I might have been able to give the Bay movies a little more of a pass (not much of one, mind you, thanks to all the other issues you mentioned) if the fights hadn't looked like two drawers of silverware tossed at each other and filmed at the worst angles possible.

I thought it was “Robots kiss this guy.”

“for much of the Northeast, including Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island”

Another small victory for true freedom and democracy and against Republican fascism and criminality. Peace.

Well that can’t be right, Travis Scott said there was no way that a performer on stage could see something happening in the crowd, even if it was multiple people being trampled to death and ambulances being brought in.

You may not think there’s a lot a depth, but if you look a bit closer at Transformers, you’ll find there’s more than meets the eye.

This is nu-AV Club after all, the same site that just today is raving about a goddamn feature-length Flamin’ Hot Cheetos commercial.

This was embarassing to read

yeah if anything the problem was too much reverence, not enough fun. also those movies were violent in a way that was upsetting. he was able to get away with sooo much stuff because they weren’t human. 

The issue with the Bay-directed Transformers movies wasn’t that they failed to treat the source material with enough “reverence”—they’re a line of children’s toys, for chrissakes. The issue with the Bay-directed Transformers movies is that they’re...movies directed by Michael Bay—loud, incoherent, and exhausting when…

I have fond memories of Beast Wars, because its ambitions managed to elevate what should have been a grade-F show. But it’s worth noting that said elevation still only brought the show to maybe - maybe - a C+ at its best.

I think the theme here is “buy a ticket based on its connection to a show you remember liking, not by the movie’s actual quality.”

Which is one of the reasons I’m so fond of The LEGO Movie: it’s literally the story of a kid taking his dad’s LEGO bricks and using his imagination to play with them in ways other than following the rote instructions of the sets.

Nice article, now watch as I destroy it with a single word: Bumblebee.

“And that’s cool! Because the way it’s handled on the show treats the Transformers with actual reverence.”

“Everyone deserves to have their toy made into a good movie!”

the fact that we’re getting this weird piece before we get a review of the movie (which comes out tomorrow) says all that needs to be said.

Because if there’s been one consistent problem with this franchise, it’s that no one takes Transformers seriously.