Transformers Movie Thread 2.0

[Advocate]

Q: 1) Is Shakey Cam an excuse for cutting down on the CGI budget? Why not showcase the CGI effects you paid so much for instead of ruining it with headache-inducing shakiness?

2) How many plot lines will you have? The previous movie had 6 (Parents, Sam, Govt, Military, Hackers, Sector 7).

3) What is your definition for "respecting the source material"? What is your take on that?

A: All loaded question... here's honest answers:

1.) Shakey cam is all the rage these days. didn't you see Cloverfield? But seriously, It's a way to simulate a frenetic, ground level subjective POV. And yes it does help to save money while remaining faithful to the visual truth of seeing these things from our puny human pov.

2.) Part two had 3 plot lines -- A boy and his car, soldiers behind enemy lines, and defense policy people -- all reacting to Transformers in a somewhat multiple point of view disaster movie paradigm and structure. Part two will be a different paradigm. More like parallel stories.

3.) Respecting the source material means taking that which works about a given property it and discarding that which doesn't or that which interferes with the requirements of the adaptation (film, tv, stage, whatever). Also, to somehow capture the visceral/emotional tone that source material evoked.

[YellerDog]

4.) LAWN GNOME

[Geo]

Headache-inducing shaky cam? Six plot lines?

It's like people come up with stuff just to bitch about it.

[YellerDog]

Dude, seriously? Fuck that movie. Going into specifics on it doesn't even matter.

[kingoffighters]

T1 sucks. T2 can't possibly be worse.

[YellerDog]

IT IS FUNNY BECAUSE THEY THINK HE IS JERKIN'.

[Samba De Amiga]

I was only able to make it through the first half hour or so the first time I sat down to watch it. On Wednesday, I'm going to see it with special guest Mike Nelson from MST3K with RiffTrax. This should be an immense improvement.

[Geo]

If anything, you should miss the first 45 minutes to an hour. Then watch it. You miss a few good things, but it's worth it to skip the rest.

The last 30 to 45 minutes alone is worth the movie.


PS. Jazz, no.

[YellerDog]

Which would have been a good moment had they bothered to make any of the robot characters worth a shit.

[Gonzo]

Which would have been a good moment had they bothered to make any of the robot characters worth a shit.

I will say, I kind of agree. If you didn't grow up w/Transformers you wouldn't have cared if he died. It was just another robot that was introduced towards the end of the second act.