You might enjoy a Finnish independent movie, Star Wreck.

http://www.archive.org/details/StarWreckInThePirkining

Well it sure sounds like you had fun at the movies. What’s your favorite movie?

@Steve – Is it really that much to ask for a summer blockbuster to have a coherent plot and interesting, likable characters with actual personalities?

And I disagree here. The special effects were not awesome. They were busy, clustered and jerky. The camera never stopped moving, even for a second during the action scenes. Most of the robots are mostly seen as motion-blurred outlines.

Besides, I am no longer impressed by special effects. Yeah, back in the 90’s I would totally see a movie just to see the awesome morphing effects, or the computer generated character (imagine that!). Nowadays every single Hollywood movie has awesome special effects. Sure they are getting better every year, but we are no longer making the huge technology leaps we did before. Computer animation nowadays looks almost like reality – we can’t really make another leap. The only thing we can do is slowly try to close the gap between animation and live action. But that is a slow and incremental process.

Nothing in the departments of special effects can surprise me anymore. There will be no more ground breaking technologies that will revolutionize movie making anytime soon. I no longer go to see movies for their special effects. I couldn’t care less if they spent $300 million or $400 million on the CGI – chances are I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between the two versions. I’m sure both would look equally spectacular.

So what I want these days is some entertainment to go alongside with my computer generated explosions. And that’s exactly what Transformers was missing. It was not entertaining. It was tedious, boring and tiresome.

I went to see it because my friends wanted to see it. I could have stayed home, but instead I chose to go hang out and watch a dumb movie. This doesn’t mean I had to like it.

I did not expect the movie to be a Noire film like The Dark Knight. I used that as an example what you can do with a failed franchise when you put your mind to it. I simply wished it Transformers series wasn’t so empty and devoid of substance. The I mean the cartoons I watched as a kid had plot and character development. Why couldn’t this movie include at least some of it?

It isnt making $400 million because people are enjoying it. Its making $400 million because thats what people are paying to see it.

Films, and summer blockbusters have become events. People go to see them because, well, they have to. Its one of the films everyone (of a certain type) will be talking about and have an opinion on. For these films box office success is built on marketing rather than the quality of the film or whether anyone even enjoys the film.

I went to see the second Matrix because it could have been good. I went to see the third just so I had even though I knew it would be awful and everyone review said it was.

I went to see Quantum of Solace because I like James Bond and its what you do. I didn’t enjoy the film and knew it wasnt good, but you have to see the series through. I wanted to see for myself how they’d messed it up.

I’m tired and not sure how much sense that made, but financial success does not even rely on stupid people enjoying a film.

…rant begins…

I get a kick out of people talking about “plot holes”. It’s a fucking Michael Bay/Sci-Fi movie…of course there will be plot holes. The action was fun, the ‘splosions were great, the special effects were awesome. What the fuck more does anyone want from a summer popcorn flick…plot devices and a story by David Mamet?

Jesus…if people can’t enjoy a movie for what it is, I fear for them. It’s making over $400 million for a reason. People are “enjoying” it. It’s not smart, it’s got a regurgitated plot, it’s loud…and it’s fucking fun. That’s all I expected when I went to see it. How stupid do people have to be to go to a movie about alien robots that transform into vehicles and expect a gritty film noire like the Dark Knight…..?

…end of rant…

I saw the first movie, and it was enough. I am not familiar with the source material, so I tried to appreciate the movie for what it was supposed to be : some entertaining 2 hours of no brain activity. Alas, the plot was too thin and full of plot holes to just accept and get over. The acting so bad I couldn’t help but mentally yell at the actors or their director. The action (what I went to see) so fast that it was giving me headaches to follow, and plain confusing. During the fights, I couldn’t even tell who were the good guys and who were the bad guys… When I finally got out of the cinema (I never leave before the end, because I paid for my seat), I was more tired and annoyed, and definitely not as entertained as I hoped.

So, I didn’t go see the second. If there is a third, I probably won’t go see it either, unless someone like Christopher Nolan takes over.