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Rated X wrote:Why do people get paid to be "critics"?

What credentials do thse guys or the tomato guys have that makes them qualified to read my mind on what type of movies I will or wont like?

I never understood why people follow these guys off a cliff like mindless zombies...must hate movie...critic guys say no good...feed me brains...smh

I liked all 5 Bay movies and all the new Star Wars movies....deal with it.

Because ART, man, ART. Some peeps see movies as some kind of high society stuff instead of entertainment. So ya get some dude in a suit actin' all snobby and stuff, sayin' this is good or that's good. I seen plenty of flicks the critics hate that I like so if critics rate it low I'm gonna see it and prolly like it. For me it's all about the

gothsaurus wrote:Transformers are iconic and cool enough to star in a movie without having to make them look like knights... or guys in trenchcoats... or Predators... or... Giger Aliens.... or Rastafarians... or... swirly dust clouds of morphing nanites...

I feel like this is one thing that will always be a dice throw on the designers' part. I love that they both alienized and humanized the designs for Bayformers. However, I can see others wouldn't. Personally, the knight motif is kinda awesome to me (I like knights, if you can't tell).

It's not all raspberries and scorn for Transformers: The Last Knight! Alongside Paramount's push for consideration for the original score by Steve Jablonsky, we also have news of another award regarding the fifth live-action Transformers movie: the sound editing for the movie score, as recognised and nominated by MPSE (Motion Picture Sound Editors). The 65th Golden Reels Awards will be given out on 18th February, and you can check all the nominees here - and the more relevant parts below!

LOS ANGELES — The Motion Picture Sound Editors (mpse.org) have announces the nominees for its 65th MPSE Golden Reel Awards. Nominees represent the work of the world’s most talented sound artists and their contributions to the past year’s most outstanding feature film, television, animation and computer entertainment productions.

“This has been an outstanding year in entertainment sound,” says MPSE president, Tom McCarthy. “Sound artists have crafted brilliant soundscapes for movies, television, games and other media. The Motion Picture Sound Editors extends its congratulations to this year’s Golden Reel Award nominees for their wonderful contributions to the art of sound.”

This year’s awards ceremony is scheduled to take place Sunday, February 18th at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, and will honor the art of sound editing in 23 categories.

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Music Score

Transformers: The Last Knight

Paramount Pictures

Supervising Music Editor: Alex Gibson

Music Editors: Jeannette Surga, Jason Ruder, Brian Lawson, Sam Zeines, Daniel DiPrima, Darryl Hall, Phillip Tallman, Dane Leon

Va'al wrote:It's not all raspberries and scorn for Transformers: The Last Knight!

It's ALWAYS scorn for Transformers: The Last Knight.

The music is great!

It's a terrible movie but it sounds great!

Wonder if it's anything to do with Bay's penchant for explosions. To his credit, he's probably got the art of filming and recording explosion noises down to a T.

Rated X wrote:Why do people get paid to be "critics"?

What credentials do thse guys or the tomato guys have that makes them qualified to read my mind on what type of movies I will or wont like?

I never understood why people follow these guys off a cliff like mindless zombies...must hate movie...critic guys say no good...feed me brains...smh

I liked all 5 Bay movies and all the new Star Wars movies....deal with it.

I agree to some agree that online film critics are worthless, well a lot of them.

However there are a lot of points that make a movie good.
And Transformers 5 The Last Knight has a lot of points that make it a very bad movie.
That doesn't mean that people can't enjoy the movie.

Positive thing I got out of the movie is that I disliked Transformers Revenge of the Fallen a little less, it's no longer my least favorite of the 5.

Transformers 5 needs to grab all those Razzi's, it's a terrible mess of a movie.

Yeah, like, the whole thing about what film critics thought about the movie didn't affect how I felt about TLK overall since I went into that movie without reading any reviews beforehand, and I still came out of that movie feeling dead inside.

The Last Knight got itself an Honest Trailer:

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CU4bFiU8F7Y

Fellow Seibertronian and News staff member Wreckerjack has sent our way a link to a discounted price on the set including all five live-action Transformers movies from Paramount, from 2007 to 2017, at the low price of $29.99 on Blu-ray over on online retailer Amazon.com!

