Post by: Radio Guy on June 28, 2007, 11:20:05 PM
cheers!
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Post by: Agent_Loop on July 05, 2007, 09:58:33 AM
The lead up to Prime and Megatron and Starscream is the best part. Just as they appear on the screen, everyone in the audience including me applauded. Worth the delay.
It's worth buying a ticket in the theatres at least once. Just try it out, you will be entertained...in a good way.
I enjoyed this more than Pirates 3, Spiderman 3, and other movies I've seen in the theatres this year thus far. Actually, it's enjoyment level ties up with Hot Fuzz in my books.
Post by: Stealth Viper on July 05, 2007, 10:10:01 PM
REALLY enjoyed it. I went in with lowered expectations, and was pleasantly surprised.
Sure, some of the humour was BAD - and there were a couple plot holes bigger than the grand canyon.. but for my $10, it's the best eye and ear candy out there, plus it's entertaining to boot.
I honestly think this is about as good as a Transformers movie that we could have realistically hoped for. It could of been a LOT worse.
Post by: VEGA1 on July 06, 2007, 07:47:08 PM
Quote from: "Agent_Loop"
I really enjoyed Transformers mostly because of the intended humour, among other things such as the action. Cheesy humour is what I call jokes made by the hosts of Mastercollector at their Dinner parties. The humour in this movie was laugh out loud funny, and wasn't the same kind that made you say "WTF?" after seeing Peter Parker's dance in Spiderman 3.
The lead up to Prime and Megatron and Starscream is the best part. Just as they appear on the screen, everyone in the audience including me applauded. Worth the delay.
It's worth buying a ticket in the theatres at least once. Just try it out, you will be entertained...in a good way.
I enjoyed this more than Pirates 3, Spiderman 3, and other movies I've seen in the theatres this year thus far. Actually, it's enjoyment level ties up with Hot Fuzz in my books.
I totally agree with Loop on this movie....You can't get no better then this and SM 3 wasn't great at all.
Post by: Redmao on July 07, 2007, 10:27:03 PM
First of all I hated all the robot's faces. They looked too alienish for my taste and Prime's opening face plate pissed me off.
You'll pay for this someday Micheal Bay!!!
If you take the movie without being a hardcore transfan, your in for a really entertaining ride. Action packed with cool comedy.
Its a really good movie, but it should've been given to somebody who actually cares about the Transformers. A bunch of little details bugged me throughout the movie. At least prime had his original voice and so should've Megatron. Welker would've been perfect.
Maybe I've been expecting a transformers movie for so long my hope were too high. Maybe I like my robots in disguise like the way they were in 1985...
Post by: Raptor on July 08, 2007, 12:52:18 AM
It was a perfect 80's movie.
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Post by: Recon on July 08, 2007, 06:54:43 PM
Cheers,
Recon
Post by: Metro on July 10, 2007, 07:27:33 PM
Sure there were some plot holes and some of the action made me a little dizzy but at the same time all things considered it was pretty cool. There were only a couple things that really bugged me in the movie; a few too many shots of the girl looking a little too blank faced, Prime's face, and that pesky Linkin Park song. The build up to Prime, Megatron, and Starscream was pretty cool I thought, especially when Megatron jabbed Starscream about failing him again. That was sweet ;)
Definitely worth the price of admission.
Post by: Iron J on July 15, 2007, 01:44:27 PM
Post by: morgardee on July 15, 2007, 05:32:21 PM
The negative:
Robots faces were lame. I didn't care for the bug look they all had.
The apperance of the bots. I didn't know who was Megatron and who was Star Scream at one point.
Lack of personality in the robots. I don't feel like I got to know any of them.
The positive:
They quoted the original TF cartoon movie when Prime was about to go head to head with Megatron with the whole "one shall stand, one shall fall" line
Easy for non TF fans to jump on board and enjoy.
A decent length film and I thought it was paced well. I wasn't bored at all.
I'll buy it on DVD for sure.
Post by: Pete The Greek on July 21, 2007, 12:56:03 AM
But I am not amuzed that one of my favorite Autobot characters, who had a limited, cheesy and weak role in the movie, got killed off. And to boot, he is the next car I want to get after my current car dies off. >:( I already call my current car buy that name. F@*&^. And the status of Cybertron gets a bigger WTF from me.
Post by: Colonel Abernathy on July 23, 2007, 09:35:08 AM
Post by: Outback 100% Argento on July 23, 2007, 11:19:30 AM
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Post by: Outback 100% Argento on July 24, 2007, 02:09:32 AM
Post by: Raptor on July 24, 2007, 10:38:37 AM
Quote from: "Outback 100% Argento"
I think it was a Hasbrio thing to include so much military... so much crossovers betwen joes and TFormers cant be wrong...
Bay actually is just playing to his strength, which is having the pentagon in his back pocket. His job, officially and unofficially is as a PR man for the pentagon - and being an insider has it's privileges. Who else can order up all that hardware for a movie.
I'm pretty sure that making American weapons able to hurt transformers (well, at least expensive weapon systems that might be on the chopping block like the Raptor F22's) was a nod to the pentagon. They couldn't have an enemy that American technology couldn't destroy the current political climate. It would be too much like the reality of places like Iraq where the high tech junk isn't doing much either.
The F-22 has been in limbo for 10 years. It'd be silly to think that the fact that it had a starring role in the movie wasn't intended to raise the profile of the project. This was a movie with an agenda.
But it was also a hell of a fun ride, and I love good military tech like any other joe geek. Anyone that would watch transformers would almost certainly be a fan of high tech weapons. Bay used what he had, and did a good job with it.
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Post by: BHMike on September 01, 2007, 05:29:56 PM
How do I get my money back??
I said after the first preview was shown online that it appeared very much like a "CGI & Blow crap up" movie.
Was I ever right.
I went into it thinking "This isn't my Transformers" - and while it had some "moments", overall I thought it was Craptastic.
Two redeeming points:
1. Primes voice was Prime - sweet.
2. Megatron talking to Startscream "You've failed me again Starscream"
..and hoo boy! Looks like a sequal is coming.
L-ame.
This has now solidified my point that I do not need a movie theater. Special effects do not make a good movie, a good storyline and good acting makes a good movie. Sadly, this movie had neither.
Post by: Agent_Loop on September 04, 2007, 05:51:34 PM
But I still enjoyed the robot fight scenes....I wish Bumblebee's voice at the end was voiced by someone like Jason Priestley or someone that sounded a bit cooler. His voice in the movie would have suited someone like Perceptor.
Post by: Jon S. on September 25, 2007, 12:11:02 AM
Anybody who knows me personally knows that I'm a huge G1 Transformers fan (bigger than Joe, or anything else really) That being said, despite the extremely shoddy treatment that my favourite Autobot received, I enjoyed the film immensely. I always liked the idea of portraying the TF's as "robots in disguise" and not "robots in epic conflict" *cough*... stormbringer... *cough*
Hearing Cullen as Prime was good fun. Probably the key to the whole movie for a fanboy like myself.
Megatron was legitimately scary. Kudos for that.
Right now I'm trying to decide whether I want to spent $26 for the DVD on release day, or wait two weeks for it to drop down to the 2 for $30 section at HMV. ;)
Also, is it just me, or was Megan Fox caked in grease for the entire film? Kinda gross if you ask me...