Transformers
 

Who's excited about the new Transformers movie that's coming out? I am; I think it looks awesome.

Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna bother. Transformers was a pretty influential thing when I was a kid and the movie was the first I'd ever seen at a cinema. If this was being made by people my age or from that same generation, I might bother. But it's not. It's old men looking to cash in on a franchise they remember their kids liking. And that isn't right. Transformers deserves a lot better than a nerd tainted Michael Bay movie.

It'd be like eating peppermint choc-chip ice cream, but without the choc-chips.

You'll still be happy eating green peppermint ice cream when you don't know any better, but if you've had choc-chip, the difference matters.

i hate peppermint ice cream

this is gonna be another movie that'll be hip to hate

Another fantastic movie under Bay's belt!

Hah. I don't have too much of an interest in it, and never liked the toys at all when I was younger, but: I've got a friend who works in a theater, and employees are able to invite a guest and watch the movie before it's shown to the public. So, seeing it early AND for free? I guess I'll partake. At least ILM looks like they did a good job with the CG, so I guess it's worth seeing for that.

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I dunno if I'm gonna see it, they jewed up optimus and megatron pretty badly. I liked The Island a lot though. Most of the fight scenes from the new TF movie look lik utter shit.

Transmetal Optimus Primal was the coolest fucking toy.

to be fair, it does look like someone wiped his arse on a projection reel.

Saw it tonight (opening night here in Aus), the fight scenes were incredible, it was good to finally see some mech destruction in the real world. I felt it dragged a little, but it was fairly enjoyable all round with some good funny bits and some awesome action sequences.

like a really hot chick did!

No way, it'll go off. Everyone wants to see giant robot destruction on the big screen.
It's just the 70 percent majority of people who'll go apeshit for this are either too young or too old to remember what was cool about Transformers in the first place other than what's there at face value [ie green peppermint ice cream]
So they won't get to see what it would've been like if it was done with passion from people who 'got it'. [no choc chips]

It's like the difference between Terminator 2 & 3, this movie is gonna be the T3 to the original transformers T2. It'll still kick it's fair share of ass, but it's gonna be missing the x-factor that only the right people for the job can bring.

X-factor? Did you ever see the original animated tranformers movie? That was some weird shit.



I don't care if it's nothing like the previous tranformers shows and movies. I just wanna see lots of CG.

this movie kicked fuckin ass

Megan Fox is hot

Question: How do they talk?

I remember seeing a trailer where his lip (yes, LIPS) moved, and he goes, "I AM OPTIMUS PRIME".

Please tell me they didn't go down that route.

Regardless, I'm seeing it the night before the opening night, this Monday I think.

Ok I saw this a second time and the dialogue is almost completely unbearable when you know what's coming. The human characters are all horrible and I wanted to smack every single one of them at one point. However the fight scenes were still super impressive.

Transformers was my favourite thing as a kid, and I still love it so much that I own all the G1 DVDs, except for season 4 (but that doesn't really count, it's only 3 episodes introducing the Headmasters). And I have to say this movie was really fucking awesome.

what the fuck? i have no idea what the ice cream analogy means. And what fucking X-factor? It was a japanese cartoon about giant fighting robots. the "X-factor" was that YOU WERE 12 YEARS OLD.

I think a lot of children of the eighties look back with rose tinted glasses on when it comes to the Transformers. I mean, the animated movie was decent, but the series (particularly post-movie), was pretty awful at times. I mean "the Girl who loved Powerglide".....What's with that?

But I suppose it was a good idea with some cool characters like Prime and Megatron etc. Certainly the first season.

As for this new movie. I will look at it with an open mind, because I don't EVER go to a film with the expectation that its going to be the best thing ever. It'll probably be reasonably entertaining.... and loud.

As for anyone who says that it totally betrays the G1 transformers by changing things, well they are just hypercritical because Transformers has had so many different incarnations over the years, its a moot point.

100% agreed.
transformers fucking ruled. the humour was actually fucking REALLY FUNNY, the transformers had great personality. and also - the effects blew my mind, and also - Shia LeBouf is a great natural young actor who dealt really well with turning some lame lines into believable and passable ones.
it was a little cheesy at times, but really its just that Australian girl that was in it. SHE WOULDNT KNOW HOW TO TURN ON A FRIGGING COMPUTER. women!
what a great film

see it again. trust me, you will completely reevaluate your stance on the humour and shia lebouf.

I laughed when the soldier's daughter cried for him. Silly Micheal Bay. It's Pearl Harbour all over again.

The entire "teen love story" thing pretty much killed it.

LOL Wes, you saw it?