The box set includes both Blu-Ray and digital editions of the five movies: Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon, Age of Extinction, The Last Knight; the boxart includes snipped posters for ach of the movies too, including the questionable photoshop collage for The Last Knight. Head over here to pick a set for yourself if so inclined!

Knowing there will be at least 2 more movies, im not inclined to buy this. I would want to wait a few more years to get the entire Bay fiction from start to finish in one comeplete set. Same goes for star wars. And since I buy like only 1 or 2 movies a year, I have yet to upgrade to blue ray. Brighter colors yes, but otherwise looks and sounds the same not worth double the price of a DVD.

Remember back when the nominations for the Golden Raspberries were announced, and The Last Knight was nominated across the board? Well, it turns out even the Razzies must be used to what they are getting, because The Last Knight failed to win a single Razzie.

Yes, you read that right folks. Despite performing the worst of the 5 live action films and despite a general "meh" feeling about the whole film, it did not win a single Razzie.

We can thank 50 Shades Darker and The Emoji Movie for sparing The Last Knight, as they nearly won every single category. And while The Last Knight may have deserved one of the rewards, we are grateful that it did not win one. For those who are not aware, the Razzies are rewards given to the worst of the worst every year, even though they are more for fun and not really a major competition like the Golden Globes.

Check out the embedded video below, showing the winners, and you can read the list of winners below!



Worst Picture: The Emoji Movie (Columbia) – Michelle Raimo Kouyate
Worst Director: Tony Leondis – The Emoji Movie
Worst Actor: Tom Cruise – The Mummy as Nick Morton
Worst Actress: Tyler Perry – Boo 2! A Madea Halloween as Mabel “Madea” Simmons
Worst Supporting Actor: Mel Gibson – Daddy’s Home 2 as Kurt Mayron
Worst Supporting Actress: Kim Basinger – Fifty Shades Darker as Elena Lincoln
Worst Screen Combo: Any two obnoxious emojis – The Emoji Movie
Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel: Fifty Shades Darker (Universal/Focus Features)
Worst Screenplay: The Emoji Movie – Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel and Mike White; based on the trend of emojis

Good riddance! Serves those other movies right for their being so terrible.

TLK was such a dead-felt movie, yes, but those other movies up there that won all those Razzies are very deserving of winning them for the garbage flicks that they are.

At least TLK had a decent concept behind it (giant transforming robots from space)

Emjoi movie? Yeah, lets make a movie about little pictures that are already dumbing down society. How can that NOT succeed?

Emoji movie was a step too far, I don't know why soy thought it was a good idea but mistakes were made

Just watched this with my mum tonight, she wanted to see anthony hopkins and then she pointed out that she thought cogman was the butler in Downton Abbey. So I checked that out on google and she was very amused. I think she enjoyed the movie for that and the scenery - I don't thinks he really understands the story (I told her she is not alone in that.)

Sunstar wrote:Just watched this with my mum tonight, she wanted to see anthony hopkins and then she pointed out that she thought cogman was the butler in Downton Abbey. So I checked that out on google and she was very amused. I think she enjoyed the movie for that and the scenery - I don't thinks he really understands the story (I told her she is not alone in that.)

Yes, it's the butler from Downton. There are other cameos, too. The main woman's mother was the nurse robot from "Humans".

Anyway, the other joke concerning Cogman is that he's both a British Headmaster AND a TF Headmaster (both meanings). Anyone else get that Easter egg?

primalxconvoy wrote:Anyway, the other joke concerning Cogman is that he's both a British Headmaster AND a TF Headmaster (both meanings). Anyone else get that Easter egg?

More like that was an artifact left over from an earlier version of the script where Cogman was likely supposed to have transformed into a head and taken control of the decapitated body of Nitro Zeus during the final battle scene with Cybertron at Stonehenge, but since that didn't make it into the final cut, the bit where Sir Edmund Burton calls Cogman a Headmaster makes little sense in the finalized version, as it referred to his being "a very rare breed" of Cybertronian. Nothing was said of him being an educator, but a lot was said of him being a butler, "for 700 years" no less.

