So its just come out in Japan
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So its just come out in Japan
And I can confirm that the Japanese approve of the line about Bumblebee being a super advanced robot, and probably from Japan. Biggest laugh the movie got from the audience, and actually, the biggest reaction I've ever heard from a Japanese movie audience.
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Yeah, Western movies are pretty much exclusively subbed over here, which makes my dates considerably more tolerable.
I thought the movie was ok. Nice action, I mean, Michael Bay is good at blowing stuff up. It was a little tight shot and confusing at times, but nowhere near the worst I've seen, and it was mostly in scenes which were supposed to be chaotic. The dialogue was terrible and Bay showed once again that he's not much good at directing non-action scenes.
And how come Sam got almost all of the movie's characterisation, but even that basically just amounted to "horny teen". Mind you, kudos to the casting director for the oldest "teenagers" that I've ever seen in a big budget flick. Michaela's jock boyfriend was older than his teacher.
I'm picking at it I know, but honestly, I enjoyed it. And some of the jokes did make me laugh, even if they didn't feel right for the movie they were in.
Still, and I realise this is soooo the wrong place to say this, Die Hard 4.0 was better.
edit: also, the robots looked better in motion than in stills, I liked what they did with bumblebee, and I'm glad they killed Jazz because he was annoying and generic.
I thought the movie was ok. Nice action, I mean, Michael Bay is good at blowing stuff up. It was a little tight shot and confusing at times, but nowhere near the worst I've seen, and it was mostly in scenes which were supposed to be chaotic. The dialogue was terrible and Bay showed once again that he's not much good at directing non-action scenes.
And how come Sam got almost all of the movie's characterisation, but even that basically just amounted to "horny teen". Mind you, kudos to the casting director for the oldest "teenagers" that I've ever seen in a big budget flick. Michaela's jock boyfriend was older than his teacher.
I'm picking at it I know, but honestly, I enjoyed it. And some of the jokes did make me laugh, even if they didn't feel right for the movie they were in.
Still, and I realise this is soooo the wrong place to say this, Die Hard 4.0 was better.
edit: also, the robots looked better in motion than in stills, I liked what they did with bumblebee, and I'm glad they killed Jazz because he was annoying and generic.
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Originally posted by angloconvoy
Mind you, kudos to the casting director for the oldest "teenagers" that I've ever seen in a big budget flick. Michaela's jock boyfriend was older than his teacher.
I don't know if it's because I'm getting older but I'm finding it harder and harder to suspend my disbeife over the American thing of casting thrity year olds as teenagers.
The Japanese line got a big laugh in the cinema I saw it in as well. Ironic really as it got a bit of a kicking on here when the trailer came out for being far to much of an obscure joke about the origins of the Transformer toys. Which was of course missing the point that it's a joke about how everyone knows the Japanese love robots...
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