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Cool. Rapid cuts of shit blowing up. Could have done without watching a carrier group being destroyed.
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I'm anticipating this movie...let's see, this summer will be good for movies ( or at least, the ones I like). We have TF:ROTF, Trek, and the new Harry Potter movie.
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Harry Potter? Pfft. Anyways, there doesn't seem to be much to the trailer besides explosions and violence. At least it doesn't reveal too much of the plot, which more that I can say for most trailers.
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That Wolverine movie comes out too. Actually looks pretty cool.
Fuck Harry Potter and the broom he flew in on.
I'm pretty "meh" about Transformers 2- the designs seem so far removed from the classic cartoon- and really, the nostalga is why I went to the first movie...
I'm pretty ambivilant about Trek- avoiding most spoilers but looking at the tech designs- the bridge has these vertical glass panels that i've bet $10 smeone falls through. Not real excited.
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Don't patronize me sir! Even a Michael Bay film has to have something like a plot so as to justify all the explosions, regardless of how poor it might be.
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quote:Originally posted by Mars Needs Women: Don't patronize me sir! Even a Michael Bay film has to have something like a plot so as to justify all the explosions, regardless of how poor it might be.
Since WHEN?!?
Unless you count "a story about a series of car chases and explosions against the backdrop of a dusty sunset" as a plot.
I have no love for Michael Bay, but the plot for Transformers was every bit as meritable as that of "Superman the movie: The new movie" or "Romper Stomper".
Sure, the sequel-rule will undoubtedly apply (bigger budget and shittier writing) but in movies like these, we as Members of the Nerdage can only benefit from that. Less plot-twists and turns to irritate the pretentious movie geek palate, and more budget equals longer CGI sequences and hopefully robot dismemberment (yes I liked the Optimus/Bonecrusher fight). Another thing you mustn't forget is that the bigger budget also meant that the poor assistant to Megan Fox could be allowed a coffee cup with her own name on it, during principal photography, instead of having to slurp up whatever remained in Ms. Fox' cup, after Ms. Fox' toenails had dried off and she didn't need to use her assistant for a footstool anymore.
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Plus, I'll be taking my 9yo son to this one too. As I've said before, I'm expecting an entertaining popcorn movie, not Shakespeare.
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From a certain point of view, the milk-bottle fight in the middle is an analogue of the Special Forces pile-up on Blackout at the Deli window, and the beach-dagger scene in the end is as two brothers turned on eachother, like Optimus and Megaton, from a certain point of view.
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