[Faithless]

My favorite part of the film is that Megatron's first unfrozen thought (as a sentient robot frozen for hundreds of years) is to yell his own name.

I hope that after I've been cryogenically preserved for the next two centuries, I have the instinct to yell I AM HEATHER at the top of my lungs when they thaw me out.
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the opening scene at Qatar was fucking rad.
the movie had pretty damn good momentum and kept things moving so the movie never had a chance to REALLY suck.

the worst parts of the movie were any of the parts dealing with "washington" and how the government was handling things.

really effective use of chuggy rock music to drive action scenes.

when I saw the dam, I really wanted a fight between optimus and megatron atop the dam with their "laser" weapons, but it didn't happen.

starcream's dog fight was disapointingly short.

rocket jump.

also, I cringed when they got optimus to say "I got it on ebay".

[dmauro]

Oh yeah, the fucking rocket jump. How did no one in the theater cheer for that except me?

Starscream's dogfight was the best part of the movie. Too bad it was less than ten seconds long though.
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[CubaLibre]

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This was the most mediocre film I've seen all summer. I don't know how one can make a movie about two groups of giant robots killing each other not at least interesting, but they found a way.

I hope the inevitable sequel focuses on the possessed Mountain Dew machine.
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[Faithless]

I just want CG-enhanced robots to walk slowly, sexually, and with authority. The best thing I've ever seen in CG is the T-Rex in Jurassic Park and the fucking Mummy in THE MUMMY.
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[Ashura]

None of you watched those Scatman Crothers videos, and that makes me sad. :(

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[Ashura]

Beast Wars sort-of took the best of the cartoon and the best of the comics and sort of mish-mashed them together to make a better overall continuity out of two messy ones.

A friend of mine thinks Beast Wars is horrible and felt the season 2 plot was fanwank porn. Personally, I loved the entire plot, and the big reveal of Megatron's master plan.

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[CubaLibre]

Guys I found the humor funny.

does this make me a bad person confirm/deny
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[chevluh]

Actually it made me laugh a lot too. I guess it's kinda like enjoying a greasy hamburger once in a while even though you know it's really unhealthy food.

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[CubaLibre]

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[rabite gets whacked!]

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[CubaLibre]

[Westacular]

And that is?

Seriously. I'm confused. It's not because I'm a TINO / G1 fanatic. I've never really even read the old Marvel comics firsthand. I actually like the robot designs for the movie (mostly).

I think the biggest reason I didn't like the movie is that the stuff I expected to redeem it -- the action, robots fighting, stuff blowing up -- was shown in a way that felt random, too chaotic, and made it unnecessarily hard to tell what was going on. It robbed the action of meaning.

The actual special effects and animations were, of course, excellent and full of detail, etc., but it was all too fast to process and appreciate. I spent the entire climactic battle wondering who the what just did how? and where the hell did Ratchet and Ironhide and Barricade go?

The movie was all SHOCK and no AWE.

In summary: I didn't like it because Michael Bay's shaky-cam quick-cuts ruined the one thing I expected to be good. And then I got pissed off that the movie was, as someone here said, really Kids and Army Guys Talking About Transformers instead of Transformers. The film gives more character development to the most useless of tertiary human characters than it does to any of the big alien robots that are supposed to be the focus of the film.
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[another god]

Wes you got it all wrong.

Nobody really cares about Transformers.

Michael Bay's intended audience is people who grew up alongside Transformers, but never really, really got into them. It's supposed to be peripheral because a real Transformer's movie would not sell. What does sell is the story about a boy who ends up with a magic car that turns into a giant robot which leads him on an adventure to save the world and get the girl.

In no way was it a great movie, but it was done pretty much how it should've been done. Sam Witwiki was a good character. Mickaela was hot. There were transforming robots and metal music. I left the movie wanting an old yellow Camaro with a racing stripe. I think they did their job.
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[Westacular]

I ... hadn't thought of that. You make a depressing but possibly somewhat valid point. The movie still occasionally acts like it established the robots as characters, but other than declaring their names, it never actually did, so it feels empty and unearned.


Incidentally, my mom's car was a brown '76 Camaro (same year as "old crappy Bumblebee") during my early childhood, up to and including my Transformers years.

If now were then, I probably would have flipped out to discover that Look mom's car is the exact same one that Bumblebee is but brown instead!. And insist on having that toy, of course.
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[Hot Stott Bot]

Damn that movie rocked my world.

Rocked hard.

Thumbs up all around.

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[Ebrey]

[Felix]

[SplashBeats]

The best part is when Bumblebee pisses on John Turturro.

[another god]

Ebrey wins the thread. Even though, you know, I said it first.

Also this thread should have a poll: '76 Camaro vs. '07 Camaro.
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[SplashBeats]

The movie was pretty good fun, though. The camera angles gave me a fucking headache, but it was pretty beautiful to look at. Nice colors, great CG, etc.

Also, why are all the Autobots watching Sam & Girl Who I Forgot the Name of making out at the end? Furthermore, why are they doing it on Bumblebee :(

[Hot Stott Bot]

Guys the camera angles and cuts and whatnot did not confuse me at all and I had no trouble following the movie visually.

I guess I am just a superhuman or something?

Also, they are watching Sam & Girl so that we may have a nice ending scene with all the good guys together.

[SplashBeats]

[Hot Stott Bot]

Ah yes, that is kind of a valid complaint. Maybe. I need to think about that a bit more. I mean, that's always been kind of a Bay thing I guess, but this just took it to more extremes...

[Felix]

come to think of it, i did really appreciate all the primary colors.

that ending scene was maybe my favorite part of the entire movie - as my friends and i were walking out of the theater, we kept laughing about optimus' last little monologue there: "and we'll always be here, watching."

while the camera suggested that there was plenty to watch, indeed.

[Westacular]

Ha! That's excellent. I didn't catch that irony.

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