TF: Dark of the moon
My two cents on this movie. I'm warning you: there will be spoilers.
I missed a couple of things from the first two movies.
Where the **** is Bee's voice? D: WHY hasn't it come back yet? Have I missed something? has the VA from the first movie gone underground?
And it's okay to mourn Jazz, but not Ironhide? Seriously, he died because Sentinel Prime decided to switch teams - Optimus should be guilt-wrecked and honor him with at least a comment after the fighting, but nooooo. And Lennox? The two were partners in crime for several years, I can only imagine what our favorite soldier thinks about losing Ironhide. Leave that to our imagination, Bay. Just do that. Be heartless, by all means.
I know, I know. "This is a movie about giant robots fighting other giant robots, stop being a creepy fangirl", right? My point is that there's lots and lots of fluff between Bee and Sam, while the other characters (besides Carey, for the sake of the plot) seem to be made of stone. Not even metal. STONE.
On the other hand, I liked the slightly twisted feeling that Tarantino gave this movie. Seriously, people EXPLODING all over the place? Whoa. Awesome, disgusting and just as dangerous as the Decepticons can be.
I would have preferred moving on from the typical "comical relief delivered by smaller bots"-thing that they've had going on since the beginning, and instead put more effort in interaction between the main non-human characters. Ever since I saw the first movie, I have spent a considerable amount of time imagining the dynamics within the Autobot team. The script writers have some fantastic personalities to work with and I'd really, really like to see more of it on the silver screen. That would make the movie become a little less like mindless action - which is good but slightly overdosed - and easier to embrace for the original TF-fans.
And the ending.
The ENDING.
SHAME ON YOU, DIRECTORS.
Seriously? We get nothing more than "the Earth has been saved for two minutes, let's put in a micro-speech by Optimus Prime before we throw the credits at the audience"?! WHAT THE HELL! How hard would it be to give us some aftermath? At least SOMETHING? D:< I like lots of action and pretty slow motion-sequences, but it's best served with a dash of character development, humor, and actual interaction between others than a select few main characters and a bunch of political/military dudes that we couldn't care less for in the end?
In short:
+ the animation and amount of attention spent on detail is, as always, mind-boggling.
+ Laserbeak
+ Lots of fanfiction material for Bee/Sam-shippers!
- In some aspects, at least plot-wise, more two-dimensional than Avatar.
- Rushed
- Cold-hearted in the wrong places
I missed a couple of things from the first two movies.
Where the **** is Bee's voice? D: WHY hasn't it come back yet? Have I missed something? has the VA from the first movie gone underground?
And it's okay to mourn Jazz, but not Ironhide? Seriously, he died because Sentinel Prime decided to switch teams - Optimus should be guilt-wrecked and honor him with at least a comment after the fighting, but nooooo. And Lennox? The two were partners in crime for several years, I can only imagine what our favorite soldier thinks about losing Ironhide. Leave that to our imagination, Bay. Just do that. Be heartless, by all means.
I know, I know. "This is a movie about giant robots fighting other giant robots, stop being a creepy fangirl", right? My point is that there's lots and lots of fluff between Bee and Sam, while the other characters (besides Carey, for the sake of the plot) seem to be made of stone. Not even metal. STONE.
On the other hand, I liked the slightly twisted feeling that Tarantino gave this movie. Seriously, people EXPLODING all over the place? Whoa. Awesome, disgusting and just as dangerous as the Decepticons can be.
I would have preferred moving on from the typical "comical relief delivered by smaller bots"-thing that they've had going on since the beginning, and instead put more effort in interaction between the main non-human characters. Ever since I saw the first movie, I have spent a considerable amount of time imagining the dynamics within the Autobot team. The script writers have some fantastic personalities to work with and I'd really, really like to see more of it on the silver screen. That would make the movie become a little less like mindless action - which is good but slightly overdosed - and easier to embrace for the original TF-fans.
And the ending.
The ENDING.
SHAME ON YOU, DIRECTORS.
Seriously? We get nothing more than "the Earth has been saved for two minutes, let's put in a micro-speech by Optimus Prime before we throw the credits at the audience"?! WHAT THE HELL! How hard would it be to give us some aftermath? At least SOMETHING? D:< I like lots of action and pretty slow motion-sequences, but it's best served with a dash of character development, humor, and actual interaction between others than a select few main characters and a bunch of political/military dudes that we couldn't care less for in the end?
In short:
+ the animation and amount of attention spent on detail is, as always, mind-boggling.
+ Laserbeak
+ Lots of fanfiction material for Bee/Sam-shippers!
- In some aspects, at least plot-wise, more two-dimensional than Avatar.
- Rushed
- Cold-hearted in the wrong places