I expected most of this but Lockdown being the best part excites. Lockdown was the main reason I'm excited for this so to know he's great makes me happy.
I'm sorry but Captain America 2 was so overly cliched i was bored throughout most of the movie and ign gave that a bloody 9.3.
If ROTF (the worst of the first trilogy) only got a 6.0 and AOE managed to get a 6.3 then this film appears to be almost as bad as ROTF from their ratings...
6.3 from a person who's name sounds like they should be selling ice cream cones. not reviewing movies and not liking them because they are to long. good help if they had to watch the LOTR trilogy and the hobbit ones as well. I bet they get a better review because its Peter Jackson and not bay
well, technically they were disregarded for many other reasons. One example - the IGN review actually described what they meant. The one that "disagree"? They just say "there's no characterization." It's the same bleating I hear from a lot of sheep on here.
6.3??? Man GTFO I'll enjoy the shit out of this movie more than the last 3 regardless of what anyone says. From what we've heard they've made great improvements EVERYWHERE with only one nitpick towards one character's acting (Tessa, but we expected this). The big thing people seem to really be taking away from is the length of this movie. Are people's attention spans really that small they can't stay focus for a few hours? It doesn't even sound like the "turn your brain off" movies like the last 3. The human AND robot cast this time around are much, much more improved and relatable. This.
LotR was savaged by reviewers for being too long, especially Return of the King; and Transformers is no LoTR. Action movies tend to have exceptionally crappy pacing if they approach 2.5 hours. They live or die on the pacing. If you're looking at your watch and it feels like a long movie, that's a big problem.
Oh, quit your white-knighting. Telling someone to "GTFO" just because of their opinion of a movie they've seen and rated an "okay" is just ridiculous. 6.3 is an "okay" on IGN's current rating scale, by the way. Sitting in a movie theater for a three hour long movie can get wearisome. Especially if you've been sucking Icee's or sodas for the past three hours and are ready for a bathroom break. Or if the theater's cold. Human beings get tired. I enjoyed DOTM and Desolation of Smaug, but I was still exhausted by the films' length by the end. It's even more exhausting if you were sitting through a three hour long movie you didn't enjoy. If you've got that much sugar pumped into you to have lost virtually no energy by the end of a three hour movie, as someone who has diabetes run through his family, I recommend you cut back. Also, Winter Soldier was considered to be a genuinely good movie by pretty much everyone. And we all know that no matter how much Bay improves, it's unlikely his movies will ever be well-loved by critics anyway.
IGN gave Pain and Gain a good review. I don't think they're anti-Bay. I just don't think they're going into the movie as Transformers fans. They're going in as movie reviewers.
6.3 is actually a pretty good score for a sci-fi action film and if you actually read the review it sounds like everything plays in the Transformers fans' favor. I'm looking forward to it. The action sounds intense.
I never said IGN was anti-Bay. But I won't say there isn't a knee-jerk anti-Bay critic or few out there.
Boy this definitely doesn't make you seem like a fanboy at all. Come on guy. LOTR was criticized for its length, but guess what, it had enough other good stuff in it (characters, acting, plot) that reviewers could overlook the length for what it accomplished. The runtime doesn't add anything to the film and thus it's being called out for it. I don't get how it's hard to understand.
Can you people shut up already (and by that I mean the whiny fanboys that make the rest of us fanboys look like Beliebers)? Atleast be greatful the review wasn't entirely negative and the rating wasn't lower.
Glad to get a review that says something about the villain. I'm a fan of film villains so it was rather frustrating that some of the earlier reviews just sort of skipped over that aspect of the film. But it also sounds like the film really doesn't do enough to change people's minds and opinions so it's looking more and more like a rental for me.
You can usually tell who they are because they don't give detailed descriptions of what worked and what didn't so that the reader can make up their own minds about whether they'd like the movie. This is why most reviewers hate the numerical rating system. Too many people ignore what they're actually saying and just get upset if the number's not an 8 or higher.
