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Aethyr
07/11/09

In reply to Devastating Concept Art Constructs Villain
While the concept art is, admittedly, beautiful and intricate, shit still don't make sense.
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Quilt
07/05/09

In reply to Why Bayhem Will Never Be In 3-D
It's kind of funny that Megan Fox would mention anything about acting. She's living, breathing T and A. Nobody cares about her acting.

Of course, some people don't care about her T and A either...which really leaves her with nothing.
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David Coates
07/05/09

@Quilt: "Of course, some people don't care about her T and A either"

Who the hell are those people?
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
07/05/09

@David Coates: Straight women and gay men. You know, over half the population?
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Grey_Area
07/05/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: They don't count. They're too busy being mommies and interior decorators to go to the movies.
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GreyHammer
07/05/09

In reply to Why Bayhem Will Never Be In 3-D
a movie without megan fox staring shia lebouf... yeah thats going to be fail unless bay finds another incredibly hot chick to take her place.
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
07/05/09

@GreyHammer: Hot chicks are a dime a dozen in Hollywood, and more get off the bus every day.

I think he needs to worry more that the 23 year old bimbo has better insight into Bay's talents than he does himself.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
07/05/09

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: WHERE IS THIS BUST STOP? (Yes, bust stop)
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Plague
07/05/09

In reply to Why Bayhem Will Never Be In 3-D
Ah, the smell of Bay-Hate in the morning.

There's nothing like it.
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DrMathochist
07/05/09

In reply to Why Bayhem Will Never Be In 3-D
Nicholas Cage: Leaving Las Vegas was just before The Rock, not to mention Honeymood in Vegas, Moonstruck, Raising Arizona...

Ben Affleck: Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Shakespeare in Love. And of course, Good Will Hunting.

Will Smith: naturally the Fresh Prince. But also Six Degrees of Separation.

Martin Lawrence: long, successful stand-up career, plus House Party and Do the Right Thing.

Michael Bay ain't no fuckin' kingmaker. He has a good casting director who can smell stars already on the rise.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
07/05/09

@DrMathochist: In each case, the reaction when they were cast was, "what is this guy doing in a blowing-stuff-up movie?"
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schrodingers-katana
07/05/09

In reply to Why Bayhem Will Never Be In 3-D
AND NOW, "Parenting with Michael Bay"

Michael Bay's son: "Daddy, I would like to focus more on playing catch with you rather than watching you blow up my action figures."

Michael Bay: "Look kid, you're only 6 and you still have a lot of growing up to do. Look at your older brother. He was not a very big thing before I made him. Now look at him, he's 10 years old! Your sister wasn't well known by anyone until me - and then she exploded! No one even knew you existed before I made you. So go get your Thundercats, cause I just bought the rights to them..."
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92BuickLeSabre
07/05/09

@schrodingers-katana: Very nice.
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DoctorZoidberg
07/05/09

In reply to Why Bayhem Will Never Be In 3-D
If I were Michel Bay... I wouldn't want to take credit for 'introducing' Ben Affleck, Nicholas Cage, or Shia LaBouf.
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omgwtflolbbqbye
07/05/09

@DoctorZoidberg: Yea, Affleck and Cage both had Oscars before they worked with Bay, and about the time after they did was when both guys started losing credibility as actors. Fast.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
07/05/09

@omgwtflolbbqbye: My gods... Bay is a talent leech!
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
07/05/09

@omgwtflolbbqbye: Exactly. But these inconvenient facts do not exist in BAYWORLD. To him, it's not a movie till something BLOWS UP! Who needs all that talking and emoting and the human condition and Oscars.
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bluehinter
06/29/09

In reply to Transformers Comes So Close To Taking Record...
For all of you who contributed to ROTF's abhorrent box office success, and now feel like you need to do a little penance, I suggest you try to go out and see Moon next week (or whenever it comes to your town).

This is an actual good sci-fi movie and possible Oscar contender, relegated to a pitiful scattering of local indie cinemas because it doesn't contain enough massive explosions, lens flares, or massive robot testicles.

