[Raydeus]

This topic made me think of this:

YouTube - Kanon - Ayu and the Horror Movie

YouTube - Kanon - Ayu and the Horror Movie

Different reasons but my reaction would probably be the same if I was forced to watch these movies. <_<

[Vyuru]

There's just something alluring about a woman with her body over the engine of a hot car... Do you have to be pretty to be hot or sexy?

See, women to me are a little like christmas presents.

I expect there to be something more than the pretty wrapping paper.

Neither of the girls in the movies are that pretty, nor do they have any sex appeal to me, sorry but I don't see the appeal. All they are are women in scanty clothing with craptons of makeup and stuff.

Real women have curves.

[Raydeus]

It depends on the girl. What you hate in one girl can be incredibly attractive on another.

Women are weird like that. /shrug

[Durahansolo]

Originally Posted by Vyuru

Real women have curves.

I know what you mean though but I just couldn't pass that one up.

[Vyuru]

thankfully for dialup I was able to stop the page from loading before much more than the head was revealed, I don't think I wanna see the rest ; ;

[DakAttack]

Originally Posted by Ziero

That G4 in it's entirety is filled with pretentious morons who try so hard to be "cool geeks" they actually end up looking like massive douches?

No. Due to it continuously insulting my intelligence by assuming I wouldn't notice all the wtf moments, I wanted to walk out several times as well. My GF seemed into it, though, so I stayed.

From what I can tell here's how the plot goes down

The Autobots joined up with the US and UK in a special task force to hunt down the Decipticons using some unkown method of detecting them. They find a tractor that's really hot, and it attacks them. The really expensive car chases down some other car and cuts it in half for some reason.

Fast forward to these things called nests where fragments of that cube are hidden, oh, btw, Sam has a fragment of the cube too which shoots a bunch of knowledge into his brain and then makes a bunch of Decepticons out of his household appliances.

While at college, Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to seduce and kill Sam, who ultimately fails because her tongue is some lame whip (see: Prototype). Now everybody is in a factory, and two seconds later we're all in a forest where giant robots are flipping around like fucking fairies. Everybody is shooting each other, giggling, and holding hands until Optimus rips a guy's face off, and then dies.

I'm not sure what happens next. Sam goes on an adventure, finds some guy from the first movie, then they all wake up a Protoss Templar who takes them to Egypt somehow, and then gives them a riddle to solve. It's here that we discover one of Willy Wonka's Oompa Loompas have escaped and is now a high ranking officer in Egypt, I think.

Sam grabs some dust, and now we're in some Voltron moment that isn't really all that impressive. It's big, it's colorfull, and the two stereotypical black robots whoop its ass for a little while before it decides to wander up a pyramid and start tearing apart. Still not sure what happened to my homies, I think they dead and gone.

Anyways, the dust reforms into a key and brings Optimus back to life, but then another Templar jumps out of the sky and yoinks it from them. The other Templar says MY LIFE FOR HIRE and then rips his own fucking heart out. Some Autobot that you see maybe once with some extremely niche abilitiy to act as a conduit for elecricity shows up out of nowhere to help out, and the Templar's pieces float around and start building stuff on Optimus.

Optimus DBZs around through the air and then whoops everybody's butt. Starscream and Megatron run off. The movie ends and some other stuff happens, but a lot of stuff is left unfinished.

To be honest the movie started out really well, and slowly slid into its own grave. Michael Bay must have been doing multiple drugs while he dug that grave.

[Vyuru]

Originally Posted by DakAttack

From what I can tell here's how the plot goes down

After reading that review I am highly tempted to go see this movie!

There's a theater out here that just has a flat $2.00 ticket rate, or something like that, tickets aren't more than $4.00 at anyrate I think. It only shows the movies when the other theaters are roughly done with them, so I'll just wait until that theater has Transformers 2 and go see it in there.

[Caspian]

A week late, but I didnt see it until last night. Have to say, it really sucked. The human transformer thing made no sense and they made no attempt at explaining it at all. Just a "oh, by the way, some transformers can be exact copies of humans." Also, WAY too long. I especially enjoyed the 30 minutes of "only a few more miles" followed by some running around in the sand and then "only 3 more miles" some more running "only 2 more miles" and some more running. I've never gone the movies and wanted it to end as much as I did last night. And the part where Optimus get wings and a jet pack was just laugh out loud funny.

Q: Why is it the autobots wanted to protect the Cube in the last one, yet the only transformers it creates are decepticons? Seems like that would be something they'd want to destroy.
Q2: What was the purpose of Sam's roomate? He wasn't funny, he wasn't part of the plot, he was just useless and helped to needlessly drag out the movie.

[Durahansolo]

Originally Posted by Vyuru

After reading that review I am highly tempted to go see this movie!

There's a theater out here that just has a flat $2.00 ticket rate, or something like that, tickets aren't more than $4.00 at anyrate I think. It only shows the movies when the other theaters are roughly done with them, so I'll just wait until that theater has Transformers 2 and go see it in there.

We used to have one of those, we just call it the $2.00 Show. They either got the movies that nobody else would take, or movies that had been out for awhile that everybody had seen. Closed last year though so we now have to pay full price.

