Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[Alex]

I guess I'm flipped because I only really liked one of the previous five movies (though I didn't see The Incredible Hulk, so maybe it is brilliant) but loved this one.

I agree very much that it ends up in the conceptual place at the last last Transformers movie (except in New York instead of Chicago). But I think it handled it so much better that it really demonstrates that Michael Bay's flaw is not in what he was trying to do but in how he executed it.

But I'm not necessarily looking for character growth. As long as the movie doesn't try to go deep (as Nolan has with Batman to great effect) I'm more than happy to view movies like this as essentially entries in an old fashion super expensive serial.

That said, though not necessarily huge narratively in themselves I thought three of the four (excepting Thor, but he's a demigod, what is there to change) was taken through a significant moment in their development.

Bummer you didn't like it. Now we all wait for Promethius.