God damn! Suspension of disbelief! How many threads are we going to get like this? What were you expecting? Altman, Coppola, Goddard maybe? It's a summer blockbuster for God's sake you go in you pay your money, you turn off your mind and you enjoy some good old fashioned visceral entertainment.

I wonder if the decline of Roman civilization can marked by the point at which people started going to the Coliseum and saying, "What was with all that what was the lions motivation? Why did he want to eat a Christian in particular and for that matter it's not very realistic what is a Lion doing in Rome anyway? And those Gladiators where's the story? I want background I want character introduction."

Post of the year! [thumbup]

You like to announce posts of the year, right ?

Btw.

Movie was a disgrace. I wasn't expecting an Indie Art Film but I wasn't expecting Michael Bay to completely make the film into a banal mess of bad dialogue, no story line, countless useless scenes and a million plot holes.

He also tried to recreate (ultimately failing miserably at) a relationship between man and machine. A perfect example of this is Terminator 2 and 3 where you can actually feel the empathy. In Transformers it doesn't work at all and is horribly corny at the same time.

I hope that that was posted last year [help]

I also saw the movie and loved it. Great soundtrack, good acting, great action sequences and stunning visuals.

Its an action romp really and if you bare this in mind you will most certainly enjoy it. If your after more intelligent action 'The Bourne Ultimatum' will kick ass in that department.

and the car commercial build in to it. =D

Star Wars (all of em)
E.T.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jurassic Park
The Lion King
Forrest Gump

All summer blockbusters, all infinitely better than transformers wouldn't you agree?

So why does a "summer blockbuster" have to be mindless? Surely they can have action AND good story/characters?

And speaking of Rome, Gladiator had masses of violence and action, and a great story/character development as well!

He owns an iphone...

I didn't think that Jurassic Park or Star Wars Episode 1 were better at all http://discussworldissues.com/forums.../confused1.gif

Anyone who did not expect that has never seen a transformers cartoon http://discussworldissues.com/forums...ies/laugh1.gif

OK, well only episodes 4-6 I agree lol.

But you believe Transformers was better than Jurassic Park? Why?

Oh, and anyone who can explain what their plan was at the end of the movie (i.e. why did they go to the city) gets 4 cookies.

This is not ****ing hereditary genetics.

Michael Bay should go back to making TV ****ing commercials.

At least he was good at that, ****s up anything longer than 30 seconds though.

And if you're going to say that it's Transformers and that's what you should expect or the it's what the fans wanted and that they are happy then maybe any Tranformers fan has a high potential to be a stupid loser who is culturally inept and still plays with his Trasformers toys even though he is over 30.

"Transformers was always a childish and banal cartoon made for ten year olds, lets expect the exact same thing out of the movie"

I'm so with you on some points but including Jurassic Park and Lion King in the list was a grave mistake.

Couldn't you just have mentioned Spiderman or X-men as an archetype of a good blockbuster.

I didn't think that Jurassic Park was anything bar an average action / thriller / sci-fi with some at the time incredible visuals tacked on.

Imho Transformers offered the same + it managed to bring back some good memories from the audience's childhood, so imho it did achieve quite a bit more.

Probably but if it wasn't I want the title back.

You can either put up a sticky or we can take it to court.

/awaiting PM on the matter.

OK ill splash them from the list, though I always loved Jurassic Park (not any of the sequels which were bunk).

Spiderman and Spiderman 2 can go on there.

Though defending Jurassic Park, its got 85% on Rotten Tomatoes and The Lion King has 92%, which are pretty good!


I suppose this all boils down to personal preference, some people are going to love a film no matter what, like someone was saying they waited their entire life for this film.

It is the best movie ever so yeah stfu

I have to go back on my inclusion of Jurassic park and Lion King, added them in the haste of my posting without even thinking, wish you posted better examples though.

Erm....anyway...

Insanely Good blockbuster......Batman Begins

Horrible Blockbuster......Bad Boys II, Pearl Harbour, Armageddon.....catching a trend here.

I really hated it myself. It started out ok but went downhill quick.