Transformers! (Merged)

[Alex]

It's a a new J.J. Abrams movie. It is not Godzilla (no way that could get made without it being known) but apparently is a monster movie with the working title (but almost certainly not the release title) Cloverfield.

The entire thing is shot in that first person hand held camera perspective seen in the trailer.

At least according to a Jeffrey Wells source and he's generally reasonably solid on such things.

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Alex

I'd like the Mission City : Los Angels :: Gotham City : New York City if they hadn't said Mission City is 20 miles from Hoover Dam.

Really? I thought I heard them say 200 and some miles, like "220 miles north of here". I guess I heard it wrong, but I remember thinking "that's about how far Vegas is from LA" when I heard that line (not realizing it wasn't suppose to be LA).

[xharryb]

Originally Posted by Alex

I was also mildly annoyed at them adding a completely unnecessary line of diaglog about how "NASA/JPL lost the Beagle 2 Mars probe." Why go to the trouble of adding that line just to get it wrong. Yes, only 1 in 500 people probably recognized the problem with it, but why not just say "remember that Mars probe we lost?"

That was a nod to the first teaser trailer that came out last year where we only saw a shadow of a robot as it destroyed the Mars probe.

I'll give you Grifith Observatory as a recognizable landmark for the average filmgoer. I'm not sure if the average filmgoer automatically associates it with LA, but they should remember seeing it in other films and TV shows. Of course, the observatory scene was before they went to the Dam, so they could have meant for that to be a different location from the city they go to after the Dam.

Again, I'm not saying they did a good job with the location issues. It's one of the big, sloppy flaws of the movie. It shows lack of focus on the details because they figured you'd be too busy watching the big shiny robots to think about these things. However, as the average filmgoer living on the East coast the observatory and the dam were the ONLY recognizable landmarks to me, and that was only because they've been featured in other films, not because I associate them with their actual locations.

[Alex]

That was a nod to the first teaser trailer that came out last year where we only saw a shadow of a robot as it destroyed the Mars probe.

What was a nod? I understand the purpose of the scene but why use the real name for that mission but reassign it from the European Space Agency to NASA/JPL? Again, it is really, really, really minor but why go to the trouble of adding unnecessary words just to add the wrong ones. For those who do know it is jarring, as if in Star Trek IV they'd said the USS Enterprise was part of the British navy.

[xharryb]

Originally Posted by Alex

What was a nod? I understand the purpose of the scene but why use the real name for that mission but reassign it from the European Space Agency to NASA/JPL? Again, it is really, really, really minor but why go to the trouble of adding unnecessary words just to add the wrong ones. For those who do know it is jarring, as if in Star Trek IV they'd said the USS Enterprise was part of the British navy.

Sorry. I misunderstood the point you were making.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

The entire thing is shot in that first person hand held camera perspective seen in the trailer.

That counts me out. I'm not a fan of vomiting 1/3 of the way through movies (I'm still shocked I made it all the way through Blair Witch).

[Alex]

Yeah, I wondered about that. Blair Witch didn't cause me any problems but I know a lot of people did have motion sickness issues (like my mom). And the trailer is a lot more choppy than Blair Witch, but I have to assume (hope) it settles down a lot.

[innerSpaceman]

Who cares? That guy who the party was in honor of was totally hot.


He can hand my hold any time!

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

So I don't like the movie you enjoyed. So what? This does not me I do not like you, or you do not like me. (If identical taste was what friendship required, EH and I could never be friends! She likes Marie Antoinette, and I like The Queen. She likes Infamous, I like Capote. But this doesn't mean we don't like each other.)

I'm stepping into the middle just to clarify that your examples seem to imply I didn't like The Queen or Capote, when I simply haven't gotten around to seeing them. No reason why I can't like all 4 of the films you mentioned. A better example might actually be the topic of this thread, since you disliked Transformers and I loved it, enough to see it twice.

[sleepyjeff]

And done.........can't believe I read this thread.

Now, on to the "so" thread..................not