Transformers: Dark of the Moon

[Ringo619]

By far my favorite transformers movie , the fighting scenes were good , the story line was epic and everything was epic. did't disappoint me one bit

 

[BORTZ]

Wow. Im appalled at how many people have terrible movie taste.

 

[raulpica]

I watched the first two Transformers films again in anticipation of this. I have to say that the second wasn't as bad as I remember, apart from those annoying racist stereotype robots.

As for the third film, it was good, but far from perfect. I watched it at imax in 3D, and it was one of the better 3D films I have seen, I would say I like the 3D effects more than Avatars.

Transformers 3's main failings are that it is badly paced and far too long. Also it lacks both action and transformers in the first 90 minutes. The film focuses on Shia LaBeouf far too much for my liking, especially the first half, which doesn't even feel like a transformers film. If anything I would say that I felt as if I had watched two films by the end of it, the first 90 minutes being a comedy and the last hour an action flick.

The first 90 minutes had genuinely hilarious moments, but it didn't feel anything like a transformers film, at times I even forgot that's what I was watching. I think if 30 minutes of comedy had been cut out it would have been better for the overall film. The transition between comedy and action film was really abrupt, which made it feel even more like two films for me. And by the last half hour I just felt drained.

Also the addition of Sams new girlfriend, played by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, felt really unnecessary. She is even more redundant than Megan Fox's character, and I will even go as far as to say she is a worse actress than Megan. I just found her really unconvincing in every scene she was in. I don't think transformers needs a female lead who when the action starts, does nothing but run around and look worried.

Like I said overall I think its a good film, but Michael Bay just did a really sloppy and self indulgent job. The film would have gained a lot with better editing to reduce its length, and it really needed more action scenes and less Shia comedy hour in its first half.

This. Entirely what p1ngy said. I hate how the entire thing reminded me of Spiderman 3 with its Emo/Unlucky-Parker part.

Too few fighting, too much talk/comedy. If I want to see people in funny situations, I go to see a comedy.
If I freakin' go to watch TRANSFORMERS, I expect huge robots and awesome battles.

Actually, I think that Transfomers 2 is better than 3. Still have to watch the first one, though.

 

[pigonthetree]

OH, find it finally. it seems that good as expected. Want to see, but did not show up in china right now. Sad...

 

[Joe88]

I just wanna know whats up with the lame subtitle

it seems they didnt want to put "Dark Side of the Moon" (Pink Floyd album), and didnt want to name it "Bark at the Moon" (Ozzy Osbourne album and song) either because of copyright issues, so they just made some crappy combination

 

[Rayder]

I'm gonna have to make an effort to see this movie, though I'll likely just wait until it comes out on DVD, since watching 3D movies are an impossibility for me. I liked the first two, though the second one was a little goofy. It's mainly the special effects I watch a movie like this for anyway. I mean, how can you not like big badass robots beating the hell out of each other?

You know, if the next-gen X-Box and Playstation's are going to be 10X the power of the current gen, won't they be able to pull off graphics that are nearly as good as the CGI in movies? I mean, near enough that you won't really notice, wouldn't you think? Now THAT would really be something to behold!

 

[KingdomBlade]

Best movie for the year thus far.

Just noticed this, and my God, this is so wrong. I know this is your opinion and all, but your opinion is wrong. (I'm being a gigantic douchey hypocrite, I'm fully aware of that, but still, I couldn't resist)

I actually thought that the horrid Beastly was better than this shit. Best movie of the year so far? Try Bridesmaids, or Tree of Life, or Midnight in Paris, or Rango, or for more on the action side, X-Men First Class.

 

[Terminator02]

I was sitting through the movie asking myself why shockwave was such a badass the whole movie, and why he didn't just kill megatron, he had control of that huge ass worm thing.


Also, who is dylan? was he the guy who befriended the decepticons?


And the asian guy was awesome.

 

[Blaze163]

Well I 'acquired' it yesterday so here's my two cents.