Yeah I saw it two days ago. Ugh. It could have been so much better if those two brats got off of the screen. Typical Michael Bay; throwing in crappy character development and bad dialog to accompany the visuals on screen and BAM you have got a movie.

It was alright though. The fight scenes and the end were awesome. And it totally hints on a sequel.



Too bad Megatron couldn't do this anymore.

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damn i wish i hadnt instinctually revealed that spoiled text

Yeah, I had low hopes for this one. I just wanted a something at least on par with the writing of the cartoon and big fucking robots beating the shit out of eachother. It had the big robot shit kicking part...but man. The dialogue was painful. Too much focus on the humans. Not enough on the titular characters.

I really couldn't tell what was happening at any given time.. certainly one of the most discombobulating movies in the last year or so.

I think the main problem was that the designs were just bad. The only one that actually made visual sense on the screen when moving was Optimus Prime, and that's because he actually had solid parts to him. All of those sprockets and gears and tubes are just eyesores, and it made it a chore to distinguish the characters or focus on the action. Megatron had a pretty good design, too, but it was easily lost in the mesh of all the other look-alikes.

The action was pretty good, but there was a lot of unnecessary bounding around instead of robot-on-robot power struggles. A wide shot once in a while wouldn't have hurt, either.

The best part of the movie, without a doubt, was the voicework.

I'm somewhat disappointed that the soundtrack isn't more like the 80's version. So over the top! Those were the days.

* punches Nik Steevi in the dick *
It's Transformers without rock n roll. Terminator 2 without GnR and metal skulls coming out of flames. Peppermint choc-chip ice cream without any choc-chips.
I'd be cool with the same movie if it was made by people who got the whole culture it came from, but it's not the case. So to me as a fan, I think Transformers deserves better treatment.

Saw it yesterday with my housemate. It was pretty much what I expected it to be, which is a good action movie with bad dialog and some stupid moments. A lot of the comedy took me by surprise though, it was genuinely funny. Most of the robots were bastardized as I expected, and because of their complex designs a lot of times it was really hard to tell who was who in fights. That and the blurry, jarring fight scenes in general.

There were some really cool fight moments, like back flipping while dodging missiles and quake rocket jumping with hiw own guns and of course when Optimus took off bonecrusher's head with his sword (these are not plot related spoilers). The robots themselves also acted pretty stupid, never in the original cartoon would Optimus say something like "oops, my bad" after stepping in a flower bed. Seriously Bay, are you retarded?

Optimus and Megatron were still pretty badass in the movie despite their moderately flamboyant designs. A lot of stuff could have been cut, though. And a lot of the lines and general things were stupid. Things like cracking the code on that black kid's computer; seriously that was on of the worst attempts at representing hacking I've ever seen, even worse than in Hackers. And at the end of the movie, haha jesus when the autobots told the kid to climb to the top of the building, that was so retarded. There's these gigantic robots who could easily carry him and they're like DUDE CLIMB THE FIFTY STORY BUILDING WITH MEGATRON CHASING YOU ARE YOU RETARDED WHY WOULD WE HELP YOU UP THERE, even the army dude in that scene was like you're a soldier now, hahaha suck it go take the most valuable thing in the world up there yourself.. And seriously wtf at the end the safest place for the "Allspark" (awful name btw) is in the middle of a city? They need to bring it there to be picked up? Yeah that makes TOTAL sense. Unfortunately it's very clear Bay sacrifices all of his integrity as a director just to work in a fight scene idea that he likes.

Overall I give it a 5.5/10. I'm definitely glad I saw it, didn't expect much, and there's plenty to complain about.

I loved that scene when the chick lifted up the hood of his car and it focused on her perfect waist glistening in the sun.

The animation was good too

I feel the emotional moments were short lived, like when the black transformer died nobody really seemed to care, at all.

hahaha, that's no different from any other movie

jon steele is bitter

It looks alright to me. At least they didn´t make it for kids, like I thought they would.

Transformers:

Banned.

Transformers was pure shit

no it was amazing >: (

I didn't understand the logistics, and I've never fully watched the show. The Decepticons could look like people? The GIGANTIC All-Spark can become the size of a Rubik's Cube? What what...?

This movie was fun the first time around, but after that, not so much...and basically all of the plot points and stupid moments were covered in the aforementioned posts...but there's so many moments in this film where it turns into wall-to-wall exposition... Annoying.

Oh, and as much as I like John Turturro, I found him positively irritating in this... Sure, I guess we're not supposed to like him, but he's not even like....funny-irritating..

i just watched this on HBO. funniest movie ever.

I don't understand how people bump like half-year old threads and shit.

because, much like Peter, I was also watching this on HBO yesterday.

And far be it from me to start a thread that is a duplicat--oh...wait...