Transformers The Reviews Thread

[CFlash]

Bombshell had an inhumanoid face, as did everyone in the deluxe assortment.

He had faceplate. Just like Optimus Prime. My point is that they didn't have fangs and otherwise look like "monsters."

 

[Red Mask]

Does Megatron in the movie really have fangs? Do the Decepticons roar and stuff too? Just curious.

He has sharp teeth. But it doesn't really matter. It could look like a venus fly trap. Or with all the sex jokes, you'd think his face was a mechanical vagina.

 

[Bapman]

Does Megatron in the movie really have fangs? Do the Decepticons roar and stuff too? Just curious.

Megatron and Frenzy have fangs.
Only Devastator roars... actually so does Iron-hide when gets pissed.
Iron-Hide, Devastator and Bonecrusher looks similar monster looking. "Armor Face" bumble bee, Barricade and blackout look the smiliar dark mysterious and dangerous.
Prime looks heroic and cool... Megs looks menacing and scary.
Frenzy is... well... Frenzy is funny yet quite freaky.
The Decepticons never for once speak in english 'cause why should they !?
They basically gave the feeling that humans are like insects to them. Even the Autobots [other than Prime n Bumble Bee] have a hard time understanding why they are protecting the humans.
Megatron is literally disgusted by the humans... hence no human fighter/tank form... 'cause why should he !?
Imagine how would you feel if a cockroach got on your skin !? That's pretty much Megs's view of humans.
Oh yes... the decepticons don't give a 2nd thoughts to human casualty so stepping and slapping them away are in plenty.
Now about explosions... ofcourse there would be explosion... you have 8 robots fighting all out in the middle of the city with pulse cannon and missile launchers and machine guns and other energy type weapons.
And regardless what you guys are thinking... the explosions are not just for the sake of it... it gives a real sense that these robots ARE super powerful.

 

[Red Mask]

Which is why I laughed when all those humans got butchered.

Bomb! Bomb! Bomb!

 

[CFlash]

Megatron and Frenzy have fangs.
Only Devastator roars... actually so does Iron-hide when gets pissed.
Iron-Hide, Devastator and Bonecrusher looks similar monster looking. "Armor Face" bumble bee, Barricade and blackout look the smiliar dark mysterious and dangerous.
Prime looks heroic and cool... Megs looks menacing and scary.
Frenzy is... well... Frenzy is funny yet quite freaky.
The Decepticons never for once speak in english 'cause why should they !?
They basically gave the feeling that humans are like insects to them. Even the Autobots [other than Prime n Bumble Bee] have a hard time understanding why they are protecting the humans.
Megatron is literally disgusted by the humans... hence no human fighter/tank form... 'cause why should he !?
Imagine how would you feel if a cockroach got on your skin !? That's pretty much Megs's view of humans.
Oh yes... the decepticons don't give a 2nd thoughts to human casualty so stepping and slapping them away are in plenty.
Now about explosions... ofcourse there would be explosion... you have 8 robots fighting all out in the middle of the city with pulse cannon and missile launchers and machine guns and other energy type weapons.
And regardless what you guys are thinking... the explosions are not just for the sake of it... it gives a real sense that these robots ARE super powerful.

YES!!! I love it. Hopefully, it's not done for comedic effect... although I suspect (if Bay's past movies are of any indication) that it will come off that way.

 

[blind_fury]

The old Transformers were kids stuff, but at least they were the focus of the series and not bunch of humans. There isn't enough screen time to even remember their names or give them more personality than the human stars. This movie wasn't about them. It was about us humans making sure they don't destroy our planet.

I don't think 7 extra minutes of Transformer to Transformer dialogue here and there would've hurt the movie. If anything it would've helped develop the characters and create engrossing dynamics between them.

 

[Ita-KalEl]

I saw it 2 hours ago.
In a word: amazing.

9/10

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Actually it is a stated G1 movie, by one of the producers no less.

Yeah about 4 or 5 months before the movie entered production. However he also said Dan Gilvensan would play Bumblebee, Prime would be a flat nose semi, that Prowl, Wheeljack, Soundwave, Shockwave, Jetfire and several others would be in the cast...essentially he was talking out of his ass at the BOTCON convention before the movie had any sense of direction whatsoever.

