Finally saw TLK this weekend as the early reviews shortly after release were so consistently bad enough that it pretty nearly dissuaded any interest I had of seeing it right away at premium theatre pricing. Well, with the long weekend here, being off from work for a week, and the fact that this movie has now moved into the cheap theatres and no longer running as a "current" release, I didn't have many excuses not to check it out.
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Originally Posted by Omegatron
I think the best way to sum up my feelings on this movie is to go with Shakespeare believe it or not. This quote from MacBeth was one of the first things I thought of when I went to see the movie:
"It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing".
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^^ That right there perfectly summarizes the whole experience. Out of all 5 of the live action movies, this was the least enjoyable for me and I totally understand now why it got a 15% on RottenTomatoes. I'm not entirely sure if this was due to scene editing which resulted in too much content getting left out or if it was deliberately written this poorly but aside from the usual complaints that has plagued this series so far of not having enough transforming, too many humans and not enough Cybertronians, the terribly cheesy humor, my single biggest problem with this episode was how disjointed the story-telling was.
There were too many moments of "where did he go?", "how did they get there so fast?", "what was the point of this?", etc. and the finished product is a giant mess. I followed AOE's story better than I could TLK, and we all know that was juggling a lot of content too.
At the end of the day, did I regret watching it? No. Would I watch it again? Yes, but only if it happens to get broadcasted on TV and only to try to trace back wtf happened and when again. Will I buy the home release to add it to my collection. Most definitely not.
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Originally Posted by steamwhistle
Yay.
I had always wondered what happened to Mikaela's scooter from TF-2007.
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