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    Transformers 2

    How come a movie with all around horrid reviews and 21% on Tomatometer has one of the biggest openings in movie history which took over 200 million in just 5 days??????

    WTF is wrong with people? Does Michael Jackson make a cameo?

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    Re: Transformers 2

    It must be that sexy beast Shea Labeuf (or whatever the fuck his name is)

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    Re: Transformers 2

    Quote Originally Posted by buddahas View Post
    How come a movie with all around horrid reviews and 21% on Tomatometer has one of the biggest openings in movie history which took over 200 million in just 5 days??????

    WTF is wrong with people? Does Michael Jackson make a cameo?
    Possibly, just possibly mind you, those great masses of unwashed plebians had/have different needs/expectations to the cognicenti of the movie review industry.

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    Re: Transformers 2

    I took my 6 year old son to see it as he loved the first movie.

    I still don't know what the plot was about.

    It was all so fast paced except for the saccharine love love scenes which were really corny. The fight scenes were so quick and done in close ups on 30m high robots that I couldn't figure out who was hitting who.

    A right confusing mess of a movie with only one redeeming feature.



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    Re: Transformers 2

    Quote Originally Posted by buddahas View Post
    horrid reviews
    movie reviewers want some sort of clever story, this is a movie based on a cartoon, bad robots wants to take over the world, good robots fight the bad ones and win.

    cool shiny robots that kick arse, and loads of special effects, just pure simple entertainment.


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    I still don't know what the plot was about.
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    Re: Transformers 2

    That's the premise, not the narrative.
    We must not confuse statistical probability with some transcendental and utterly compelling force.

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    Re: Transformers 2

    ...unfortunately, there's no razzie for longest period of uninterrupted noise...

    ...nor for least annoying character in an ensemble performance...a category for which this waste of digitized space produced no contenders at all...

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    Re: Transformers 2

    Quote Originally Posted by kikiat View Post
    movie reviewers want some sort of clever story, this is a movie based on a cartoon, bad robots wants to take over the world, good robots fight the bad ones and win.

    cool shiny robots that kick arse, and loads of special effects, just pure simple entertainment.
    Movie reviewers want movies, not just robots hitting each other for two and half hours. The Dark Knight, Old Boy, and the first two Spiderman movies were all highly rated by critics and all based on comic books. The difference is they all had a narrative structure, cinematic style and were well acted. Transformers 2 is just a lot of noise and zero substance.

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    Re: Transformers 2

    I agree, it was just noise and flashing lights for 2 hours, the action scenes didn't have any build up either, meaning that by the last act I was just not blown away by the special effects anymore, just wanted to go home for a kip. it included almost every cliche in the book and the demise of 'The Fallen' a thousand years ago or what ever it was was a carbon copy of the death of the bad guy at the beginning of LOTR. crap.
    'After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box'

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    Re: Transformers 2

    Quote Originally Posted by ellroy View Post
    Movie reviewers want movies, not just robots hitting each other for two and half hours. The Dark Knight, Old Boy, and the first two Spiderman movies were all highly rated by critics and all based on comic books. The difference is they all had a narrative structure, cinematic style and were well acted. Transformers 2 is just a lot of noise and zero substance.
    and yet the great unwashed flocked in!

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    Re: Transformers 2

    I didn't really rate the first one, so I doubt I will bother to see it. Its a bit hard to care when robot fights robot. Fairly impossible for me to suspend my disbelief too
    ...a dress on a man can say that this person works in the cabaret or a cross-dressing or both

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    Re: Transformers 2

    agree Pantzy, I felt the same about King Kong fighting a dinosaur, was just like watching a computer game.
    'After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box'

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    Re: Transformers 2

    Quote Originally Posted by DaveyG View Post
    I felt the same about King Kong fighting a dinosaur, was just like watching a computer game.
    Yes, I felt exactly the same! I was bemused at the end when people were crying that some pixels died falling from the Empire State Building! Jack Black's performance was the only decent part of King Kong.
    ...a dress on a man can say that this person works in the cabaret or a cross-dressing or both

    Boom

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Pants View Post
    Yes, I felt exactly the same! I was bemused at the end when people were crying that some pixels died falling from the Empire State Building! Jack Black's performance was the only decent part of King Kong.
    At least there were some "performances" in that movie. From what I read, Transformers 2 has none of that. I'll never know because I will never see it.

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    Re: Transformers 2

    75% of the US is culturally inept so trannies 2s success doesnt surprise.

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