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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Even if all we expect from Bay are big-ass boom-boom rock-’em-sock-’em robots, he sorely underdelivers. Humans hog all the screen time, all the way to the climax. People pay to see Transformers, not Ugly Robot Pet Owners.
I agree with Lichen Reedweb, we should criticize the movie as it is – present time.
We already know the hard fact that when an American adopts a Japanese story, the story becomes very different. Heck, they also change their OWN stories when they’re adopting it for the big screen. So why criticize it as what you think it should have been?
Watch the movie as it is, not as a “live-action version of the 80s serials”. They created this movie for the present generation who doesn’t know anything about Transformers, just as they created Spider-Man for the present generation who doesn’t know about him at all.
You see, the reason why “some” are disappointed with the big screen adoptations of classic shows is because they are “expecting” it to be similar to the “original serials”. We should not, no, we must never expect anything when it comes to big screen adoptations, especially from a Western company or people.
We all know as well how Americans are claiming Transformers to be their “own original” cartoons when the rest of the world has proven time and again that Transformers is “from the Japanese” (quote from Sam in the movie).
Hi mike, I would think since you’re more of a gen one transformer fan, you’d appreciate a more Robo-centric type of transformer storyline, but for the more younger Transformers Armada generation, a homocetric storyline would stand to be more acceptable or even appropriate. however if there is one thing I’d like to complain about the movie, its the deliberate use of an all american vehicle line up. a transformer Japanese car could have been a better tribute to the people who thought up of the idea of the transformers, rather than a comedic line saying, “it must be Japanese”.
Your a noob!!!! the move was great and very funny. When I walked out everyone was saying how good and funny it was. Don’t know what kind of drugs your on but dam man its was a kick ass movie. Can’t wait to see it again.
You’re right, JC. We shouldn’t expect anything from Hollywood. This movie is proof.
Two words, Marvin: product placement.