OK, when I came out of the 2nd Transformers movies, I did promised myself that I wouldn't go and see the 3rd. The action was better than the 1st (which I enjoyed quite a lot) but the price to pay was too high: too much annoying parents, too much gun porn and worse than the rest, clanging metallic balls...
But then the reviews came in saying there was (almost) nothing of these in the 3rd. So I let myself tricked again.
Because when Michae Bay concentrates on filming all sorts of things exploding, there litterally no one who can beat him.
Well I'm happy to say that my eyes were unscathed, coming out of the cinema. And it's true that the annoying stuff has been toned down. That was a relief...
The parents are still there, but in just a few short scenes, nothing too heavy.
There are still useless robot sidekicks, but at least they don't fart.
As for all sorts of shit blowing up, you get that in spades. And in true 3D, with the editing toned down (otherwise our poor eyes wouldn't cope), it's breathtaking at times. Long sequences of robots in full frame beating the shit out of each other, Chicago burned down to the ground... Awesome!
One other good surprise is that the story, on the whole almost make sense! I have to admit I quite liked the links with the moon landing and Tchernobyl...
When I say "almost make sense", you have to bear in mind that it's all in the "Bay-verse", a world in which all girls are hotties (btw, I preferred Megan), all cars are extremely expensive, all brands are on full display, etc.
So of course plot point get dropped then picked up from nowhere, but man did I say the robots were awesome?
Also, the military-porn was toned down adn it's quite cool to see a group of people bringing down a decepticon (as opposed to shit loads of tanks and helicopters). I guess it keeps the human factor.
Another amazing thing is to see those fabulous actors (John Turturro, Frances McDormand, John F@cking Malkovitch!) in there, overacting their heart out... I guess it doesn't really add to the movie, but it does add to this sense of awe: there's nothing Bay stops at. He takes it all. No prisonner.
And it doesn't matter that people get to slide off the side of a building that's falling onto another one and (almost) all manage to make it alive. What matters is that, watching this nonsense, you're just clinging to your seat, mouthing "oh shit". That's how good that man is.
Oh Michael, I love it when you let my IQ drop like that...
But then the reviews came in saying there was (almost) nothing of these in the 3rd. So I let myself tricked again.
Because when Michae Bay concentrates on filming all sorts of things exploding, there litterally no one who can beat him.
Well I'm happy to say that my eyes were unscathed, coming out of the cinema. And it's true that the annoying stuff has been toned down. That was a relief...
The parents are still there, but in just a few short scenes, nothing too heavy.
There are still useless robot sidekicks, but at least they don't fart.
As for all sorts of shit blowing up, you get that in spades. And in true 3D, with the editing toned down (otherwise our poor eyes wouldn't cope), it's breathtaking at times. Long sequences of robots in full frame beating the shit out of each other, Chicago burned down to the ground... Awesome!
One other good surprise is that the story, on the whole almost make sense! I have to admit I quite liked the links with the moon landing and Tchernobyl...
When I say "almost make sense", you have to bear in mind that it's all in the "Bay-verse", a world in which all girls are hotties (btw, I preferred Megan), all cars are extremely expensive, all brands are on full display, etc.
So of course plot point get dropped then picked up from nowhere, but man did I say the robots were awesome?
Also, the military-porn was toned down adn it's quite cool to see a group of people bringing down a decepticon (as opposed to shit loads of tanks and helicopters). I guess it keeps the human factor.
Another amazing thing is to see those fabulous actors (John Turturro, Frances McDormand, John F@cking Malkovitch!) in there, overacting their heart out... I guess it doesn't really add to the movie, but it does add to this sense of awe: there's nothing Bay stops at. He takes it all. No prisonner.
And it doesn't matter that people get to slide off the side of a building that's falling onto another one and (almost) all manage to make it alive. What matters is that, watching this nonsense, you're just clinging to your seat, mouthing "oh shit". That's how good that man is.
Oh Michael, I love it when you let my IQ drop like that...
