Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[innerSpaceman]

I haven't even seen Transformers II or III, so I'm perfectly willing to accept that Whedon did a much better job than Bay of making a huge alien machine fight scene over a major metropolis clear and interesting.

It's simply that, thanks to those 3 Transformers movies pushing that kind of thing permanently past the Shark-Jump point, that kind of thing will - I daresay - forevermore be a trope of derision. It was done well, but what I'm criticizing is that it was done at all.

And I'm hardly the only person to yawn over the 23rd multi-hero, huge alien machine invasion of major world city destruction. It's really a shame if someone does something well that's been done to death, but there you have it.


And I concede I'm not seeing something about this movie that most audiences and critics are seeing. But I've conversed with other people who didn't like it, and I've read some stinging reviews I agree with (most notably the L.A. Weekly review, which in my opinion is spot on in every respect.)

I'm not an ultra-hater of Titanic, for example, but is that a good film simply because it's so popular? I think most reasonable people can glimpse the point of the haters of that particular uber-popular movie. But if no one can see mine about The Avengers, so be it. I'm not stating my opinions to bait anyone. It's just that I'm a loudmouth.

[Snowflake]

Well, all I can say is you guys are making me want to see The Avengers. Job well done.

I came late to the Buffy and Angel love, so I expect I will enjoy this.