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[quote name='Scorch']I think i'm seeing this for a third time on Sunday. It's just that good.[/QUOTE]
Same. To note, I first saw it on the big 100 foot screen, and the second time I saw it on a considerably smaller screen, but digitally projected. It was the first digitally projected movie I've seen, and having seen it both ways for comparison, I must say, digital looks pretty damn nice. I'll be seeing it a third, and maybe a fourth time in the first-run theater, and at least once or twice in the dollar theater. I really have come to love it, especially after seeing it a second time.
Spoilers follow for those that haven't seen it yet (quit bitching and go see it with an at least partially open mind)...and I apologize, but I'm probably going to get a bit sappy and personal and sensational here,
in deal with it:
Same. To note, I first saw it on the big 100 foot screen, and the second time I saw it on a considerably smaller screen, but digitally projected. It was the first digitally projected movie I've seen, and having seen it both ways for comparison, I must say, digital looks pretty damn nice. I'll be seeing it a third, and maybe a fourth time in the first-run theater, and at least once or twice in the dollar theater. I really have come to love it, especially after seeing it a second time.
Spoilers follow for those that haven't seen it yet (quit bitching and go see it with an at least partially open mind)...and I apologize, but I'm probably going to get a bit sappy and personal and sensational here,
in deal with it:I think the exact part that really knocked it out of the park for me was arrival of the rest of the Autobots, about an hour in. For me, and millions of others, these were childhood heroes of absoultely tremendous, indescribable, impossibly larger-than-life proportions. To introduce 4 of them all at once like that requires an similarly larger-than-life, epic cinematic sequence, and I think they nailed it, in the process, making for what is now one of my favorite movie sequences, from anything, ever.
And (speaking as an athiest, mind you) bless that Steve Jablonsky and the music he wrote for this scene. It's absolutely beautiful, and really makes the sequence. It really perfectly helps cast the arriving Autobots as the flawless, supremely good, and utterly heroic characters that they are supposed to be. And the chorus as Ironhide is climbing out of the pool?ing epic. The whole thing, all together, is simply majestic.
In case anyone needs a refresher, here it is. Three of my new all-time favorite minutes, from any movie, and a really majestic scene; the arrival of the Autobots:
http://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=4vd2l8n
Yeah, yeah, some of you probably think I've sensationalizing and looking too much into what you might have thought of as a cheap shot at gimmicky summertime blockbuster cinematic heroics in a movie made to sell toys, blah blah blah, but that's what that scene was to me. Absolutely wonderful. Oh, and they did a good job with the aside acknowledging that Armageddon friggin sucks.
Side note: whoever was in charge of putting out the soundtrack to this movie needs a slap in the face. The damn CD has all this Linkin Park and Goo Goo Dolls shit (even crap that wasn't in the movie), and not a single one of the "classics" that Bumblebee plays, or any of the film's score. Ugh. And I'll be pissed if they don't release a separate score CD. It's just too good not to be released for listening on it's own.
This sounds really chiche, I know, but this movie really managed to evoke that feeling I remember as a kid, seeing Star Wars and Indiana Jones for the first time: pure, simple, cinematic awe. That sort of imaginative freedom that these sort of movies can evoke, when done right. These are some of my favorite childhood heroes and memories, and for a couple hours, they came to genuine life. My suspension of disbelief was utterly complete (in no small part thanks to the visuals. ILM have outdone themselves again, as these are the absolute most realistic computer graphics ever created). I was able to get lost in the movie, and for just a little while, believe that the Transformers were actually inhabiting the same world as I am. Movie magic, plain and simple. That's why I love it so much. And no one, and I mean NO ONE was more surprised to end up loving this movie than I was.
Not to say that it was flawless, of course. Were I on the editing team, I would have cut a few certain bits without a moment's hesitation. The "were you masturbating?" "joke" was just lame as, and Bumblebee "pissing" on the S7 agent was similarly stupid and unfunny. And I swear, I want to punch whoever was responsible for putting "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" (aka the Kill Bill song, played during the "2007 Camreo transformation" bit) in there. That song is just annoying as now, after being in car commercials and all that crap. And possibly my biggest complaint, the two shitty generic nu-metal songs that play during the Bumblebee/Barricade chase, and the "I'll drive, you shoot" scene were just awful, and really cheapened those scenes. Using that garbage, instead of the score heard during other similar scenes, really robbed those two sequences of a lot of impact, I thought. And I just hate nu-metal in general. Totally ear-splitting. And lastly, why, why, WHY did they not have some version, ANY version of the classic Transformers theme playing during the credits? That was even more heinous than Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within not featuring any hint of the classic Prelude theme. Utterly stupid stupid stupid to not have that in there, when I was so looking forward to hearing some sort of version of it during the credits. I simply couldn't imagine that they wouldn't use it, but, nu-metal yet again. Bleh.
