Why transformers 3 was bad

Helped me decide. Read my mind 2. Adult Written by Luceroblanco July 1, Not for children. I saw this movie today--I'm in my 40s.

I've seen other Transformers and like this one I enjoyed it. I was shocked today though by the amount of violence.

It was ALL violence. The message is basically kill or be killed. I don't think this is the kind of message children should be getting. As far as the sexual content, the woman, Carly, is very sexualized and wears skintight clothing throughout.

It is a stereotypical and derogatory depiction--and the other major female character is DEsexualized and acts really masculine. I didn't find that nearly as objectionable as the violence though.

Overall it was an entertaining movie, funny at some points and definitely action-packed but just not something I think children should see. Helped me decide 1. Adult Written by daytoday June 29, I am a mom of two boys The use of stereotypes for all the women in the movie is not good.

It over emphasizes women as sex objects, or bitchy. This title contains: Consumerism. Adult Written by oyonan July 21, Yes, the bad guys capture some good guys and put guns to the back of their heads. There's a teary moment, then it starts again. All the way through this movie is heartlessly violent. Most of the time there's action as an excuse. But it's the "good" transfomers killing their enemies and not feeling the slightest regret or compassion about it.

They hurl the body through a building or dismember it. This wouldn't make it in an R rated movie as lately as the 90s! At the end Optimus Prime, my childhood hero and symbol of respect for life and freedom, not only defeats a weakened Megatron who was no real threat, but proceeds to decapitate him with his bare hand. No remorse, no regret. I was shocked. BUt then Optimus turns to his oldest friend and former mentor who masterminded the evil plot in the movie, Sentinel.

Sentinel repents for what he'd done and admits that he was wrong. Optimus Prime, the great and wise leader takes Sentinel and sees that he's seen the folly of his ways and offers to take Sentinel back and help him mend his ways.

Where the director truly begins to break new ground is in the character of Sam, who is—how to put this delicately? Gone is the eager, All-American boy of the prior movies, his enthusiasm curdled into a mixture of entitlement, self-pity, and belligerence. Yes, he does rather seem to suit the political moment. As the film opens, Sam is unemployed, a circumstance he accepts with decidedly less equanimity than he did his near-fatal travails in the previous two films.

The Transformers, too, have gotten surlier since their last outing. In particular, the Decepticons all seem to have sprung leaks in their mandibular hinges: their mouths ooze, slobber, and spray with a salivary vehemence that would shock H. On the battlefield, the brutality has been ramped up considerably, with Transformers good and bad alike spattering blood-like fluids as they are stabbed and dismembered. And the bit near the end of the film, when someone flamboyantly executes a downed and helpless Transformer with a point-blank shot to the head?

You guessed it, also Optimus. Each instance of peril works on its own, but is often nonsensical in the larger context. Characters become split up without motivation except to make sure only the needed characters are imperilled.

Characters teleport in and out of scenes - Bumblebee shows up to make a last minute save and then just is gone in the next set piece. The entire sequence feels as if a dozen random ideas for action scenes were smashed together and nobody bothered to figure out how to make them flow from one to the other.

But to me the sequence offers its own metaphor for its failure; the evil Decepticons invade the city of Chicago why? I cannot tell you. Not one moment of the film has previously taken place in Chicago and as a strategic position it makes zero sense for them but they do it off screen. The other problem with the battle of Chicago is that I could not muster up a single reason to give a shit about what was happening.

Sam Witwicky might be the least appealing lead character in a successful franchise, and he has no supporting characters to take up the slack. One sequence has our heroes jumping out of the windows of a leaning high rise and riding down its exterior, and it looks terrific. And Michael Bay seems to hate these robots. The huge majority of the sequence is spent with humans running around escaping Decepticons. In terms of screen time the Chicago battle is a minority of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and it feels like a completely different movie from the first 90 minutes - the tonal shift is remarkable and amateurishly executed.

Most of the rest of the film is spent in excruciating scenes featuring Sam Witwicky and a cast of six or seven comic relief characters.

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