Transformers Movie Review: Optimus Prime was Robbed!
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“Stay away, lad! That’s Prime’s fight!” — Kup, in the original 1986 Transformers animated movie. I just watched Michael Bay’s Transformers movie at the Gateway Globe Platinum Theater. Believe it or not, it’s even more of an abomination than everyone expected it to be — from jumpy editing to fake graphics to gibberish computerspeak to […]Click here to continue reading "Transformers Movie Review: Optimus Prime was Robbed!"...Transformers Movie Review: Optimus Prime was Robbed!
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Shall we debate the nature of reality again, Hooligan, or shall we talk about this movie?
Sheesh, and you call me pretentious…
What’s there to talk about? You already said it’s bad and you reviewed it (WITHOUT SPOILER WARNINGS, mind you) and I said it’s just another blockbuster film that shouldn’t be taken way too seriously so that’s all there is to it, riiiight?
Unless you want to continue quoting other reviewers from the net just to prove your point.
Well as for being pretentious, I’m not the one rattling off obscure terms such as…
Should I even repeat them?
@Mike: I don’t remember that scene… was there really such? If there was, I was probably too busy absorbing details about the graphics. I found the “hiding from the parents” part hilarious though.
Oh yeah, I now remember my initial reaction when Megatron got nuked (killed is such an incorrect term). “What happened?!?!” I was expecting Sam to handover the thing to Optimus or some sort of climatic, confrontational sacrifice or something… but the next thing I remember seeing was Megatron lying in a heap and asking my seatmates what happened. And after explaining the ending, which is the topic of this blog, I recall having a “huh?” moment.
At least for that part, I’m sure other Transformers fans agree.
Optimus Prime wasn’t only robbed of his right to defeat Megatron, he was portrayed as a weak and easy to give up Autobot. But that is the only thing I would agree with you since it isn’t all Michael Bay’s fault. He only had a budget enough to do 6 sequences of robot action that is why you saw more humans than transformers. And me being 20 years old and not a product of the 80’s Transformers but still know the series well enough, I appreciated this movie for what it is. It is epic in the Spielbergian sense, in that I was like a child in awe or amazement of this robots coming to life. I loved the humor and the choppy editing (hard to follow but it builds up visceral action). I’m not much of a believer in faithful translations, since Lord of the Rings was a great film even if it wasn’t that faithful to the source book. A movie is a different medium. If you want to be a movie critic, you have to understand that. You can’t fit 20 years of backstory in a 2 hour movie. And you can’t stuff 20 years of history and make it relevant in the present.
Anyways, I’m new to this blog of yours but I’m liking it. Especially the parts on LU. Lol.
Welcome to my blog, Berserkerz. Enjoy the conversation. 🙂