Transformers

[Poolzer]

Ive never been a big Michael Bay fan, thought his adaptation of Pearl Harbor was horrible and so full of wrong information and just horrible acting, same with armageddon.

But damn, this movie was amazing. The acting, graphics, sound track, this blew me away and was lost in it for the whole movie. The crispness of the colors when transforming and the elaborate transformation was just jaw dropping intense.

cant say enough about it, will be a def. dvd own and to watch it in high def and 6.1 surround sound will be great.

[Zrak0z]

I'd like to see that movie aswell. I saw a trailer when I was watching Die Hard 4.0 and it seemed really good.

[Fadingtoblack]

I just went and saw this this morning, and it was actually pretty damn good. No where near as bad as I was dreading it was going to be!

SPOILERS!!!!


THE BAD!
-Most of the Decepticon lines came from them 'checking in' on the way to Megatron, how about some character development? And Starscream had an awesome voice that was barely used.
-The All Spark only makes Decepticons?
-What happened to all the machines created at the end? Including the one eating some ladies face and Product-Placement-To-The-Max Mountain Dew machine?
-You couldn't see shit in the final battle. Worst timing for shaky camera work ever Also this includes barely being able to make out who was who on the Decepticon team. Starscream magically going from fighting on the ground to the air to the ground (though it all looked cool)
-Transformers went down too easily to Human weapons. Eg a few grenades to the balls for Blackout (Helicopter)
-Why use the name Devastator for a shitty tank that's in the movie for 5minutes before dying, when you should be saving it to bring the REAL Devastator in for a sequel!

And Finally!!! Prime's cringe inducing speech about how great Jazz was while holding bits and pieces of him in each hand!


Maybe I'm nitpicking, but that's a pretty short list compared to what I was thinking going into the film! It was a really well made movie and very very enjoyable. Can't wait to see it again and hopefully with deleted scenes!

[dmegametal#1]

having seen the trailers and the commercials..NOT to sure what to make of this...I will not waste my money on this movie since i am NOT a BIG fan of Transformers....from what i heard this movie may be a BUST???

BTW..how come some of the characters are NOT even close to what they actually looked like in the cartoon(colorwise)??

[newmanium]

I plan on seeing the movie sometime in the near future if I can find someone to see it with. Having avoided fadingtoblack's post and other spoilers around the internet, I will judge this movie to the original cartoon. If the transformers do not act like I remember, I will be upset. I sit with the crowd who is upset with the original Megatron voice actor not being hired to voice the movie Megatron like the voice actor for Prime was. Having seen the clip with Megatron threatening Spike's character on the rooftop, I cannot tell it's hugo Weaving's voice. Why hire Weaving if the plan was to digital alter his voice anyways? I'm rambling...

I for one have enjoyed a number of Bay's movies in the past, however, I was remain reserve until I see it. No doubt the cgi will great, if not the best, I just think there is more to a movie the special effects. If Bay somehow was able include the transformers personalities into the movie, Transformers, for me, will be great.

[Mr.Metal]

I went to the movies today and watched after DIe Hard 4 (good movie by the way). I decided to go, pretty much out of nostalgia because I wasn't specting much (due to Michael Bay being the producer) however, it was very, very good. The transformations were amazing and the battle sequences were great, although there is a lot of camera movement sometimes making it hard to see.

The acting was bad in some parts, although Megan Fox looked really, really hot.

Overall it was a very good movie with great effects, I would definately consider buying this one when it comes out on Blu-Ray.

[metallifreak27]

BEST FUCKING MOVIE I HAVE SEEN THIS YEAR

i absolutely loved it, was WAYYYY better then i was expecting

and i agree with fadingtoblack on his little nit picky list, there wasnt much else done wrong in the movie

crazy thing for me is wen i was younger and getting to "old" for toys, my mum chucked them all out or gave them all away, for this i am VERY angry for it now!!!! i wish i still had all those toys

so the next day after seeing the movie i went out and bought every single toy character from the movie yeh, crazy, but i wont be opeing the boxes n shit, and it will be the whole set of toys from the movie

i wont ever sell them, but they may be worth something in the future, and if not, they are going to look damn cool sitting in one of my display cabinets

