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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This thread is hilarious, especially the person who started all this, Mike.
I couldn’t understand why he’s one of the firsts to see the movie and post a review (although it’s not really a proper review by all intents and purposes but a long whine) when all along he knew it was Michael Bay who directed it. Hello? Armageddon? The Island? What do you expect? Also, Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci co-wrote the screenplay. Hello again? Alias? Mission Impossible III?
Mike wrote Michael Bay “sorely underdelivers” in this movie. A really funny statement. On one hand, he wasn’t expecting much from Michael Bay. And then Bay underdelivers. Was Mike expecting Bay to redeem himself?
What’s even more funny is, being a cyberjunkie and heavily involved in the IT industry (mister-emerging-technology-guru, right?), I’m sure Mike had access to inside info on the plot, storyline, etc. of the movie as it is not far-fetched to think he has a friend or a friend of a friend of a friend who works either in Dreamworks or ILM. There were even advanced screenings here and in the States and it’s not beyond imagination that Mike got wind of how the movie went.
Finally, trailers of the movie have been circulating in the internet as far as two years back. And weeks leading up to the opening of the movie, you could almost tell what the story is going to be like based on the final trailer (soldiers running around, a kid buying his first car, complicated robot character renderings, etc.). Mike knew all along the movie will be filled by humans–his main beef about the film.
Yet, despite all the flood of info and there were no well-kept secrets (unlike the final book of the Harry Potter series) about the movie, Mike still went to see it–and be one of the earliest to do so. What’s with that?
There are two possibilites.
One, Mike has been living under a rock for the last two years and he didn’t know a damn thing about the movie that’s why when he saw it, he was utterly shocked and disappointed.
Two, Mike knew all along the movie sucks but still went to see it and posted a “review” with the intent of ruining it for anyone who accidentally found this blog and to generate buzz to this staid, unknown website. In other words, he hit two birds with one stone.
In the end, despite all his elitist posturings and the fact that he wasn’t unaware of the movie’s potential to disappoint his impeccable taste for films, him having catch it on its first showing day does not distinguish him from the “disgusting humans” in the movie.
The task of writing the screenplay was given to Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci and not to Mike Abundo and his ilk because we would end up with a movie for nerds. You know, the types Conan O’Brien usually lampoons in his opening spiels.
Us “mindless lemmings” would probably go “huh?” after the movie while Mike and his kind would go (imagine Conan doing this) “Hooray! No homocentric propaganda!”
That’s why I’m happy Michael Bay, Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci were given the job for the film.
Hooray! An anti-nerd film!
first off the movie for “BIG SCREEN” was not made into a cartoon as…Yes! your right! as it could have been… The movie was made the way it was because of someone had a lot of money to which most of us do nots. They made it the way they wanted too and did a kick ass job in doing so. Have you ever seen anything quite like it before I ask. “ahhhhhhhh, no” should be your qualified answer. Therfore,so all you nerdy nerds who still have their original packaged transformers still perched on your dressers at home, come poke your head out of your room sometime and join the real world of movies
Mike Abundo is the lame brain nerdy nerd with the packaged transformers from the 80’s perched up on his dresser… yes everyone he would be one of them
So a movie with an actual story is now a “movie for nerds.”
Welcome to the dumbing-down of society.