Tuesday, October 4, 2011

More Transforming

Why did the decepticons shoot down sentinel if they he had just switched sides?
The whole idea of adding a new bad guy, who also flew to earth by accident, seems so ridiculous. I mean seriously, The cube, the matrix and the sentinel ship all crashed into earth?
And why would these 10000 ton robots want 150 pound humans to do their heavy lifting? Why did those robots wake up on the moon? There were that many decepticons the whole time? Did they not hear Megatrons call in the 1st and 2nd one?

If anyone was going to be a turncoat, couldn't it have been one of the regulars? even if it had been sideswipe aka the one that no one know but says, "damn i'm good!" in the first one, at least it would have had some more dramatic weight.

This reminds me of Spiderman 3, they added two new bad guys (sandman/venom: soundwave/sentinel) but didnt really give them a full plot. Both sandman and shockwave have cool powers, but don't ever do anything to move the story along. Shockwave can turn into a 2 mile long tentacle of destruction, eat a whole building and he's not the leader? also you see him be badass in the 1st 20 mins, then he's gone til the end fight. Sentinel is this genius robot, and his big plan is to switch sides and reveal himself as a traitor in front of Sam and Ironhide? Why wouldn't he kill someone important like optimus?

So many wasted scenes. Why did we need sam looking for a job that he never even works?

Transformers 3: A Reflection


to be edited later into an actual thought



This movie is both perfect and ill suited for alcohol

Action Scenes never start or end - great trailer shots, but no actual storytelling

Good actual story- great moments slow burn

Substitution of less racist stereotypes

Overreliance on grand entrances
Audience sits and waits for the deus ex machina
which means transformers are just waiting on the sidelines, hoping to get tagged in
megatron sitting on a dumpster like a hobo, moping, until some chick calls him a bitch
Optimus prime, with a sword and an axe, can't cut himself out of some cables

And although towing your extra weapons is cool, you should really try to hang on to them better

Why does a decepticon spaceship have a human-sized manhole opening to get in or out of it

Decepticons around the world- vs. 9 autobots? just hunt those autobots down-
Have everyone in chicago
And if there are only 9 of them, shouldn't they always stay together instead of constantly getting split up

And the reasons for splitting up are so strange- why do the Primes have to drive out to Africa to have a conversation

all of a sudden the autobots are being held hostage, when before they were slitting throats. this is war, take no prisoners

And how, if Megatron doesn't fly anymore, how does he get back to America

The spaceships that we have never seen before are suddenly over Chicago

Much more tolerable the second time around

worth seeing just for the 3d squirrel suits

Every funny character had one or two really funny jokes, and then a whole bunch of clunkers- also seemed like many times they would just keep talking until someone cut them off - the editor, another character

Strange geography, a quick start to a fight in the middle east turns into Chernobyl with no extra title card

These movies are too expensive for their own good
Reusing shots from The island

While seeing the autobots in half transformed mode was cool, it seems like a cheap way to finish the scene

Michael bay really needs to make r rated movies- and I think he's been done with this series for a while now. I worry that he may also be done as a filmmaker, but so many scenes in this were really strong, that I imagine he's just itching for something new. It's unfortunate that he doesn't do the Christopher Nolan Batman/other movie schedule

Does Shockwave know that Sam is in the tower and needs to kill him once and for all, or is he just interested in killing a few more people- why does he need to take that building down?

And if you're going to use people as slaves, maybe don't just shoot at them randomly

Somewhere between this and war of the worlds is a really good alien invasion movie in terms of tone and intelligence

Little bits are great though
glorious box, bugs on megatrons face, and his scarf,

Addition of a ferrari is great, but does he really have to drive behind a camaro?

The autobots decided to start fighting dirty- after dropping their guns in a mexican standoff, the eventually just pick them up and shoot the guys anyway

I think you need to take a little out of the battle at the end and put it in the middle somewhere- maybe the building getting destroyed could be earlier- this movie really felt backloaded,

Gimme transformers in the snow

I don't know if I'm looking forward to Transformers 4, due to the constraints that whoever makes it will be under

And shit, theres no need to keep dropping off Sam and his girlfriend in the middle of every fight- have someone fly them out of the city real quick and then get back to work

Why do you hit the ground in Chernobyl and then start scrambling to put on your hazard suits

And why didnt Ken Jeong start blasting at Lazerbeak once he pulled out his straps

glad to see that the bad guy has learned the intricacies of alien technology- just smack it and it should boot right up