I do remember during that part where Tessa was on Lockdown's ship I got that "uuugh, Michael Bay" feeling. The movie definitely was too long. Only time I really consciously thought I wish they'd move the heck past this part, was when they were flying around on the small con ships. To top off how pointless that scene was the ship the good guys were on crashed violently and everyone inside was perfectly fine.

That's just to be expected in a Bay movie though and it didnt kill the movie for me at all. in fact I was more upset about never seeing Crosshairs transform.

 

I did as well.

That gas station scene bugged me the most. Long & pointless.

 

I was also so exhausted even by the time they got to Hong Kong that I wasn't really laughing at the jokes and gags anymore. Besides Hound and Crosshairs. I didn't even laugh at Drift's "giant car" line or Joyce's incessant yammering, even though they were supposed to be funny. I was more frustrated by that point when the action swells and the camera comes to Joyce as if he's about to deliver the meaning of life... only to start ranting about how they'll never find them in a big glass box. Nobody's really looking for them by then, considering the Decepticon onslaught going on all around them.

 

Somewhere towards the beginning of Hong Kong.

...Which is hard for me to be bored from, seeing as I used to live there so any mention of the place usually gets my attention. But it really did feel like the movie was dragging so by that point I was just like, UGH. Are we done yet? The movie was basically "We're gonna go to this place, and now we're gonna go to this place, and noooow we're gonna go to this place..." It felt long for the same reasons a Studio Ghibli film feels long. Just a lot of unnecessary setting changes and unnecessary bits in general.

I never... in a million years... would think I'd be sitting here comparing Bay to Miyazaki. Yet here we are.

 

This movie had me engaged from beginning to end. I'm not bored by movies easily, even things 'slow' like Drive or No Country For Old Men kept me engaged. An action movie like this has an even easier time of holding my attention. Not once did I feel bored during AOE, though I did feel the need to use the bathroom at about the 2 hour mark. Still, I persevered, and sat through its entirety.

Oddly enough, when I went to watch AOE a second time I had to get up and use the bathroom twice. Word of advice, don't drink a whole bottle of Coca-Cola before you go in to watch a (nearly) 3-hour movie.

 

I never got bored, but I only saw it once, if I saw it again..

I enjoyed ROTF the first time, but couldn't and haven't since managed to sit through it a second time. DOTM was the only one that had me looking at my watch halfway through... yet I have still watched and basically enjoyed it several times since. Because these movies are constructed like huge-long music videos, with plot lines that make such little logical sense, I think you really have to be in the right mood to enjoy it, a mood a lot of us aren't or are rarely capable of!

I forgot about that! Who, while on the run from people trying to kill you, stands in an open elevator that clearly ain't going anywhere? It doesn't make any sense?! And why do all Chinese people know Wing Chun or Wu Shu.. oh yeah, because it's a Michael Bay movie.. although to be honest that's a fairly positive stereotype, and probably the China Gov's idea to proliferate!!  

 

i took my dad to watch this for the first time, the first thing i said was, "that was awesome", the second thing i said was "wow, that didn't feel like 2 and a half hours".. and he agreed.

i thought the movie moved along great. i thought there were plenty of robot scenes to keep people interested, and there was WAY more robot to robot interaction which should've kept people interested because we haven't seen that too much throughout the first three movies.

so.. maybe it's because i wasn't one of those people who had already made my mind up that i wasn't going to like it before i went.. and maybe i wasn't one of those people who went into it ready to pick apart every single little flaw, and try to make anything and everything a flaw.

i went into it looking to be entertained, i went into it knowing that i'd see transformers on the big screen.. and you know what, i sure as shit was entertained, and there were certainly transformers on the big screen.

i feel bad for the people who can't get over themselves enough to just simply enjoy a movie for what it is... maybe someone can just take the citizen kane script, and replace all the actors with transformers.. nah.

 

I didn't so much as 'hate' the elevator scene. It was just one of the scenes that was frustratingly long. The only funny thing was Joshua.

 

I liked that scene. I'll take any scene that is character-focused rather than battle-focused anytime. There just isn't enough balance between the two.

Speaking of characters, both my friend and I glanced at each other in anger when they killed off the only interesting human character - the comic relief no less! - within the first 20 minutes. My friend even mutters to herself, "Man, Bay really doesn't know how to tell a story..." I wouldn't go so far as to say that, but I know where she's coming from and I agree. You don't kill off the only enjoyable character within the first 20 minutes and leave the audience with generic dull characters. That's just silly.

Bringing my rant back full circle and on topic, I think I would've found myself much more willing to go along for the ride and thus less bored if this character carried all the way through.

 

i would say when joshua and su are fleeing through hong kong. i dont care about their characters and they lingered on them so much. it should have shown them getting into hong kong, su kicks some ass and he flirts with her real quick then they split up and he's on the roof. scene.

 

Same. Never felt outright bored, but there were extended periods where I felt it dragged.

 

Nothing was funny about that scene. I think that is one of the reasons the film was boring to me, it kept trying to be funny.

 

I wasn't bored with the movie, but there were times where it dragged and I wished it would just hurry up.

 

The ending dragged on... and on... and on...

 

I never became bored, just impatient as I anticipated the Dinobots showing up.

 

I was glad that I didn't get Battle Fatigue like in ROTF.

That was another film whose ending just wouldn't come. After awhile a voice in my head started begging, "please, end soon! PLEASE!!"

Though when Lockdown finally showed up, it felt like the film had just gone on a bit too long. We'd handled most of the Galvatron and his minions stuff...suddenly, magnet-ship bit and lots of backwards driving.

At that point, the information started getting really manic, and a little hard to follow. As well, suddenly the Dinobots seemed to serve little purpose.

 

Which didn't happen soon enough.

 

Even then I wasn't bored. I still had adrenaline coursing through my veins!
 

 

Nah didn't get bored at all!! It was one hell of a rollercoaster as if i wasn't enjoying the action i was wrecking my brain trying to figure out how the hell we got to this part from the last part lol

 

I wasn't ever really bored, more of restless from sitting in the cinema so long. I didn't think the movie was excessively long like everyone is whining about either. Meh, that's just me I guess.