"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> I don't mind simple, but cliche got to me. I'm sure you can think of 
> several other well-known stories with essentially identical plots. :-)

Well.. one or two, yeah. :-)

> Agreed. I almost never see a long movie without looking at my watch, but 
> I'll admit there have been a handful like that. Indeed, I think that might 
> be one of the reasons Transformers2 was so enjoyable while still being 
> utterly stupid at the same time. :-)

I really liked Transformers 2, although most of the time I couldn't tell 
whether it was the good guys or the bad guys getting blown up. The juvenile 
humor was a nice touch, too; as though they were saying, "Yes, we know 
exactly what kind of movie we are."

> It's definitely a keeper. I'm hoping they actually filmed the scenes they 
> cut[1] and plan to include them in the DVDs.  I also expect this will be 
> one of the first 3D movies available on 3D disk players when such are 
> invented.

I know a guy who is already planning to get a 3D TV as soon as he gets a 
chance, in the hopes that he'll be able to get a Blu-Ray (or some 
equivalent) of this movie whenever it becomes available.

I don't know if the current spate of 3D in cinema is going to be a fad or 
not, but I think this movie did a really good job of showing how it can add 
to the performance without being an in-your-face gimmick (well, mostly...). 
I do wish there was some way to create a screen made up of semi-transparent 
layers (or something) so that 3D films could be done without the glasses, 
though.

--
Jack

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