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Insomniac Movie Marathon: Transformers the Last Knight@rvgenaille2421d

-via IMDb.com

So I checked out Transformers: The Last Knight.

Yeah.

Where to begin?

Where indeed.

This one is all over the place. Tonally, it can't decide what it wants to be. The pacing is uneven, and that comment takes into account the weird way director Michael Bay likes to edit and move his camera.

Gone is that strange Decepticon transformation style that was introduced in the last movie, as is Galvatron, who was the reincarnated Megatron, replaced here by, um, Megatron.

There are some Dinobot cameos and baby Dinobots and they seem to disappear at some point, the whole back story of the previous four films is abandoned in favour of the back story of this film while keeping all the elements of the last films.

It's confusing so I'll try to explain but first:

SPOILER!!!

Optimus Prime gets to a half-destroyed Cybertron, meets his creator, Quintessa, whom is bringing Cybertron to Earth to drain it to rebuild Cybertron because Earth is actually Cybertron's ancient enemy Unicron. She needs Merlin's staff, he of King Arthur fame, and the only ones that can stop her is Mark Wahlberg returning as Cade Yaeger and Laura Haddock as Vivian Wembley, the last living descendent of Merlin.

Anthony Hopkins is here as an Earl of something, keeper of the secret history of the Transformers on Earth, and he has a weird steam-punkish robot butler. They seem to be in a different movie.

Anyway, I don't know what to say. Scenes end arbitrarily, it tries to be an awkward romantic comedy at one point, an action scene suddenly becomes a strange driving-around-London thing and then becomes an action scene again; something happens and then it changes and you're left wondering, "what just happened?" Characters reference things that didn't happen in the movie.

And then there's the part of me that keeps thinking wait, wasn't Quintessa the names of the planet of the Quintessons? Hot Rod makes an appearance but he has a French accent and doesn't become Rodimus Prime and, wait, Earth is Unicron?

POST CREDIT SPOILER!!!

They seem to hint that Unicron will be a problem in this setting up of a sixth movie in this franchise.

I just don't know why I keep watching these things. Something keeps pulling me back into this franchise and I keep leaving it flabbergasted.

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›Transformers The Last Knight 4k HDR@evoman12949d

Amazing looking movie in 4k HDR.

(Screenshot taken with Iphone 8 Plus - Epson 5040ub Projector - Elite Screens Cinegrey 5d Screen.)

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›Transformers: The Last Knight- Reprise@rvgenaille3097d

Decided to sign this out at the library because I felt it was so bad that I needed to make my brother watch it. Hasn’t been easy. We’re just getting into it again and I think it’s safe to say what my thoughts are on it without finishing.

This movie is still awful.

This movie is still incoherent.

This movie is not even in the “so bad it’s good” category and my hope to exchange quips and commentary like we did with Gremlins 2 is probably not going to happen. I don’t really want to sit through it again.

-photo via IMDb.com.

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›Insomniac Film Festival #50: Transformers: The Last Knight (with a couple of SPOILERS)@rvgenaille3193d
-via IMDb.com

So I checked out Transformers: The Last Knight.

Yeah.

Where to begin?

Where indeed.

This one is all over the place. Tonally, it can't decide what it wants to be. The pacing is uneven, and that comment takes into account the weird way director Michael Bay likes to edit and move his camera.

Gone is that strange Decepticon transformation style that was introduced in the last movie, as is Galvatron, who was the reincarnated Megatron, replaced here by, um, Megatron.

There are some Dinobot cameos and baby Dinobots and they seem to disappear at some point, the whole back story of the previous four films is abandoned in favour of the back story of this film while keeping all the elements of the last films.

It's confusing so I'll try to explain but first:

SPOILER!!!

Optimus Prime gets to a half-destroyed Cybertron, meets his creator, Quintessa, whom is bringing Cybertron to Earth to drain it to rebuild Cybertron because Earth is actually Cybertron's ancient enemy Unicron. She needs Merlin's staff, he of King Arthur fame, and the only ones that can stop her is Mark Wahlberg returning as Cade Yaeger and Laura Haddock as Vivian Wembley, the last living descendent of Merlin.

Anthony Hopkins is here as an Earl of something, keeper of the secret history of the Transformers on Earth, and he has a weird steam-punkish robot butler. They seem to be in a different movie.

Anyway, I don't know what to say. Scenes end arbitrarily, it tries to be an awkward romantic comedy at one point, an action scene suddenly becomes a strange driving-around-London thing and then becomes an action scene again; something happens and then it changes and you're left wondering, "what just happened?" Characters reference things that didn't happen in the movie.

And then there's the part of me that keeps thinking wait, wasn't Quintessa the names of the planet of the Quintessons? Hot Rod makes an appearance but he has a French accent and doesn't become Rodimus Prime and, wait, Earth is Unicron?

POST CREDIT SPOILER!!!

They seem to hint that Unicron will be a problem in this setting up of a sixth movie in this franchise.

I just don't know why I keep watching these things. Something keeps pulling me back into this franchise and I keep leaving it flabbergasted.

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›Transformers: The Last Knight - Movie Review@coldsteem3258d

Michael Bay is as talented as he is prolific. Which is not necessarily a good thing. He has made countless films that I have enjoyed. But do we need to keep making The Purge sequels? Or Bad Boys sequels? Or the umpteenth Transformers movie? The Last Knight is the fifth in the series, with a seventh already planned for 2019 and a spinoff featuring Bumblebee due out next year. Enough already. I love the franchise. But based on the current film, this series has played out. It seems the only reason to make more of these films is some sick competition to do more bad sequels than Fast and Furious.

With that opening paragraph, you probably think I hated this film. I didn't hate it. But I hate to see talent wasted on something that isn't up to par. In this film, Optimus Prime becomes the bad guy, we get a backstory that involves the Knights Templar, and Mark Wahlberg once again saves the world from destruction. It is getting formulaic with more outlandish plot lines. The narrative has gotten to the point of ridiculous. A band of misfits saves the planet from destruction. And the transformers are really our friends. And they are just misunderstood. And the world is on the brink of collapse. It's the same story. Just wearing an uglier dress.

Other than Mark Wahlberg and Anthony Hopkins, the human actors are relatively unknown. Although there is a cameo by Stanley Tucci as well. I thought the acting was fine. And the CGI was amazing. As always. But you can't keep building films around special effects and decent acting. Without a worthwhile plot, it just feels like a waste of time to me. The characters were pretty flat, the plot was predictable, the dialogue was forgettable. The pacing wasn't even great. This film could easily have cut ten or fifteen minutes and I don't think I would have missed anything. The storytelling just lacked the impact that the cinematography, large budget and acting deserved.

If you are a fan of the franchise, this one will be fine to watch when it hits your streaming service. You may miss the impact of the big CGI watching on a smaller screen, but the story just isn't worth paying full price to see it in the theater. I'm not going to go as low as IMDB on this one, but I'm probably being generous with a 6/10 rating. I liked it more than I didn't like it. It just felt wasteful to me not to have a better story, or invest this effort into a new franchise.

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›Transformers: The Last Knight Official Trailer 1 (2017) - Michael Bay Movie@movietrailers3491d
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Mark Wahlberg, and Laura Haddock Transformers: The Last Knight Official Trailer 1 (2017) - Michael Bay Movie

Transformers: The Last Knight is an upcoming 2017 American 3D science fiction-action film based on the Transformers toy line.

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