I never understood the appeal of Unicron. What is the point of something planet sized being able to transform into a robot? Where would it ever stand? I always loved the combiners. I personally thought that was a far as the "Transformer variants" should go. I absolutely hated the Headmasters, Targetmasters, and Powermasters. And don't get me started on the Transformer Pretenders.
Unicron is just...big. And badass. And Orson freaking Wells. But I wouldn't mind if he didn't "transform" in a live-action film. It'd be fine if he was just a huge planetoid that devoured other planets.
Wife and I saw it on July 3rd. Rarely have I sat in a movie and been so enthralled, so satisfied, so just-plain-entertained that I was grinning from ear to ear almost the whole time. This movie freakin' ROCKS and if you miss it, you'll be sorry later. I was never a fan of the cartoons, finding the toy tie-in embarassing and the endless variations of the Transformers to be somewhat tedious. But oh my GOD this flick is cool. I mean better than Star Wars level cool. Only thing I can compare it to are the very few films that hit me the same way: Buckaroo Banzai, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The 300 . . . and not too many others.
^^ Yes, exactly. In so many films, no matter the overall quality, there are those moments that you just have to "get through o get to the next good part" I don't remember a singl moment like that in Transformers. EVERY scene was entertaining in some regard. that's rare. And I'm frankly stunned to find it in a film based on source material that never really appealed to me at all.
I thought they did an extraordinarily good job accentuating the "alienness" of the Transformers and not just as robots. Using the Transformer language with English subtitles was really cool. The the Decepticon tank was cool beyond belief. Like what a next generation Abrams should look like.
Megan Fox was the hottest thing on two legs for the 150 minutes that my eyes were glued to the screen.
I helped you with that very soon afterward. VERY. This movie was so freakin awesome. Guys killin, cars transforming, big ass robots fighting, Fucking Awesome. [action=Mrs. Flow]barely contained herself while in the theater.[/action]
[action=The Shadow]would very much like to see what happens when Mrs Flow fails to contain herself.[/action]
OMG THIS MOVIE WAS FUCKIN' AWEEESOME!! I saw it for the THIRD time tonight and this was an absolute BLAST! [?=SPOILERSSS!! SPOILERS DAMNIT!] Me saying... I mean Megatron ( ) saying "Oh.. so unwise.." to Sam was one fucking cool dialogue! Never have I been absolutely scared of a machine after the Terminator, but this time, it made me fear robots again after seeing how Barricade was interrogating Sam.. "ARE YOU USERNAME LADIESMAN217??" "ARE. YOU. USERNAME LADIESMAN217??" "Yess.. yes I am!" "WHERE IS ITEM NO. 23370???" HOOOLYY SHIAT! Then Starscream toying with the F-22s, ALL the Autobots converging together to hit on Devastator, Megatron tearing Jazz to two pieces, Bonecrusher and Prime jumping over the overpass, Frenzy creating havoc everywhere he goes and finally Prime and Megs final fight... OH MAN!!! I am gonna watch it three more times in the theatre! [/?]
Just got back from seeing it. All I can say is: OUCH. My ears are going to be ringing for hours. I usually remember to bring earplugs to the cinema, but it's just Murphy's Law that the one time I forget is the time that the movie is a three-hour-long non-stop noisefest. Not that I didn't enjoy all the special effects and car chases and amazing machines and explosions, I just had to enjoy them while squeezing my ears closed as tight as possible and enduring a pounding headache and nausea. Which sort of took away from the awesomeness of the film. I'm sure I'll remember the earplugs next time.
Just got back from seeing it and while I enjoyed the movie enough I don't know why everyone I spoke to was practically yelling at me to go see it. I loved the cartoon as a kid so seeing it on the big screen was pretty cool and it all felt right and looked great and the chick was smoking but the action gave me a headache. When they weren't moving around it was fine but as soon as the brawling started I couldn't follow shit, though that's a problem I'm finding with a lot of movies these days. What would of helped is if maybe they zoomed out a bit more during the fights. Their giant fucking robots why do they have to zoom in so close that I don't know what the hell I'm looking at. Anyway, headache inducing fight scenes aside I give a B+
^ They were yelling at you because they had lost their hearing. But yeah, I had trouble following a lot of the action, too - couldn't always tell one robot from another or what exactly they were doing.
