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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Great Rumbler on June 28, 2011, 06:33:33 PM

Title: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 28, 2011, 06:33:33 PM
Quote from: Roger Ebert
Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a visually ugly film with an incoherent plot, wooden characters and inane dialog. It provided me with one of the more unpleasant experiences I've had at the movies.

Quote from: Richard Roeper
Rarely has a movie had less of a soul and less interesting characters.

Quote from: Philadelphia Inquirer
The overwhelming sci-fi action spectacle is a merciless sensorial assault that leaves you with something akin to post-traumatic stress disorder.

Quote from: Globe and Mail
Don't worry about remembering the characters -- the movie certainly doesn't.

Quote from: Boston Herald
Given the choice between sitting through 154 minutes of Transformers: Dark of the Moon and being waterboarded, I plead: Waterboard me!

Quote from: Dallas Morning News
The biggest casualties in this third installment of the robot franchise from director Michael Bay are storytelling and character development.

91 reviews, 59 rotten. 4.9/10 average.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_dark_of_the_moon/

Enjoy!
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: lennedsay on June 28, 2011, 06:36:07 PM
Day 1 :hyper
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 28, 2011, 06:40:14 PM
:lol my wife was telling me about some interview with Shia Leblefuusuje with him saying it's a better movie than the others.

The general consensus seems to be that it's better than the second movie, but that's hardly an accomplishment...
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Robo on June 28, 2011, 06:48:57 PM
Quote from: Will Federman
Once again, Michael Bay oozes his chocolate onto my delicious sundae.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Brehvolution on June 28, 2011, 06:54:20 PM
:lol my wife was telling me about some interview with Shia Leblefuusuje with him saying it's a better movie than the others.

The general consensus seems to be that it's better than the second movie, but that's hardly an accomplishment...

The 2nd was better than the 1st so it may be a trend.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 28, 2011, 07:03:55 PM
:lol my wife was telling me about some interview with Shia Leblefuusuje with him saying it's a better movie than the others.

The general consensus seems to be that it's better than the second movie, but that's hardly an accomplishment...

The 2nd was better than the 1st

You may be the only who thinks that.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 28, 2011, 08:15:34 PM
Antiitcool.com said Attack of the Clones was great.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Lerkaboi on June 28, 2011, 08:24:04 PM
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTWZhu3BugQ[/youtube]
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Oblivion on June 28, 2011, 08:28:19 PM
Wow, the new Transformers movie is already out? I haven't seen either a trailer or a commercial for it so far.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 28, 2011, 08:30:56 PM
154 minutes? Jesus Christ.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: pilonv1 on June 28, 2011, 08:45:22 PM
i wish willco was back for this :(
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 28, 2011, 08:46:06 PM
i wish willco was back for this :(

I'm sure he'll say something about it on Facebook.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: tiesto on June 28, 2011, 09:15:13 PM
Thank god the only Transformers fanboy I know went off the deep end and decided to lock himself up in his basement for who-knows-how-long... otherwise I might have been dragged to this (like I was to the first and second)... I think the only movies I hated more than Transformers 2 were Watchmen and the Star Wars movies.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 28, 2011, 09:58:41 PM
I actually kinda liked the first one as a guilty pleasure movie. Transformers 2 was so incredibly bad that I don't plan on ever seeing the new one.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Himu on June 28, 2011, 10:11:24 PM
:lol my wife was telling me about some interview with Shia Leblefuusuje with him saying it's a better movie than the others.

The general consensus seems to be that it's better than the second movie, but that's hardly an accomplishment...

The 2nd was better than the 1st

You may be the only who thinks that.

hell no, it truly is
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 28, 2011, 10:14:09 PM
Everything I've heard about Transformers 2, including from people that actually kind of liked the first one, is that it's an utter abomination.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Himu on June 28, 2011, 10:17:04 PM
The fights are better, you can actually TELL who is who because they all have bright identifable colors. It's not a great movie, but it's fun and has some solid action scenes in it. Transformers 1 put me to sleep.

T2 however was pretty decent. The one problem that movie has is pacing. It drags because there's a section where it's nothing but human characters and it's so boring, but after that it's nuts.

Hopefully Transformers 3 has better pacing.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 28, 2011, 10:18:21 PM
Everything I've heard about Transformers 2, including from people that actually kind of liked the first one, is that it's an utter abomination.

