Transformers: The Last Knight | 6/21/2017 | Big Budget, Weak OW?

[Biggestgeekever]

1 hour ago, grim22 said:

Oh god. RIP me.

 

The friend who is dragging me to this will have to pay all the penance.

[vc2002]

3 hours ago, aabattery said:

Obligatory;

 

 

That's the thing with Bay. A lot of explosions in his movies have been like fireworks rather than a real explosion. Just too many sparks. I mean I understand explosions in movies are often for visual impact, but I dont remember any other director make his/her explosions this "sparky".  I guess it speaks for Bay's approach to visuals.

 

PS: is "sparky" the proper word for "so many sparks" ??

 

 

 

 

Edited June 20, 2017 by vc2002

[dxmatrixdt]

Does this at least up the action ante from 3 and 4???

 

Example...

Transformers 1 - action level = 10

Transformers 2 - 12

Transformers 3 - 15

Transformers 4 - 15

 

where would 5 be???

Edited June 20, 2017 by Matrix4You

[aabattery]

1 minute ago, Matrix4You said:

Does this at least up the action ante from 3 and 4???

 

Example...

Transformers 1 - action level = 10

Transformers 2 - 12

Transformers 3 - 15

Transformers 4 - 15

 

where would 5 be???

 

One guy on Twitter said the robots don't even fight until the two hour mark of the movie, so make of that what you will.

[dxmatrixdt]

5 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

One guy on Twitter said the robots don't even fight until the two hour mark of the movie, so make of that what you will.

He could have meant the Bumblebee vs Prime from the trailers

[kowhite]

7 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

One guy on Twitter said the robots don't even fight until the two hour mark of the movie, so make of that what you will.

 

So all the action is in the last 2/3rds of the movie, got it.

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[The Futurist]

14 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

One guy on Twitter said the robots don't even fight until the two hour mark of the movie, so make of that what you will.

Under 500m WW confirmed.

 

[Gavin Feng]

The Transformers films can do 1 thing right: stupid awesome robot fights. THE LAST KNIGHT takes TWO DAMN HOURS for robots to fight.

 

fighting for 2 hours or fighting after 2 hours plots

[The Futurist]

Has anyone survived the product placement drinking game during Age of Extinction  ?

[aabattery]

8 minutes ago, Gavin Feng said:

The Transformers films can do 1 thing right: stupid awesome robot fights. THE LAST KNIGHT takes TWO DAMN HOURS for robots to fight.

 

fighting for 2 hours or fighting after 2 hours plots

 

I think it's the latter, cause right under that the guy says this:

 

There was so much plot. There was King Arthur and nazis and da Vinci code garbage but THE ROBOTS JUST KEPT TALKING I JUST WANTED TO SLEEP

— Justin Jones (@justjustin42) June 20, 2017

Edited June 20, 2017 by aabattery

[Dementeleus]

1 minute ago, aabattery said:

 

I think it's the latter, cause right under that the guy says this:

 

Sounds like a Bay movie.  

[Biggestgeekever]

2 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

Has anyone survived the product placement drinking game during Age of Extinction  ?

 

The answer is "no"

 

 

[a2k]

RT addiction is a bad thing. Am itching all over.

[a2k]

POTC5 below 800 WW was disappointing but digestible. If this one does sub-800 WW then hell will break loose and explode in sparks.

For the sake of the argument,

165 dom + 280 Ch + 370 OS-Ch = 815 WW.

These are not unrealistically low numbers, and WW could potentially go below 800 though it's not likely I guess. Sub-850 won't be surprising.

[AndyLL]

The only thing these reactions are telling me is that this is a typical Bay Transformers movie.  

 

I'll be there Saturday night.

[Johnny Tran]

I'm not a fan of hyperbole so when someone says "worst ever" it may be true but I doubt it because it's the era we live in...  these critics are often trying to throw out the wittiest tweet or get the funniest headline for clicks. 

 

And like I said, I'm not a huge Transformers fan, I just hate what some critics have become. 

[vc2002]

2 hours ago, aabattery said:

 

I think it's the latter, cause right under that the guy says this:

 

There was so much plot. There was King Arthur and nazis and da Vinci code garbage but THE ROBOTS JUST KEPT TALKING I JUST WANTED TO SLEEP

— Justin Jones (@justjustin42) June 20, 2017

 

 

Robots talking is something the franchise should've had a lot more of. I've been saying this since TF2, let them talk, let them have argument, let them be a character (one-demension or not) rather than just mindless walking machines. Cut some of the screentime of human characters and give it to the robots. Transformers should not be the sidekicks like they've been in 4 TF films.

 

Along with that, they should've thrown away a lot of those explosion bullshit, gun fighting crap, human intervene junk and replaced them with fist fight like the forest fight in TF2.

 

I think I remember we discussed this long time. Robot characters in TF films should be like (or at at least somewhat close to) the apes in the new Planet of Apes films.

 

But of cause, that'd increase the budget to an unbearable level, and require a much more capable director than Bay.

 

 

Edited June 20, 2017 by vc2002

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Michael Bay's next movie should be a documentary on explosions.  

[The Dark Rock]

The initial feedback are extremely poor it seems..I was hoping it will be at least better than Age of Borington

 

Mark was completely dull in 4th and doesn't suit this franchise...they need to get Shia labeouf back and if not then try Chris Pratt