You have to see it to believe it. The first 90 minutes are out-of-this-world, unbelievably bad. There
Added on July 2, 2011, 5:08 pmYou have to see it to believe it. The first 90 minutes are out-of-this-world, unbelievably bad. You will not believe how inept, how utterly incompetent the whole filmmaking is in the first 1 hr 45 mins. The writing is never less than excruciatingly cringeworthy. The plot still does not make sense, although I'll let it slide since it's a movie about uhh... Giant robots fighting each other. But the first 90 mins consist almost entirely about a conspiracy plot regarding the first moon landing, suspenseful and tense buildup of some dastardly decepticon plan, and lebouf's romance with his new girl. None of it work. We don't give a shit about what exactly the moon landing was about (and it goes on forever...). We don't care what the hell the dexepticons are really up to because who gives a shit about the plot no one can follow. And even less shit is given by us when it comes to witwicky and his love interest. And bay tries really hard to shove it all down out throats, especially the last bit. Seriously, no one cares or believes witwicky really loves her. f*** off romance. The worst thing is, the shift in tone between these three different plotlines are sudden. And I mean sudden as in a friggin electrical jolt. It's like someone just switched channels on your tv. From one shitty movie to another kind of shitty movie. it's astounding.
And the jokes... What the hell is wrong with bay and his writers? ALL THE JOKES ARE LAME. And the dialogue... Dammit Bay, no one is expecting an action movie to have a ton of lines like a Nolan film, OK? So why don't you friggin give lebouf's character a rest- he's either constantly yakking away about shit, or screaming like a girl. I'm not sure which is worse. I don't wanna talk about the new girl. She's no hottie and she can't act.
You have to bear with all that for more than 90 mins before the action really kicks in. And when it finally kicks in it's by far the best parts of the movie. Which isn't to say the action is very good, because it's not. It's pretty decent in places and Ho-hum in others. I've known this since TF2, but the idea of having giant robots fighting other giant robots sounds awesome in paper, but it will inevitably turn into something a lot less interesting once actually executed. Still, at least we aren't subject to rubbish dialogue and jokes and stupid plotlines which it's all action.
I know TF2 is one turkey of a movie, and perhaps it's because it's terribleness had receded from memory, but TF3 has really reached a new low. If this is really the end of the series (doubt it), GOOD GODDAMN RIDDANCE.
1/5
Added on July 2, 2011, 5:20 pmOhh me and my friends did mange to get a chuckle out of one scene. The part where the soldier jump out of the plane and just glide while wearing some special webbed suit. The suit is black and white. It looked like a bunch of nuns flying. Hilarious.
I don't know how much influence Bay had on the script but I think Shia's character almost certainly a mirror portrayal of Bay himself. He's always intense and screaming at people or things. He's always at the center of everything, always demanding, always wanting to do things his ways, and always trying to dictate the situations. If that doesn't scream Bay to you then maybe one of the scenes will. The part where the lady said he was nothing more than a messenger boy is probably the biggest hint - Most people see him nothing more than a hack job who thinks he's bigger than life itself. Feel sorry for Speilberg to have his name associated with such a self indulgent man.
Oh and i love how he decided to destroy all the decepticons especially Megatron as if was he signing off and putting closure to the series. Thank god the Bay's reign is over.