Anyways, I've managed to spiral off practically into a mini-review here, but that's how I felt about this movie. Haters, off, because as far as I'm concerned, they did it. They made a (nearly) perfect live-action Transformers movie, and I, for one, loved every minute.
Oh, and I'm looking foward to the two greenlit sequels. Should make for a hell of a trilogy. For the second one, it's obvious that the setup will be the return of Starscream (PS, according to some info on one of the toys, and hints from a producer, Jazz will be resurrected somehow), and there are hints that it'll have Dinobots played in somehow, and for the third one, as far as I'm concerned, the only proper conclusion to the trilogy would be the Unicron storyline. That should make for a really spectacular conclusion, and I'd bet that's what they'll go for. Definitely looking foward to parts two and three.
And (speaking as an athiest, mind you) bless that Steve Jablonsky and the music he wrote for this scene. It's absolutely beautiful, and really makes the sequence. It really perfectly helps cast the arriving Autobots as the flawless, supremely good, and utterly heroic characters that they are supposed to be. And the chorus as Ironhide is climbing out of the pool?
ing epic. The whole thing, all together, is simply majestic.In case anyone needs a refresher, here it is. Three of my new all-time favorite minutes, from any movie, and a really majestic scene; the arrival of the Autobots:
http://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=4vd2l8n
Yeah, yeah, some of you probably think I've sensationalizing and looking too much into what you might have thought of as a cheap shot at gimmicky summertime blockbuster cinematic heroics in a movie made to sell toys, blah blah blah, but that's what that scene was to me. Absolutely wonderful. Oh, and they did a good job with the aside acknowledging that Armageddon friggin sucks.
Side note: whoever was in charge of putting out the soundtrack to this movie needs a slap in the face. The damn CD has all this Linkin Park and Goo Goo Dolls shit (even crap that wasn't in the movie), and not a single one of the "classics" that Bumblebee plays, or any of the film's score. Ugh. And I'll be pissed if they don't release a separate score CD. It's just too good not to be released for listening on it's own.
This sounds really chiche, I know, but this movie really managed to evoke that feeling I remember as a kid, seeing Star Wars and Indiana Jones for the first time: pure, simple, cinematic awe. That sort of imaginative freedom that these sort of movies can evoke, when done right. These are some of my favorite childhood heroes and memories, and for a couple hours, they came to genuine life. My suspension of disbelief was utterly complete (in no small part thanks to the visuals. ILM have outdone themselves again, as these are the absolute most realistic computer graphics ever created). I was able to get lost in the movie, and for just a little while, believe that the Transformers were actually inhabiting the same world as I am. Movie magic, plain and simple. That's why I love it so much. And no one, and I mean NO ONE was more surprised to end up loving this movie than I was.
Not to say that it was flawless, of course. Were I on the editing team, I would have cut a few certain bits without a moment's hesitation. The "were you masturbating?" "joke" was just lame as
, and Bumblebee "pissing" on the S7 agent was similarly stupid and unfunny. And I swear, I want to punch whoever was responsible for putting "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" (aka the Kill Bill song, played during the "2007 Camreo transformation" bit) in there. That song is just annoying as now, after being in car commercials and all that crap. And possibly my biggest complaint, the two shitty generic nu-metal songs that play during the Bumblebee/Barricade chase, and the "I'll drive, you shoot" scene were just awful, and really cheapened those scenes. Using that garbage, instead of the score heard during other similar scenes, really robbed those two sequences of a lot of impact, I thought. And I just hate nu-metal in general. Totally ear-splitting. And lastly, why, why, WHY did they not have some version, ANY version of the classic Transformers theme playing during the credits? That was even more heinous than Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within not featuring any hint of the classic Prelude theme. Utterly stupid stupid stupid to not have that in there, when I was so looking forward to hearing some sort of version of it during the credits. I simply couldn't imagine that they wouldn't use it, but, nu-metal yet again. Bleh.Anyways, I've managed to spiral off practically into a mini-review here, but that's how I felt about this movie. Haters,
off, because as far as I'm concerned, they did it. They made a (nearly) perfect live-action Transformers movie, and I, for one, loved every minute.Oh, and I'm looking foward to the two greenlit sequels. Should make for a hell of a trilogy. For the second one, it's obvious that the setup will be the return of Starscream (PS, according to some info on one of the toys, and hints from a producer, Jazz will be resurrected somehow), and there are hints that it'll have Dinobots played in somehow, and for the third one, as far as I'm concerned, the only proper conclusion to the trilogy would be the Unicron storyline. That should make for a really spectacular conclusion, and I'd bet that's what they'll go for. Definitely looking foward to parts two and three.