Total abomination. Avoid like the plague.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Himu on June 28, 2011, 10:21:27 PM
No way. It's way better than Transformers 1!
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Lerkaboi on June 28, 2011, 10:22:09 PM
TF2 has better action scenes than TF1
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 28, 2011, 10:31:57 PM
No way. It's way better than Transformers 1!

Blatantly racist robots would like to disagree.

Actually, it may be better than T1, but it's still a steaming turd of a movie.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Himu on June 28, 2011, 10:33:05 PM
Agreed with that!
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Himu on June 28, 2011, 10:34:45 PM
No way. It's way better than Transformers 1!

Blatantly racist robots would like to disagree.

Actually, it may be better than T1, but it's still a steaming turd of a movie.

I hope in Transformers 3 there's a burrito Transformer with a mexican accent

Will it be able to top this the Tequila Gundam?
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 28, 2011, 10:40:59 PM
No way. It's way better than Transformers 1!

Blatantly racist robots would like to disagree.

Actually, it may be better than T1, but it's still a steaming turd of a movie.

I hope in Transformers 3 there's a burrito Transformer with a mexican accent

Will it be able to top this the Tequila Gundam?

According to Michael Bay, T3 is serious business.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Lerkaboi on June 28, 2011, 10:47:37 PM
the salon review is amazing

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/transformers/index.html


Quote
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" is too much in every direction -- too much action, too much plot, too much noise, too much destruction -- which is exactly what makes it the Wagnerian fulfillment of the American summer-movie tradition. It's a great and terrible film, in identical proportions and in all possible meanings of those words. It's got battling giant robots and hidden secrets of the American and Soviet space programs and feeble domestic comedy and random scenery-chewing shtick from an A-list supporting cast and an extreme close-up of a hot chick's bikini-clad bottom as she climbs the stairs. In 3-D! It's so massively and excessively vulgar that it doesn't just flirt with self-parody, but chews it up and spits it out, and I'm not even sure that's unintentional. In food terms, "Dark of the Moon" is like going to TGI Friday's and ordering everything on the menu and then going to Krispy Kreme and doing it again. It's not worth doing, it'll definitely make you sick and a lot of it will taste bad, but as a performance-art act of juvenile Id-fulfillment, it's magnificent.

Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Cormacaroni on June 28, 2011, 11:17:38 PM
Unlike all you corporate lapdogs who bitch endlessly about how shit these movies are but go to see them anyway, I have yet to see a Transformers movie :bow me :bow2
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 28, 2011, 11:21:40 PM
Unlike all you corporate lapdogs who bitch endlessly about how shit these movies are but go to see them anyway, I have yet to see a Transformers movie :bow me :bow2

I think anyone with a brain/soul has only downloaded them.


I thought the first Transformers movie was not good but the second is on a whole other level of shit. One of the worst big mainstream movies I've seen in my life. In that sense I'm morbidly curious to see the third to see if if can top the second for shit level. I'm guessing that it probably can't but who knows.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Cormacaroni on June 28, 2011, 11:25:57 PM
I can't imagine ever having so much free time that I'd even download them...and I watched The Expendables. I've literally never heard or read anyone, anywhere say these movies are good. And yet people persist in watching them and worse, talking about them. Just don't get it. Also will never watch the Crystal Skull.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 28, 2011, 11:31:21 PM
I can't imagine ever having so much free time that I'd even download them...and I watched The Expendables. I've literally never heard or read anyone, anywhere say these movies are good. And yet people persist in watching them. Just don't get it. Also will never watch the Crystal Skull.

I think we all have our guilty pleasures. I mean I was legit interested in the first one since I was a big transformers fanboy as a kid. I don't watch any superheroes movies anymore at this point. Still haven't seen Iron Man 2 for instance and I only saw that Dark Knight movie with ledger late last year (which was good) but generally I am at the point where watching superheroes flicks seems dumb but lots of people can't seem to get enough of them.

Maybe I have more free time than most but I have lots of bars. There is what I'm willing to pay to see. What I would watch on TV. And what I would download. And what I would watch as a rifftrax. To be fair I did watch that second transformers movie via rifftrax. 

