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i just gotta rant a little bit about the subtitle for transformers 3: dark of the moon.
dark of the moon? really? that’s the best they could do?
i loved the first one. i try to overlook the many shortcomings of the second one. and i have really high hopes for the third one. but i just want to punch bucho in the face everytime i hear or see “dark of the moon”. that has got to be the ugliest sounding group of words i’ve ever seen.
what’s next?
superman: up of the sky?
fast and furious 6: quick of the cars?
if they didn’t want to use “dark side of the moon” because of the pink floyd then they should have stayed away from it completely.
i would call it retarded but for once i feel like the retards deserve better than that ASSociation.
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I also want to punch myself in the face. Also a flying knee and two spinning back elbows.
The ugliest sounding group of words ever though? Dry anal gorilla rape. But Bay can’t use it because Cameron already claimed it for the Avatar sequel.
The new Transformers title doesn’t bring Pink Floyd to mind for me though, it makes me think of The Waterboys.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
It makes me think about how glad I am that I don’t give a shit. I wrote this movie off, the moment the second one was announced. I’m sure at some point I’ll “see” it, only for the giant pixel storms of transforming and exploding eye candy. I’ll just have to really really really remember what it was like to be 11 when I do it.
speaking of “11 years old” and “do it”, i went and saw the first one with a friend on opening weekend and we were basically the only 2 male adults in a theater full of a handful of women and a ton of kids. and boy did it feel creepy.
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don’t go during the day time on an opening weekend to something like that. It’s opening night with the other adults that wouldn’t fit in all weekend long, or 3 weeks later.
i was tempted to put my arm around my buddy before the lights went down; to “initialize gay shields” and such.
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Two of my biggest complaints about the series are:
1. Robot bathroom humor. I like bathroom humor. I make jokes in the bathroom all the time. I also like robots. I also don’t mind if you mix the two, as long as the whole point is to have funny dirty robot bathroom humor. But something like Transformers? I think that should be kept more serious.
2. Shia Labouuuuuuuuuuuffffff. Can’t stand him. Not even a little. He and Hayden Christensen are my two least favorite actors of all time.
I don’t mind Shia but I agree about the Transformers bathroom humour. It’s always the dumbest and laziest joke and it feels weird to have these massively expensive FX that have had thousands of hours of work put into them and then you put 0.7 seconds thought into marsahalling them to tell that joke.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
i agree about the bathroom humor.
i can tolerate La-Beef. i can’t decide which actor – of the two that played anakin in the prequels – is the most aurally distressing.
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You know, people hate on Hayden Christensen – kid’s really not that bad. It was the stilted dialogue and shitty direction. I mean, nobody talks bad about Natalie Portman, and she had just as many shitty lines in those movies. Watch Life as a House, and you’ll see that Hayden’s not bad at all. That movie came out before Clones came out, and I was actually excited after I saw it, thinking, whoa, George actually got a pretty good actor for the role. Then there was sand.
I really want to find the original Star Wars script, if it exists. The one where Lucas wanted Luke to be played by a midget, and other weird little things like that. Of course back then people would actually tell him no, so we got good movies instead. These days, no one tells him no, and we get crap.
@rob 46612 wrote:
Watch Life as a House, and you’ll see that Hayden’s not bad at all.
i haven’t seen the movie you mentioned but i do remember liking him in a movie called awake that was after the prequels. but i also remember him in jumper where he was pretty much the same dreary soul from the prequels.
so you may be right. he may need a certain type of director to bring out his best. awake was the director’s first feature so he probably had that going for him. the guy that directed jumper also directed the first bourne movie as well as mr. & mrs. smith. the leads in those movies probably afforded the director the luxury of their experience.
so i’m willing to concede that i don’t give hayden enough credit. i really really liked awake.
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I think the hate on Hayden is quite properly placed. The guy has no more talent than 90% of the kids in high school drama classes who are there for an “easy period”. The idea that only a certain kind of director brings something out in someone, and therefore they are still an actor is silly. I’ll bet you that you can put any human person in a role, and the “right director” will make them “not that bad”. Hayden is not an actor, he’s a guy who’s had some acting jobs, most of which had bad results.
He was not good in Life as a House, he was a somewhat real teenager… so basically it’s possible the director or (as I prefer to think) the easily identifiable real life situations helped make him understand how he was supposed to feel and respond, because it was obvious second nature. I also have to believe that in the case of Life as a House, having a fantastic veteran actor like Klein around, likely resulted in an easier experience. I would argue that the real life situations are what elevated Hayden, and that Klein and the rest of the cast were able to be so ‘real’ on cue, that Hayden really just had to be a male human person of a certain age, and repeat what he’d memorized. I for one, don’t really consider that acting.
Oh, Hayden’s no Treat Williams. My point is that actors most of the time are like Play-Doh, and they’re only as good as the directors and the scripts allow them to be. There are so few really good actors out there. So I guess, we sorta agree.
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