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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Good review of bad movie.
A to the C, how dumb can you get.
Lumping people into categories just reveals how how judgmental you are and what a paid hack you are.
I would categorize you as this: A Mike Abundo minion who postures himself as intelligent and sensible yet cannot even stick to the simple point of this thread.
What is your opinion of the movie? Not of the posters here.
There were many things that I did tolerate in the movie that I thought I was going to complain about. I did like the new character design, the plot of retrieving the “allspark” was okay, and the human characters were tolerable to watch.
BUT the one thing I hated was Shia LaBeuf (the little kid) was the one to defeat Megatron. That was the one thing I mainly got pissed off about. That is Optimus Prime’s duty.
The following would have been an awesome ending…. Megatron gets to the “allspark” and uses it to turn a bunch of machines into decepticons. Every mechanical device just starts turning into destructive robots. All hope would seem lost… but then suddenly autobot reinforcement comes in falling from the heavens in their shuttles and kicks some decepticon ass. We would have a huge battle scene where autobots are just tearin ass up and takin fuckin names. More nostalgic autobots would apear like Hot Rod, Inferno, Sideswipe, Smokescreen, Sunstreaker, and motherfuckin Ultra Magnus. Then after the rest of the autobots beatdown the decepticons, Optimus Prime and Megatron have big ass showdown. Metal on metal action, with more guns, ammo, explosion, and good old steel-reinforced smashing. And in the end Optimus Prime is the one who gets the bright idea of putting the allspark in Megatron and he would have shoved the damn thing right in his chest with one final blow.
that would have been an ending that would have pleased fans and the fans would have possibly forgave the fact that humans got more screen time than the cybertronians and making Optimus Prime and the rest of the autobots look like pussies that just bugged humans.
Fuck man, what was the point of getting Hugo Weaving to be the voiceover for Megatron when all he had was 5 or less lines. Its waste of an awesome actor (Mr. Smith from The Matrix and V from V for Vendetta”)
what you’ve written isn’t a review, it’s a rant. “waah, i didn’t enjoy the Transformers movie, and neither should anyone else! so i’ll call my rant a ‘review’ and give away the ending. waah!”
i agree that the movie was not good in the sense that the audience doesn’t really get to develop an emotional attachment with any of the characters (they tried with the humans, but couldn’t get anything more than a rise out of Megan Fox) nor is there anything really great about the story and plot (nothing more than ‘they come, they fight, the end’). but then again, this is a movie based on a toy line more than 20 years old, and recycled repeatedly through cartoons and comics. it’s completely unrealistic to expect some great cinematic epic out of this. and no, 14 years of cartoon storylines are NOT good enough. why would you want to spend millions on a movie whose story everyone can already know about beforehand? of course you will try to get a different angle, because you’ll want as big as market as you can get: not the screaming 30-something nostalgic fanboys, but the current generation of children and teens and hopefully some of the older generations who know nothing of this franchise.
what the movie is good at is remaining to the true origins and essence of the Transformers cartoon concept: to sell stuff through pure and almost mindless entertainment. except that since it’s a big budget movie, it now sells not just little boys’ toys (robots and video games), but also big boys’ toys (cars, electronics, American war machines). you’d be really naive to think that the entire Transformers cartoon series was anything other than that.
that being said, though, you should not deprive other people of the possibility that they could enjoy the film, especially if they aren’t familiar with the franchise. this is about playing, not thinking. other films require a “suspension of disbelief;” this one additionally requires a “suspension of intellect.” without story and character development, all that they are left to enjoy is simply the execution of the movie: pace, special effects, imagery, exposition, resolution. even if it’s practically just a thin 2 & 1/2 hour extended commercial, it’s their choice. and some commercials can still be enjoyable (google Cleo awards)
Not a purist film, clearly. I agree with all the negative commentary surrounding this film except that I still enjoyed watching the bots transform. Weren’t those the Destructicons? Wouldn’t they have used their ability to combine into Devastator? And I thought I saw an Insecticon as well. All these bots postdate the evolution of the Transformers. The Ark crash landed, and the two factions evolved simultaneously. The deceps clearly had more power, yet lost the fracas? For those new to transformers i’m sure you’ll enjoy it. For those familiar, you’ll find it cool, but you’ll know that it’s not really the Transformers.