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Transformers 3 was worse than Tranformers (2007)
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I hope you teach your son that the way the film treats, represents and films women is absolutely abhorrent.
Bad Boys 3!
I could be wrong, but I thought that Will Smith was on record saying there was absolutely no way he'd ever do another Bad Boys film.
But then, Shia is saying he'll never do another Transformers film. He'd much rather get in drunken bar fights with fat guys.
Arcee would disagree.
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And so would Blackarachnia
No, Bay could have perved at the tits and asses of giant robots. He chose not to.
I just got it from Netflicks and will be watching it tonight. Well, at least a part of it as I doubt I'll make it thorough a 2.5 hr movie in one sitting.
Yeah those elements were in there, but they were grounded in an overall pretty innocent and Spielbergian "boy and his car" story (that played out amid a pretty straightforward alien invasion story).
Probably the most juvenile it got was Bumblebee peeing on the dog and the subtle reference to Sam's porn stash. The sequels got MUCH cruder than that, and had crazy, non-sensical plotlines that made no sense whatsoever.
The first was certainly no masterpiece or scifi classic either, but it was at least a halfway decent movie.
I actually liked Transformers 3 better than any of the rest of them, mainly because it had a LOT of ties to the G1 animated series (i.e. Laserbeak, Shockwave, Prime's trailer being a weapons platform, Space Bridge, Cybertron, "Carly", Autobots "exiled", Ironhide being killed, "Cosmic Rust"?). Plus, it featured Leonard Nimoy (who voiced Galvatron in the animated movie). Of all of the previous movies, it features a pretty epic betrayal by Sentinel Prime and you could get the sense that the future of Earth was REALLY at stake as opposed to the previous two movies.
I enjoyed Dark of the Moon. Thought it was a drastic improvement over Revenge of the Fallen. I thought Patrick Dempsey's character was rather interesting, nice to see him play a bad guy.
I just got around to seeing Transformers 3 this afternoon. I thought the exposition was way over the top (Sam flipping out, the job interviews, crazy Asian guy whose name I can't remember), but once it got into the main story, I found myself really enjoying it. I was surprised how much I liked Carly (the actress did a far better job than I was led to believe from the previews).
I also completely forgot that it was filmed in Chicago. There is a a part maybe halfway through where there's a huge chase scene on the highway, and they show an exit ramp for I-88 and Aurora, and my roommate and I both looked at each other and were like, "Wait a second, they're totally in Illinois!" Then we spent the next 5 minutes trying to figure out exactly what highway they were on. We decided they were on I-355 in the suburb of Lisle.
And I have to say, I was not used to seeing Chicago in ruins like that. Normally in movies it's New York getting destroyed. I've never seen my hometown blown to shit like that before. It bothered me a lot more than I was expecting.
I also completely forgot that it was filmed in Chicago. There is a a part maybe halfway through where there's a huge chase scene on the highway, and they show an exit ramp for I-88 and Aurora, and my roommate and I both looked at each other and were like, "Wait a second, they're totally in Illinois!" Then we spent the next 5 minutes trying to figure out exactly what highway they were on. We decided they were on I-355 in the suburb of Lisle.
And I have to say, I was not used to seeing Chicago in ruins like that. Normally in movies it's New York getting destroyed. I've never seen my hometown blown to shit like that before. It bothered me a lot more than I was expecting.
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I also completely forgot that it was filmed in Chicago. There is a a part maybe halfway through where there's a huge chase scene on the highway, and they show an exit ramp for I-88 and Aurora, and my roommate and I both looked at each other and were like, "Wait a second, they're totally in Illinois!" Then we spent the next 5 minutes trying to figure out exactly what highway they were on. We decided they were on I-355 in the suburb of Lisle.
At least part of it was filmed in the Chicago suburb of Hammond, Indiana, because that's where one of the extras was sadly left brain-damaged and partially paralyzed by an accident while filming the big chase scene.
They decided to reuse some chase footage from Bay's movie The Island with the robots CGI superimposed over the cars from the previous film (see link above for comparison shots). That car chase was filmed in Long Beach, California.
So, you're probably seeing new scenes filmed in Hammond, existing scenes filmed in Long Beach, and then location shots to establish where the characters are headed filmed in and around Chicago.
I absolutely adore the hilarity of logic that says, "Peeing robots was okay, but seeing robot balls is going too far!" Seriously. Keep it coming. Statements like these are laugh-out-loud comedy gold!
I absolutely adore the hilarity of logic that says, "Peeing robots was okay, but seeing robot balls is going too far!" Seriously. Keep it coming. Statements like these are laugh-out-loud comedy gold!
In the first one, the peeing robots and similar jokes stood out as being groanworthy. In the second and third, that's the entire movie.
I absolutely adore the hilarity of logic that says, "Peeing robots was okay, but seeing robot balls is going too far!" Seriously. Keep it coming. Statements like these are laugh-out-loud comedy gold!
As opposed to the more pathetically laughable nature of some guy who can't stand that (apparently many) people have different opinions from him, so he repeatedly ridicules those opinions and adds absolutely nothing of value to the thread. Seriously, keep it coming. It really doesn't make your behavior look obsessive and strange.
A thread bitching about the quality of a Transformers movie? Clearly it is a thread filled with thoughtful and value laden comments before that guy made his and dragged the whole tone down....
My only complaint about the film is that the girl repacing Megan Fox was a worse actress and the character was terrible. A Megan Fox Mikaela would have been a much better addition.
They've released the third already? Man, they just keep shitin' them out don't they?
Yeah, actually it was filled with some pretty well-thought out and valuable comments, right from the start with the OP. And why are anyone else's complaints less valuable than the one in your second paragraph? Why are they "bitching," but you are not?
What is it with some people on this board being completely incapable of dealing with opposing opinions about an entertainment franchise? I can understand being upset about politics or crime or other things like that, or getting upset if a person is repeatedly trolling an entertainment thread on a show or movie they clearly have no interest in or hope of ever enjoying (like someone who says BSG sucks for four seasons straight, yet keeps watching it just to ridicule others who do like it), but getting pissed or throwing out insults just because someone doesn't like something?
And really, of all the things to throw down the gauntlet on about negative opinions; Transformers? To borrow from earlier comments in the thread, we're not exactly talking about a sacred cow like Shakespeare here.
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