ALL OF THEM.
I am not expecting it, but if it happens....... (I have you e-mail, do not forget that. Of course, you have mine. And, are probably more devious than I am at this sort of thing. So, actually, lets not do this.)
No, I am understanding it. You are weighing popular reaction as a metric of something being good.Which is why I said: obviously you're failing to understand my use of it.
This is absurd. Popular reaction is what gave us VHS over BETA back in the 80s, despite BETA being a quantifiably better technology. But, VHS managed to sell more, and get itself more places. It had better marketing and distribuion.
And, the entertainment defense generally goes like, "What did you expect, this is entertainment? Go read a book or something if you smarts."
And, satisfaction involves having standards met or even exceeded.Entertainment involves being satisfied, something which ROTF does not deliver. I cannot speak for AHM.
Actually, I just wanted, (and tried to start), a listing of variations on the Bay-verse. The last thing I wanted was something like that to be in context though.Heh, Dom actually wanted a comic series to do that after the first one, IIRC. Crisis on Infinite Cy-Bay-Trons!
The Fallen has been used well. Of course, the one example of that I can think of is "War Within II", which actually had ideas. And, I am willing to concede that "War Within II" was good despite the Fallen, not because of.Y'know Trekkie, you brought up a good point. I don't know why I ever went in with the pretense that this movie would be very good, it has The Fallen in it.
I just do not know what to say. (Self-ZING!)Idea is a loaded word.
Trekkie's comments either illustrate my comments on low expectations.
Trekkie is basically saying, "well, I was not expecting anything great, and hey!". This is like being surrounded by burly men in a prison shower and only getting beater. ("Well, it could have been so much worse really.") By setting his expectations low, Trekkie is setting his standards low, and is thus more forgiving.
Low expectations are making Trekkie very forgiving, which illustrates what I was saying.
What did you expect?On the contrary, my expectations were quite high,
Even a few pounds worth of Oscars would only be an indication of interest though.I suddenly remember what I was going to add to my last post. I worked at a Blockbuster for 4 1/2 years. In that time I've seen the best movies on the planet and I've seen the worst movies on the planet. And let's face it, these movies were never going to win a ton of oscars. Compared to the entire rest of cinematic achievement these films are crap. But that doesn't mean they don't have their entertainment value and they're also far from being the worst movies ever.
And, as Trekkie points out, given how badly Bay's TF compares to other movies, it is hard to praise them. There is better value for entertainment dollars available.
Dom
-hard pressed to think of worse movies.