 
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Lerkaboi on June 28, 2011, 11:38:50 PM
Unlike all you corporate lapdogs who bitch endlessly about how shit these movies are but go to see them anyway, I have yet to see a Transformers movie :bow me :bow2
fuck you

im seeing this bitch in imax 3d
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Cormacaroni on June 28, 2011, 11:45:03 PM
Unlike all you corporate lapdogs who bitch endlessly about how shit these movies are but go to see them anyway, I have yet to see a Transformers movie :bow me :bow2
fuck you

im seeing this bitch in imax 3d

Tells me aaaaalllll I need to know, thanks!
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 29, 2011, 12:31:14 AM
I watched the first movie in theater and hated it. Didn't watch the second one and won't. Same with the third.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: cool breeze on June 29, 2011, 12:43:51 AM
the first was better in the sense that it was an actual movie.  the second didn't have enough coherent story to be a music video.  but it was more entertaining because the robots fought good and the optimas prime is more badasser GIVE ME YOUR FACE, PUNK ASS DECEPTICON pew pew pew

I want to see the third for the wingsuit scene.  tbh, I'd rather just see the wingsuit stuff without cg shit exploding and directing.  I want raw footage of people flying through a city in wingsuits.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: cool breeze on June 29, 2011, 01:21:07 AM
they made transformers age so you'd ignore that random teleportation to Egypt

who needs a script when you can distract viewers away from asking questions like "why am I watching a sequel to Transformers?"
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Diunx on June 29, 2011, 01:26:18 AM
I hate these movies.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Himu on June 29, 2011, 01:31:13 AM
they made transformers age so you'd ignore that random teleportation to Egypt

who needs a script when you can distract viewers away from asking questions like "why am I watching a sequel to Transformers?"

how in the hell do you remember this
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Beezy on June 29, 2011, 01:46:13 AM
Watching this tomorrow. All I care about are my robot fight scenes.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Himu on June 29, 2011, 01:56:14 AM
That was Eddie Winslow?
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Oblivion on June 29, 2011, 02:03:21 AM
Unlike all you corporate lapdogs who bitch endlessly about how shit these movies are but go to see them anyway, I have yet to see a Transformers movie :bow me :bow2

I haven't seen any of them either! Hell, I literally didn't even know THIS movie existed until today!
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Cormacaroni on June 29, 2011, 02:23:54 AM
:bow Oblivion

Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: chronovore on June 29, 2011, 07:59:00 AM
the salon review is amazing

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/transformers/index.html


Quote
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" is too much in every direction -- too much action, too much plot, too much noise, too much destruction -- which is exactly what makes it the Wagnerian fulfillment of the American summer-movie tradition. It's a great and terrible film, in identical proportions and in all possible meanings of those words. It's got battling giant robots and hidden secrets of the American and Soviet space programs and feeble domestic comedy and random scenery-chewing shtick from an A-list supporting cast and an extreme close-up of a hot chick's bikini-clad bottom as she climbs the stairs. In 3-D! It's so massively and excessively vulgar that it doesn't just flirt with self-parody, but chews it up and spits it out, and I'm not even sure that's unintentional. In food terms, "Dark of the Moon" is like going to TGI Friday's and ordering everything on the menu and then going to Krispy Kreme and doing it again. It's not worth doing, it'll definitely make you sick and a lot of it will taste bad, but as a performance-art act of juvenile Id-fulfillment, it's magnificent.



Poetry.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Mupepe on June 29, 2011, 08:40:01 AM
I liked the first and second (first was better though) so I don't care what reviewers have to say about this.  I'm seeing it.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: pilonv1 on June 29, 2011, 08:47:12 AM
My best friend loves these movies and he's got his 4 yo daughter into them too. She loves Bumblebee. I feel like turning him in for child abuse, but he's at least having her watch the awesome animated series and movie from the 80s.

Unlike all you corporate lapdogs who bitch endlessly about how shit these movies are but go to see them anyway, I have yet to see a Transformers movie :bow me :bow2

Never seen one either. We should form a club.

Club Awesome

Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 29, 2011, 08:50:53 AM
The thing is I think they are just legit bad. I mean anybody who goes to see a transformers movie isn't expecting Shakespeare but those movies don't even really get what was cool about the TV show as a kid. It elevates the worst aspect of the cartoon. (Humans) at the expense of the most interesting part. The strong personalities of the actual transformers.

