Sparrowsabre7
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Transformers Dark of the Moon: 8/10
Objectively it deserves lower but I just found it so much fun. I'm not entirely sure why the 3D has been praised so much though, there are some excellent sequences but it's still just 3D. Much as I'm not a huge fan of Avatar it's still the best use of 3D I've seen and TF3 will probably be the last movie I choose to see in 3D too. It's just not worth the extra money.
As someone who liked TF2, in spite of its many flaws, I feel TF3 has the opposite problem from TF2 plot-wise. While TF2 had a good start and pacing up to the Forest battle, TF3 has a rather staggered start which drags a little but the final hour or so is just back to back action. In a way I wish it had been peppered throughout the film, as great as it was, it did feel a little like overkill with quite how much happened at the end.
Leonard Nimoy was great as Sentinel though, a few Star Trek references were thrown in too. Sentinel even quoting Spock's famous "the needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few" though in a slightly different meaning from Spock's intention.
TF3 really upped the stakes too, the destruction of Chicago is actually pretty powerful and there's a rather menacing scene where a decepticon invades a family's home in order to assassinate the father.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is a better actress than Megan Fox, but IMO less pleasing on the eyes (despite Fox looking pretty grubby in the Transformers movies) and still not exactly Oscar material, she fills a role though so...
Also Shockwave is barely in it. I think he was built up as the mainvillain because MAJOR SPOILER WARNING Sentinel is the true villain of the film, but obviously that would give away a big twist if he was bigged up as the big bad He's still in it more than Megatron though, who seems to have gotten progressively wussier as the series goes on.
Objectively it deserves lower but I just found it so much fun. I'm not entirely sure why the 3D has been praised so much though, there are some excellent sequences but it's still just 3D. Much as I'm not a huge fan of Avatar it's still the best use of 3D I've seen and TF3 will probably be the last movie I choose to see in 3D too. It's just not worth the extra money.
As someone who liked TF2, in spite of its many flaws, I feel TF3 has the opposite problem from TF2 plot-wise. While TF2 had a good start and pacing up to the Forest battle, TF3 has a rather staggered start which drags a little but the final hour or so is just back to back action. In a way I wish it had been peppered throughout the film, as great as it was, it did feel a little like overkill with quite how much happened at the end.
Leonard Nimoy was great as Sentinel though, a few Star Trek references were thrown in too. Sentinel even quoting Spock's famous "the needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few" though in a slightly different meaning from Spock's intention.
TF3 really upped the stakes too, the destruction of Chicago is actually pretty powerful and there's a rather menacing scene where a decepticon invades a family's home in order to assassinate the father.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is a better actress than Megan Fox, but IMO less pleasing on the eyes (despite Fox looking pretty grubby in the Transformers movies) and still not exactly Oscar material, she fills a role though so...
Also Shockwave is barely in it. I think he was built up as the mainvillain because MAJOR SPOILER WARNING Sentinel is the true villain of the film, but obviously that would give away a big twist if he was bigged up as the big bad He's still in it more than Megatron though, who seems to have gotten progressively wussier as the series goes on.
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