[Vyuru]

While I have yet to see it, I have read reviews and feel I can shed some light upon the matter:

Originally Posted by Caspian

Q2: What was the purpose of Sam's roomate? He wasn't funny, he wasn't part of the plot, he was just useless and helped to needlessly drag out the movie.

Duh, how else where they supposed to find the knowledge that the transformers have been to earth before? Not like all the transformer graffiti sprawled all over the ancient wonders of the world was a give away mind you.

Q: Why is it the autobots wanted to protect the Cube in the last one, yet the only transformers it creates are decepticons? Seems like that would be something they'd want to destroy.

'cause if they destroyed the Allspark then they would in effect, be killing all of the future Decepticons that could have been created and possibly become an Autobot of their own free will. Wouldn't be any better than good 'ol Megsy at that point.



It's kinda sad to hear that this movie sounds so disappointing. Transformers was one of my childhood favorites and I don't think that there was any reason at all to produce such, for the most part, wonderfully animated movies with such sub par plot lines.

[Caspian]

Originally Posted by Vyuru

It's kinda sad to hear that this movie sounds so disappointing. Transformers was one of my childhood favorites and I don't think that there was any reason at all to produce such, for the most part, wonderfully animated movies with such sub par plot lines.

I guess the studio really wanted to capitalize off the last one and Bay told them he could just blow crap up for 2 and a half hours.
I have to say, the cussing was a little odd. It isnt something that usually bothers me in a movie (i can cuss like a sailor pretty often, myself) but it just seemed out of place here. I guess because I'll always think of Transformers as something that is highly marketable to kids. That coupled with the fact that even though it was an adult movie, there were still several stupid "kiddie" type cliche's and stupid humor. Just seemed out of place.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Originally Posted by Caspian

I guess the studio really wanted to capitalize off the last one and Bay told them he could just blow crap up for 2 and a half hours.
I have to say, the cussing was a little odd. It isnt something that usually bothers me in a movie (i can cuss like a sailor pretty often, myself) but it just seemed out of place here. I guess because I'll always think of Transformers as something that is highly marketable to kids. That coupled with the fact that even though it was an adult movie, there were still several stupid "kiddie" type cliche's and stupid humor. Just seemed out of place.

I remember the animated movie in the 80's had a moment of swearing and as it kid it broke my suspense of disbelief because prior to the movie, I had never seen a transformer swear.

It was Maximus Prime, "Dammit, Optimus, you said the matrix would give us the power" or something to that effect. I think this was the flick where there was that massive planet-eating robot roaming around the galaxy and they autobots were out to stop it from taking Cybertron and Earth while decepticons were out to control it. And something about energon cubes. Or I could just be running that together with the animes.

Personally, I just hoped for the day I could see Voltron kicking transformer ass. Voltron was way less convuluted.

[Caspian]

MUCH less convoluted: Zarkon sends monster to Arus. They fight it. Zarkon shoots it with the get big beam and they have to make Voltron to defeat it. Rinse, repeat.
The giant planet eating planet was Unicron.
I know Spike said "Oh shit, what do we do now." But I don't think that was in the US theatrical release, but I do remember dammit being in there somewhere, too.

You should watch Beast Wars.

[Akashimo]

Originally Posted by Caspian

You should watch Beast Wars.

YouTube - Shutup Rattrap - We're all gonna die.

YouTube - Shutup Rattrap - We're all gonna die.

It never gets old.

[Ziero]

Originally Posted by Caspian

A week late, but I didnt see it until last night. Have to say, it really sucked. The human transformer thing made no sense and they made no attempt at explaining it at all. Just a "oh, by the way, some transformers can be exact copies of humans."

Q: Why is it the autobots wanted to protect the Cube in the last one, yet the only transformers it creates are decepticons? Seems like that would be something they'd want to destroy.
Q2: What was the purpose of Sam's roomate? He wasn't funny, he wasn't part of the plot, he was just useless and helped to needlessly drag out the movie.

The Human Transformer thing was a nod to Pretenders, Transformers who could take Human, or organic-like shells over their robot forms. Though apparently she was explained in the comics as scanning a theme park animatronic character or something.

The cube makes decepticons out of earth devices because most earth devices were built based on technology salvaged from Megatron. In effect, which was explained in the first one, all of the technology from the modern age was reversed engineered from Megs and thus that spark of evil is still contained within. So when you're computer crashes on you the night before you have to hand in that big paper and you lose everything? It totally did it on purpose. And Sam's roommate was just more comic relief, Bay has a simple sense of humor and he got laughs out of the theater I was in.

Originally Posted by Caspian

MUCH less convoluted: Zarkon sends monster to Arus. They fight it. Zarkon shoots it with the get big beam and they have to make Voltron to defeat it. Rinse, repeat.
The giant planet eating planet was Unicron.
I know Spike said "Oh shit, what do we do now." But I don't think that was in the US theatrical release, but I do remember dammit being in there somewhere, too.

Iirc he actually dropped the S bomb twice in that film and it was most certainly in theaters. It didn't make it to the initial VHS release however. But the mercilessly killing all the old favorites in 5 minutes was. Transformers has always been Hasbro's biggest brand and they've always liked to take chances with it. Sometimes it crashes and burns like the childhood scarring '86 movie and sometimes it makes multiple millions of dollars like the "childhood raping" '09 movie.