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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 3635703" data-attributes="member: 4720">I enjoyed it.  My wife enjoyed it.  Given our divergent histories, vis a vis the Transformers, that's impressive in its way.When Shaky-cam is all your director understands, you roll with the punches.  You've only got one way to look impressive in that context, and it ain't my actually moving like a 30 foot robot <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Dear lord, there were sequences that looked like copy-and-paste out of Pearl Harbor (and I've only seen about 5% of Pearl Harbor).  I've seen a more impressive variety of camera techniques in fan films shot with camcorders.Sadly, I feel like the movie succeeded at being a movie about a teenager and his car, but failed at delivering coherent action.And here are a couple plot gripes:[spoiler]So.... the marine captain who was the resident human bad-arse chose to maximize civilian risk and collateral damage for a very minor increase in the ability to defend a position?  No intelligent soldier would deliberately put thousands of civilians at risk when he could have achieved an equivalent tactical advantage by holing up in a box canyon.  Which would have arguably been FAR better, because you can have the place carpet-bombed if necessary without risking civilian lives.  Worst case scenario... a tactical nuke ought to hit the magic temperature, so choosing a city for staging your last stand is either stupid or sociopathic.  That choice was borderline offensive, and done for no other plot reason than to ratchet up the collateral damage.Secondly, after having that battle in the middle of a city in front of thousands of people, the autobots are going to HIDE on earth?  Right.  Again... that box canyon would have at least made hiding plausible.  A handful of military people who can be handily sworn to secrecy, and beyond Sam and company, the only civilians to know about it would be people who were out in the wilderness... a small number and easily dismissed as sufferers of heat stroke.And finally, does it not strike anyone as silly that Jazz was the LEAST developed character among the autobots, with the fewest lines, and then the one-shot him merely to show how powerful Megatron was.  It might have had some dramatic heft if they had killed someone we actually KNEW.  To say nothing of introducing a robot that is OBVIOUSLY intended with some ethnic identity and making him into a Red shirt.  That's not just sloppy, but actually stupid nowadays.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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