If it wasn't why would they care to make Prime a semi and not a firetruck like so many other translations?

Prime has been a firetruck twice (technically he was a quasi-Firetruck-esque Cyber vehicle in Cybertron)...three if you count the latest cartoon. He has been a semi at least 8 times (Return of Convoy, Armada, Energon, G2, G2 Lazer rods, G1, G1 Masterforce, aborted Transtech). So not so many.

Oh and thanks for not quoting the part of my post which states that pieces and parts an adaptation does not make. It makes your arguments seem so much more viable when you edit the quote. You'd make a good republican.

Democrat actually. And pieces and parts an adaptation does make, espeically when you are adaptating a franchise like Transformers. Transformers is not one show, or one cartoon. You can pretend it is, but it isn't Two things are needed to qualify something as Transformers: that it be made by Hasbro and it have Transforming robots. Then it's Transformers. Transformers has been about Civil War, Beasts fighting a race against time, human piloted Transectors, Beast fighting to return to organic, Transformers being banded under "the Matrix" to fight against a Dark God, Peace negotiations throughout the Universe, trying to save Cybertron from a black hole. There have been to date nearly 25 continuities of Transformers, all with different launching points, asethetics, and continuities. Even G1 itself has several competing continuities and no amount of fanwanking can bring them together. B*tch all you want, but Transformers is not simply a cancelled TV show from back in the eighties.

 

[CFlash]

I don't think 7 extra minutes of Transformer to Transformer dialogue here and there would've hurt the movie. If anything it would helped develop the characters and create engrossing dynamics between them.

In all fairness, I've heard consistently that the bots have a lot more dialog than any of us expected. It could have been a lot worse, B_F.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I don't think 7 extra minutes of Transformer to Transformer dialogue here and there would've hurt the movie. If anything it would've helped develop the characters and create engrossing dynamics between them.

They make up about 2/3rds of the panels in the comic adaptation and have quiet a bit of dialogue between themselves. Even the Decepticons have a moment gathered together. Starscream and Megatron have a back and forth too.`

 

[hummerbee]

YES!!! I love it. Hopefully, it's not done for comedic effect... although I suspect (if Bay's past movies are of any indication) that it will come off that way.

it did come out that way, at least when i watched it. most of the people laughed when megs swatted away a bunch of people during the final fight.

 

[UltimateMagneto]

I just came back from seeing the movie. I typed up quite a bit but deleted it all, as I realized all I was saying was awesome! fantastic! brilliant! excellent! over and over. I'm still very excited and amazed by what I just saw. I need to settle down a bit. I will say that I've never cheered or applauded or any of that during a movie, but Transformers had me doing that (the whole cinema was so into it, everyone was applauding constantly). I can see why pretty much every review thus far is praising this movie. It totally deserves it. It's SO exciting. I've just never been this blown away by a movie. I'm definitely seeing it again, and I can't wait.

Seriously, some of you should really just give Bay and the rest of the film crew a chance. This movie is amazing. For someone who wasn't even a fan to begin with, Bay (and ILM ofcourse) sure knows how to make the Transformers truly shine. Say what you will, but I want Bay back for the sequel. I just want more of this. Definitely.

 

[Boiiinng]

Democrat actually.

I said you would make a good Republican. I didn't say you were one.

 

[hummerbee]

They make up about 2/3rds of the panels in the comic adaptation and have quiet a bit of dialogue between themselves. Even the Decepticons have a moment gathered together. Starscream and Megatron have a back and forth too.`

unfortunately, that seems to be missing in the movie.

the only time we see the Megs-SS dynamics in the cartoon is when

Spoiler

Megs blurts out: "You have failed me again, Starscream". and the Decepticons never gathered together. they just showed individual shots of them "reporting for duty" and heading off to the final battle.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

unfortunately, that seems to be missing in the movie.

the only time we see the Megs-SS dynamics in the cartoon is when

Spoiler

Megs blurts out: "You have failed me again, Starscream".

Well the comic doesn't differentiate between subtitled dialogue and spoken words, the other things is the dialogue between them isn't reminiscent of their old rivalry, it's just them talking with each other.

 

[hummerbee]

^^ added a bit to the spoiler tags in my previous post.

looking back, i think that's the only time in the movie when Megs and SS talked. (somebody correct me if i'm wrong).

