Post by SporkBot on Apr 3, 2018 12:43:41 GMT -5
Saw it on Easter with my brother, our bro-in-law, and 3/4 of his kids.
Without getting too spoilery, the Oasis visuals are great, the characters are acted well, and it has a satisfying ending. It is the sort of "hero's journey" thing we see before, and the message it's giving wasn't exactly hard to figure out. It was overall a fun couple hours. I did think it was nostalgia-baiting from the ads, like how the Bay-former movies are like, "hey, remember the Transformers? You should watch these movies...and that's it! We've got characters named like the old characters! Same thing, right?"
It wasn't really like that. Sure, you had some classic stuff, but there was more modern characters, and even more recent iterations of older characters. I mean, given the future time it's set in, anything today would be considered nostalgic. It was more like, "come for some references, stay for the story."
Can't say as I had any real problems with it, other than some of the camera movement speed and lighting in Oasis being done in such a way that it got difficult to distinguish characters. Yeah, I could make out Hello Kitty, the 2014 movie Turtles, Tracer from Overwatch, Injustice Batgirl...but I can't help but feel like there was a lot more I was missing. Maybe that's the incentive they're giving to pick up the Blu-ray.
Though I'd totally want a save feature in Oasis. 'Cause I'd probably get killed a lot, unless I cheat-code up as Superman that can fire a Kamehameha.
Without getting too spoilery, the Oasis visuals are great, the characters are acted well, and it has a satisfying ending. It is the sort of "hero's journey" thing we see before, and the message it's giving wasn't exactly hard to figure out. It was overall a fun couple hours. I did think it was nostalgia-baiting from the ads, like how the Bay-former movies are like, "hey, remember the Transformers? You should watch these movies...and that's it! We've got characters named like the old characters! Same thing, right?"
It wasn't really like that. Sure, you had some classic stuff, but there was more modern characters, and even more recent iterations of older characters. I mean, given the future time it's set in, anything today would be considered nostalgic. It was more like, "come for some references, stay for the story."
Can't say as I had any real problems with it, other than some of the camera movement speed and lighting in Oasis being done in such a way that it got difficult to distinguish characters. Yeah, I could make out Hello Kitty, the 2014 movie Turtles, Tracer from Overwatch, Injustice Batgirl...but I can't help but feel like there was a lot more I was missing. Maybe that's the incentive they're giving to pick up the Blu-ray.
Though I'd totally want a save feature in Oasis. 'Cause I'd probably get killed a lot, unless I cheat-code up as Superman that can fire a Kamehameha.