I know there's no chance in hell of a movie like this getting Transformers level box office results, but it'd be nice to see it get enough attention to maybe warrant a larger cinematic release.
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Kaiser-Machead
06/29/09

In reply to Transformers Comes So Close To Taking Record...
If George Lucas decided to make a two hour-long film of Anakin giving Jar Jar Binx a handjob while the empire was blowing shit up throughout, it would take the top spot, because human beings are morbid creatures that live to watch destruction, even if the thing being destroyed is their own dignity.
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Kaiser-Machead
06/29/09

In reply to Transformers Comes So Close To Taking Record...
I love the excuses made constantly for this giant shiny epileptic seizure turd of a movie: What did you expect? It's a Bay film. C'mon, it's friggin Transformers. It's fine and good if you like this movie, but these cockamamie excuses are like grating onions in the face of an infant. It's just wrong.

There's only so much stupid that can be contained into one movie. If I wanted my brain to vomit, I could've just stayed home and watched Trainspotting while I guzzled down an entire gallon of chocolate milk.

Like just about everyone else that went to see this, I wanted to see lots of robot ass kicking, cool chase scenes and some of the characters I remember being pulled into cool lifelike machines. What I didn't go to see was having molten steel poured down my brain stem, and have Bay give me a Cleveland steamer through the projector.
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tetracycloide
06/29/09

@Kaiser-Machead: you should take special note that this is a sequel because that fact adds a lot more weigth to the 'what the fuck did you expect' query then you give it credit for. if you saw the movie there is absolutely no excuse for watching this one and expecting anything other than more of the same. it's a sequel, that's what sequel means.
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Kaiser-Machead
06/29/09

@tetracycloide: But that's just it right there. It doesn't bring more of the same. If it was more of the same, I would've enjoyed it. What was included with ROTF was a lot more of the special effects, but it was all terribly tacked on to what struck me as a rushed movie with the shittiest execution of toilet humor I've ever seen. Part 1 actually had scenes that were funny, and parts that were cool to watch. This was just a giant CGI circus with seemingly no real thought as to where all of these characters would be placed. I would've certainly welcomed more of the same, but it was such a poor balance of seriousness and humor that it defied belief.
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tetracycloide
06/29/09

@Kaiser-Machead: i'm having a hard time following you. are 'shittiest execution of toilet humor i've ever seen' and 'giant CGI circus with seemingly no real htought as to where all of these characters would be place' critques of the first or second film?

kidding asides it's possible for your tolerance for this kind of stuff to be somewhere between the two films and that's why you enjoyed the first but not the second. however i would argue the two really aren't that different and even if that's the case it's difficult to identify with the position that the two are different enough for one to warrant praise and the other to warrent this kind of criticism.
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PVIII
06/29/09

In reply to Transformers Comes So Close To Taking Record...
Eh, I thought it was fine, and my imax ticket was 20.50 in NYC. The crowd on thursday night was hilarious, and people were giving each other high-fives and muttering "Oh shit" every few minutes. This isn't a movie to be take seriously. It's escapist nonsense. And yes the racist brothers needed to be taken out completely (though is it weird that I didn't mind the Jersey-accented little robot?).
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YanniAgdistis
06/29/09

You pay $20.50 for a movie ticket in NYC? Good lord, no wonder you guys all want to murder each other!
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TrueCrime
06/29/09

@YanniAgdistis: If I paid $20.50 for a ticket, I'd probably convince myself I liked the movie too.
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Iamthe5thcylon
06/29/09

In reply to Transformers Comes So Close To Taking Record...
This was, by far, one of the worst action moves ever. Thank g-d it didn't take the title away from the Bat. After 2 hours my 12 year old son leaned over and said, "Is it almost over?" They didn't even TRY to deal with a plot after the first 5 minutes and 2.5 hours of running and blowing things up is simply too long. Cool at times - yes. A good movie - no. I won't be paying to see it again, or watching it on DVD (unlike the first one.) Star Trek however, I went to see for my 3rd time this weekend and will gladly pay to see once more. Action, character development, a plot - that's what I pay to see.
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I_Like_Rabbits
06/29/09

@Iamthe5thcylon: Did you really just try to hold up the reboot Star Trek as an example of character development and a plot? Really?!

