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blob2
Undefeatable Hero
Blob-Ohmos the Second
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posted January 05, 2019 08:20 PM |
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Edited by blob2 at 20:21, 05 Jan 2019.
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Bumblebee is a freakin' awesome movie.
First 15 minutes was enough to beat Bayformers by light years. To make you forget about those abominations. It's a shame we didn't get a whole Battle for Cybertron movie, but what we did get was totally off the charts. I think if I was a big fan of Transformers I would be blown away by nostalgia.
Let's make things clear, I did enjoy the human part (most of the movie ), cus the story was full of heart. The female protagonist was simply a likable character. She was the star of the show. A normal and resourceful girl. And Bumblebee was the second star ofc. It was great watching his "friendly giant" side, and his badass side when he got serious (he's actually Transformers Elite). There are quite a few action sequences in the movie and they are really good. Not to mention you actually know what's going on. It was also cool they placed the movie in the 80's. It worked on so many levels, especially with the music.
This movie captures what Transformers is about, even those few Decepticons in the movie were fleshed-out characters. Finally! No irritating side-characters, no friggin' America is great propaganda, no explosions everywhere, no incomprehensive (and simply idiotic) dialouges and low-level jokes. And most importantly Transformers have "souls", they are not a bunch of duches that murder each other like crazy.
Damn, if they make more Transformers movies (ending was kept pretty open) they should keep Knight at the helm. This guy really gets it.
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted January 06, 2019 01:30 PM |
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That's one hell of a sell, for me. I walked out of the first Transformers movie(the only one i saw in a theater) after it's 3rd major flaw that ruined it; it sounds like this new one is right up my alley.
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blob2
Undefeatable Hero
Blob-Ohmos the Second
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posted January 06, 2019 11:21 PM |
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Edited by blob2 at 23:25, 06 Jan 2019.
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fred79 said: That's one hell of a sell, for me. I walked out of the first Transformers movie(the only one i saw in a theater) after it's 3rd major flaw that ruined it; it sounds like this new one is right up my alley.
Hope you'll like it. Well the rule is to go see it yourself. But even if my opinion isn't enough, there's plenty of positive response in the net for this movie.
(Psst, you can even find a off-hand camera clips of the Cyberton scene on Youtube - but I don't recommend spoiling yourself the fun Watching this pure f-u to Bayformers movies is a treat in itself)
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Kipshasz
Undefeatable Hero
Elvin's Darkside
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posted January 07, 2019 01:49 PM |
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fred79 said: Presuming that you're being honest and not just trying to poke fun at my posting style; i have to ask, why?
He furiously plays with himself when Emma Frost in on screen, it reminds him of Xerox's mom.
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OmegaDestroyer
Hero of Order
Fox or Chicken?
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posted January 07, 2019 07:31 PM |
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Watched two movies the other day: Venom and 5 Cowok Jagoan.
Due to incredibly low expectations, Venom was a lot better than I thought it would be. It's by no means a deep movie but it was entertaining enough.
5 Cowok Jagoan, an Indonesian action/comedy/zombie film, was interesting. A few of the jokes fell flat due to my complete ignorance of Indonesian pop culture. The story was kind of all over the place and the ending set up a sequel that will probably never get made. I've seen worse films but as far as Indonesia goes, nothing can top the Raid franchise.
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Blizzardboy
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Nerf Herder
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posted January 08, 2019 12:57 PM |
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We pretty much owe the Transformer franchise to China and their propensity to watch any movie with a giant robot in it no matter how bad it is.
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blob2
Undefeatable Hero
Blob-Ohmos the Second
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posted January 08, 2019 03:44 PM |
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Edited by blob2 at 15:46, 08 Jan 2019.
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Blizzardboy said: We pretty much owe the Transformer franchise to China and their propensity to watch any movie with a giant robot in it no matter how bad it is.
I think Americans and European watchers are also partly to blame. Unfortunately many people associate Transformers with Bays over-the-top explosive vision of the franchise. People like it cus it's synonymous to mindless and visually aggressive popcorn flicks.
I don't think many people care about the source material, maybe they somewhat remember the toys but not much else. I've read an article somewhere that because Bumblebee, even if good or even great movie, is not what most people want and this will work against it. This or they don't care because there were so many Transformers movies already. So far ticket sales aren't that great, but because the budget wasn't as big as in previous movies it won't rather flop. But not-flopping is still worse then generating a lot of $ as it's predecessors. Bay might a butcher of the franchise, but he is still making money.
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted January 08, 2019 03:46 PM |
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I wouldn't blame anyone after the past few movies.
