Mister Fandango
Fleet Captain
When the Chinese starts producing pro-American anti-Chinese big budget movies, I'll agree with your sentiments.
Transformers: Age of Extinction - Grading & Discussion
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Come on dude. This was a blatant and obvious way to get the film auto-green lighted for play in China. Matter of fact it was so obvious - the Defense Minister automatically coming to Hong Kong's defense - that you'd think even an 8th grader could see the pander. oh and making CIA the real villains in the story i'm sure didn't hurt either.
This wasn't about celebrating another culture but rather a way to reach 1 billion potential movie goers.
Compare and contrast this with World War Z being banned from the country because the original infection occurs in China.
And why would a profit-seeking organization want to do that?
Hey that's fine. It was just woven into the storyline poorly IMO. Not only was the cut away to the Chinese Defense Ministers office and the mini-press conference completely irrelevant to the story line - they didn't even bother at least following that up with perhaps some actual Chinese fighter engagement with the Transformers.
Poorly written pander IMO. Same goes for the many, many Bud Light product insertions.
Enjoyed it a lot, surprisingly as I was worried the franchise needed a new director to keep things fresh it still managed to be fun (if still too long, though perhaps surprisingly it didn't feel as padded as the running time would suggest).
My initial thoughts in an amazingly made YouTube video:
http://thesolarpool.weebly.com/blog/transformers-extinction-event
My initial thoughts in an amazingly made YouTube video:
http://thesolarpool.weebly.com/blog/transformers-extinction-event
So which are you arguing for? Other nations and cultures or money making film industries?
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I just recently started watching the "Transformers Prime" animated series on Netflix. So far, I am finding it much better than "Age of Extinction".
I've seen the first two seasons and agree. It's a really well done animated show with an arching theme throughout.
I still need to see S3:Beast Hunters
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=transformers4.htm
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3871&p=.htm
Maybe a Beast Wars movie could bridge the gap! LOL.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3871&p=.htm
Maybe a Beast Wars movie could bridge the gap! LOL.
Just got back from watching it....
I rated it "pretty good"
This film actually felt like there was a story you could follow, and the acting was light years better.
Stanley Tucci and Kelsey Grammer were fantastic, stealing every scene they were in, and working off each other quite effectively.
I appreciated how they made Mark Wahlberg's character actually DO something other than run and scream and babble. The scene of him fighting Lockdown was fantastic.
There was a bunch of dreck and filler and incomprehensible backstory, but this movie was lightyears better than 2 and 3, and was in it's own way almost as good as 1.
It seemed that Micheal Bay took his foot off the gas a little in this one, and it was a good thing.
I rated it "pretty good"
This film actually felt like there was a story you could follow, and the acting was light years better.
Stanley Tucci and Kelsey Grammer were fantastic, stealing every scene they were in, and working off each other quite effectively.
I appreciated how they made Mark Wahlberg's character actually DO something other than run and scream and babble. The scene of him fighting Lockdown was fantastic.
There was a bunch of dreck and filler and incomprehensible backstory, but this movie was lightyears better than 2 and 3, and was in it's own way almost as good as 1.
It seemed that Micheal Bay took his foot off the gas a little in this one, and it was a good thing.
It's amazing what a difference it can make when your main character is a likable person that accomplishes something.
The Beef was likable enough in the first movie, and I felt his performance in 3 was fairly good, but he never really DID anything special or unique. Other than he can scream.
BTW, why did they bother having that Shane character in the movie? Completely and utterly useless.
Mister Fandango
Fleet Captain
No, he really wasn't.
He was supposed to play a horny, frustrated teenage accidentally caught up in a big mess, without any clue how to handle anything.
That's how he played it, and the babbling was not annoying at first, IMO.
Anyways - Wahlberg was a huge improvement.
If anyone would like to see a list of the many technical mistakes that happened in the movie, then check this out: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Age_of_Extinction_%28film%29#Errors
I noticed these three:
- Some security guards in KSI are completely oblivious to Crosshairs's shooting and shouting until a few seconds before the scene changes.
- When he loses his grip on the net holding Optimus and the car containing Tessa, Cade is shown falling toward the street, but he lands on the grass by the road.
- When Cade is running from Savoy down the side of the Hong Kong building, Savoy stomps on an external air conditioning unit so it will fall on Cade. When the air conditioning unit breaks off the wall, it reveals a plain wall. This shows the air conditioner was there for no other reason than to come off the wall rather than actually be used to cool an interior.
Been going through season 3 and there was one episode with a middle eastern dictator and a country called Carbombya.
My first thought was… Seriously? What were they thinking?
People have criticized Bay's movies for racial stereotypes but this one takes the cake. I heard that Casey Kasem left the show over this.
Been going through season 3 and there was one episode with a middle eastern dictator and a country called Carbombya.
My first thought was… Seriously? What were they thinking?
People have criticized Bay's movies for racial stereotypes but this one takes the cake. I heard that Casey Kasem left the show over this.
Do you think this was the only case of racial stereotyping? So much of hte stuff in the early 90's, the 80's, and prior would never get green lit today. Remember the movie Soul Man? That would NEVER happen today, there would be riots and death threats.
I would like to say though, the most hilarious line in this movie for me was: "when you look up at the stars, think of them as my soul". You just can't get any better than that!
I've read that China's economic power in the world has allowed it to influence moviemakers to tone down or eliminate stereotypes and other bad portrayals of Asians in movies. Otherwise they wouldn't get access to China's lucrative box office. Haha, at least one good thing has come out of the communist regime. 
I don't know why 1 is rated so highly, it's a Transformers film with hardly any Transformers in it for the first half.
Personally Dark Of The Moon is the best of the four for me - plenty of Transformers only scenes, the Decepticons at their deadliest, certain things straight out of the cartoon