Transformers 3 Has Holiday Win

Great this only gives them the ability to make a 4th movie I still havent made it thru Transformers 1 with out falling asleep.

Watched this in the weekend.

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Cons: The whole human story arc was unnecessary and silly. This included Shia trying to find a job and being jealous of Dempsey. The Malkovich and McDormand characters felt like fillers. The humans "working" for the decepticons angle didn't make much sense. Huntington was ok - not better or worse than Fox.

Pros: Sweet robot-on-robot and human-on-robot action. Wingmen. Optimus Prime kicking ass. Leonard Nimoy.

Grade: 3 out of 5 stars

Man, and here I thought Larry Crowne would give swoop in and steal the #1 slot away from TF3 in a surprise victory not seen since Truman came from behind to beat Dewey.

Finally went back to the theater to finish X-Men FC this weekend (had to leave the first time because my daughter wasn't down with the violence).  The movie was much better in the first half than the second half.  Directors still can't get quality team action sequences.  Is it only possible in animation (see The Incredibles)

I wonder if anyone will ever get an x-men movie right.  Maybe the material just isn't fit to translate to the big screen.  I was excited to finish the movie, but in the end mildly disappointed.

On another note, why the hell wasn't Captain America released this weekend?  I know there was the whole Transformer competition, but WTF?  This should have been the weekend.  Period.

What sucks is because the last TF and X-Men movies left bad tastes in the public mouth, the grosses for these two films are down. Had those movies been better by half, Transformers prolly would have had a 200 opening 5-day. But, considering that those movies did leave the bad taste, just goes to show if you make some improvements, people will give it a chance.

Yet, I can't figure out what kind of smoke the world is on with the 4th Pirates. That movie sucked. Better than AWE, but still meh at best with all the principles involved.

And now, bring on the Pagan Wizard & Colonel P. Ganda Fascist. The last two must-see in theaters.(those were a joke....totally lookin forward to Captain with Tool woo!)

So, Maniacs. Summer 2011 movie season is basically over. Is it me, or did it seem like it went by waaay too quick?

One other thing. Saw Larry Crowne this weekend. It was a friendly little film, but honestly, I just don't like Julia Roberts. Never have dug her "love me because I am Julia Roberts" vibe she gives off. Movie would have been much funnier or perhaps more believable with Sandra Bullock as the teacher. I could have bought that more.

OVER? NOTHING IS OVER!

Captain America is damn near equal to the first half of summer by itself so it's far from over as far as I'm concerned. Apes, Conan, HP and few lesser films like Cowboys and Aliens and perhaps a few surprises along the way.

Oh man that Larry Crowne film may have been good about 15-20 years ago in the prime of both of those stars but now it just looks like a desperate attempt to relive old glory. You couldn't pay me to watch that. Hanks looks like his face has been stretched to the limit, shame.

I expect Transformers to repeat on top next week. I know the Zoo flick may beat it because the whole family dynamic it has in its favor but T3 will keep all the I-Max screens and 3D to push it over the top again me thinks

For anyone on the fence about transformers. The action sequences are much better filmed this time around. You can tell who is fighting who. The robots don't blur into each other as bad as the other ones.

So some of my first toy's I ever remember collecting were transformers. I had all 80 comics from the marvel run. They even made choose your own adventure books which I read all of them. So while not a fanatic i defintly lean far into the fan boy category.

Now with that in mind here is my complaint. I understand each movie was planned seperate from the other. But with a little thought I think they could have been so much better. In the second one why have Megatron come back at all. Cameo him into the background and lay some plot work for this third one. Why do the autobots look so fundamentally different? Some solid blacks and dark blues would go a long way over the silver insect look. I could go on and on about little nitpicky things.

A couple things about transformers that to this day work really well. In the comic writers have said that robot violence doesn't count to censors. It also must count in movies if you think of them as humans the violence is through the roof. They did incorporate some things very well like soundwave, shockwave, and optimus's trailer.

I saw Transformers on Friday.  It was better than I was expecting.  I actually liked the parts that the humans played.  But I actually would have prefered Megan Fox to this new chick.  Her lips were so swolen she looked like somebody punched her in the mouth.  I can't understand why guys find that attractive...

Saw Larry Crowne today.  I wouldn't have chosen to go but Mom wanted to see it.  It was better than I expected, quite entertaining.

 I watch Sam Witwiky and Friends on Sat.  I loved the first two films, despised the 3rd.   

                                            !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Possible SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

You get 10 min of Autobots talking, 25 mins of Decepticons destroying stuff and the rest of this 2.5 hour movie was all human BS. (NO KIDDING!)    90% of all the action scenes was done by humans. Autobots M.I.A.  Then the roll in right after the humans take care of all the business.  

I cool high way scene and the last 10 min of the show is all you need to watch on this film.   Kick butt action movie!!!!  POOR, POOR Transformers movie!!!    I would call it a turd, but I actually enjoy a good crap every now and again. Not this....

I am with you karas1!!!!  I never found the poofy  upper lip attractive at all!  Her lips was so swollen that she could not even move it properly.