I must say, I really don't see how you can think it takes itself seriously, from any of the scenes at all... But okay. Weird. 

I just want to say, if you didn't like 40 year old virgin, that doesn't mean you won't like Knocked Up, they are a different style somewhat, with 40 year old virgin having more of a standard hollywood comedy format. I agree with Headthump that many of the characters were very uncliched and realistic, not all but many, and Knocked Up doesn't really have many 'joke' characters. I don't want to build it up too much, but go and see it with an open mind... nitin, pretend you're going to see Licence to Wed or Chuck & Larry and then hopefully be pleasantly surprised.

Oh I forgot to mention that there are some great cameos from people i have full on man-love for such as Harold Ramis, Loudon Wainwright III (who does all the music too) and B.J. Novak. 

went to see it ex tempore.

Would like to talk about it with someone else who did, as it's clearly some work that needs a lot of untying of all the knots, or however one would say it.
I'm tempted of creating a thread about it (with [spoilers] in topic), but if everybody just watches transformers stuff it's kinda useless...

So, say something if you wanna discuss it on func. 

Ok, this in itself is quite similar to Training Day (same folks who made that), maybe Training Day meets Taxi Driver. However, it actually made me appreciate that I'd fairly underrated Training Day when I saw it. This is, however, a better movie. It's all due to Christian Bale, as without him the movie would be nothing. I have to admit that I've become convinced over the past couple years that he is the best youngish actor in mainstream films right now, and this movie cemented that belief for me. While he tends to play crazy characters (which I find awesome), this is an entirely different kind of crazy. It isn't the paranoia and introspection of The Machinist, nor the anger and focus of Batman, or the arrogance and intensity of The Prestige. Rather, he plays a completely nonintellectual character, an ex-Army guy on the streets, who is almost like a ticking time bomb. I didn't know what to expect and was sure this would be the role he fell flat on, but I was really surprised and it's some of his best work.

Btw I lost a rock-paper-scissors a few weeks ago and had to go to Transformers. I have now joined the group of fine folks known as "Michael Bay Haters." 

going to keep it short since i am not happy about it. i love "strange" films. actually, its the only type of film i watch, and foreign films. though i don't like saying foreign film since a movie its a movie, no matter where it comes from. always felt weird saying foreign films.

anyway, this is a piece of shit! how can people like this? i know everyone has different tastes and all, but man, this is like a ed wood film on acid, acid that doesn't get you high so you have to force yourself and pretend to see weird and strange things.

and whats worse, i wasted $20 on it! see, everyone i know raves about it, saying its the coolest thing there is. that its a piece of art. damn their lies. and whats with people saying the plot is hard to get? isn't the whole thing about the dude being scared to be a parent? it really looks like, and i don't think it can be about anything else. if it is, then its lies! :-)

anyway. i miss my $20. i want them back. :-)

but like i said before, everyone has different tastes. some find fish to be good, i think fish is disgusting as hell. others like grapes, i dont like grapes, but i really like grape juice. and grape soda... blah blah blah i didnt like this movie.

whoa, wrote more than i wanted to :-) 

im very sleepy, so sorry if i wrote gibberish above. 

I agree with your statements, and the cutting manner of their delivery. Don't forget XBox360Bot: a guy walking down the street with a brand new 360, who holds it up to the camera with a shocked look on his face when it comes to life, sprouts arms, and plays the 360 startup sound.

The selling out, the "hot girl falls for the nerd because she has a heart of gold" angle, and the completely awful and inconsistent characterization had me so angry when I left the theater that I almost felt like I just didn't want to go to the movies ever again. I think I'd rather just turn into nitin and only visit the foreign section of my local independent second-hand video store. 

The selling out, the "hot girl falls for the nerd because she has a heart of gold" angle, and the completely awful and inconsistent characterization had me so angry when I left the theater that I almost felt like I just didn't want to go to the movies ever again.

You went to see a movie based on a cartoon series that was created to sell toys and you expected something
better than a product placement advertisement with something better than conventional and not terribly cohesive plotting and this has killed cinema for you? 

Maybe it could be edited down to one good 20 minute episode...

The good comedy parts were far too few and there wasn't really anything interesting to fill the gap between them. 

Marge for roughly 23 minutes at a time. Maybe in a few years it will be broken down into four episodes sort of like the Family Guy straight to DVD movie in reverse. 

I felt like I didn't want to go to theatre movies or blockbusters anymore after seeing the crap that was Transformers.

"I'm never giving you this allspark!"

it seemed to encompass EVERYTHING that is wrong with hollywood blockbusters, all at once. Even the music in the background consistantly pissed me off. Fuck you Michael Bay. 

that movie must really be the ass end of Satan.

But if you give up on Cinema,

Michael Bay wins. 

so I deserve to be upset if my expectations are any higher than "crap"? 

If your expectations of any Michael Bay movie are higher than "crap?"

Probably, yes. 

 

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Started off very promising, wonderful soundtrack and very well created post-apocalyptic/nuclear atmosphere.
Well, it's a b-movie so I should have expected less.
The style is very very nice but the story becomes bad.
Watch it if you like such movies. At least the intro and the shown content (as machinery, gimmicks, stuff) is worth it. 

see, everyone's trying to invalidate my opinion of this movie predicated on whether or not I went in the first place.

This movie offends me by existing. I'm almost glad I did see it so I know it needs to be hated. 

hating an insignificant kids movie? 

I don't care if Mel's anti-semitic. This was a damn good movie. 

See it for the tiananmen square illustration.

You'll know. 

it seemed to encompass EVERYTHING that is wrong with hollywood blockbusters

Definitely. This movie could have been a solid cartoon adaption, but wtf? To me it almost seemed to have been deliberately made stupid.

Starbuck: word! 

One could say it was a proper "sigh-fi" movie... 

I deliberately chose to go and see Transformers out of my own free will.

It was very mildly entertaining nonsense.

And yes deliberately stupid. 

some one needs to edit the hell out of it leaving only the robots and the action scenes.
then it would be really nice movie :)

I enjoyed the action and pretty much looked away during the idiotic 'human' parts 

The other thing that pissed me off about it was the fact that the camera was always way to close to actually see wtf was happening half the time!

If the rest of the movie had been shot in the same great way as the 3 or 4 slo-mo shots you see throughout then it would have been so much better!