 

[CFlash]

it did come out that way, at least when i watched it. most of the people laughed when megs swatted away a bunch of people during the final fight.

Yeah. Same goes for a lot of the scenes in Pearl Harbor. I'll never forget that movie-going experience.

 

[Mr. Socko]

Is there still Hostility in this thread?

 

[Boiiinng]

And pieces and parts an adaptation does make, espeically when you are adaptating a franchise like Transformers. Transformers is not one show, or one cartoon. You can pretend it is, but it isn't Two things are needed to qualify something as Transformers: that it be made by Hasbro and it have Transforming robots. Then it's Transformers. Transformers has been about Civil War, Beasts fighting a race against time, human piloted Transectors, Beast fighting to return to organic, Transformers being banded under "the Matrix" to fight against a Dark God, Peace negotiations throughout the Universe, trying to save Cybertron from a black hole. There have been to date nearly 25 continuities of Transformers, all with different launching points, asethetics, and continuities. Even G1 itself has several competing continuities and no amount of fanwanking can bring them together. B*tch all you want, but Transformers is not simply a cancelled TV show from back in the eighties.

And yet without it, you would have none of the rest. That's why it diserves respect and proper adaptation when converting to a new medium.

You are talking translation, where things get lost.

An adaptation would not lose important and key aspects, but rather retain them.

 

[CFlash]

You are talking translation, where things get lost.
An adaptation would not lose important and key aspects, but rather retain them.

I agree. Like the theme of alienation in X-Men that Singer brilliantly put to screen in the first 30 seconds of the movie and Transformers' energy crisis th...... eh never mind.

 

[Bapman]

I don't think 7 extra minutes of Transformer to Transformer dialogue here and there would've hurt the movie. If anything it would've helped develop the characters and create engrossing dynamics between them.

Ok... I'm have no problem in admitting when I've been had and yes this is 1 place I have to agree with you whole heartedly.
That is that they could've given more screen time to develop the characters more but do you really wanna know what I honestly think without the fanboy part kicking in !?
It was an introductory movie... this movie had the same budget as Batman Begins... 13 super complex alien robots that transform... all out finale battle.
I am sure even if they wanted they couldn't.
If you have seen it I'm very sure you liked it but are dissapointed by some things like all of us.
If not then just go with an open mind ok !? That's all I ask. They could've cut down the action to bring in some more character interaction I know but from my perspective I know why they didn't do that 'cause for the normal audience it was the action that was the payoff.
Now if it was let's say TF - 2... I really would've said it was nothing more than action fragfest... but this wasn't that... it was the TF introduction story... done from a different perpective.
That doesn't make it bad... just adds another dimension to the story and well... gives it a more "human" look if that makes sense.
I mean we are all TF fans here why are we even arguing !?... We should enjoy the stuff we got and be happy that how much worse it could've gotten if sum1 like "Tim Story" or "Paul Anderson" got their hands on it.

 

[spideyo]

Dude... 3 seats from the screen... you are gonna see blur in this movie trust me.
Here [Australia] the rows the labelled with Alphabets with A being the total front... we sat on G and even then it looked blurry during the final fight 'cause it was so fast and well... big.

lol.. not 2 or 3 seats up. I meant 2/3 up from the whole theater hall screen. A little more then half way up and little bit below the back of the theater hall.

 

[spideyo]

Get over it blind_fury.

Alot of people saw the movie. Saw the Transformers and thought they were awesome.


Really man , your negative **** is getting old. If you dont want to see Transformers because it isnt the movie you WANTED , then dont see it and stop nagging.

I agree with u. All those who want to keep bashing the film should respond in the Negatron thread.

 

[Figs]

I said you would make a good Republican. I didn't say you were one.

...and I say that is one of the most extremely ignorant things I've ever heard. Democrats, Republicans.......both sides have pulled moves like that. When it comes to politics, no one is innocent and honest....no one.

 

[Figs]

Yeah. Same goes for a lot of the scenes in Pearl Harbor. I'll never forget that movie-going experience.

Pearl Harbor was bad mainly because of the whole love story element that made up most of the film. Seriously though, you have issues if you laughed at people dying in that movie. Yeah, Bay isn't Spielberg when it comes to human emotion and death scenes but it still wasn't horror movie laughable.