Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-24829928-20140628231304

I'm bored, might as well toss out an off-topic post about the film.

Watched it at the local, small town, theatre. You know, the type of place you cough up $20 and get 2 tickets and concessions. IMAX it was not. Still, a huge crowd is not always a good thing and I felt like having a small viewing today.

To the film... It is the 4th film in a series of films basically made by the same people. If you have seen any of the prior films, you have a general idea what to expect. Don't expect this film to win you over if you already hated the first 3. That said, I enjoyed it. Not a masterpiece, it is a Bay film after all, but I do not regret seeing it on big screen.

Script was better than expected. So glad we are done with films that suffered scripts made during the writers' strike (looking at you, Revenge of the Fallen). More focus on the bots this time around, but still a lot of human screen time. Humor is still there, but imo not as low brow as I have come to expect thanks to Revenge or DSotM. I went in thinking it was just rumors, but it was actually darker than prior films. I mean, people are killed on screen, and not just background soldiers or extras.

Plot and character development is still as weak as the other films had, but lets be honest here... we are not watching a film about robots that turn into cars for a cerebral experience. Honestly, I like Mark better. I'll take his silly comments and obsession with his daughter dating over Shia's girly voice screaming, "BumbleBee!" or "Optimus!" every 30 seconds. So glad we are past the days of that shrieking.

To wrap up this boredom post, I'll rank the 4 films, so you have a better understanding of where I stand on the series:

1. Transformers.

2. Transformers: AoE.

3. Transformers: DSotM.

4. Transformers: RotF. 