Transformers: Age of Extinction Review
RYAN: Ad so enters into our lives the 4th installment of the most unnecessary franchise in movie history – Transformers – only Michael Bay is calling this one a reboot instead of a “number 4.” It’s a continuation as far as I’m concerned having suffered through them all. And while this one is better than the previous three, it’s only hardly.
CAROLINE: Eek, yeah you haven’t liked any of them. I’ve been wise enough to just avoid them altogether but you’ve certainly been a team player. Why was this one so bad, yet again?
RYAN: Because of everything!! It’s just horrendous, lousy filmmaking and a bad movie. Here are the specifics: It’s ungodly too long. Two hours and forty five minutes and unless you’re Titanic or Avatar or Harry Potter, you have no business being that long.
rCAROLINE: Gone with the Wind.
RYAN: Precisely. The focus of the story keeps changing and I was literally cringing at Stanley Tucci and Kelsey Grammer in this film for some of the embarrassing lines they had to utter. Marky Mark was a bit less cheesy but this movie goes more into his pile of The Happening instead of The Fighter.
CAROLINE: Yeah he has some good ones and some bad ones.
RYAN: These movies keep making cray bank at the BO so it’s obvious there’s a new one but why couldn’t they have made the script great? It’s certainly better than the privies three, but then the production value is a bust. Some lines are lost because the audio is unclear under the sound effects. The editing between scenes and different characters in different locations is completely jarring. The scoring during some action sequences drops in and out and totally distracts you. And the robots are once again reduced to cartoony cheesiness. It’s all such a missed opportunity.
CAROLINE: I can’t say I’m sad of that. Hasbro should be though.
RYAN: Whatever. They must be making bank too.
CAROLINE: DId you miss Shia LaBeouf?
RYAN: Not really. I like him but he’s out of control in his personal life now, apparently, so…
CAROLINE: What else didn’t you like about the movie?
RYAN: OMG you know how much I detest product placement?
CAROLINE: Oh yes.
RYAN: This has some of the most outrageous and offensive ever in a movie. Bud Light, Victoria’s Secret, Goodyear… And it’s all basically just in one scene – like Paramount Pictures just sold that one scene. It was so weird and drove me nuts.
CAROLINE: I feel for you.
RYAN: Please don’t anybody see this. Let’s let this die away as it should so they stop making these horrendous movies! Such a waste of time and money. Although it’s a no-no, I’d have rather been on my phone texting and Facebooking than suffering through this film. Too much.
Michael June 27, 2014
Ryan it’s funny you say this about this movie. I have a group of friends who are wanting to go see this tomorrow and I reluctantly agreed because although the effects were good, I wasn’t that thrilled with the last one. I do however, enjoy Shia in these movies and without him I wasn’t that excited about seeing the new one regardless of how I feel about Marky Mark (he is still so cute at his age). Like you I will have to suffer through…I really have only been impressed with a couple films so far this summer. How I wish there was another HP movie coming out.
Matt June 30, 2014
Like you, I don’t want to sit in a movie theater chair for two hours and forty-five minutes for even a good Transformers movie. But I have to see it, the same way Anne Rice fans had to see Queen of the Damed, even though we knew going into it, that is was horrible.