For me, laugh it up, and yes I am very aware that it was a glorified feature-length children's toy commercial that deliberately and cynically killed just about every established old character to sell toys of new characters to grieving children that were about to watch
spoiler
one of the most iconic 80s cartoon father figures of all time die right in front of them
but with all of that said, the 1986 Transformers the Movie blew me away and was a lasting influence on my formative years. The music in the movie fucking slaps too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDAoJIJ2ljU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR-MbF9hXT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUhB1O8Le0Q
Pacific Rim is incredibly boring, with weak ass writing that comes off as a manifestation of early tumblr fan fiction. The movie even has Ron Perlman in it . But good lord, big robots fighting big monsters is so much fun to watch.
I lose it every time they start blasting Spice Girls as psychological warfare.
You may have seen it, but Gremlins 2 is another wild, fun, and kinda bad Joe Dante movie. Definitely worth a watch!
commando is absolute chud shit and has no real redeeming artistic merits but it is a fun as fuck movie and i dont think any movie has better oneliners and it at least has a very vague selfawareness that its all ridiculous dudes rock bullshit
Commando is the very top level of the Action B movie genre. It's just so fucking amazing. Now I wanna watch it again lol
Freddy Got Fingered. It’s a :dumpster-fire: of a movie, but the train wreck is too horrible to look away from. Saw it on cytube movie night and I love that Tom Green set fire to his career :chefs-kiss:
I went to see that in the theater when it came out. I grew up dirt poor, and it was a really rare occasion to be taken to the movies. I was 8 when it came out. When Optimus died 8 year old me lost his shit. I remember crying in the movie theater and my dad having to take me out of the theater for a few minutes to calm me down some.
You and me both. The entire front row I was sitting in was crying, grieving... and then there was so much adventure left to see.
If the odds sometimes seem long in my own fiction, if the protagonists face brutal adversity and things sometimes seem hopeless until the darkest hour is lit, blame Transformers the Movie.
I loved this review of it, even with its April 1 intentions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7f26gVlDQI
If the Kitsune character in my novel trilogy seems a bit like a Transformer, complete with a living "spark," daring to do the impossible and seemingly has the touch, well... no story is made completely out of nothing.
Is this all just a ruse to talk about the Transformers film? I'm all for it. Nimoy as Galvatron is great, and you can never get enough of watching Starscream being Starscream. Its a shame most people wanted Optimus back instead of sticking with Rodimus since Rodimus was my favourite.
It's not, for real.
I just felt that strongly about my problematic favorite.
Cloud Atlas. It's a little too pleased with itself, and the "yellowface" makeup is retch-inducing.
Still I admire its ambition. It really feels like a mash-up of multiple genres, with one scene feeling like a wacky comedy, and then a sci-fi epic a few minutes later.
I appreciate that the Wachowskis tackle difficult and unconventional movies. Most of their filmography is kinda trash, but it's interesting and watchable trash.
I'd rather see a movie that tries something new, instead of yet another sequel/reboot/adaptation with the standard 3-beat screenplay.
I remember, in one of his last interviews, Orson Welles was asked to describe his latest project. Having voiced Unicron in the transformers movie, he says:
>“I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I’m destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.”Another time before he died he described the role as a toy menacing other toys. :deeper-sadness:
Kingdom of Heaven,
the good - it is beautifully shot, it depicts neither muslims or christians as particularly good or evil as a whole
the bad - Orlando Bloom is not a good enough actor to headline such a film, Deus Vult chuds like it because Deus Vult
Watching someone else's playthrough of Black Mesa, which I consider a movie by vibe if not by technicality
Likewise, Research Indicate's let's play of Trespasser.
I could listen to that boy read the phone book. Good lord his voice is so smooth.
Transformers: the Movie has its problems, but much of the animation is freaking amazing. The backgrounds feel like the animators were given a giant hit of LSD and told to read the collected works of Isaac Asimov and H.P. Lovecraft before starting work on the film. The sequences carry a feeling of mass, impact, and force that's seldom been matched - when Optimus punches Megatron into the wall, you feel it, just by looking. When Unicron sinks his horns into Lithone, there's a very slight slow-down as they go deeper. When he reaches back, winds up, and slams his arm into Cybertron.
God, I've seen it a thousand times, I can recite the script from memory, and my nipples STILL get rock-hard every time I watch it.
Yes, friends! Act now, destroy Unicron! Kill the Grand Poobah! Eliminate even the toughest stains! :lets-fucking-go:
No fuss, no muss! Hurry, hurry, hurry! Sale must end, step right down and test-drive latest model with no obligation!
Robocop is a great watch even though it's extremely insidious copaganda lol. Like, the entire premise of the film is if only corporations didn't meddle in the business of honest cops.
Bad Boys 2
The good: an awesome violent action movie, with tons of real sets getting fucking demolished. It's Michael Bay's wildest, most thrilling movie.
The bad: literally everything is problematic. It's super racist, sexist, punches down, is in violently poor taste, is the worst kind of copaganada, they invade Cuba at the end
It's also the first movie that kiddie creeper Michael Bay started creeping on Megan Fox in. She was coerced into dancing in a bikini while drinks were poured on her... when she was under 18. :epstein:
Oof, thats gross. The racist murdering is at least fantasy play acting, but the on-set exploitation is not :yikes:
The two Alien prequel movies. They have tonnes of stuff that makes no sense, the original premise is absolutely wild (if I remember correctly, the progenitor aliens were initially going to be Jesus), and are a really just a total mess, but I still find them entertaining as hell
Kal Ho Naa Ho
Homophobic. Racist. Sexist. But 100% pure Bollywood bliss.
