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Bless you Michael Bay. Armageddon is a masterpiece.

can't wait... bless you tuan for putting it so.. R-rated

the awesomeness would have been lost with a pg-13 language...
Now i can't wait to go to the cinema and see the transformers... transform the f**k out of stuff

very very well said....i couldnt have said it better myself.....

"Although this is the Citizen Kane of robot/action movies"....i love that quote...haha

SEE THIS MOVIE!!!..not like you wont though.....

Boy, tuan, you seem to be wired into the movie scene... I would give my eyeteeth to be able to see movies before the 99.9% of creation!

Are there any other movies that you plan to be attending prior to their release? I could really use your insight, dude... as good is my column is (it is good, isn't it?), I think it could be even better with some actual hard data. I can do a lot with trends and directional vectors and whatnot, but when you get down to it, predicting movies is just guesswork!

Good review, by the way. A little risque for my tastes, but I think you could start an R-rated movie review website with that theme. Here's a grading curve:

5 stars = F--kin' Awesome!
4 stars = F--kin' Good!
3 stars = F--kin' Average!
2 stars = F--kin' Waste of Time!
1 star = F--k Off and Die!

Get back to me.

hey tuan, check out whats being sold on the bay...

Bless you Michael Bay. Armageddon is a masterpiece.

Wow tuan you must of really liked thanks for the great r rated review

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Can't wait to see it on Monday.

Not to be off-topic but have you seen this http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070629/ap_en_ot/film_review_transformers ?

2 * out of four....
Think the guy did not really see the awesomeness that tuan described

wow, what a pair of diametrically opposed reviews. You should give that guy his what for Tuan.

~D

Some dude named "Banjo the Woodchuck" posted this on Mase's review page:

"I saw "Transformers" last night and it B-L-O-W-S. No two ways about it. (NO SPOILERS BELOW, I promise.) The funny thing is, it starts out O.K. I enjoyed the opener in Qatar, some of the Sam Witwicky character stuff, and the film critic side of my brain is thinking, "Not bad. We're working on solid B here, with the potential to build to something better." And then ... and then ... oh, sweet land of Goshen, AND THEN we hit the part of the movie where the Autobots and Sam go to casa del Witwicky so that Sam can retrieve an important, er, plot point. And the movie goes OVER A FRICKIN' CLIFF. The scene at casa del Witwicky is 15-20 minutes all by itself and is the worst thing I've seen on film since the last 20 minutes of 'Click.' And that's it. The film is D-U-N done after that. There's even a WORSE moment still to come about which I will only say this: Several years ago I had to actually watch and review Douglas McGrath's "Company Man," a mostly terrible movie which includes a staggeringly awful scene in which John Turturro actually says, "I'm going to ram this microphone up my (anus) and (bleep) Cuba to freedom." And I walked out thinking, "I will never again see a moment on film of greater cosmic embarrassment to John Turturro." AND THEN ... last night. Let's just say that Turturro and Bumblebee have a moment that's a new all-time low for Johnny T. DEAR. FRICKIN'. MOTHER OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. Plus, Megan Fox is a complete tool. She's both outacted (like, embarrassingly so) and outfoxed (heh) by Rachael Taylor. Steve Mason is dead-on about how convincing the special effects are ... and by the end of the movie, I didn't care a lick. It didn't matter to me in the least. I just wanted the frickin' thing to end, and end quickly."

Bless you Michael Bay. Armageddon is a masterpiece.

I want to know how anybody saw a sneak for this when paramount put locks on all the second cans. this really grinded our gears if ya know what i mean. I worked all weekend only able to build half the movie up wanting to pry my way into the second canister. dam you paramount. For your sake I hope I paid alot of attention when doing this one. If I have to go fix anything during our eight o clock. Im a gonna go apeshit.

Bless you Michael Bay. Armageddon is a masterpiece.

What has been the box office response to Transformers in Australia Tuan? Also for those who want to answer, What are the highest grossing all time numbers for people outside the US borders? I was just curious. You never know when you will need good trivia answers for trivial pursuit to further acquire more pointless knowledge.

http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region=non-us

The above link will show you the list of dollars grossed OUTSIDE the U.S.

Suffice it to say, Titanic is #1. LOTR movies are #2, #7 and #10, and the Harry Potter movies are #3, #5, #6 and #12. POTC2 is #4, Jurassic Park is #9, and SM3 is about to move past LOTR1 for the #10 spot.

By the way, something I must say:

I stated in my column a couple of weeks ago that Ratatouille would not be anyone's favorite Pixar movie, and that people would see it, like it, and then start counting the hours until Transformers arrived.

I was wrong.

Ratatouille was an absolutely incredible movie. Smart, funny, amazingly animated. An absolute 10. It may not be my all-time favorite Pixar movie (The Incredibles is, and probably always will be), but it may end up at #2. Anyone who has enjoyed anything Pixar has ever done should not miss this movie.

Sadly, I think I am right in thinking that my original projections will be accurate... that it will make somewhere between $150 and $200, which is too bad. But if this movie doesn't win the Oscar for Best Animated Picture, I will be very, very upset.

I will see Transformers this week, and I have very high expectations. But at this point, I cannot see myself liking it more than Ratatouille. I'll probably like it, perhaps even love it. But I have yet to give any Bay movie a 10.

Pixar has hit the mark again. They are truly master craftsmen. Bravo.

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