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- Review count17
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- First reviewMay 22, 2008
- Last reviewAugust 21, 2011
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- Average rating2.8
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Watch the first one instead
PostedAugust 21, 2011
An insult to the original classic. This one makes Conan the Destroyer look like a masterpiece. Just more choppy fast close-up nonsensical visual mash-ups for the modern ADD kids crowd. It's like a SciFi channel original movie with poor acting, no character development, poor writing, boring fights, no sense of peril..etc etc..Rent the first one on blu-ray instead. The transfer is great and it is a terrific movie. I was looking forward to Conan 3 with Schwarzenegger and Milius, but they could never get it together and the studio suits would now rather have a crappy reboot instead to make more money. I thought that Stephen Lang and Ron Perlman would at least keep me awake, but they are wasted on this abomination of a movie.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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ZERO stars
PostedJune 29, 2011
I have seen the future of mediocrity, and his name is Michael Bay. He has now made two blockbuster movies which make no sense no matter how many ways you try to put them together, and people don't seem to care. The critics have brutally trashed both this movie and "The Fallen" movie, yet audiences love both films although they seem to have been put together by a group of 2nd graders playing out old randomly strung together cartoon episodes with their toys.
I am an old school fan who liked the first two movies, but "Dark of the Moon" makes "Fallen" look like Shakespeare. It's incredible how many people are saying that this movie is better than "Fallen". With all its faults, at least "Fallen" had humor, some incredible action sequences and effects, and an interesting, if incomplete, script. This movie has none of these things. This is a very long and boring movie that wastes the talents of good actors. The attempts at humor are painful to watch. The three Transformers movies cannot be connected now no matter how hard you try. To make another sequel would be ludicrous, but seeing how much money this drivel is making already, I bet they have already taken the five minutes needed to write the next one. The original writers were smart to bail out of this train wreck after Bay made them write "Fallen" in a couple of days and went on to butcher the little that they had time to write. This time there was no writers' strike, so I expected better--like explanations and connections across all three films. You'll get none of that here, just more incomprehensible nonsense that ignores the other films. You don't know what's going on half the time, and the final battle has no pacing, motivation, or orientation--it just drags on and on and on---like that 20 minute desert sequence in "The Fallen" multiplied by 10.
What happened to the Cube's knowledge in Sam's brain? Why was Sentinel Prime's ship shot down by the people who were working with him? How was Megatron going to rendezvous with him if they ended up finding earth in different time periods? Why did Megatron go after the cube if the original plan seemed to be to enslave earth and transport Cybertron there using the space bridge? How did Sentinel's ship crash on earth's moon if it was shot down over Cybertron? Why didn't Megatron go after the Space Bridge parts when he awoke in the first movie? Why didn't he after he awoke in the second movie? Why didn't they use the shard in the second movie to activate Sentinel on the moon instead of Megatron? How did Sentinel, the Cube, and the Sun Harvester all end up on earth? Why are the Transformers not even bothering to project human images in their car modes anymore? Why does Prime carry The Matrix of Leadership (a key to activate the Sun Harvester) inside of him and use it to energize Autobots which it is not meant to do? When, why, and how did an entire army of generic Decepticons hide inside of the moon? Why do the Transformers transform? These are just a few of about a hundred questions that this movie brings up. I suspect that not even Michael Bay knows the answers, and he doesn't care. it's insulting.
There are some good ideas, but it's all put together very badly, and not much is explained. Watching this movie gave me the feeling that Bay and the actors are here to wrap this up and are not interested in this material. The studios will be pressuring him to make #4, so he can get some 3rd graders together to write a script again---yet another group of Autobots has been buried in a volcano for 4 million years! They can transform to dinosaurs--no explanation is necessary. Out of all of the planets in the infinite universe, their ship crashed on earth because...well because the script says so. They were looking for the cube, no-- the Harvester, no-- the space bridge, no wait...they were looking for the ancestor of Michael Bay. If Bay is never born, these movies would never exist and we can reboot.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Tron 2.0
PostedDecember 23, 2010
It must be seen more than once to fully appreciate it (in IMAX 3D). This is a fantastic movie despite the mixed reviews. I can see many other sequels on the horizon. A movie like this will always divide people just like the Star Wars prequels. The first Tron was a classic and people had all sorts of expectations which could not all possibly be fulfilled. People also get angry when you tinker with something that was a sacred part of their childhood. Amazing visuals, mind-blowing music (one of the best soundtracks of all time), and great story. It was done in a very 80's retro music video style. Accept it for what it is--a giant video game.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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The Quintessential Masterpiece of our Time
PostedJuly 21, 2010
In a time where Hollywood keeps dishing out garbage, this was quite a refreshing change. Chris Nolan is one of the best directors out there and on the way to becoming one of the greatest of all time. I am astonished at how someone can come up with something like this. This movie is like The Matrix, Videodrome, Dark City, and Dreamscape all rolled into one on acid to the 20th degree. Every second of the 2 hours and 28 minutes is significant, mesmerizing, meticulous, and engaging. Must be seen at least twice and definitely in IMAX. This amazing piece of work will be remembered as one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever. Bring your thinking caps. The two or three people that gave this a negative rating
probably accidently wandered in the theater thinking that they were going to see Fast and the Furious 3 or some other mindless dribble drabble.
