I watched Transformers tonight on the HBO...

[WCGreen]

What a mess of a movie. The action was hard to follow. There were pieces of the mechanical beings falling all over the place mixed in with stuff they were destroying. All very confusing. And the story was all over the place.

And what is up with John Turturo? Is he so broke that he has to make such a fool out of himself in this kind of movie?

But what really bothered me was Shia LaBeouf. I saw the Indiana Jones Movie earlier this summer and he was defiantly the weakest link in that fairly decent movie. But in this one, he reminded me of the kids in The Goonies. Way over the top acting. The kind of acting that comes from the Disney Style, you know, mugging for the Camera, always doing more more more when a little less would be a welcomed reprieve.

This young man has been acting since he was twelve. I guess he will have his legion of Disney Fans just like Hanna Montana. But what happens to these kids when their audience grows tired of the vaudevillian style of acting and they are still mugging for the camera? No wonder the kids that come out of Disney seem to self implode when they hit their late teens.

[Z_I_Peevey]

1. And that is why we never, ever watch movies based on

the toys.

[Minimus]

2. and they are doing a sequel.

[MrScorpio]

3. It's all about the money

Not the art

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Well it WAS a Michael Bay film.

x(

[Swede]

4. The under 30 crowd love it.

I thought it was 2 hours of my life that I can never get back.

[SeattleGirl]

6. MrSG watched it the other day, and said it was way too long.

I caught part of it, and said it was such a strange movie, because on one hand, it seemed like it was supposed to be a kind of serious movie. On the other hand, however, whenever the transformers spoke, they sounded so stupid, I just busted out laughing.

I think that movie didn't know what it wanted to be when it grew up.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. I loved it. WannaB loved it. BabyG loved it. Kittimus Prime got his

name from it. And that's good enough for me.

[JTG of the PRB]

8. I loved it, and I am eagerly awaiting the second installment next summer.

I'll admit that it;s not the most high-brow entertainment out there, but it was the most entertaining movie I saw all last year. I'm old enough to remember liking the Transformers of the late 80's, and that movie reminded me a lot of that sort of stuff - but it was adjusted to click with people around my age - what with the sarcasm and humor and such.

Sometimes, all I want is a move to entertain me. It doesn't have to be a perfect movie - as long as it's entertaining, I won't complain!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. I kept wonder: "which is the entertaining part?"

I mean, millions of dollars for your budget, latest CGI, giant fucking robots...

How do you fuck that up?

[Starry Messenger]

10. heh

that would make a great t-shirt somehow.

MPK