Sabrblade wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:Anyway, the other joke concerning Cogman is that he's both a British Headmaster AND a TF Headmaster (both meanings). Anyone else get that Easter egg?

More like that was an artifact left over from an earlier version of the script where Cogman was likely supposed to have transformed into a head and taken control of the decapitated body of Nitro Zeus during the final battle scene with Cybertron at Stonehenge, but since that didn't make it into the final cut, the bit where Sir Edmund Burton calls Cogman a Headmaster makes little sense in the finalized version, as it referred to his being "a very rare breed" of Cybertronian. Nothing was said of him being an educator, but a lot was said of him being a butler, "for 700 years" no less.

Yes, that's what I said. He was meant to be a Headmaster. However, the Easter egg/in-joke was that his demeanor and nationality (thus use of vocabulary) pointed that he was also a British Headmaster-esque character, too.

primalxconvoy wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:Anyway, the other joke concerning Cogman is that he's both a British Headmaster AND a TF Headmaster (both meanings). Anyone else get that Easter egg?

More like that was an artifact left over from an earlier version of the script where Cogman was likely supposed to have transformed into a head and taken control of the decapitated body of Nitro Zeus during the final battle scene with Cybertron at Stonehenge, but since that didn't make it into the final cut, the bit where Sir Edmund Burton calls Cogman a Headmaster makes little sense in the finalized version, as it referred to his being "a very rare breed" of Cybertronian. Nothing was said of him being an educator, but a lot was said of him being a butler, "for 700 years" no less.

Yes, that's what I said. He was meant to be a Headmaster. However, the Easter egg/in-joke was that his demeanor and nationality (thus use of vocabulary) pointed that he was also a British Headmaster-esque character, too.

I... think that's called stereotyping, dude. Not cool.

Sabrblade wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:Anyway, the other joke concerning Cogman is that he's both a British Headmaster AND a TF Headmaster (both meanings). Anyone else get that Easter egg?

More like that was an artifact left over from an earlier version of the script where Cogman was likely supposed to have transformed into a head and taken control of the decapitated body of Nitro Zeus during the final battle scene with Cybertron at Stonehenge, but since that didn't make it into the final cut, the bit where Sir Edmund Burton calls Cogman a Headmaster makes little sense in the finalized version, as it referred to his being "a very rare breed" of Cybertronian. Nothing was said of him being an educator, but a lot was said of him being a butler, "for 700 years" no less.

Yes, that's what I said. He was meant to be a Headmaster. However, the Easter egg/in-joke was that his demeanor and nationality (thus use of vocabulary) pointed that he was also a British Headmaster-esque character, too.

I... think that's called stereotyping, dude. Not cool.

Not true. Cogman's behavior is synonymous with traditional British Headmasters:

(Warning: - some of these videos might be nsfw)

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pXw7LYWNi5E

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FiWJWLCoH2M

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JMNm7hGcz2E

Besides, even if that were not so, stereotyping him as a butler is just as "bad" in your book, surely?

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QQeqOBEAOiA

Every year in Canada, Cineplex movie theatres organize a community day where movies are shown in the morning for free and snacks are offered at low rates. Any money made goes to charity. The movies are always of the year so this year we have Transformers: The Last Knight as one of them. That particular film starts at 9:30 and it is first come first served as there are no tickets. This event is taking place next Saturday, the 27th, and doors open at 9 am. You can click on the following link to see the other movies offered and which cinemas are participating in the event: https://www.cineplex.com/Promos/Communi ... rtnerships

I don't hate The Last Knight as much as a lot of other people do, but why choose that when the first movie, Dark of the Moon, and honestly even Age of Extinction would be better choices? Eh, maybe there would be some edits to change the black bar inconsistencies and putting in the "missing" scenes, but I'm probably a bit too optimistic for a more "complete" edit of TLK.

Quantum Surge wrote:I don't hate The Last Knight as much as a lot of other people do, but why choose that when the first movie, Dark of the Moon, and honestly even Age of Extinction would be better choices? Eh, maybe there would be some edits to change the black bar inconsistencies and putting in the "missing" scenes, but I'm probably a bit too optimistic for a more "complete" edit of TLK.

As the article states, its not about having a free TF film, its about having a free recent film.