I mean I get for a mainstream audience you have to have actual humans be the center of the story but I kinda think that fundamentally poisons the movies right from the get go.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Mupepe on June 29, 2011, 08:53:36 AM
I have never seen an episode of the cartoon.  *shrug*  Guess that's why I can enjoy the movies.  Plus I love Corvette that was in 2.  :drool
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Brehvolution on June 29, 2011, 09:12:43 AM
TBH, when I heard that the TF movies were live action and not CGI, I knew they would be shit.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Human Snorenado on June 29, 2011, 09:14:56 AM
Unlike all you corporate lapdogs who bitch endlessly about how shit these movies are but go to see them anyway, I have yet to see a Transformers movie :bow me :bow2

I haven't seen any of them either! Hell, I literally didn't even know THIS movie existed until today!

Yeah I haven't seen one either.  I think I'd probably prefer to be raped by a syphilitic bear.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on June 29, 2011, 09:22:36 AM
Unlike all you corporate lapdogs who bitch endlessly about how shit these movies are but go to see them anyway, I have yet to see a Transformers movie :bow me :bow2

me neither! of course I've barely seen a movie for the past four years at all, unless you count youtube videos
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: pilonv1 on June 29, 2011, 09:23:44 AM
My biggest gripe is that the Transformers look like shit. I would go and watch a bad movie if I liked how they looked.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 29, 2011, 11:07:36 AM
My dislike of the Transformers movies, the first one which is the only one I've seen, is that it's just not good. Too much time spent on the HILARIOUS jokes and the action scenes weren't even that good [too chaotic]. I could go on, but that would require dredging up my memories of the movie.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 29, 2011, 11:39:43 AM
My biggest gripe is that the Transformers look like shit. I would go and watch a bad movie if I liked how they looked.

The designs are shit but if the characters and the story were there I could let that pass.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Robo on June 29, 2011, 11:47:09 AM
I've seen about a quarter of the first movie sitting in an auto garage waiting for an oil change.  Do I have to turn in my Kool Kids Klub sash?
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Himu on June 29, 2011, 12:28:09 PM
My cousin came over with her kids the summer Transformers 2 came out.

She was like,"You see Transformers 2?" "Yeah, it was okay." "Okay?! What kind of movies do you like?!?!"

as if she were surprised I didn't put Transformers on a pedestal :( Between this and my dad watching animu I don't know what to do!!!
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: lennedsay on June 29, 2011, 01:09:10 PM
I nominate myself for Secretary of Club Awesome. (Never seen any of these movies and never watched it in the 80's.) I can record minutes like a mothafucker.  :gun
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Beezy on June 29, 2011, 02:44:04 PM
Between this and my dad watching animu I don't know what to do!!!
...what
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: TEEEPO on June 29, 2011, 02:45:56 PM
transformers 2 was far more entertaining than this filth. atleast i was laughing constantly at how bad that movie was because of its general lack of care on how it went about doing things.

i'd also like to add that imax3d is trash. i'm not even a fan of 3d but i don't see why people go fucking nuts over those shit screens and shity outdated 90s 3d tech. guess the imax brand name goes a long way. reald shits all over it and is a good percentage wise cheaper.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Herr Mafflard on June 29, 2011, 02:56:01 PM
I've seen every Michael Bay film except this one. What club does that put me in?  

:-'
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on June 29, 2011, 04:29:07 PM
I never really watched the TV cartoon either beyond being dimly aware of it in the background when my sister/some kid I was babysitting was watching, BUT I have to admit I always did kinda like the theme song.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Mupepe on June 29, 2011, 04:36:09 PM
hey homos, just bought 2 tickets to see this in IMAX 3D.  Mwahahahaha
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: pilonv1 on June 29, 2011, 10:33:05 PM
Between this and my dad watching animu I don't know what to do!!!
...what

did you miss that thread? it was grand
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Cormacaroni on June 29, 2011, 10:58:01 PM
hey homos, just bought 2 tickets to see this in IMAX 3D.  Mwahahahaha

well hello there Mr Lowest Common Denominator
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: drew on June 30, 2011, 01:05:49 AM
T2 however was pretty decent. The one problem that movie has is pacing. It drags because there's a section where it's nothing but human characters and it's so boring, but after that it's nuts.

refer to Transformers 2 as "T2" again and i will drag your balls out through your esophagus
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Beezy on June 30, 2011, 02:35:24 AM
Really cool movie for fans of the previous ones. It definitely has the best action/fight scenes of all 3.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Beezy on June 30, 2011, 08:11:15 AM
Murder Prime is Best Prime though.
Yes! The autobots are pretty fucking evil during fights even though they're the "good" guys. :lol

