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By Scott Rosenberg Jul 4, 2007, 14:12 GMT
Movie Review: Transformers
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The 'bad' dialogue was from the original cartoon movie you soulless idiot. That being said, I agree with you on just about every other statement.
Your spelling makes me shutter.
Don't forget people this is made from a cartoon. Too many people come into these movies expecting too much. Looking back at the storyline and the catoon that spawned this movie, I feel that they did it justice. Great! movie and I movie I will buy when it comes out on DVD.
And I hate biased reporting, Sound like someone hates bush and the military and the Iraq war. So lets put it in a movie review where those opinions belong.
Whatever!!!!
I thought this movie was great. I caught the tail-end of the cartoon when I was a very young child, and that alone made me excited to see the movie. It was more than I expected -- and I think that the reviewer writing the above article is a moron. Between misspellings... and... you know, if it's not your type of movie -- then don't go see it -- because you won't be happy with it no matter how good it is.
Whatever the case, I recommend it!
PS - and one more thing -- I didn't really feel there were negative remarks about the Japanese. I felt like fun was poked at them, because they've been such innovators in technology. But definitely not a negative vibe about it.
yes, please learn how to spell correctly. You used 'then', when you meant to use 'than'.
yeah bro. for real you is like not good at the spellings.
tranzformars iz gonna rock you in your sleep.
Please learn to spell correctly before publishing articles. That's just unacceptable and embarassing.
Did you watch the movie or did you have a 5 year old explain it to you? Almost everything you've written here is inaccurate.
The movie's running time is 2 hours and 14 minutes. Not 2 hours and 40 minutes. Your theater must really be pushing the trailer maximum it runs or you can't tell time well.
Are you kidding me with these spelling critiques? You truly have to get a life. Stay out of the movie theater and try reality. At least the reporter is doing something of note. What's your excuse you English teacher wanna-bes?
To 'Are you a professional writer?' it's 'shudder', not shutter you dolt.
I hope you don't get paid for your writing as it stinks. I think anyone that listens to film critics are mental morons. They should form their own opinions and not rely on what supposed 'movie experts' think. Get a life and get on track.
Wow as a reviewer you really stink. it is 'Megatron.' but i guess what really bothers me is how canned your response is. it is a animated comic book genre. can you review for that or would it have been better for you to simply say it's not my cup of tea
I like how you can have stereotypical latinos in movies nowadays but you can't stereotype blacks or whites or any race anymore, unlesss it's a supposed to be a comedy. If you have stereotypical black characters then all the black people will start bitching and they give Al Sharpton a call, but us hispanics and latinos have to take it cause, after all, who the hell are we? We don't have some big fancy lawyer or lawyers to stand up for us. This movie was WAY hyped, anyway, so I can in some ways I can understand.
Clearly, you had no understanding of this movie's whole point. Transformers isn't just a toy line that got turned into a movie, it is a phenomenon that has existed for over 20 years in the minds of many, many, many people. I grew up with it, as did MANY people who are in their 20s and early 30s. To us, this movie was absolutely golden. It was what we've been looking forward to for the last 20 years -- our favorite giant walking death robots seen on the big screen, in live action.
I'm sorry that clearly you missed out on the reason for this movie's hype and popularity. It seems that either you're too old to have gotten any enjoyment out of Transformers in its prime, or you were just too sheltered as a child and missed out completely.
Sadly, whenever a GI Joe live-action movie is made, I'm sure you'll come back to review it just as poorly, because I'm sure you won't understand its appeal either.
Last, but not least... spell check is your friend. Especially if you are going to post a 'critique' of a movie on a website that ends up being shown on Google News for all to see!
good god man, you're english and spelling is so shocking i gave up half way through. go back to school.
Typcasting is an essential need in movies to make then work. Just because there is a guy who speanks spanish and has a Latino accent does not mean the movie makers were trying to get people hyped up about race issues.
Obviously from the scene with the 'President' calling for food while sitting on his ass shows that the movie was poking a little fun as president Bush. It was hilarious, and I am neither pro Bush or anti Bush. One hard thing in movies is to create a new charater to portray the president, as they cannot have Bush himself onscreen as a main member of the movie. The Secretary of Defense would be the next person to deal with the military aspect, and the charater they created played by Jon Voight fit right in with the plot logically.
The movie proved its effect to me when I felt myself caring about the 'bots' like they were humans. The action sequences were executed with perfect technique and kept you on the edge of your seat. Tears came to my eyes when Bumblebee was captured by the humans on the freeway, and then again when Bumblebee asked to remain with the boy on earth. Character development in talking machines is something hard to accomplish, and they did it here perfectly.
If asked what country has the most advanced technology7 on earth, I would respond with Japan. I bet you would too. That is not a steryotype, just something people have come accustomed to in the US. The japanese technology jokes were funny.
Word.
PS
To mrpr99: I am pretty sure the person who spelt 'shudder' as 'shutter' was being subtle and witty in trying to make fun of the author of this review's spelling issue, you dolt.
[I know there are many spelling mistakes in my response. I would appriciate if no one wastes their time making a post about my innacurate spelling as well. People make mistakes. Get over it]
My biggest problem with reviews like this, is that it clearly demonstrates that each reviewer really wants an 'art house' film with Oscar potential. This reviewer is obviously incapable of placing themselves in the perspective of the target audience. Males age 8-40 that enjoy the action genre.
To those individuals, this is a great film, a landmark film. The special effects are pure ILM genius, quite likely the best effects ever seen.
It is not about Oscar potential, character development, plot depth or the like. It's stringing together a story that is sufficiently engaging to bridge the gap between action sequences, without distracting from the sequences.
In that regard, this was a phenomenal movie.
But, if you can never see the beauty of that, then you are relegated to forever review movies from the perspective of their 'artistic merits' in hopes that you get recognized by others who care about the same artistic merit and give you a more important job. Good luck with that.
In the meantime, Transformers was, to its target audience, absolutely brilliant. A gem of perfection in Summer Cinema explosive, collateral damage grandeur.
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