When I was 7, I got a birthday cake with the Dinobots on top of it. I own every comic, including the UK ones, the Generation 2, and all of the Dreamwave stuff. My toy collection is in storage, but its rather vast, from an origional G1 Optimus to the 20th aniversary Optimus.
I'm a big-time fan.
The movie was NOT the show from my childhood, nor the comics, nor the other shows or comics that evolved and followed.
It was ALL of them. A successful attempt at summarizing 20 plus years of the spirit of an idea. It was a tribute to all that has come, and a foundation for more yet.
Did the movie have its flaws? Yeah, of course. Some might even find it sucked; I think those sort of people will find most movies suck. When I read critics reviews, they were generally quite positive, the only critics who gave bad ratings did so because they focused on a negative exclusively. Yes, the movie was loud. Yes, the movie was abundant with product placement. Yes, Michal Bay makes hard to follow action scenes.
But he also made a movie that satisfied the 27 year old in the theater, and the 7 year old inside him. He bridged a generation gap, both in the audience and within audience members. People can criticize and flame all they want, but I've already put 28 bucks in a jar. 20 for when it comes out on DVD, and 8 for when the sequel comes out in theaters. Thats right, the sequel is greenlit as of 2 days BEFORE the movie released.
RPG Superstar 2014 Top 16, RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16
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I believe they changed Bubblebee's body type because they didn't want to confuse him with another "lively" VW Bug, namely Herbie.I read that VW didn't want one of there cars to be involved in a violant movie. It doesn't matter that 2009 Camaro was better than any bug.
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Actually, I read that VW didn't really have a choice. The producers wanted a beetle originally but it was General Motors who said no. GM had a contract to be the only car company featured as Transformers hence the current TV ad campaign. ("Transform your ride.")
Man I'm dying to see this movie.
I saw the movie last night. Thought I was going to hate it. I loved it. As you watch the movie it just pulls the 5 year old boy out of you and makes you curse that your toys were sold in a yard sale 15 years ago
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Saw the movie over the weekend, and it was good. I am tired of hearing about weak plots, predictable arcs, over the top stunts...
HELLO, giant transforming robots from another world, and you have trouble with the stunts
Predictible arcs, because I went into a hero movie really thinking the good guys might loose at the end
sheesh
overall, i rate it at 3.5 of 4 stars, deffinetly something i will buy. The only weakness is that I would like to have been ale to se and comprehend some of the action. HOLLYWOOD, if you can hear me, enough of the blurry, tight frame action, it gives people with glasses terrible eyestrain
It was garbage - more specifically, it was better than Pearl Harbor or Armageddon, but not quite as good as Independence Day or Deep Impact. Lessee...
Oh please, Transformers beat all four of those movies hands down, four and half autobots on any cybertronian rating scale, especially Deep Impact and :::moans::: Indepence Day, but not Harry Potter. You may think its garbage, but it was the best thing I've seen this summer
Not-so-good points: The acting is generally unimpressive, and it is made worse by the brain-dead, painfully predictable script. The action scenes are overpopulated and indistinct. The product placement is so heavy it actually becomes really annoying. Lots of jokes, and they all suck. Megatron, who otherwise rocked, did not turn into a ginormous, flying gun. The worst, though, was the soundtrack - drippy, sentimental and obvious.
The scene were Bumblebee relieves himself on the federal agent was absolutely hilarious. Or Baracade, did anyone see that? The decepticon police car with the words "to Enslave and Punish" printed for insignificant fleshlings to see and tremble.
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The scene were Bumblebee relieves himself on the federal agent was absolutely hilarious. Or Baracade, did anyone see that? The decepticon police car with the words "to Enslave and Punish" printed for insignificant fleshlings to see and tremble.
Along with the "badge" which concealed a decepticon logo, one of the few seen in the movie
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The decepticon police car with the words "to Enslave and Punish" printed for insignificant fleshlings to see and tremble.Along with the "badge" which concealed a decepticon logo, one of the few seen in the movie
Yup. That was the best part. ;D
Y'know, if they had cut out all the dialogue, the movie would have been sooo much better. I'm fine with the overall plot, which is no worse than any other such movies. But, seriously, did we really need
I still think it would have been better if the movie had been nothing but robots kicking the crap outta each other in a big parking lot for about two hours. Did you hear that, Michael Bay? Less talk, more thumpin'!
Yes, the movie was abundant with product placement.
Complaining about product placement in the Transformers movie is the definition of irony.
Great movie, not perfect, but I felt twenty years younger for two hours.