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blob2
Undefeatable Hero
Blob-Ohmos the Second
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posted January 08, 2019 04:12 PM |
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Edited by blob2 at 16:30, 08 Jan 2019.
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Elvin said: I wouldn't blame anyone after the past few movies.
Well "blaming" is too hard of a word maybe. People watch what they want. I can be angry with Bay for "killing" the soul of the franchise, but to many people what I say is gibberish: "Dude, what do you want from those movies? It's about robots smacking the hell out of each other, nothing more. And it's actually fun". Later parts were unwatchable for me, too much chaos and craziness, but others do enjoy them.
I think it's good we actually did get a movie like Bumblebee, and I remember how skeptical I was at first: "Another Transformers movie, meh". But the more I watched the promo materials, the more I thought "this is something different". For me the movie made things right to some point. We might get nothing more, but this is plenty.
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted January 08, 2019 07:57 PM |
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Probably too late but we'll see.
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Blizzardboy
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Nerf Herder
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posted January 09, 2019 12:10 AM |
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I haven't actually seen Bumblebee yet but it looks really good. Not a cluster**** movie like the others. And yes, it's China's fault.
I've never even seen the 3rd and 4th Transformer movies from start to finish. I saw the Last Knight but I zoned out and started doing something on the laptop most of the time. Auralnauts version of Age of Extinction looks 10x cooler than the original.
10 Guaranteed Improve to Age of Extinction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRmRMnVULs8&t=542s
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blob2
Undefeatable Hero
Blob-Ohmos the Second
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posted January 10, 2019 12:28 PM |
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Edited by blob2 at 12:29, 10 Jan 2019.
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There's no saving grace for Bayformers movies. Even after watching the clip you referred to the only thing I see is a video reel of car manufacturer and fireworks producers adverts. Either you accept the movies as they are or look the other way...
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Minion
Legendary Hero
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posted January 15, 2019 11:24 PM |
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Aquaman was OK. It is not a great movie though. It has no structure, it goes on for too long, or has story that makes a lot of sense. But it is entertaining. I give it a 6/10 and yet it still is the second best DC movie
Bumblebee on the otherhand is a good movie. It has a good scrpict, a great story and IT MAKES SENSE. I would not have thought of it, since every Transformers movie since the first has been utter crap. But we all love to give a second change to things, and here is a perfect example of why we should do so. I can recommend muchos this movie
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olivia89
Hired Hero
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posted February 14, 2019 07:57 PM |
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Alita-Battle Angel,
Good film, awesome CGI, crap ending!
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Warmonger
Promising
Legendary Hero
fallen artist
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posted February 17, 2019 07:18 PM |
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olivia89 said: Alita-Battle Angel,
Good film, awesome CGI, crap ending!
Couldn't agree more. The ending is very disapointing, clearly this won't work without a sequel.
This "love story" was necessary, but turned out only funny while attempting to be seriously heartbreaking.
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted February 17, 2019 07:45 PM |
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Watched boheminan rhapsody. Really good movie; and it answered some questions i had about the band. If it was accurate to true life, anyway.
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted February 17, 2019 08:01 PM |
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Havent seen the movie yet but a music group in facebook I follow, with lots of hardcore fans was full of disappointed reviews, to the point of accusing the film’s inaccuracies of betraying overall reality and the true spirit of the man.
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blob2
Undefeatable Hero
Blob-Ohmos the Second
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posted February 18, 2019 03:09 PM |
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Warmonger said:
olivia89 said: Alita-Battle Angel,
Good film, awesome CGI, crap ending!
Couldn't agree more. The ending is very disapointing, clearly this won't work without a sequel.
This "love story" was necessary, but turned out only funny while attempting to be seriously heartbreaking.
I have the whole original manga. From what I've seen the movie covers only a part of it. Things get really disturbing later on, don't know if they would be even able to adapt it on the big screen.
Regarding the movie: I will probably watch it at some point, but not hyped...
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted February 19, 2019 06:34 PM |
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watched "wreck it ralph". meh. could have saved me the time by just saying "be satisfied with who you are". yeah, no snow, sherlock.
the graphics were good, though(especially being that i added some graphics/ideas from the sugar rush game for my homm3 candyland side project).
i'll watch "ralph breaks the internet" tomorrow. i wonder what this movie's message will be.
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted February 19, 2019 10:07 PM |
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Thank goodness, I was not the only one. I keep hearing good things but this is kiddie material and the references will be lost on youngsters anyway. It wasn't even particularly funny, smart or thoughtful.
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