The "turn your brain off" thing needs to stop being used to excuse Hollywood from turning out terrible films. It's not that these movies are unashamedly dumb. That's fine - Some of the most enjoyable movies around are your silly 80s actioners. It's that the Transformers and their ilk are badly made films. Take a look back…
I'm not going to see this movie unless it pops up on TV and I'm too lazy to find the remote, but based on the trailer, it looked like they might have done some work on the Transformers designs to give them something approaching a somewhat readable silhouette and make them a smidgen less eye wateringly terrible. Is that…
When they spend 200+ million to create a film like this, I don't think it unreasonable to hope that they might spend a pittance of that sum on writing. At the moment, it honestly feels like they spent no money whatsoever on writing. Transformers is the worst children's movie series of all time. They are films targeted at…
Went with the wife and we had fun. I enjoyed transformers growing up, but the cartoon stays in my childhood. I go to these for the guilty pleasure of enjoying robots punching other robots in the face. If you go into it thinking you're going to get an oscar worthy movie, you're going to have a bad time. If you go in…
I took the bullet. Don't bother following my example. It is as brain-dead as ever. The special effects and CGI were fantastic, but aren't they always. To its credit, the more Bay-esque aspects of the film weren't nearly as egregious as they were in Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon. But this is still a Bay…
Typically these films are a guilty pleasure of mine. I think they are total trash, but I love the special effects so I'm there every time on opening night. Unfortunately this time around, I kinda wish I skipped the theater. Liked: * Transformers are cool as always. Loved the new designs for Optimus and Bumblebee. * I…