“Armageddon” is a great movie if you aren’t going in looking for high science fiction ala “2001”. As far as TF2, I think a lot of people just have it in for Bay. It’s giant robots fighting and American flag waving. It does that very well. I don’t understand why people are angry that it’s not Casablanca.
Saw it with my kids
They loved it
I thought it was designed to induce siezures. CGI on top of CGI-bouncing camera angles, flash from one thing to the other.
And toooooo damn long. They could have cut an hour off it and not lost anything.
It’s exactly what I expected. And everyone enjoyed it.
I think that the reason the critics were so hard on it is because they refer to Obama’s orders and they blatantly ignore them and continue to fight!
I really didn’t care for the 1st one. This is not my thing. However, I am going to see #2 tonight and will buy it. My son is in the Marine Corps and is driving one of the USMC Amphibious Assault Vehicle drivers!
They filmed him driving it last summer. I have been waiting for the past year for this to come out,and hoping that they didn’t cut his part out. My daughter saw it and said the scene is toward the end of the movie. It’s a mom thing, you see. LOL!
Supposedly Obama’s national security advisor in the film is depicted as a weasal and Obama is portrayed, lightly, as an appeaser. Wonder why the reviewers tried to pan it?
The article is right about the gulf between reviewer and movie-goer, though. I remember when Star Wars came out. The reviewer, obviously not a teenage boy, nor someone who could even identify with them (a mid-20's or even early 30's female!), panned the movie as only something passable to drop the kids off at the mall cinaplex while Mom shopped.
Armageddon????...Great
check your brains at the door and enjoy.
ya know one doesn’t have to get all serious and cerebral to be entertained by a movie....and a lot of time it just gets in the way.
The reason Transformers is a hit even though it has terrible reviews is because nobody gives a damn about the Tranformers franchise. A poorly reviewed Terminator movie will not do well, because people are offended. A poorly reviewed Transformers movie is just confirmation that the film is good, mindless, blow-em-up fun.
The only way Tranformers could bomb is if they go “Beyond the Thunderdome” and try to pretend to be something they are not.
Dang! Look all, when teenage boys in my Sunday school class pan it (and they did)— I know it stinks.
Loved the first TF. The second was a lot of fun, but not as good as the first.
And it does imply Obama wanting to deal with the Decepticons using diplomacy.
I saw it yesterday and it was a great popcorn flick. It does not aspire to be nothing more. The critics don’t like it because it does not feature gay Transformers eating pudding during the Holocaust.
Actually, the sequel was closer to the original cartoon in the sense that Prime kicked butt all over the place and Megatron was kicking Starscream’s butt all over the place. The chick who plays the Pretender is hotter than Meagan Fox too.
I’m not a fan of Bay (I want to kick him in the kneecaps for Pearl Harbor) but I don’t mind the Transformers films. I look at it the same way I looked at Independence Day: it’s corny, even a little schlocky, but it’s entertaining all the same.
I didn’t mind Transformers 2. I thought it was decent if too long. If someone doesn’t know what they are getting with Michael Bay by now they will never get it.