Holly's Lists: Things I learned from watch Transformers: Age of Extinction

Finally got to watch this on Astro yesterday.

Learnt a few things too!

1. China have to fastest cars in the world - one can drive from Beijing to Hong Kong overnight!!!!

And when you reach HK, just buy off someone's big bike!

2. An inventor can actually overcome a CIA black-ops killer! You just need a good old American football which you can find in some random HK flat.

But their fight scene in HK was pretty good!

3. Alien space ships are very advanced but it is so easy to sneak into one and walk around undetected - until they send the dogs for you!

4. Alien guns are somehow created to fit into punny human's hands!!! How convenient!

5. Similarly, the guns on their space crafts also has small seats for humans to fit in and fire!

6. On a more serious note, i like the conversation between Cade and Prime when Cade tries to make a case for the humans.

This was his monologue - What do you think being human means? That's what we do. We make mistakes. Sometimes, out of those mistakes come the most amazing things... When I fixed you, it was for a reward. That was it. That was why. The money. And it was me making a mistake. Without it, you wouldn't be here. So even if you got no faith in us, I'm asking you to do what I do. I'm asking you to look at all the junk and see the treasure. You gotta have faith, Prime, in who we can be.

Corny? But so true. We are so imperfect but there is good inside us!

7. People can be very critical for the sake of being critical!

The movie was rated 5.8 at IMDB!!!! This is the lowest rating for all the Transformer movies. But to be honest, i thought this was the best (maybe it had to do with the next point). There were a lot of complaints about plot holes (some of the things i mentioned above too) etc - but i always wondered what kind of people goes to watch a Michael Bay movie with huge robots having souls and expect it to be intellectually stimulating!!!! This is Transformers, for goodness sake! We go and expect to see huge robots fighting each other and big explosions!!!

I enjoyed this the most! the rest were just too painful to sit through in one sitting. And perhaps there is another point too - since i watched this on Astro, i did it over a few sittings.

8. Mark Wahlberg is definitely a welcomed change and better than the Wiwitky character!!! And i think it's because of his role as a father (see the last point).