Dark of the Moon

Seen it?

Very spoiler-ific below!!! Beware!!!




I enjoyed it, because it absolutely reveled in its awful-ness. It's as though the directors/writers realized these movies are crap, and just decided, well, lets make the silliest, most over-the-top ridiculous crap we can come up with. The humor was even taken in that direction, and oh the cameos: Malvovich, Ken Jeong, Wash from Serenity, several cast members from the Buy-More in Chuck, Bill O'Reilly, Leonard Nimoy, BUZZ FREAKING ALDRIN!?

The visuals were a spectacle worth seeing alone. I think if you go in thinking, oh what the hell, I know this movie's plot is crap, I just want to see robots blow stuff up, then you will be fine. It's almost a fun game just to think of all the ways in which everything in the movie is absolutely inconceivable.

And from a fan-boy perspective - I enjoyed the inclusion of Shockwave and Soundwave.

God I hated this. An hour long finale action sequence may look cool, but it gets old. Let's get started:

Edited by Milkshake08 - 01-Jul-2011 at 7:34am

@XTremeOne: The Chuck employees that I saw were Jeff and the chubby red haired kid. I think there may have been a few more but these were truly just cameos, no lines. Jeff had the biggest part, John Malkovich flips out that one of the employees is using a red coffee mug on what is clearly the yellow floor. So Jeff is sent to grab the mug and dump it in his garbage bin that he's pushing around. The girl with the mug runs off crying, as Jeff saunters past with a pleased look on his face. It was pretty funny.

I think Milkshake is referring to the fact that they infer no one can see the crashed Transformers ship on "The Dark Side of the Moon" and her beef is the fact it would come around into view easily enough once it rotates. In my mind however, the idea wasn't that ithe ship could never be seen. In fact it had, and that''s what spurred Kennedy on to get NASA up and running. The idea of "The Dark Side of the Moon" being important, is that that's the justification they used that they would lose radio silence, and thus no one would know what the astronauts where doing during that time they were up there poking around at the ship. So that little bit didn't bother me, although maybe Milkshake is referring to something else.

Like I said, the movie was dreadful. I think I liked the fact that it recognized how dreadful it was than at least say the second movie, and so the comedy and action worked for me. But yes, please, don't go in expecting a good movie. Only go see it if you actually like bad movies, like I do, lol.

Well, either way add it to the rather long list if things that are hilariously bad about this movie.

Such as why does Optimus Prime and the Autobots do their whole plan of pretending to leave earth and being destroyed. All it does is provoke the Decepticons to attack Chicago and kill millions of people. If they'd stayed around on the planet they might have at least kept the Decepticons invasion a little more in check and not had quite so many fatalities!

Edited by Anna Raven - 01-Jul-2011 at 11:58pm

Okay I saw the movie...Just a few things...

Yes the Autobot plan was just a bad plan. I mean I guess they can argue that they didn't think they'd kill so many humans but that doesn't fly with me. Because they pretty much implied they wanted to show the humans how bad the Decepticons really were LOL...

Why does Optimus Prime keep getting his butt kicked? I mean damn. I guess I'm biased because I love the guy but c'mon. He couldn't beat Sentinel Prime but Megatron could then he takes down Megatron? UGH

The U.S. government is incompetent. Just saying...I mean not even making this political. In this movie they are just piss poor at so many things.

And if Decepticons are this easy to beat, how did the Autobots lose the war? I mean humans were taking them down. I mean shoot the guys from the Expandables could have saved the day without any Autobots around LOL...Decepticons seem easier to kill than the Terminator...

Visually it was the best of the three movies...easily.

From what I've read it sounds pretty much the same as the last one. Instead of wasting your time and money on it, I'd recommend read this instead: http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/06/topless_robots_transformers_3_faq.php

 

Edited by EvilMonkeyPope - 04-Jul-2011 at 11:42pm

Absolutely terrible movie - and I loved it. :D Every God dang minute of it.

It's always mystified me where this idea came in recent years that to make a good summer blockbuster 'popcorn' movie it doesn't have to have plot or logic or even well thought out story. Just explosions and violence and good looking people doing these crazy things and as much CGI as you can possibly pack it with and it's all good. I don't begrudge people liking that as we all like what we like. Just seems odd to me cause while I'm going to the movies for escapism, I want something that challenges me in different ways and not just be flashy pictures and booms I guess lol.

Originally posted by EvilMonkeyPope From what I've read it sounds pretty much the same as the last one. Instead of wasting your time and money on it, I'd recommend read this instead: http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/06/topless_robots_transformers_3_faq.php   But more importantly, you should read this because I wrote it and it's about a much better franchise: http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/06/the_15_kookiest_creatures_of_classic_doctor_who.php

Hmm.. both are good and hilarious. :)

Originally posted by grief Absolutely terrible movie - and I loved it. :D Every God dang minute of it.

I'm with you Grief. After each Transformers movie I thought through all the faults but really when I was in the cinema I loved each film.

This was the first Transformers movie that I really enjoyed.  It was easier for me to tell the difference between the robots in this movie, the action was easier to follow because there didnt appear to be as many quick cuts, and the comedy relief bits were not as annoying as they were in previous movies. 

X-Men First Class and Thor are popcorn movies, and they are miles above this. Dark Knight is a "popcorn movie." Much better. The Bourne movies, Matrix films, Star Trek...all popcorn flicks. Why can't we say this one was bad? I enjoyed the first Transformers despite thinking it was stupid. And I saw X-Men The Last Stand and hated it....so did a lot of people on this board. Were we judging THAT too harshly too?