I didn't see Transformers 3 when it was in theaters. I disliked Transformers (2007) enough that I never saw 2 and didn't want to see 3, but a friend of mine wanted to watch it on his new bluray+surround sound setup so that is how Ii finally saw it.
Basically, I just wanted to see what other people's thoughts of the movie were since I didn't pay much attention to it when it was actually in theaters I didn't hear or read much more than that it was better than Transformers 2.
The main issues I had were:
- No one other than, maybe, Patrick Dempsey was actually acting in this movie. Everyone else was chewing scenery the entire time.
- I don't think any two consecutive lines of dialog spoken by a Transformer made sense - they were all non-sequiters. And a majority of stand-alone sentences made no sense at all. They seemed to only be catchphrases strung together to fill airtime.
- The editing was horrendous: characters would disappear from scenes (Malkovich from Shia's apartment) and the movie would jump to a new scene with no explanation of what happened (Sentinel Prime is ripping up the "secret facility", we are fighting back, and he demands the return of his columns but then there is a jump cut to him driving away with them strapped to the back of his truck form; we didn't try to stop him? the super vault we built was useless? Where did he get those bungie cords/ropes?) and other stuff seemed to be cut out of the movie leaving no explanation (Bumblebee shows up to save Sam and then drives off two seconds later, then suddenly he is one of 4 Autobots that have been captured. What happened there?).
Now for the more nitpicky issues:
- Maybe I am missing something by not having seen Transformers 2, but it makes no sense that no one believes Sam when he says the Decepticons are back. If no one thinks they can return then why is there this huge investment in men and missions and equipment and secret bases and huge vaults?
- Sam seems like a terrible person, not able to interact in a reasonable manner with any other human being on the planet. All the people at all of the companies he interviews with seem to get this, but no one else does. How did he get through college (he also seems to have no job/life skills) and get the hot girl?
- The entire climax of the movie is centered around destroying the control column, yet when faced with the opportunity to do so, the characters don't do it. The man with the only shoulder-launched rocket just doesn't ‘feel right’ about it when he has his one and only chance. Optimus Prime flies around in circles battling numerous enemies for minutes on end, never once even attempting to destroy the target on the adjacent building. The squads of Seals and National Guard/Infantry who show up are also not tasked with that mission, they instead climb 100 story buildings just to jump out of them again.
- Carly goes and talks to Megatron and psychs him into fighting Sentinel Prime. Maybe I missed something but other than hearing what she thought were “just stories” from Sam, does she have any idea who Megatron is that would make her think she could go and psych him into fighting? How did she even know where he was or that he was still alive?
- At the beginning of the movie, why does the ship Sentinel Prime is escaping in have gun turrets that need to be operated by Transformers? Why are these not automated?
- Why are many of the transformer’s weapons simple projectile weapons like machine guns or other guns using casings or even rockets when they have energy weapons and other advanced stuff? If the transformers are metal what are their tires made out of and therefore if they can transition materials from one form to another, why are some components kept between forms (like tires) that serve no purpose in robot form? Shouldn’t transformers who are really fast automobiles be faster in car form than in robot form (thinking of the freeway chase)?
Basically, I just wanted to see what other people's thoughts of the movie were since I didn't pay much attention to it when it was actually in theaters I didn't hear or read much more than that it was better than Transformers 2.
The main issues I had were:
- No one other than, maybe, Patrick Dempsey was actually acting in this movie. Everyone else was chewing scenery the entire time.
- I don't think any two consecutive lines of dialog spoken by a Transformer made sense - they were all non-sequiters. And a majority of stand-alone sentences made no sense at all. They seemed to only be catchphrases strung together to fill airtime.
- The editing was horrendous: characters would disappear from scenes (Malkovich from Shia's apartment) and the movie would jump to a new scene with no explanation of what happened (Sentinel Prime is ripping up the "secret facility", we are fighting back, and he demands the return of his columns but then there is a jump cut to him driving away with them strapped to the back of his truck form; we didn't try to stop him? the super vault we built was useless? Where did he get those bungie cords/ropes?) and other stuff seemed to be cut out of the movie leaving no explanation (Bumblebee shows up to save Sam and then drives off two seconds later, then suddenly he is one of 4 Autobots that have been captured. What happened there?).
Now for the more nitpicky issues:
- Maybe I am missing something by not having seen Transformers 2, but it makes no sense that no one believes Sam when he says the Decepticons are back. If no one thinks they can return then why is there this huge investment in men and missions and equipment and secret bases and huge vaults?
- Sam seems like a terrible person, not able to interact in a reasonable manner with any other human being on the planet. All the people at all of the companies he interviews with seem to get this, but no one else does. How did he get through college (he also seems to have no job/life skills) and get the hot girl?
- The entire climax of the movie is centered around destroying the control column, yet when faced with the opportunity to do so, the characters don't do it. The man with the only shoulder-launched rocket just doesn't ‘feel right’ about it when he has his one and only chance. Optimus Prime flies around in circles battling numerous enemies for minutes on end, never once even attempting to destroy the target on the adjacent building. The squads of Seals and National Guard/Infantry who show up are also not tasked with that mission, they instead climb 100 story buildings just to jump out of them again.
- Carly goes and talks to Megatron and psychs him into fighting Sentinel Prime. Maybe I missed something but other than hearing what she thought were “just stories” from Sam, does she have any idea who Megatron is that would make her think she could go and psych him into fighting? How did she even know where he was or that he was still alive?
- At the beginning of the movie, why does the ship Sentinel Prime is escaping in have gun turrets that need to be operated by Transformers? Why are these not automated?
- Why are many of the transformer’s weapons simple projectile weapons like machine guns or other guns using casings or even rockets when they have energy weapons and other advanced stuff? If the transformers are metal what are their tires made out of and therefore if they can transition materials from one form to another, why are some components kept between forms (like tires) that serve no purpose in robot form? Shouldn’t transformers who are really fast automobiles be faster in car form than in robot form (thinking of the freeway chase)?
