Posted on 06/15/2009 12:57:17 PM PDT by C19fan
This sequel starts relatively modestly with the revelation that Transformers have been around since 17,000 BC (cue cavemen fighting alien robots), before switching to a less-nerdy-than-before Sam (LaBeouf) getting ready to go to college.
Mysteriously, his supersexy girlfriend Mikaela (Fox) is still with him - though naturally neither can quite bring themselves to say the 'L' word. Sam accidentally touches a shard of the ancient Transformer technology and finds his mind flooded with hieroglyphics.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
As long as they don’t show her thumbs . . .
Or . . . make us listen to her vapid ramblings on topics like politics or ‘boys”
I love Michael (If it doesn’t explode get it out of my movie) Bay.
You know what you are getting in his movies. Lots of action, lots of explosions and the military are the good guys, not evil killers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRS90V8BQGo
Michael Bay’s Explosions
Why?
I love both of those movies but I missed the rip offs.
When Clint and the Marines invade Grenada in Heartbreak Ridge they use a phone to call the Pentagon to order an airstrike against some Cubans. They need to dig up a credit card to make the international call. Transformers repeats this scene when they place the cell phone call and have to use a credit card to call the Pentagon to order the A-10/AC-130 strike.
In terms of Independence Day, the general concept of the US acquiring alien technology and building a underground secret base to attempt to reverse engineer the technology, a la Area 51 from ID and Hoover Dam in Transformers
Er...okay.
As derivations go, I can live with them.
2 reasons:
1. The original LotL had an earnestness about it. It had good plots and ideas, and was somewhat internally consistent. The acting may have been sub-par and the SFX a bit schlocky, but it never insulted its audience. Everything I have seen and read is that the new LotL movie is all about dinosaur poop jokes.
2. Will Farrel is the Steve Gutenberg of our time. He stopped being funny a long time ago playing the same role over and over (even worse, if imaginable, than Jim Carrey.
Bad movies and bad acting should be punished.
I don’t understand why you think bad acting and bad movies should be punished?
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