Hype is undefeatable. No? Don’t agree? Just take a look at Transfomers 3, how otherwise would you explain its enormous first weekend earnings from the box office. I could barely get a ticket on the first week, and when I did, I had to settle for a neck wrenching two and a half hours on the first cinema row. On the bright side, my seat was in the centre of the theatre.
This summer season has many big budget blockbusters lined up, Thor, X-Men: First Class, Pirates 4, Green Lantern (which I love) to name a few. All are mostly acceptable; I acknowledge their pluses and their minuses. However, if you want me to identify the Dud of the Year, I’d say Transformers 3 takes the cake, and shoves it at your face.
Oh the cruelty! My head was shaking in disbelief at times, although not as often as transformers 2. “It was better than the second one”, that’s what all the fans say. They’re right, but it’s not better by much.
If you think that the Witwicky parents were annoying in Transformers 2, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that the Witwickys unnatural contrived humour was toned down. The bad news is that that same humour found itself sprouting in the other characters, just like a Greek mythological Hydra (cut one head off, out comes two heads), kind of, well; they’re both nonsense.
Besides that, everyone was overly hyper in the first half. If you had slightly hated Shia Lebeouf before, you’ll hate the guts out of him here. And that chick they hired to replace Megan Fox, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, was hired to look luscious and definitely not for her acting. She does her first job well, not the second. Thank goodness they didn’t try to infuse comedy into her role.
You know what usually I love about these big budgeted action movies, it’s the production quality. For instance if you have a big battle scene, you see the grit, the blood, the torn costumes, the scars, the ashen landscape, every little detail adds to the mood and character of the motion picture. It makes sense, it feels right.
Disappointingly, Transformers 3 is nothing like those movies, there are so many incongruous scenes; I’m only going to list three. Scene 1, the city of Chicago had been overtaken by the Decepticons, you see the extras running helter-skelter when the heroes attempt to breach the enemy barricades. That’s understandable, and people might need to run away. But as our heroes venture deeper into the heart of enemy territory, the same density of people were running away as if the Twin Towers just fell. Mind you, this takes place hours after Chicago inner city had been captured. It just doesn’t gel.
Another scene: We all saw the piece de resistance scene in the trailers, the one with the wormlike Decepticon grinding an office building in half, the top half of the building toppling over. We catch a glimpse of every floor in the tilted building as our heroes find safety in the doomed building. Most floors are empty, but hang on; one floor is fully occupied like any other working day, never mind the alien invasion outside.
The third but certainly not last gaffe I’d like to point out is the scene where Patrick Dempsey took cover from a rain of bullets shattering the apartment windows from a hovering chopper. He ducked under the kitchen island, but when he emerged, there was not a scratch to his face, but his jacket was instantly scuffed up and evenly ripped all over (looked like someone meticulously scratched the jacket with a box-cutter knife).
Sam holds the spiny Laserbeak by it's neck, Look Ma, No Blood!
With such attention to detail, I’m urged to demand my money back from Michael Bay. But it’s not all bad; remember it was better than the second one! If you strip the plot down to its bare essentials, it’s pretty decent; you’ve got betrayal, devotion, a couple of twists, hidden motives, provocative seduction and triumph.
When the dust settles, I say the negatives outweigh the positives. It’s sad that such an expensive movie can be produced so badly. But I give extra points for costs. So my rating is a 5/10 including an extra star for the massive budget.
This summer season has many big budget blockbusters lined up, Thor, X-Men: First Class, Pirates 4, Green Lantern (which I love) to name a few. All are mostly acceptable; I acknowledge their pluses and their minuses. However, if you want me to identify the Dud of the Year, I’d say Transformers 3 takes the cake, and shoves it at your face.
Oh the cruelty! My head was shaking in disbelief at times, although not as often as transformers 2. “It was better than the second one”, that’s what all the fans say. They’re right, but it’s not better by much.
If you think that the Witwicky parents were annoying in Transformers 2, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that the Witwickys unnatural contrived humour was toned down. The bad news is that that same humour found itself sprouting in the other characters, just like a Greek mythological Hydra (cut one head off, out comes two heads), kind of, well; they’re both nonsense.
Besides that, everyone was overly hyper in the first half. If you had slightly hated Shia Lebeouf before, you’ll hate the guts out of him here. And that chick they hired to replace Megan Fox, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, was hired to look luscious and definitely not for her acting. She does her first job well, not the second. Thank goodness they didn’t try to infuse comedy into her role.
You know what usually I love about these big budgeted action movies, it’s the production quality. For instance if you have a big battle scene, you see the grit, the blood, the torn costumes, the scars, the ashen landscape, every little detail adds to the mood and character of the motion picture. It makes sense, it feels right.
Disappointingly, Transformers 3 is nothing like those movies, there are so many incongruous scenes; I’m only going to list three. Scene 1, the city of Chicago had been overtaken by the Decepticons, you see the extras running helter-skelter when the heroes attempt to breach the enemy barricades. That’s understandable, and people might need to run away. But as our heroes venture deeper into the heart of enemy territory, the same density of people were running away as if the Twin Towers just fell. Mind you, this takes place hours after Chicago inner city had been captured. It just doesn’t gel.
Another scene: We all saw the piece de resistance scene in the trailers, the one with the wormlike Decepticon grinding an office building in half, the top half of the building toppling over. We catch a glimpse of every floor in the tilted building as our heroes find safety in the doomed building. Most floors are empty, but hang on; one floor is fully occupied like any other working day, never mind the alien invasion outside.
The third but certainly not last gaffe I’d like to point out is the scene where Patrick Dempsey took cover from a rain of bullets shattering the apartment windows from a hovering chopper. He ducked under the kitchen island, but when he emerged, there was not a scratch to his face, but his jacket was instantly scuffed up and evenly ripped all over (looked like someone meticulously scratched the jacket with a box-cutter knife).
Sam holds the spiny Laserbeak by it's neck, Look Ma, No Blood!
With such attention to detail, I’m urged to demand my money back from Michael Bay. But it’s not all bad; remember it was better than the second one! If you strip the plot down to its bare essentials, it’s pretty decent; you’ve got betrayal, devotion, a couple of twists, hidden motives, provocative seduction and triumph.
When the dust settles, I say the negatives outweigh the positives. It’s sad that such an expensive movie can be produced so badly. But I give extra points for costs. So my rating is a 5/10 including an extra star for the massive budget.
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