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I thought the movie was enjoyable for the most part, but there were a few issues. The shoehorning in of Sam's parents who appear to contribute pretty much nothing to the plot was annoying. Ironhide's death was a shock, and I don't like how Optimus Prime doesn't even mention it after he commented on the death of Jazz in the original. Sentinel Prime was pretty awesome but the final fight scene has its issues. Firstly, Optimus goes from pleading to his life to ignoring Sentinel's pleas in the space of a minute. Granted, he wasn't shown mercy, but isn't supposed to be the 'bigger man', so to speak? If he'd spared Sentinel, then they could have transported Cybertron somewhere safe and thought of other ways around the problem. He also ignored Megatron's plea for a truce, despite Megatron having just saved him from certain death. Shockwave is also significantly too badass, and the scene where they're running through a collapsing building is just daft IMHO.

Overall I'd rate it about a 7/10. It's not bad, but I'm glad I didn't pay to see it

 

[SamAsh07]

Loved the movie, definitely better than the 2nd part but on par with the 1st, the 2nd one lacked plot imo, but this one served well and ended the trilogy on a high note.

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I hated the way Ironhide just died off, no one cared about him.

TBH that Sentinel Prime betrayal really shocked me lol, never expected THAT out of all things, sheesh.

The new actress Rosie-Huntington did a great job as the new GF of Sam, her acting was better than Megan Fox, sorry Megan I know you've got the sexy looks and mamma-mia hot body with dashing figure but Rosie outshined, great acting.

What confused me was Sam and Optimus's conversation right before the autobots get exiled, did Optimus know that Sam had that weird recording watch on his hand and that's why he didn't say "we have a secret plan"?? I guess that's the case.

 

[TheDarkSeed]

You can count on the special effects of this movie to be good. No matter how little. There was a time in the movie where i said to myself "Wow, I wish I could do that" there aren't many movies that make me think that.

 

[Jamstruth]

Wondering whether to see it just to see how bad it was after the absolute crapfest that was Transformers 2 (I once had an argument with some friends who said it was amazing. I'm sorry, it was shit.) Likelihood is that I won't though.

It was waaaaaaaaaaaay better then Transformers 2. Transformers 2 is an Abomination compared to Transformers 3.

Late reply but I thought it would be better than Transformers 2. THis does not mean it will be good though. Transformers 2 forms the compelte low-end of my opinion of movies. It will not be recreated (I hope). I was so bored through the hugely long and boring-ass climax that I didn't even register the "I am directly under the enemy scrotum" line and was just willing the movie to end.

 

[tlyee61]

There's something odd about me and Transformers movies. No matter how shitty they turn out to be, I still enjoy watching them. This movie doesn't seem too bad.

Me too!

On topic: I liked it, better than the 2nd but 1st was the best IMO.
Sams new GF was OK and I was shocked at ironhides death and Sentinel betraying the Autobots.

 

[Izzy011]

I loved this movie. I can't believe it didn't get good reviews.

IMO, Transformers 3 > Transformers > Transformers 2

 

[lordrand11]

I personally thought it was a great movie. The only slowdown i found in the movie was the many slow-motion sequences michael bay put in there. I kinda felt they went a little overboard with those. I just wish beyond hope that they would bring Unicron into the pictures.

 

[Nathan Drake]

I've heard from more than one person that this movie is just not good. The female lead apparently feels very unnecessary, the movie is not very well put together, and there are racial stereotypes galore. I mean, it seems like it should be difficult for it to be worse than the second movie, but it's sounding debatable.

I won't be seeing this one until it's out on DVD.

 

[Deleted_171835]

I watched the movie yesterday and it was pretty good. Definitely better than the previous one but not as good as the first one. The new damsel in distress was extremely irritating. All she did was scream and whine about every damn thing. All she was good for was sex appeal. Nothing else. The movie would have been better off without her.

The CGI was pretty good as was the 3D effect. Better than most of the movies I've seen recently. I have to agree with p1ng. The first half of the movie felt like a comedy rather than a Transformers film. I must admit that I squealed a little when I seen Ken Jeong (Ben Chang - Community) in the film. I enjoyed the second-half of the movie as it had almost everything I would think a Transformers film should have (explosions, cars and stuff).

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[titlePEN IT]I was pretty shocked when Megatron saved Optimus by incapacitating Sentinel Prime. And Optimus looked like a true badass when he said "We will kill them all"

 

[AlanJohn]

It was a Micheal Bay movie.
It had Hot chicks, cool cars, robots and Shia LaBeouf saying repeatedly 'no' (if your into that stuff).
But the first part of the movie just felt like some crap comedy.