He and Bumblebee easily had the best kills. Who was that red Autobot with the blades?
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: CajoleJuice on June 30, 2011, 12:55:51 PM
T2 however was pretty decent. The one problem that movie has is pacing. It drags because there's a section where it's nothing but human characters and it's so boring, but after that it's nuts.

refer to Transformers 2 as "T2" again and i will drag your balls out through your esophagus
.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Mupepe on June 30, 2011, 01:02:51 PM
hey homos, just bought 2 tickets to see this in IMAX 3D.  Mwahahahaha

well hello there Mr Lowest Common Denominator
hello there Mr :tophat

Pretty awesome movie.  Great action.  3D wasn't as noticeable as I was hoping, but at least it wasn't distractingly bad like I feared.  Action is pretty well paced so you won't get too annoyed with the human characters.  New chick has a great ass. 
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 30, 2011, 01:04:22 PM
A bit of lulz for the haters:

Transformers 2 opening day = $62 million

Transformers 3 opening day = $37 million

spoiler (click to show/hide)
They both opened on Wednesday.
[close]
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Mupepe on June 30, 2011, 01:05:23 PM
wow.  That's kinda crazy low.  The 3D IMAX showings at my theater had a sign last night as I was leaving that said Transformers 3D Imax Experience was sold out til next Tuesday.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 30, 2011, 01:07:26 PM
wow.  That's kinda crazy low.  The 3D IMAX showings at my theater had a sign last night as I was leaving that said Transformers 3D Imax Experience was sold out til next Tuesday.

The gap is also a bit wider considering that Transformers 2 didn't have the benefit of the 3D premium.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Herr Mafflard on June 30, 2011, 01:14:25 PM
haha, transBOREmers
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Cravis on June 30, 2011, 01:15:23 PM
Optimus vs Sentinel Prime was a pretty great scene.
What.... WHAT!!!.... HEY MAN F*CK YOU FOR SPOILING THAT!!! Man you just ruined my summer.























Just kidding. I knew that ahead of time. distinguished mentally-challenged twist in my opinion. I had to do it though.  :P
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on June 30, 2011, 10:01:22 PM
I only saw the first because my exposure to transformers began and ended with allusions stuffed into the Beast Wars cartoon series.  That is to say I was certainly curious.  I was treated to one of the worst movies of all time.  I was completely awestruck how many recommended what I struggled to find any redeeming value in.  Seeing the second was out of morbid curiousity, and I got exactly what I was searching for.  They somehow made it worse, the levels of inanity even warping spacetime to have them walk out of the smithsonian into the Arizona desert! 
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Diunx on July 01, 2011, 11:16:33 AM
I pirated the first and watched two minutes of the second one on tv, might pirate this one and sell it in the office.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: ManaByte on July 01, 2011, 12:23:14 PM
I think his name is Mirage.

Yea he's Mirage. The Autobot Merc is Wheeljack (he calls himself "Que" since he makes their gadgets), Soundwave is the Decepticon Merc. Really surprised to see non-GM cars in this one.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Robo on July 01, 2011, 12:31:25 PM
Does the subtitle make more sense after seeing the movie?  I mean, seriously - I want to know what that is supposed to mean.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: ManaByte on July 01, 2011, 12:33:42 PM
You couldn't tell from the trailers that it was talking about the dark side of the moon?
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Robo on July 01, 2011, 12:37:43 PM
Oh, is it one of those fill-in-the-blank things?
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: ManaByte on July 01, 2011, 12:43:05 PM
Oh, is it one of those fill-in-the-blank things?

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Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Robo on July 01, 2011, 01:23:04 PM
So, yes.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Herr Mafflard on July 01, 2011, 06:32:25 PM
the best Transformers 3 review/rant

[youtube=560,345]OFm6nWeJeoA[/youtube]
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: ManaByte on July 01, 2011, 06:53:06 PM
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7kcqB3thJM[/youtube]

Nearly kill a stuntwoman? Just replace her shots with shots from one of your other movies that no one saw!
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on July 02, 2011, 03:01:18 AM
uuuugggh the chick's face is so dumb
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Boogie on July 09, 2011, 02:01:27 AM
Saw the movie tonight.  Massive clusterfuck of a film, but entertained by Michael Bay as the ultimate military porn auteur, and that Sam's mom is one of the greatest comedic creations of the past decade.

Otherwise:

Me:  Holy shit!  Sentinel Prime is Leonard Motherfucking Nimoy!
Sentinel Prime:  Optimus!  The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few!
Me:  Are you fucking kidding me?!  This is what passes for screenwriting in 2011?!  Just swipe classic lines from previous movies of your current actors and claim "homage"?  For fuck's sake....

