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February 21st 2008 00:09
Transformers
Transformers
First, let me tell you that I want Sam's car. I want to drive it, I want it to protect me, I want it to play the music that matches my life at precisely the correct moment.
It stars Shia LaBeouf (Holes, I, Robot, Constantine), Megan Fox (tv shows: Hope & Faith, Crimes of Fashion), Josh Duhamel (Touristas, tv: Las Vegas), Rachael Taylor (The Tourist, See No Evil), Tyrese Gibson (Flight of the Phoenix, 2 Fast 2Furious, Baby Boy), Jon Voight (National Treasure, The Manchurian Candidate, Ali, Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy), Anthony Anderson (Liberty Heights, Romeo Must Die, Hustle and Flow, The Departed), John Turturro (The Good Shepherd, Collateral Damage, Anger Management) and Michael O’Neill(tv: The West Wing, The Nine, The Unit).
shia in Transformers
Michael Bay directed the movie. I'm not always a fan of his. With Pearl Harbor I thought the battle scenes were jaw droppingly good, but the character interactions were clunky. In Transformers the interactions betweeen the characters are very well timed, and frequently very funny.
This film is not great art, but it is good natured.
Other reviews have noted the humor of having a President who only wants his snack of Ding Dong's, while flying on Air Force One, while Jon Voight, who is the Secretary of Defense runs the country during this Battle of the AutoBots.
There are two movies here, one for those of us who want a story with dialogue (even in an action movie), and one predominantly for all the boys, (all the boys who grew up loving Transformers). When the 'bots start shooting and blowing things up, I felt like I was sitting with the kids watching cartoons. Then the part the kids would probably find boring, and which I enjoyed, came back on.
Bumblebee in Transformers
Shrek melds these combinations of color, humor and active entertainment seamlessly. Transformers has more seams, but it's still good fun. And, I want the Camaro...Bumblebee....
This is a good action flick. No more, no less. Except for the fact that it has almost earned a billion dollars.
About Transformers:
The budget is estimated to have been about $150 million. Domestic (States) gross was about $319 million, and worldwide an additional $387 million. Total global about $706 million
The official website is TransformersMove
The Internet movie Database has links to the trailers and clips, as well as info about the movie at IMDB
If that isn’t enough, there is also TransformersLive. Enough already?
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Comment by Cibbuano
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I really think this movie missed the spot (point?). T'was a movie about Giant Robots that ended up being more about teenagehood that would have felt right in a movie like "Date Movie" or even "Mean Girls".
I found it far too frustrating and when the action actually got started (about 3/4 of the way through) most of it was too fast to actually see (you barely actually get to see the scorpion dancing around in the desert).
Personally I think this movie falls traps to the modern day concept of action which is rapidly changing angles and overblowing the dramatic environment so much that you can't actually tell what's going on but your heart is pumping anyway. (final fight scene in Matrix Revolutions anyone?).
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No, I didn't think it was great, either, but good. I laughed out loud a couple of times.
I thought it was just me, not being able to tell what was happening to whom at the end.
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Boys are welcome. At all ages. I fed a few through the teenage years and beyond (why do I suddenly feel like Buzz LightYear?)
If it seemed like a movie about the teen years, maybe that was the part I liked best
Maybe if Hollywood hears it enough times, they'll listen, and slow down the action just enough so that we can follow it.
I just assumed that since I wasn't raised on video games, that I was too slow...
Theresa