[Fadingtoblack]

I plan on seeing the movie sometime in the near future if I can find someone to see it with. Having avoided fadingtoblack's post and other spoilers around the internet, I will judge this movie to the original cartoon. If the transformers do not act like I remember, I will be upset. I sit with the crowd who is upset with the original Megatron voice actor not being hired to voice the movie Megatron like the voice actor for Prime was. Having seen the clip with Megatron threatening Spike's character on the rooftop, I cannot tell it's hugo Weaving's voice. Why hire Weaving if the plan was to digital alter his voice anyways? I'm rambling...

I for one have enjoyed a number of Bay's movies in the past, however, I was remain reserve until I see it. No doubt the cgi will great, if not the best, I just think there is more to a movie the special effects. If Bay somehow was able include the transformers personalities into the movie, Transformers, for me, will be great.

You just have to remember that this movie has nothing really to do with G1 apart from some of the names, and a few little touches here and there.

And Megatron sounds awesome, almost as good as Starscream, and he has most of the Decepticons 15 lines

[Leighton]

Saw it on opening night. Great stuff! My girlfriend even loved it!

Needed more Starscream, but other than that it was very solid. It was always going to be good, Spielberg cradled this mofo right up until Bay started shooting. Having Prime's original voice was special too.

[newmanium]

After seeing the film, my fears have come true and would have to agree with every knock in this thread, although it is more than just nitpicking in my mind. Had I not been a fan of the cartoon, I would have truely enjoyed this movie.

The vast majority of the cast lacked personality. Sam was surprising good, however, he was the only human that was worth a damn. Every other human could have easily been written out of the script and their screen time given to the Transformers, namely the decepticons. Start with Anthony Anderson. He is a talented actor, but his character was nothing more a doughnut eating machine with one doughnut joke. This leads to the teenage audio decripters/deciphers. Unnecessary and unbelievable. Who cares about hackers when giant robots are fighting outside? That blonde even had ink all over her neck. John Turturo's (sp?) character was obxious. After watching him belittle Sam, I wished for Sam to have broken his jaw when he had the chance. Although Bubblebee "urinating" on him was a nice payback moment. Finally, the soldiers. These soldiers could have won the power-ball lottery five times in a row and still not have as much luck as they did in this movie. Scorpinox could and should have killed each and everyone silently during their march from the base to the village. Also, what is not Lennox who suggested hiding the all spark in the city? I guess John Kerry was right. (please do not take this to heart, I despise Kerry.)

As a whole the Transformers didn't fair much better. Other than Prime and Bubblebee who were great, and Ironhide, who was surprising decent with his attitude of "it's always an option" when refering to sacrificing human lives, the rest had zero personality to them. Start with everyone's favorite two-timing decepticon Starscream. The film desperately needed to feature Starscream leading the decepticons in Megatron's absense, acting as if he is their true leader. It also needed a scene with Starscream crowning himself the leader of the decepticons after Megatron is killed. Scenes like those would have given Starscream the personality that everyone loves to hate. He did suck up to Megatron in his one line though. I will give the creators that. Others... Bonecrusher was in the movie for what, 30 seconds? And did I hear Jazz say, "what's crack'n bitches?" Enough said.

I did enjoy Sam and Bubblebee's relationship. I was heartbroken when Bumblebee was damaged in battle, I thought he was going to be killed off! The fight sequences were exciting, most noteably the tactic Ironhide and Bumblebee used to shield themselves from Starscream's missiles. The transformations were fun to watch and I was glad to see it took time for the Transformers to transform. I would have to say my favorite scene is when BB was reunited with the other Autobots on the highway. Simple, yet fucking cool at the same time.

I have heard many people compliment the musical score yet I thought it was very forgettable and didn't do much to heighten the excitement during the movie. Maybe once I hear with by itself I will have a greater appreciation for it.

There were piles of bullshit fed to the fans during the production of this movie, but putting all that aside, my disappointment for the movie is simple. Too little Transformers while too many human characters. I wanted to see Transformers, not the secretary of defense and his inked-up teenage "advisor" (along with her advisor.)