Highlight of the film for me, as someone who studied Russian language in college, was:

(John Tuturro's character approaches door of Russian club)
Tuturro: Do svidonya
Me: (wait, that's "goodbye!")
Russian Bouncer: That means goodbye.
Me: BWAHAHAHAHA
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Boogie on July 09, 2011, 02:02:13 AM
But seriously, three Transformers films and no Unicron?  Total fail.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Boogie on July 09, 2011, 02:07:43 AM
Additional aside:

In this "modern era" of 3d, I have only seen two 3d films:  Avatar and Transformers 3.

I liked Avatar's 3d effects; I thought they were natural and well done.

In T3, I thought it was gawdawful and distracted from the experience.  If, as I suspect, the majority of 3d films fall closer to Transformers 3 than Avatar, I will definitely be going out of my way to find 2d showings, or waiting until Blu-Ray.  'Cause, FUCK, the 3D was useless and annoying in this flick.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Barry Egan on July 09, 2011, 11:18:41 AM
go see Herzogs latest for cool 3D.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 09, 2011, 11:22:00 AM
Tron Legacy had pretty good 3D, I thought.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Lerkaboi on July 09, 2011, 02:04:32 PM
Additional aside:

In this "modern era" of 3d, I have only seen two 3d films:  Avatar and Transformers 3.

I liked Avatar's 3d effects; I thought they were natural and well done.

In T3, I thought it was gawdawful and distracted from the experience.  If, as I suspect, the majority of 3d films fall closer to Transformers 3 than Avatar, I will definitely be going out of my way to find 2d showings, or waiting until Blu-Ray.  'Cause, FUCK, the 3D was useless and annoying in this flick.
lol what

the 3d effects in transformers 3 were  on par with the ones with avatar, if not better (this is the overwhelming consensus)

i wish the majority of films fell close to transformers 3 in regards to 3d

Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: bork on July 09, 2011, 02:18:51 PM
Additional aside:

In this "modern era" of 3d, I have only seen two 3d films:  Avatar and Transformers 3.

I liked Avatar's 3d effects; I thought they were natural and well done.

In T3, I thought it was gawdawful and distracted from the experience.  If, as I suspect, the majority of 3d films fall closer to Transformers 3 than Avatar, I will definitely be going out of my way to find 2d showings, or waiting until Blu-Ray.  'Cause, FUCK, the 3D was useless and annoying in this flick.
lol what

the 3d effects in transformers 3 were  on par with the ones with avatar, if not better (this is the overwhelming consensus)

i wish the majority of films fell close to transformers 3 in regards to 3d



And where is this "overwhelming consensus" documented?  Some other message board?  :p
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: TEEEPO on July 09, 2011, 02:48:42 PM
3D SUCKS. PERIOD.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Lerkaboi on July 10, 2011, 02:42:20 AM
Additional aside:

In this "modern era" of 3d, I have only seen two 3d films:  Avatar and Transformers 3.

I liked Avatar's 3d effects; I thought they were natural and well done.

In T3, I thought it was gawdawful and distracted from the experience.  If, as I suspect, the majority of 3d films fall closer to Transformers 3 than Avatar, I will definitely be going out of my way to find 2d showings, or waiting until Blu-Ray.  'Cause, FUCK, the 3D was useless and annoying in this flick.
lol what

the 3d effects in transformers 3 were  on par with the ones with avatar, if not better (this is the overwhelming consensus)

i wish the majority of films fell close to transformers 3 in regards to 3d



And where is this "overwhelming consensus" documented?  Some other message board?  :p
lol

critics and even james cameron himself will tell you that the 3d in this movie is fantastic

the exact team that worked on the 3d in avatar worked on it with this film, james cameron even stopped by to give bay tips
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Mupepe on July 12, 2011, 12:10:03 PM
I thought the 3D was good but there was something missing with it.  I didn't even notice it very often in Transformers 3 while in Avatar there were tons of WOW moments (like people using the computers or sitting in the mechs).  It wasn't bad by any means I just don't think it added anything of value to the experience.
Title: Re: Transformers: Dark of the Moon [because we didn't wanna be sued by Roger Waters]
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 12, 2011, 12:17:38 PM
That's pretty neat, reusing the shots and all.

It's a tribute. To Michael Bay. From himself.