probably accidently wandered in the theater thinking that they were going to see Fast and the Furious 3 or some other mindless dribble drabble.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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A Mexican Werewolf in London
PostedMay 23, 2010
Don't let the trailers fool you. This movie is so awful that I left after 30 minutes. Benecio Del Toro's worst performance ever--"You killed my mother! You moron! I am a monster!" The "Wolfman" itself looks silly. The movie is so boring. The action scenes are lame, and people were laughing at scenes that were not meant to be comedic (at least I think that they were not meant to be). For example, in the dream sequences, random events keep happening and the "Wolfman" keeps popping up behind people--"RAAA!!" ---three or four times. It reminded me of some scene from Bugs Bunny and with the Tazmanian Devil. Dreadful.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Ridley Scott Haters
PostedMay 21, 2010
I don't understand why there are so many negative reviews of this movie by critics. Compared to the garbage Hollywood has been spewing out lately, this movie is quite entertaining. Even if you did not care for the story of Robin Hood's early days, the cinematography, battle scenes, performances are excellent--it's a Ridley Scott movie for crying out loud! His excellent "Kingdom of Heaven" was trashed in the same manner. I guess that it's fashionable to shoot down Ridley Scott now like it was popular to hate on George Lucas years ago. The only problem that I had with the movie was that it seemed like it was chopped up to get it down to the acceptable movie length for today's dumbed down ADD audiences. This was a minor problem and I'm sure that there is a longer director's edition.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Unleash the Kraken on Hollywood!
PostedMay 9, 2010
I really wanted to like this movie. If any movie needed to be remade, it was this one. After almost 30 years since the first cheesefest that was Clash of the Titans, we get....another cheesefest. This is yet another simple, fast, emotionless videogame with no character development and lousy acting made for the contemporary ADD 3D kids crowd----quick samurai sushi editing combined with the usual super close-up action shots. The cardboard cut-out Sam Worthington and his buddies have some truly laughably bad moments, and the Medusa scene lacked any tension (she looked fake). The story was changed significantly from the first one, which itself was not the true story. The Gods were cool and the one reference to the first film was funny, but that was it.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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I fell asleep....twice
PostedMay 3, 2010
Was the director trying to put the audience to sleep as a participation gimmick? You know--since the movie is about falling asleep and nightmares. This movie was so boring that I almost walked out but fell asleep instead. If that was the objective, then I guess the movie succeeded. This movie had lifeless performances and an uninteresting, bland script. It is an extremely watered down version of the original and moved forward at a snail's pace. Watch Wes Craven's New Nightmare instead and skip this crap.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Most Underrated Horror Movie Ever
PostedSeptember 4, 2009
Like another reviewer said -If this was called anything else other than Halloween 2, it would receive high praise. Zombie's movie would be recognized as a frightening piece of depraved horror which gives glimpses of what is going on in Michael Myer's damaged brain. There is Zombie's usual visual and musical mastery, as well as humor and an original twist on the subject matter which is done very well. Myer's fantasy world and reality are cleverly interwoven in this very creative vision. Unfortunately, this movie is being unjustifiably trashed because of the title, the extreme violence, the new directions it takes, and because Rob Zombie is the director. What a shame. This is destined to become a horror classic----in 20 years.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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You will call me "Commander!"
PostedAugust 12, 2009
This was the cartoon come to life---cheesy underwater battles, humanly impossible stunts, enormous, multi-trillion dollar high tech hidden secret bases getting trashed (like they did every week in the 80's), terribly cartoonish dialogue, and a story straight out of the show. I loved the Vipers, and the lunacy in the final scene with Destro and "The Commander" was classic---Great updates while still staying true to the original theme. This was great fun!
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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