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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James Rocchi:
Bay turning money into stupid and back again doesn’t make the film any less stupid.
Totally agree. Because life is complicated enough and life itself is one long story already. “Normal” people just want to have a good time, away from our very storied lives. We (we, meaning the audiences which critics and pseudo-critics like you cannot identify with and who usually look down on) like it shallow and we love being shallow. Life is just too short to waste on getting overly obssessed with small details.
Our lives are interesting enough, thank you. We (again we, the audiences) just want a good time, away from our melodramas and everyday troubles.
And not you, not the critics will dictate what entertainment should be. We’ll make the studios rich, we’ll make Michael Bay rich as long as they give us a spectacle and junk effects.
Welcome to the dumbing-down of soceity, Mike. Learn to live with it.
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This movie sucked. How the hell could ANYONE posting here sit through cheesy lines like, “You’re more than meets the eye.” GAWD, what a horrible script. The movie was all over the place. Don’t get me wrong, I gave this film a fair chance. I wasn’t expecting a remake of the (watchable) ’86 film. I wasn’t expecting anything. I could not believe how disapointing this movie was.
Oh, and for those of you saying, “They completely built Trans from the bottom up.” Did you watch the same movie I did? “One will rise, one will fall.” THE LINE WAS IN THE MOVIE. They obviously looked back at the original Transformers. Their attitude wasn’t, “It’s not the ’80s anymore. The bots need to rounder.”
I’m not saying you shouldn’t see this movie, but you’ll be leaving the theater filled with questions. Like, “What were they thinking?” for example. SECTOR-7? PRESIDENT HOOVER? What a STUPID backstory. GAWD, what were they thinking?!
What was up with the action scenes? Did they really think everytime a bot transformed they had to have a major close-up for it? OK, you spent a lot on the CG.. great, wonderful, can I watch the bots fight please? That was Michael Bay’s department. Failure.
For those of you saying, “If you’re a Trans fan, go see this movie,” you must honestly be out of your minds. Not only will Trans fans realize the story has been completely destroyed, the non Trans fans will just be completely confused. The comedy in the film is painful to sit through. Masterbation jokes, an elementary jab at President Bush that SNL would turn down (fetch me some Ho-Ho’s? What were they thinking?), and possibly the most annoying character in a film, the Sector-7 agent who was obviously there for comic relief but just annoyed the hell out of me.
But back to the point, by the time the 2 hours is up, you’ll (the Trans fan) be asking, “Why was this movie about humans?” End of story. You might as well see it, but you’ve been warned.
I’d see it again. And again. And again. And again–‘coz I’m no stuck-up elitist.
Okay I’ll admit I haven’t watched it, and even more curious now. But it seems that this movie was more the case of ‘it could have been a canonical classic, but Bay turned it to yet another 3d movie, but with TRANSFORMER robots!’. Yes I’ve heard complaints that megatron is not the same from last time, but I’ve also followed Transoformer reincarnations, including the 3d cg versions and I’ve accepted his evolution to whatever he his now. For those who can’t, I reccomend watching more transformers past the 80’s.
I’m really suprised how militant people have gotten about this movie. As militant as those who made a huge deal out of 300, and completely shooting down nay-sayers or wouldn’t take any negativity in. Like considering the movie as a ‘masterpiece’. Then again, shows a lot about how much movies they have watched and which they consider as ‘great movies’. Who knows, maybe the Transformers sequel may just give us ALL what we want: someone riding inside those cars and gets turned to a bloody mangle as it transforms to a robot. OOPS spoilers!!