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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Dude, you really purposely wanted to spoil the ending for everyone, didn’t you? You even submitted your article to Digg hoping it would be ‘dugg’ a thousand times over and get significant traffic on your site. The description you even put was “Sam Witwicky kills Megatron. Seriously.” That’s just immature and disgusting, man.
This movie has been marked for dissing by film critics and critic-wannabes from day one.
Most of them went to see this film already harboring some form of grudge for the choice of director Michael Bay.
Most would have preferred James Cameron for his work on the Terminator series and his storytelling prowess.
Some critics were pointing out the missed opportunity for weaving a mythology around Cybertron and the struggle between the Autobots and the Decepticons.
Still others were bemoaning the shallow storyline, the shock-and-awe approach and the comic fillers-in.
Most suggest it should have been done this way or that, written this way or that.
At the end of the day, with a $200 million budget, this is not one project that should be consciously made critic-proof.
The studios had to choose between commercial success and critical acclaim. It’s hard to choose both if you don’t have a J.R.R Tolkien or a J.K. Rowling writing for you.
I admire Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg for having realized early on that this film should make you feel like a kid all over again (granting, you loosen up and enter the theater without any expectation save for seeing the Transformers in a live action film after twenty long years).
They had it right when they decided that that sense of wonder and amazement in the original Transformers cartoons should be preserved.
I liken the experience of watching this film to a grade school reunion. It’s such a bore if one would start talking about his career, how many houses he has got and his achievements so far.
Basically, grown-up stuff.
But if everyone would just talk about the goofy days back when you were all in shorts, the affair would be so much more fun.
I was fortunate to having no opinion about Michael Bay before I caught this film. Even more fortunate for just wanting to chillout after working 24 hours straight before watching this movie.
In the end I enjoyed it tremendously. Felt like a kid again. It was silly, funny and loud.
Just like what grade school reunions should be.
I wish everyone here would post as sensibly as Grimm.
Totally agree, loosen up with this film. It’s a 200 million-dollar extravanganza and the financiers would certainly want a ten-fold return on their investment.
It’s meant to appeal to the broadest possible demographic and it certainly hit me for I am just an average Joe.
Had lots and lots of fun with this film. I can’t get the smile off my face.
To Mike, I hope you would be more considerate with your postings. I think no matter how you look at it or whatever your reasons are (maybe just a plot to increase traffic to this website), it wasn’t fair to spoil it for everyone just because it disappointed you no end.
Also, I cannot relate to your contentions on why you found the movie abominable. I read many other reviews from USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, Chicago Sun Times and other movie websites. Suprisingly, the film got an average of A-minus (quite a feat for a Michael Bay film) and non of them ever mentioned the overexposure of humans, the lack of battle scenes and muddy camera handling.
I was surprised at how immature you can get with your deliberate attempt at ruining the movie for everyone given that you seem to be well-educated as evidenced by your profile (VP for Emerging Technologies).
It’s quite an irony that you are quite childish with how you expressed your disatisfaction with the film yet you seem to be incapable of being a child again even for just two and a half hours.
As one poster contends, and sorry to use his phrase but I think it’s appropriate, don’t be such a brat.
But kudos, you increased traffic to your website with your controversial review. Sadly, this is your fifteen minutes of fame and personally, except for this Transformers thread, I see nothing interesting to make me visit your site in the future.
And so, enjoy your fame while it lasts.
grabe. what a very nice thread. hmm… its a movie. some will not like it, some will. Mike has his points (for me the movie’s awesome no matter what) but do we really need to force him to like it. haha… Bay obviously didn’t please everyone. anyway, the POSSIBLE sequel MAY not be by Bay.
your a fuckin idiot