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Transformers
Jul. 8th, 2007 01:47 amVerdict: A bad movie, not much worth seeing.
Longer: It reminded me of "The Da Vinci Code" and that ain't good. Not plotwise, at all, but they both have the same mickeymouse modern movie style. Most evident in: 1. blendered action scenes, ostensibly to make them seem more interesting and startling, but in fact demonstrating pure laziness and the lack of enough intelligence on the director's part to think up long cuts in which the viewer could follow the action and see that it was exciting inandof itself. 2. characters motivated solely by getting to the next setpiece. 3. Too goddamn long.
( The bad, the medium, and the good; no major spoilers. )
Eh. Every time I was getting interested again, the movie would do something so stupid I slumped back again. Basically? Competent characters? Cool. Drama from competent characters making ridiculous moves to create drama? Whatever.
Longer: It reminded me of "The Da Vinci Code" and that ain't good. Not plotwise, at all, but they both have the same mickeymouse modern movie style. Most evident in: 1. blendered action scenes, ostensibly to make them seem more interesting and startling, but in fact demonstrating pure laziness and the lack of enough intelligence on the director's part to think up long cuts in which the viewer could follow the action and see that it was exciting inandof itself. 2. characters motivated solely by getting to the next setpiece. 3. Too goddamn long.
( The bad, the medium, and the good; no major spoilers. )
Eh. Every time I was getting interested again, the movie would do something so stupid I slumped back again. Basically? Competent characters? Cool. Drama from competent characters making ridiculous moves to create drama? Whatever.