I liked the movie but, REALLY?!
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Kaiser-Machead
06/29/09

@I_Like_Rabbits: The main difference between this movie and the Bay movie: I at least cared about the characters in the movie, without even needing to go back to the original source material. I was actually interested in what they had to say, and if they were killed in the flick, it would actually affect my moviegoing experience. I really didn't care who lived or died in the movie. When Optimus got skewered (suck on my spoilers), I was like "meh".
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Monkey_Bread
06/29/09

In reply to Transformers Comes So Close To Taking Record...
I saw it as well. I was one of these idiots that paid for this trash. It was really bad. Megan Fox was purdy, but that is hardly enough to justify $11.00 for this drek.
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tetracycloide
06/29/09

@Monkey_Bread: pardon the insolence but, what the fuck did you expect?
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CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
06/29/09

@tetracycloide: I expcted nothing more than the first. Hot ass (Megans NOT Turtutrro's), big robots fighting, Lots more big robots fighting, ludicrous plot, simple jokes and dialogue. And Baysplosions all over friggin place. Idiot..NO. I paided my money like the rest and got what I expected. The trailers showed enough for anyone to know what was coming. That coupled with the first. I think anyone who went in the cinema expecting a Masterpiece in Shakspearian lore should be branded an idiot. Really, what the hell did you expect.

Very enjoyable. Really clueless. Zipping pointless Fallen story. And a Desert/Forest smackdown that put Robot wars to shame. I came out of the cinema with glee in my eyes feeling like a 12 year old again. Bay did me proud. Roll on TF3.

Oh and before anyone starts the whole 'HEY INDIE FILMS ARE MUCH BETTER TO WATCH AND STUFF' Note to yourselves, at any point leading up to TF2 did this look like an intimate Indie film. No I hear you say......OK then just dont watch it. Simples!!!!
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NotArthurPDragon
06/29/09

@CoffinDodger: I went in expecting it to at least be as entertaining as the first. It wasn't. I set my quality requirement on "Rock Bottom" and it didn't even make it there. There's a difference between a movie that doesn't require any thought and one that actually destroys brain cells in its idiocy. This was the latter.
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I_Like_Rabbits
06/29/09

@NotArthurPDragon: Did you ever watch the cartoon? Seriously, i think people are just bitchy and think it's not obvious that they are trolling.

it's a movie based on an 80s cartoon for children. It features giant transforming robots.

To quote/paraphrase Superbad: I'm sorry the Cohen brothers don't direct the porn I watch. They're a little hard to get a hold of.

maybe your brain cells were dying anyways and you just linked that with the movie because you no longer have the memory to go back and see it was all the drinking and partying you've done in your life?
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
06/29/09

@I_Like_Rabbits: Oh come on, did you see Transformers: The Movie? Even as an adult, I still find it to be awesome--despite not having Megan Fox's hot ass in it.
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tetracycloide
06/29/09

@NotArthurPDragon: so now the first bayformers is something you found entertaining? given your comment history i believe you'll be hard-pressed to convince anyone that's been your position all along.

you are right, there is a difference between a movie that's easy to follow and one that's idiotic and this was the latter, but the first was also the latter and expecting anything different from a sequel means there's either something wrong with your head or you doth protest too much.
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spikespeigel
06/28/09

In reply to Will Transformers 2 Have The Biggest Opening Ever?
The lesson to be learned here? Mike Judge's Idiocracy is actually a documentary.
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MosesMonster
06/28/09

@spikespeigel: hahahah. Wondering when someone was to bring this up.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
06/28/09

@MosesMonster: Go back to the 50's and read "The Marching Morons". Judge was hardly original.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
06/28/09

In reply to Will Transformers 2 Have The Biggest Opening Ever?
I loved it, but there is no way this will have the staying power of TDK. Especially since half the audience seems to have hated it.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
06/28/09

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: I was hoping someone had said that. Next week's numbers aren't going to be as big. TDK was popular for a long time, so the total isn't going to be as high.
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