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Alright. I saw this movie tonight with the expectation of having a good time. That ship sailed right at the point the technical goofs started popping up left and right. So, without further ado:
First act: Totally LOVED the Apollo 11 sequence. I felt they got pretty well spot on with the historical events, up until . . .
. . . the Ark crashing onto the moon.
C'mon, guys. The possibility of large-scale fireball-spewing explosions in space is unlikely. There is gaseous combustion a la an explosion, but no fire. And besides -- I can see ordinance lighting off given a hard enough impact (as was depicted here) with a (semi)solid object. What I'm kinda 'huh?!'-ing at is the big gasoline explosions we've seen since Bay released Pearl Harbor pouring out of the Ark as it smacks lunar soil.
Second act:
Yay. We start right away with a little something for the teenaged guys out there. Hey. It's a modern Hollywood production; gotta have something for everybody, y'know?
The NASA moon landing conspiracy aside, it was at least interesting to see them put together a parallel with the US/Soviet space race having far more ulterior motives (a la the Russians actually getting away with scoring evidence of extraterrestrial life on the Moon earlier than when we actually set foot on the same). Having Buzz Aldrin himself actually deliver a 35-second-long cameo was sheer ham, and probably worth the $9 admission.
Third act:
Full. I mean seam-busting full of action sequence after action sequence. [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina"]Deus ex machina[/ame] are plentiful here. It was almost painful to watch, though I think it was the borderline ridiculous fighting sequences I was seeing whilst repeating to myself over and over, "Are you
kidding me?"
Also along the lines of "(sarcasm)I totally didn't see that coming!(/sarcasm)" was the sudden face/heel turn of this Prime that they introduced half-way through the film. I felt they gave about enough character development for a kid to really become emotionally attached to this autobot. Then they abruptly yanked him over to the Decepticon side.
Then!
This is the BEST PART!
They blow up Space Shuttle Discovery (without really blowing her up -- you can actually SEE the fully intact vehicle drop away from the explosion plume!), and THEN! They actually teleport half of a jupiter-sized planet within a thousand kilometers of Earth's surface -- and nothing happens!
One would THINK the gravitational perturbations of a rock the size of friggin' Cybertron suddenly appearing within close proximity of Earth would at LEAST cause a 2012-esque global disaster of epic proportions.
Oh well. It's just a movie, right? And as abrupt as this movie has been, I'm finding myself quite abruptly all out of rant. :tiphat:
First act: Totally LOVED the Apollo 11 sequence. I felt they got pretty well spot on with the historical events, up until . . .
. . . the Ark crashing onto the moon.
C'mon, guys. The possibility of large-scale fireball-spewing explosions in space is unlikely. There is gaseous combustion a la an explosion, but no fire. And besides -- I can see ordinance lighting off given a hard enough impact (as was depicted here) with a (semi)solid object. What I'm kinda 'huh?!'-ing at is the big gasoline explosions we've seen since Bay released Pearl Harbor pouring out of the Ark as it smacks lunar soil.
Second act:
Yay. We start right away with a little something for the teenaged guys out there. Hey. It's a modern Hollywood production; gotta have something for everybody, y'know?
The NASA moon landing conspiracy aside, it was at least interesting to see them put together a parallel with the US/Soviet space race having far more ulterior motives (a la the Russians actually getting away with scoring evidence of extraterrestrial life on the Moon earlier than when we actually set foot on the same). Having Buzz Aldrin himself actually deliver a 35-second-long cameo was sheer ham, and probably worth the $9 admission.
Third act:
Full. I mean seam-busting full of action sequence after action sequence. [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina"]Deus ex machina[/ame] are plentiful here. It was almost painful to watch, though I think it was the borderline ridiculous fighting sequences I was seeing whilst repeating to myself over and over, "Are you
kidding me?"Also along the lines of "(sarcasm)I totally didn't see that coming!(/sarcasm)" was the sudden face/heel turn of this Prime that they introduced half-way through the film. I felt they gave about enough character development for a kid to really become emotionally attached to this autobot. Then they abruptly yanked him over to the Decepticon side.
Then!
This is the BEST PART!
They blow up Space Shuttle Discovery (without really blowing her up -- you can actually SEE the fully intact vehicle drop away from the explosion plume!), and THEN! They actually teleport half of a jupiter-sized planet within a thousand kilometers of Earth's surface -- and nothing happens!
One would THINK the gravitational perturbations of a rock the size of friggin' Cybertron suddenly appearing within close proximity of Earth would at LEAST cause a 2012-esque global disaster of epic proportions.
Oh well. It's just a movie, right? And as abrupt as this movie has been, I'm finding myself quite abruptly all out of rant. :tiphat:
