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Post by Greatshot on Jul 4, 2018 20:47:29 GMT -5
And ROTF is at least fun nonsense. This thing feels like everyone involved is just there for a paycheck. Like, nobody cared about what they were making, but they were paid enough to at least make it look good onscreen. That summarizes it in a nutshell. ROTF felt like a live action episode of the G1 cartoon. It was *STUPID*, but it was fun stupid with some heart. This movie is just tedious. I ended up seeing it with my cousin and his teenage son (who grew up in the bayverse), after said son basically talked us into watching it so that we could just laugh at how bad it was. Started out meh, and me and my cousin were like, "well, it's... awful but it's gotta be almost over, right?" I checked the tracker on the BR.. aaaaand we're only an hour in. Yeah. At that point hearts sunk and the next 73 hours were endless and terrible.
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Post by iacon45 on Jul 4, 2018 20:58:17 GMT -5
I bought the TLK Blu Ray for completeness sake and tried watching a month ago. I got to where Anthony Hopkins showed up and gave up. Story is such a cluster. Seems like there are two or more movies squeezed into one.
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Post by Optimal Megatron on Jul 4, 2018 21:59:32 GMT -5
TLK disappointed me not because I had huge expectations, but because a lot of things just didn't end up happening after having a setup.
- Conflict between soldiers that came in after Chicago and former NEST guys who worked with the Autobots. Just dropped. - Any sort of mention of the humans BOILING CYBERTRONIANS DOWN INTO PARTS for mindless drones. Dropped. - The Dinobots having a connection to the Knights of Cybertron. Dropped. - The Knights of Cybertron as a group rather than a collective of generics that turn into a dragon. Dropped. - The mark on Megatron's face that resembles the one Quintessa put on Optimus implying he might be as brainwashed as Prime. Dropped. - Megatron's entire crew being any sort of threat after having great personality and dynamics set up. Dropped. - Humans keeping tabs on the Decepticons to find out what this weapon he's after is so they can get to it first. Dropped. - Cybertronians hidden in plain sight over many years. Dropped.
It wasn't terrible, but there was so much that they mentioned but didn't do anything with that I was disappointed. Which is especially disappointing since several plot points actually seemed interesting.
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Post by Mako Crab on Jul 4, 2018 23:38:53 GMT -5
So we finished it tonight. We only had an hour left on it, but it felt like 5 hours. So much, so so much stupid in this thing. Out of the entire movie, there were exactly 4 things that I were memorable in this thing:
1. Anthony Hopkins. The dude can elevate even the biggest turd with his presence, and this movie surely would’ve been worse without him. I actually didn’t mind his 13-minute-long info dump, but that’s prob because that guy could read off a grocery list & make it sound engaging.
2. Cade taking care of little baby dinobots. Super cute. Loved that moment.
3. Cybertron raking across the moon. I was like- holy shit, they’re really gonna destroy the moon!
4. The fight between Optimus & Bumblebee was actually good & lasted longer than I expected.
There were some good moments here & there & the visuals were really good. But I didn’t care about any of it. We would have to pause the movie every now & then to take care of the kids & each time it was like, “how is there still 30 minutes left in this thing?!”
Cogman wasn’t funny. I get that he was supposed to be, but it just wasn’t working for me. I laughed when BB smacked him into the water though.
So the TFs have been helping out humans since pretty much the dawn of civilization?? Fighting Nazis, helping out George Washington, & all that? Yet somehow no one knew about these long standing allies? They go on how the Bots were literally working alongside all these huge historical figures, yet that’s all but forgotten by the time part 1 rolls around? What???
Humanity is on the brink of total extinction, yet the movie goes out of its way to NOT show any human deaths or destruction of cities. As a result, the threat level felt somehow diminished. Like, I fully expect to see Vivian’s family still having tea & gossping as a giant chunk of Cybertron drags across the city a few miles away from their front door. And they wouldn’t even notice it.
There’s just so much to nitpick with this movie & it’s just not worth the effort. Especially when i’m late to the party & i’m sure Everyone else has pointed out everything i’d have to say. But I’m happy to keep nitpicking if you guys are!
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Post by triumshockwave on Jul 5, 2018 15:49:18 GMT -5
I would comment, but I literally can't remember anything that happened. I only remembered Anthony Hopkins and Cogman because Lindsay Ellis just did a video that mentions them.
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Post by Mako Crab on Jul 5, 2018 17:48:09 GMT -5
She also did one about how no one can remember these movies.
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