HELL FUCKING YEAH!!! DECEPTICONS don't give a rats arse about Earth and they had no need to talk in Earth languages amongst themselves! Fuck Autobots! Fuck Humans! ALL HAIL MEGATRON!
See, to me, the fight scenes were the most ordinary part of the film because you know they are "supposed" to happen but it's unlikely any of it will be jaw dropping - it's just transitional. The only time I left my seat was during the all out brawl. Not unlike the battle scenes in Braveheart for instance...my mind says "for the next five minutes, blokes will be whacking one-nother with swords...time to go piss." So it didn't much matter to me about the fight scenes because I know the good guy wins - other than classic dialog, there's nothing there I really need to see. If it's not Jackie Chan or something the fight scenes are transitional for me.
Hmm... okay, it was decent but some things kept me from really enjoying it. The dialogue between the human characters was mostly atrocious. How many times did that Sam kid go, 'no no no no no....' ? Basically most of the scenes that just focused on the human characters sucked ass. Too many pointless characters... they should have just kept the focus on Sam and his girl. We had the Aussie hacker chick, her annoying black hacker friend, the black marine with the usual Ebonics-laced exclamations, the heroic white marine, the SoD, the jackass Section 7 operative, Sam's parents, etc. etc. Operative: you're a criminal, girl! Girl: why did you have to say that? Sam: OMG, you're a criminal, don't talk to me. Girl: I turned in my own father okay! And I like robots. Sam: Okay, I like you again. Who gives a shit?? I don't care about these fucking people. Gimme more of the damn robots. And that was the where the movie really excelled. The robots were fantastic and the action scenes had me glued to the seat. The very brief homages to the G1 Transformers were very welcome. I was half expecting the TF movie theme in the opening credits... that would have been so cool. Prime's 'one shall stand...' and Megatron's 'you've failed me again Starscream!' were highlights. I really wish Chris Latta was around to do Starscream's voice... I would have gotten a huge kick out of hearing him scream 'Decepticons attack!' Decent summer action flick but not really representative of what I liked about Transformers. EDIT: Oh, yeah, and Shia Lebeauf (sp?) was really starting to get on my fucking nerves. If he acts that whiny in the next Indy movie it's gonna be a massive disappointment.
I don't know about Prime, but are you sure about Barricade? As far as I'm aware, the new Dodge Charger always four doors, for a start. Edit: He's even listed as a Saleen 5281 Mustang on the official site.
[?=My two-penneth]They butchered my favourite childhood character! You bastards! Poor Jazz! Actually, I'm not talking about the events of the movie. I'm talking about the fact that practically the only thing he had in common with the Jazz I grew up with was the name. Ugh! Aside from that, I thought the Transformers were handled reasonably well. A little bit too "young" in places, perhaps, but it wasn't dreadful. I would have preferred it if they'd spent a little more time on the Transformers and whittled down the humans a bit. We really had very little idea of personality from many of them. The only ones we really got any idea of were Bumblebee, Optimus Prime and Frenzy. Also, there's no way Bumblebee should have been able to stand up to Barricade. People have argued that it shouldn't matter if Bumblebee is a Camaro or a Beetle, but if you also ditch his physical capabilities and barely explore his personality, what's left? Also, I wasn't too convinced about the general design of the Transformers. They were far too "busy", I thought. Slightly simpler designs would have made things much easier to follow. Colour-scheming the Autobots was a very good idea, I think. I wish they'd done the same with the Decepticons, since I got hellish confused at the end as to which of Blackout and Devastator was doing what. The fights were often very hard to follow, simply because the camera was far too close to the action. There was no need for this. By the way, what happened to Barricade? Did he just chicken out or something? All in all, I'd give it a B-. [/?]
Um....what demo was the source material intended for again? You think the fanboys are whining NOW? What would they be saying if they got a "mature" Transformers film?
I've never been a T-formers fan, but based on the reviews I'll probably take my son to see this one. But riddle me this, Batman: Why do the robots need to transform into things like cars and trucks in the first place?
