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Jablonsky scoring Megan Fox's midriff with a choir when she was looking under Bumblebee's hood was especially cheesy... or spot on. One or the other.
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Jul 6, 2007 - 12:39 PM
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Jon A. Bell
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I'm sorry, I can't take seriously an action movie with a hero named "Bumble Bee". I think age has something to do with this. Over on AICN, all the 20-30-somethings have been in near-orgasmic throes of fanboy anticipation over this film for, like, months (if not a year or so.) They grew up with the cartoon, and this is the new "Star Wars," to them. But for anyone over the age of, oh, maybe 35, "Transformers" is greeted with a big, "WTF?! You're going into overload over a movie based on a series of TOYS?! Over a 1980's cartoon that was simply a vehicle to sell TOYS?!" Good grief. (Aside: this is also why the fanboy angst over "painted flames on Optimus Prime" strikes me as so deranged. So... having "flames" painted on the side of a giant alien robot named "Optimus Prime" -- who transforms out of an 18-wheeler truck and fights another giant alien robot named "Megatron" -- somehow makes your good-guy robot more "fakey?!" ROFL.) -- Jon
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Hey, all this MV bashing is starting to make me cry. MV
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Either way, I'd like to take a moment to contemplate Eric's observation: Hmm... Maybe there *is* another reason to see this film besides the FX... ;-) -- Jon
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Jul 7, 2007 - 1:12 AM
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TominAtl
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I saw the movie. I liked what I heard of the score, which was actually mixed quite loud in the movie. I never once saw an episode of the cartoon, so I can't be fanboyish about it. And may God forgive me for saying this but: I actually liked a Michael Bay film for once, if begrudgingly. It is entertaining overall. And the effects are simply beyond "awesome". Superlative in every way, with insane amounts of details to the robots. The cinematography works effortlessly with the CGI effects. And Shia Labouf? saves the movie on his own scrawny shoulders. The rest: acting, dialogue, script, story...shamelessly hokey and over the top. Its a big, noisy, brainless action flick that delivers on the action and effects and it is making fans of the series leaving theatres with wet stains in their britches. OK,I may not have actually SEEN them, but it sure sounded like it. Tom
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Jul 7, 2007 - 2:36 AM
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JSWalsh
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I think age has something to do with this. Over on AICN, all the 20-30-somethings have been in near-orgasmic throes of fanboy anticipation over this film for, like, months (if not a year or so.) They grew up with the cartoon, and this is the new "Star Wars," to them. But for anyone over the age of, oh, maybe 35, "Transformers" is greeted with a big, "WTF?! You're going into overload over a movie based on a series of TOYS?! Over a 1980's cartoon that was simply a vehicle to sell TOYS?!" Good grief. (Aside: this is also why the fanboy angst over "painted flames on Optimus Prime" strikes me as so deranged. So... having "flames" painted on the side of a giant alien robot named "Optimus Prime" -- who transforms out of an 18-wheeler truck and fights another giant alien robot named "Megatron" -- somehow makes your good-guy robot more "fakey?!" ROFL.) -- Jon The thing that gets me is how every positive review--usually from the same people who are bemoaning how there's never anything new in Hollywood, and how remakes suck, etc.--says something like "It's a stupid popcorn movie that's not SUPPOSED to make sense!" My two reactions: Why can't popcorn movies make sense? (Star Wars, King Kong (1933), Gunga Din, Jaws) Where are all these "intelligent" movies that are apparently so numerous that we need all these stupid popcorn movies as a respite, from all that deep-thinking we're doing in the theaters?
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Anyone wanna wager if 'filmscorefan1' has actually seen the movie or at least heard the music? -Joshua Yes I have seen the movie and enjoyed it very much, and I didn't mean to sound too harsh in my previous post, maybe I should have added a . The music just disappointed me and felt like nothing new, and personally I feel as though a great movie should have great music to accompany it. And I was in no way attacking bondo or anyone else who liked the score, it's just that the Zimmer/MV style is not in my particular taste. I mean sure a couple enjoyable scores come along every once in a while (Gladiator and Black Hawk Down come to mind) but overall I feel that Hans Zimmer is detrimental to the film composer society, the development of film composers, and the reputation of film composers in what he has done regarding Media Ventures (or Remote Control). And for that I don't respect Hans Zimmer (that much) and much of the work inspired by him.
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