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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Here’s what Twitch has to say about this fleshfest:
I actually sympathized with Megatron flicking away Bay’s disgusting humans.
What the F**K is a Twitch?!
Michael Bay directed Megatron to do that, Mike.
I’m a Transformers fan, now in my 30s, and I liked this movie very much, because it is very 2007. And yeah, I’m just an ordinary guy who loves movies, like the rest of us, and I’m no movie/film critic like you are because to do that is difficult. I just give thumbs up or thumbs down or thumbs sideways to movies. I just either say, “I like the movie,” or “I don’t like the movie,” or “it’s an ‘okay’ movie.”
This is now one of my (personal) favorite movies. But I’d have to watch it again (on the boob-tube), because the original Transformers The Movie of the 80’s doesn’t feel as high-impact as when I first saw it. Maybe because it’s the 21st century now.
From your previous posts, it seems that you dislike Hollywood and its creations. I think one thing (not the only thing) that Hollywood is about is business and making money by providing entertainment, and here they are with a movie that will enable them to do just that. In that sense, they are going to achieve their goal and are thus successful with this movie, and kudos to that. I think it is unfair to look at all Hollywood films with the same eyes we use to look at an art film or paintings and so on at an art gallery. We’re free to do that, but I just personally think it’s not fair.
I also noticed the product placements and I see (and have read) that this is the future (read: 2007 and beyond) of advertising. I don’t see nothing wrong with that.
I did not notice how much more of the humans were shown, more than the Transformers. But I personally don’t find anything wrong with that. That’s what they wanted, they (the producers) risked money to do that, and again we’ll see if it was worth the risk – which will be determined by the “vote” of the millions who will watch the movie and buy the DVD in the future. Plus, I think it’s also a ploy to make us want to see more of the Transformers – and it seems it’s working – and they already actually have plans for a sequel.
Optimus Prime getting robbed? Again, I don’t see nothing wrong with that. I think Optimus Prime beating up Megatron and sacrificing his life to save mankind – that’s so Transformers cliche and I think that’s what we all expected. So Sam “saving” Prime and the world was a twist, and perhaps, the twist of this 2007 movie. Was that insulting to Cybertronians? Well, I wish I could actually read minds of Cybertronians, but I can’t.
My concern right after the movie was – because I so want to see a sequel – is… what is going to be the story in the sequel? And who’s going to be there? Is it going to be as interesting as this one? When is it going to come out!?? It ought to be better, of course, because it’s the second one. Actually, I want them to create a series! But, that shall be their decision. Maybe if I had money, I can tell them what to do and not to do.
By the way, what Hollywood-produced live-action movie of comics or cartoon origins has been faithful to their original comics or cartoon characters or stories? I’m not good with movie trivia, but right now, I don’t remember any.
My overall thoughts on your comments: Welcome to 2007.
Oh, and I congratulate you, because your post is so controversial – that’s how to make money on the web with blogs. I wonder now if that was partially your intention? If so, congratulations! I honestly dream of writing my own controversial blog post in the future myself. 😀
The film didn’t do much for me. Sure, Megan Fox is absolutely gorgeous, and the effects were stunnning, but there was no real heart in the story, only the illusion of one – when the autobots were battling the decepticons, I found myself watching detachedly, basically observing the effects of smashing one piece of steel into another. And I used to ‘love’ the series when I was a kid.
Cons: What the heck happened to Bumblebee?? In the original series, he was a VW beetle. In the film, it shows the young kid at the start being taken to a garage where there was a yellow VW parked next to a yellow-orange camaro. It turns out, the camaro is Bumblebee. Did I miss something? Another thing that irked me was that Optimus Prime was shown at one point to have this mean-ass sword hidden in the equivalent of his forearm, which he used to demolish one of the decepticons within seconds. When it comes to his fight with Megatron, it’s simply the two of them smashing their fists against each other, no sign of any use of their individual abilities. And lastly, the ending with the young kid pushing the cube into Megatron’s chest was a load of bull****. As if a human teenager could have overpowered Megatron, even with the almighty-M in a weakened state. Optimus Prime was basically emasculated at the end – it came down to a good ol’ apple-pie-loving naive american teenager to destroy a machine that had apparently ravaged innumerable worlds throughout the galaxy.
Pros: Megan Fox. Some very cool cars and transformation sequences. A decent soundtrack. Megan Fox. Amazing highway sequence where one of the decepticons ‘rollerblades’ down a highway and takes out a bus. And hopefully a sequel that will be better than this sweet-sour depiction.