Re: What is most important!

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However, I won't give Transformers a chance for repeat viewings because the dialogue is terrible, there's a lack of wit, the characters are boring, and the plot is simple but totally stupid. Some action scenes were decent but the very last battle between Optimus and Megatron lacked any real tension of a good showdown. Watching Transformers was one of the biggest waste of my cinema money and time in years. It's pure eyecandy (effects + hotter than usual Megan Fox) without any other goods to support it - and so it's a failure to me./quote]

IMO...POTC1 was long, but had a good plot and was well developed...POTC2 is the most entertaining, the one I like the most, it goes fast and the 'plot' is not that complex...POTC3 is long, confusing, the plot loses itself into the sea of traitors and good and bad and...oh, you get it...the best of all the movies is Depp's Sparrow, no doubt about it, one of the great characters of this decade...

Transformers falls under the Raiders- category a popcorn movie with a plot good enough to keep you hooked to the action. Just as POTC is based on a ride, Transformers is based on toys, so there will never be a good backstory for them...

For me, Transformers is more visually appealing that POTC, and sorry to say, the lead human character has way too much charisma enough to overpower Depp's performance...yes, I said it...just overall, Transformers is on par with POTC as a great popcorn/eye candy movie none is better, none is worse, just good enough for repeat viewings...and honestly, I think that LeBeouf overshadowed the robots, yes he did.

mvckalel, was I misreading or did you just put Transformers in the same category as Raiders of the Lost Ark?
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/raiders_of_the_lost_ark/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_the_movie/

Even saying the title of these two movies in the same sentence scares the dickens outta me!

[Post edited by Skyhawk on Mar 27, 2008]

My buddy watched Master and Commander at his house just on a TV and said the movie was Good. Then I let him watch some clips in DTS at my house and he said that was better. I think there are some movies that if I watched on a TV in stereo I may have found them to be boring. Audio makes the difference.