

^that's because you're objectively wrong, silly ^-^

inkblot

It's the pacing. Revenge of the Fallen screams in the audiences' face the entire film. It's like a rollercoaster that somehow only ever goes down. Or

InsanityAddict

"A good majority of those Transformers seem to be pretenetious artfags who hate everything that doesn't take 5 years of research and rewatching to get the plotline."

I'm now have a mental image of Optimus Prime with a monocle lecturing his opponents on culture while slicing them apart.

GLORIOUSLeader

Fine, I ignored you because of this:

A good majority of those Transformers seem to be pretenetious artfags who hate everything that doesn't take 5 years of research and rewatching to get the plotline.

Actually, I dislike it because I want my giant robot movies to be about giant robots, not people; because the baysplosions are too schizophrenic and jerky for my taste; because the humor is juvenile and annoying; and because I found it to not be very entertaining.

But whatever, the view from your high horse must be spectacular. 

Counterclock

Revenge of the Fallen is a rollercoster?

That's a new one, I remember almost falling asleep because of some of the scenes that just bored me.

GLORIOUSLeader

No, it's just a straight down roller coaster. Nothing changing on said roller coaster would make it boring. 

Vorpy

Earth ruined it.



And they didn't have this song playing, or Grimlock (the dinosaur one) on the Autobots side so of course it wouldn't be good.


Mostly though it was the military and the OMG AUSTRALIAN HAXXOR GIRL and Megan Fox's forced helpfulness that annoyed me about the movie.

I don't recall the original Transformer tv show having humans go all military badass on the decepticons, and it makes it kind of suck that humans can destroy interdimensional war machines with laser cannons, 60,000 pounds of heavy armor, and shitloads of machine guns and cannons. Seriously.

Why even have the autobots there if the humans can kill them off with rocket launchers and incendiary rounds?




for the second movie though, pulling that railgun out of nowhere to kill the big boss devastator guy with the black hole engine thing was fucking horrible. that was the largest disappointment of the movie, next to the whole "hey bumblebee, can I talk to you while Megan Fox strips naked and gets into a dress on camera for around 30 seconds?".