SPOILER ALERT
Alright all of you, listen up. And do listen well to my words that I've typed. And note above that there is spoilers.
It's been a few weeks since I've seen "Transformers: Age of Extinction" on the big screen with my friend Emily and a friend of hers that I just got to know. I loved it and I gave it a very positive rating. But if it's one thing to tell: I didn't know what message anyone who gave the movies a mixed review was saying when they saw the sequels.
I've seen all four of the Transformers movies in theaters and I loved all of them giving each movie a positive rating, probably because of the action, the transformers and the fact that I knew all about the Transformers in my childhood. And believe me, I'm still keeping my opinion on what I think of the first three movies: they're fantastic as hell.
Right now, you must be thinking of this as a review for the movie... no. It's not a review, it's a rant. I'll do a review of this later. At the moment, I just want to point out that this rating is different from the rest of the others that I gave all 10 out of 10 to. Age of Extinction though: 7/10
I want to relay a single message to all of the Michael Bay fans out there watching his movies, mostly the male counterpart of his films. I'm not pointing any fingers or targeting female watchers... it'll be only the boys who helped the fourth movie reach top of the box office that opening week. Even a critic I watch only has told me this so listen to what I am going to say to you.
"Michael Bay owns you: You are the Product."
I'm not kidding when I say this, you are his product being bought by Michael Bay himself. He owns you now, hell he even owns me because do you know what I do and will always do? See every movie that he makes that has the name "Transformers" on it. And why do I keep doing it? Why do I keep giving him money to keep? I don't know. But somehow I think someone needs to take control of the director's chair and do the Transformers movies in the right way known as the 'G1 formula'.
Another thing to point out is that when the first movie came out in 2007, everyone including myself loved it: It was the greatest thing that was ever placed upon my very eyes. We had action, lots of comedy and even Shia LaBeouf when his acting was at the breaking point: he was the best actor in that year thanks to the film "Disturbia" which I still haven't seen. As a result, everyone got inspired to do other movies like: Maleficent or X-Men: Days of Future Past, even the Lego Movie and Frozen! But then Michael Bay thinks "Since this film was a success, I'll make a sequel to Transformers." But guess what happened in 2009: The plot of Revenge of the Fallen... it's just like the FIRST movie! But okay whatever, It's still a great movie and I didn't mind that. Then 2011, he released Dark of the Moon and guess what: The plot is exactly the same as the first two movies. Still, it's a great movie and I really didn't mind it.
Three years later: It's 2014. He releases Age of Extinction and take a BIIIIG guess what the plot is... THE SAME THING AS ALL THE THREE OTHER MOVIES! WOW!!!
Another problem I now have with this movie is the obsession with large explosions and majority of human scenes. For human scenes, Bay focuses on the human way too much making it seem like they're the most important people and not the Autobots. If you're going to do a Transformers movie, MAKE IT FOCUS ON THE TRANSFORMERS. If you watched the G1 series, the humans don't have as much screen-time since they're focused on the Autobots and Decepticons brawling it out at each other. In the movies, they're reduced to 20 minutes of screen time. I counted it out. For the explosions: It's not necessary to blow up every single thing in this film. Why? Because Michael Bay is shoving the explosions down our throats until we just want a break from them altogether. If you are going to use explosions: use a little less and more lasers and this that like in G1. Seriously, the dinobots in this movie don't appear until the end. Minus first seeing a glimpse of one in the beginning.
The way that Optimus Prime speaks in this movie is really WAAAAAY OUT OF CHARACTER. He's become so aggressive and is yelling and ranting like "Let's kill them all! I want to rip off their heads!" It's almost like he sounds like a lunatic who escaped a mental asylum.
Another point to make out of: the extinction of the Dinosaurs at the beginning of the movie. It's what I call: A continuity error. The humans weren't aware of the Transformers until Dark of the Moon when they find Sentinel Prime on the moon all disabled. And the fact that may confuse me and raise a question to me of how the hands of these creatures looked. Were they really the Quintessons? Michael Bay just wants to rush into the entire "Cybertron and Primus were created by aliens". That officially angered me because Primus made Cybertron in the G1 series, not the Quintessons making Primus.
One more thing to point out is that absence of villains throughout the majority of this film while the first three had a ton to blast to bits. It's mostly just humans firing at them: but at least we have Lockdown. (He is supposed to be a Decepticon by the way.) Why isn't he a Decepticon? Why is he a bounty hunter? The answered is not given out specifically. Then there's Galvatron and it's another thing that really pissed me off for being the entire "Humans made him". Michael Bay has officially screwed up the Transformers universe permanently. In the G1 movie, it was Unicron himself who made Galvatron out of Megatron along with his henchmen to replace the Decepticons. He's only in for like two minutes: he's like "Fire over there! Oh the enemy's here, I'll stand over there." By the way below is the picture of the villain Lockdown. (SPOILER ALERT)
Well, that's all I'm going to say in ranting about this movie. I don't hate it, it's the fact that there were only a few points in this that really got on my nerves easily: overall I enjoyed it still. I understand that Michael Bay is trying to bring Transformers in a completely new direction, but it's not if he's focusing on hot women and the majority of humans in the movie. I'm still going to see the new "Ninja Turtles" movie and I'm damn well excited for that. This scar of me being Michael Bay's product myself will alway remain on me though.
Give me as much hate as you want, you may agree with me for a few points. I'm still going to see Transformers 5 when it hits theaters in 2016/2017, but for now my main focus is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and what await me when I see it with my friend Emily in August: same month I see my second KISS concert with her. Both of us don't like the fact Megan Fox will be in it, but that won't stop us from seeing it because of the turtles, Splinter and Shredder. Hopefully Casey Jones will appear in it as well.
