Rate Transformers

[Mallus]

The closer to reality you get the more unacceptable divergences become, didn't you know that?

Don't go all Uncanny Valley on me, k?

Besides, it can be proven mathematically that any point in a Michael Bay film is equidistant from reality and that distance is of infinite length.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Yes, you accept those going in, plus they're so unrealistic that you hand wave right off the bat.

The closer to reality you get the more unacceptable divergences become, didn't you know that?

Fair enough, but even my wife was of the opinion that the movie needed "more of hot accent chick."

 

[Hypersmurf]

Fair enough, but even my wife was of the opinion that the movie needed "more of hot accent chick."

Hot accent?

She was Australian :\

-Hyp.

 

[Mistwell]

She is somehow less believable than the giant robots from space who like to dress in drag as Earth vehicles and beat the sh*t out of each other?

Yes. The robots are supposed to be surprising. It is, in fact, the plot.

The hot hacker girl? If they want to make a movie based on how surprising that is, then I think it might be fine. But they didn't. In fact, while people were constantly surprised of giant robots from space posing as earth vehicles killing each other, nobody blinked twice at the hot hacker girl. Despite the fact that the two are nearly as rare as each other

Anyway... my rating. I hate Michael Bay's films, but I really dug Transformers. I give it a solid 8. I left the theater with a big stupid grin on my face to match the big stupid film I just spent an improbably entertaining 2.5 hours watching.

I liked the movie two. I just REALLY didn't like Agent Simmons, and mildly disliked the hackers.

 

[Mistwell]

Fair enough, but even my wife was of the opinion that the movie needed "more of hot accent chick."

Even your wife is a horny teenage boy then

Seriously, we already had improbable hot car mechanic girl doing slow motion Playboy poses for the camera. The improbable hot hacker girl was just plain silly. She didn't need to be in the movie. Her role felt tacked on like some executive said "we need another hot girl to seal the deal on attracting the teenage boys to this movie, in case they don't buy the robots. Oh, and there is no ethnic character in there either - throw in a black funny guy to get the ethnic people". I'd bet a stack of bills a conversation like that took place at some point.

 

[FireLance]

Yeah! Those of you who gave it a 5 or lower, confess so we can tar and feather you with words!!

Well, since you asked so nicely...

I gave it a 4. I thought it could have been so much better.

I think the Transformers as a whole got too little screen time, and didn't interact enough with each other. There wasn't enough friendly banter among the Autobots, arguments and rivalry between the Decepticons, and not enough insults and quips during the fights.

I'm not a fan of the jerky camera motion, either. That, plus the fact that I was unfamiliar with the Transformers' new look, plus the fact that some of the Autobots and Decepticons looked similar to each other (at least to me), made it difficult for me to follow what was happening.

This may be thinking too much, but one thing that bugged me was how the Autobots and the Decepticons knew that the co-ordinates to the Allspark were imprinted on the elder Witwicky's spectacles. Was it that obvious from the pictures on Ebay and in the Government files?

 

[Jeysie]

The hot hacker girl? If they want to make a movie based on how surprising that is, then I think it might be fine. But they didn't. In fact, while people were constantly surprised of giant robots from space posing as earth vehicles killing each other, nobody blinked twice at the hot hacker girl. Despite the fact that the two are nearly as rare as each other.

I dunno, I didn't find this at all weird. But then, I'm a girl who's been using some variety of computer since I was old enough to read and push keys, and who knows several attractive computer-saavy ladies.

Granted, none of them look like Rachael Taylor. But then, this *is* Hollywood, where we're supposed to, for example, swallow the likes of Emma Watson, Janeane Garofalo, and Sandra Bullock as being Plain-Janes who need cleaning up to be attractive. I'm just sayin'.

Would she be believable if she were Ugly Hacker Girl?

Peace & Luv, Liz

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Hot accent?

She was Australian :\

-Hyp.

Your point? I've got the remnants of a NJ accent. By comparison, practically anything but Cockney is a hot accent.

But, actually... that was two descriptors, as in she was hot and had an accent.

Even your wife is a horny teenage boy then

Nope. She's a hot graduate student, and will one day be a hot professor. I've met women with doctorates who are distractingly hot. A hot hacker isn't really all that improbable.

 

[Mistwell]

I dunno, I didn't find this at all weird. But then, I'm a girl who's been using some variety of computer since I was old enough to read and push keys, and who knows several attractive computer-saavy ladies.

It's not that she is pretty, or female, or a hacker (each taken individually). It's not "computer savvy". That I could buy.

It's that the combination that the second best hacker ON THE PLANET is about 23 YEARS OLD and a SMOKING HOT BLOND GIRL who is able to barge in to meetings with the Secretary of Defense and be taken seriously immediately. Come on now. Pull the other one!

Would she be believable if she were Ugly Hacker Girl?

Peace & Luv, Liz

She would be more believable if she were a lot older, and out of shape, and previously well known by the Government because she was so well educated and experienced in the field of hacking computers.

 

[Mistwell]

Nope. She's a hot graduate student, and will one day be a hot professor. I've met women with doctorates who are distractingly hot. A hot hacker isn't really all that improbable.

It's not that she is hot. It's that the second best hacker on the planet is a 23 year old hot girl. And yes, you have met people WITH DOCTORATES, which means they are not 23 years old. And if their field was computers and computer security, the odds are DRASTICALLY against them still being in good physical shape.

I mean come on guys, who are we kidding here. We are D&D players. We know reality. Why are you guys pretending like reality isn't what it is suddenly in defense of this movie? I liked the movie fine, but admit it's a fair criticism that Rachael Taylor isn't who would be the second best hacker in the world.