2007年7月3日星期二

'Transformers' a mighty mess

Before spending what looks to be about $2 gazillion on "Transformers," perhaps the studio should have stepped back and thought it through for a second.
"Transformers" is a movie based on a toy. A toy for 8-year-olds. To play it safe, the studio came up with a story that would appeal to, at best, 6-year-olds. But then, for reasons that may forever remain undiscovered, they made it so violent it could only be seen by adults and teenagers.wow power leveling WOW Gold
It is unlikely that anyone fully mature would want to watch two giant robots in the middle of a street duking out and blathering such inanities as:
"It's you and me, Megatron."Beijing tour GUCCI smoke alarm
"No, it's just me, Prime. At the end of the day, one will stand. One will fall."
Yes, the dialogue is that bad. And worse. Years from now, film scholars will still be debating whether the dialogue in "Transformers" is the worst of all time, or just the worst since the sequel to "The Fantastic Four."
"Humans don't deserve to live." "They deserve to choose for themselves." "Then you will die with them."wow powerleveling LPG cylinder
Considering how awful it turns out to be, the film surprisingly does not begin too badly, if you don't mind a story constructed entirely of clichés. Shia LaBeouf stars as Sam, an 11th-grader and a total selfish jerk (although we aren't supposed to think of him as one). He is the new owner of an old Camaro, which he uses to try to impress a hot girl, played by Megan Fox, in his class.
She is impressed, but only when the car turns into a giant robot from outer space. So far, so good. But the movie goes downhill in a hurry when the Camaro robot is joined by all his giant robot friends.runescape money wow lvl
Shortly thereafter is a long, long, long scene in which Sam searches his room for an old pair of glasses (the reason is much too stupid to go into here) and has a confrontation with his parents while the giant robots hide outside in what is possibly supposed to be a joke of some sort. It's an excruciating scene, unforgivably bad, that leaves us feeling embarrassed for the actors and sorry for ourselves.
Any halfway competent director would have removed it. But we're dealing with Michael Bay, the man who made the attack on Pearl Harbor so dull, the man who turned Armageddon into such an unintentional laugh fest, the man who films pretty surfaces but is lost when it comes to human dynamics or even characters.world of warcraft gold
In "Transformers," he is back to his old tricks: smoke in every shot, needless slow motion, a constantly moving camera, helicopters (in slow motion) framed by the sun and fight scenes that are edited so rapidly we usually have no idea what is going on. Not that we can tell one robot from the other, anyway, with a couple of exceptions.wow gold travel china
And like many a Bay film, he just does not know when to quit. This one stretches on for more than 2¼ hours, which is quite an accomplishment considering it only has 20 minutes of relevant story. Sam bonds with the Camarobot. With a handful of other good robots and the Army, they try to keep some bad robots from acquiring a magical cube that will let them take over the world.
It's loud, it's busy. It's full of sound and fury, with everything that signifies.

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