Thank you.
It's been a few weeks since I've seen "Transformers: Age of Extinction" on the big screen with my friend Emily and a friend of hers that I just got to know. I loved it and I gave it a very positive rating. But if it's one thing to tell: I didn't know what message anyone who gave the movies a mixed review was saying when they saw the sequels.
I've seen all four of the Transformers movies in theaters and I loved all of them giving each movie a positive rating, probably because of the action, the transformers and the fact that I knew all about the Transformers in my childhood. And believe me, I'm still keeping my opinion on what I think of the first three movies: they're fantastic as hell.
Right now, you must be thinking of this as a review for the movie... no. It's not a review, it's a rant. I'll do a review of this later. At the moment, I just want to point out that this rating is different from the rest of the others that I gave all 10 out of 10 to. Age of Extinction though: 7/10
I want to relay a single message to all of the Michael Bay fans out there watching his movies, mostly the male counterpart of his films. I'm not pointing any fingers or targeting female watchers... it'll be only the boys who helped the fourth movie reach top of the box office that opening week. Even a critic I watch only has told me this so listen to what I am going to say to you.
"Michael Bay owns you: You are the Product."
I'm not kidding when I say this, you are his product being bought by Michael Bay himself. He owns you now, hell he even owns me because do you know what I do and will always do? See every movie that he makes that has the name "Transformers" on it. And why do I keep doing it? Why do I keep giving him money to keep? I don't know. But somehow I think someone needs to take control of the director's chair and do the Transformers movies in the right way known as the 'G1 formula'.
Another thing to point out is that when the first movie came out in 2007, everyone including myself loved it: It was the greatest thing that was ever placed upon my very eyes. We had action, lots of comedy and even Shia LaBeouf when his acting was at the breaking point: he was the best actor in that year thanks to the film "Disturbia" which I still haven't seen. As a result, everyone got inspired to do other movies like: Maleficent or X-Men: Days of Future Past, even the Lego Movie and Frozen! But then Michael Bay thinks "Since this film was a success, I'll make a sequel to Transformers." But guess what happened in 2009: The plot of Revenge of the Fallen... it's just like the FIRST movie! But okay whatever, It's still a great movie and I didn't mind that. Then 2011, he released Dark of the Moon and guess what: The plot is exactly the same as the first two movies. Still, it's a great movie and I really didn't mind it.
Three years later: It's 2014. He releases Age of Extinction and take a BIIIIG guess what the plot is... THE SAME THING AS ALL THE THREE OTHER MOVIES! WOW!!!
Another problem I now have with this movie is the obsession with large explosions and majority of human scenes. For human scenes, Bay focuses on the human way too much making it seem like they're the most important people and not the Autobots. If you're going to do a Transformers movie, MAKE IT FOCUS ON THE TRANSFORMERS. If you watched the G1 series, the humans don't have as much screen-time since they're focused on the Autobots and Decepticons brawling it out at each other. In the movies, they're reduced to 20 minutes of screen time. I counted it out. For the explosions: It's not necessary to blow up every single thing in this film. Why? Because Michael Bay is shoving the explosions down our throats until we just want a break from them altogether. If you are going to use explosions: use a little less and more lasers and this that like in G1. Seriously, the dinobots in this movie don't appear until the end. Minus first seeing a glimpse of one in the beginning.
The way that Optimus Prime speaks in this movie is really WAAAAAY OUT OF CHARACTER. He's become so aggressive and is yelling and ranting like "Let's kill them all! I want to rip off their heads!" It's almost like he sounds like a lunatic who escaped a mental asylum.
Another point to make out of: the extinction of the Dinosaurs at the beginning of the movie. It's what I call: A continuity error. The humans weren't aware of the Transformers until Dark of the Moon when they find Sentinel Prime on the moon all disabled. And the fact that may confuse me and raise a question to me of how the hands of these creatures looked. Were they really the Quintessons? Michael Bay just wants to rush into the entire "Cybertron and Primus were created by aliens". That officially angered me because Primus made Cybertron in the G1 series, not the Quintessons making Primus.
One more thing to point out is that absence of villains throughout the majority of this film while the first three had a ton to blast to bits. It's mostly just humans firing at them: but at least we have Lockdown. (He is supposed to be a Decepticon by the way.) Why isn't he a Decepticon? Why is he a bounty hunter? The answered is not given out specifically. Then there's Galvatron and it's another thing that really pissed me off for being the entire "Humans made him". Michael Bay has officially screwed up the Transformers universe permanently. In the G1 movie, it was Unicron himself who made Galvatron out of Megatron along with his henchmen to replace the Decepticons. He's only in for like two minutes: he's like "Fire over there! Oh the enemy's here, I'll stand over there." By the way below is the picture of the villain Lockdown. (SPOILER ALERT)
Well, that's all I'm going to say in ranting about this movie. I don't hate it, it's the fact that there were only a few points in this that really got on my nerves easily: overall I enjoyed it still. I understand that Michael Bay is trying to bring Transformers in a completely new direction, but it's not if he's focusing on hot women and the majority of humans in the movie. I'm still going to see the new "Ninja Turtles" movie and I'm damn well excited for that. This scar of me being Michael Bay's product myself will alway remain on me though.
Give me as much hate as you want, you may agree with me for a few points. I'm still going to see Transformers 5 when it hits theaters in 2016/2017, but for now my main focus is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and what await me when I see it with my friend Emily in August: same month I see my second KISS concert with her. Both of us don't like the fact Megan Fox will be in it, but that won't stop us from seeing it because of the turtles, Splinter and Shredder. Hopefully Casey Jones will appear in it as well.
Thank you.
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