Transformers: The Last Knight (June 23, 2017)

[Blzer]

Re: Transformers: The Last Knight (June 23, 2017)

With all that being said, I sort of want to see this one even though it looks like more of the same. I've seen them all, and even sort of liked the 3rd one "Dark of the Moon." I love Mark Walhberg but his character is terrible.

I'm pretty much like you here. In short, it's definitely more of the same. The difference here is there is a place in the middle where you might be looking at your watch, but I think the end is something you will be okay with length-wise. Basically, this movie gets better as time goes on instead of worse (like I said, a bit of a lull in the middle, and it's not for lack of action). The story gets more ridiculous as time goes on, though.

The problem with the other TF films is it seems the ultimate goal is to "kill all of the baddies," at which point you don't really know when the end is the end if that makes sense (except in TF1 and TF3, you kind of felt that killing Megatron was the endgame). In this one, you know what the ultimate objective is, whether or not all of the baddies are killed in the process, which is kind of nice.

Something I think is funny with this movie though is that I'm thinking of what my little sister says when she watches Nolan's Batman movies with me. Every time, she says: "If this was real life, I would have moved out of that city years ago if these things kept happening to it." She has a pretty good point and I kind of laugh at the fact. Anyway, with Cybertron coming in and kind of crashing down on Earth, I feel like if she saw all of the movies and then this one, she would kind of say the same thing like: "If this was real life, I would have moved away from that planet years ago if these things kept happening to it." Unfortunately, she can't win that one.

[Blzer]

Re: Transformers: The Last Knight (June 23, 2017)

It may be just me, but I'd prefer the robots to have more obvious recognizable parts for what they transform into. It's a bit old school, making them look more clunky in robot form, but that was a large part of the fun of it for me when transformers first came out. I feel like the movies have gone farther and farther away from that, and it now just looks like fighting giant robots... very well done but still, not transformers.

I know what you mean. The very first thing we see transform in this entire series is the helicopter (Blackout), and I think that one is the most simplistic of all of the ones we've seen. I mean at least you can see where parts of the helicopter are still on its body. Always was a very cool Decepticon.

The one complaint I have with the new Decepticons in The Last Knight is that I never see what their vehicular form is. The other complaint is that after TF1, they have too many personable features. Like their face has too many human-like details and such. Bumblebee always was the most realistic looking robot because his face doesn't have all of these little things besides his eyes. There is probably also something about the color yellow that looks more realistic in CGI form, because Bumblebee tends to blend in well with real life stuff.

[JMD]

Re: Transformers: The Last Knight (June 23, 2017)

I saw it in IMAX 3D , why did I go? To be entertained and holy hell was I. I really enjoyed it.

[marshallfever]

Re: Transformers: The Last Knight (June 23, 2017)

Just got back from seeing it and boy I'm pretty disappointed. The movie was pretty bland and uninteresting. I can only blame myself I guess for being interested at all.

As I mentioned before, the first transformers movie was the only movie I've seen in theater 2x. The second, Revenge of the fallen though was one of the only movies i kept looking at my watch at. It felt too long and was just overall a bad movie.

Dark of the moon, though I thought brought it back closer to the first, not an amazing movie but not a terrible one. Extinction was just boring. I saw it at the movies and just watched it on T.V. three days ago and the only good thing about that was the Dinobots. Pretty bland movie.

I don't know where to classify this one. Wasn't as bad as Revenge of the fallen but clearly not as good as Dark of the Moon and the first one. I think it's tied with Extinction.

On topic: The movie is all over the place, the story is a jumbled mess. I don't understand how it can still be so bad. Most franchises evolve after a certain amount of sequels. Fast and Furious went from a street racing genre to now a heist movie with cars. This is the 5th Transformers movie and it's distinguishable from all of the other ones. It's almost the exact same movie as 1,2,3 and 4. The franchise isn't moving forward at all.

I love Mark Walherg, but as I mentioned before, his character is just boring. Shia for all the screaming he did in the movies actually felt like he was a part of that world. Mark just looks like he's there just to be there.

And with that being said, these movies have always had a hard time balancing the actual transformers with the human characters and it's just as bad here. For a movie about giant robots we sure spend a ton of time with the humans and no robots.

And the humor!!!!! The humor!!!!! I know this franchise isn't super serious, nor should it be. But I'm so tired of the sexual jokes, the gags, the and the overall humor. It feels like the humor is aimed at perverted12 year olds. There has to be a better way to balance the seriousness and the humor. Because frankly, Bays humor has run dry.

The overall story, my goodness ite BAD!!!!!!!!

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I thought they showed us that their creators were beings of flesh, not metal/mechanical robots themselves in the flashbacks of Extinction. Robots making other robots, is this canon!?

And Megatron has been so short changed in this franchise. He's been in all the movies, but he's regulated to being such a useless character. Where's the Megatron who can stand toe to toe with Optimus!!? We haven't seen him since the first movie.

And what the heck is with the retcon of the transformers always being here!!? Bee was here since WWII!!!!? SERIOUSLY.

Last gripe with the story is the Unicron reveal. My goodness not only is that a terrible set up to leave for another director and movie, but it doesn't even make sense!!!! Earth all along has been Unicron, are you kidding me!!!

Whoever takes the reign of the series next, please, I'm begging you, treat it with some thought and love. I personally think where Bay has failed has been trying to thread a middle ground between fantasy and and realism or better yet between Sc-Fi and realism. We know transformers don't exist but he's trying so hard to make them believable he's giving eyebrows and lips.

The next director has to understand that we know this is sc-fi and really lean into it.

My overall grading of this movie is a 3.5/10

[GAMEC0CK2002]

Re: Transformers: The Last Knight (June 23, 2017)

I saw it a few days ago and was sorta let down. Felt like there were some needless sideplots and the action scenes were way too fast with the aspect ratio changing back and forth.

It gave me the same feeling I had leaving Spiderman 3. Tried to cover way too much--made it feel like 3 hours long.

With regards to the way the movie was promoted....

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Optimus Prime was barely in the movie and the selling point of him being evil--lasted about 3 minutes. Really???

[NINJAK2]

Re: Transformers: The Last Knight (June 23, 2017)

I was just curious to see what people thought of this and I'm not surprised. This franchise has had no soul for some time and T4 was one of the worst films I have seen to date (I have not paid for a transformers film since T2. Bay knows how to blow stuff up but his scripts are usually borderline trash. I always wished for a Transformers movie without humans in it (EX: Takes place entirely on Cybertron or a virus takes out a large proportion of humans on earth if not all of them leaving just A vs D). The human elements of these films are usually poorly fleshed out and tend to bog down these overly long features.