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Just saw Transformers this afternoon, and was blown away. This is the opinion of a guy who - like pretty much everyone else in the Western world - knew the TV show's theme song, and some key names in the story (Optimus Prime, Megatron, Cybertron, Autobots, and Decepticons). But I never actually watched more than a few episodes of the show. It just didn't grab me.

Thus I had no preconceived notions about how the characters were handled in this movie. I just wanted it to work as a solid action-adventure flick. And it kicked every ounce of arse I expected it to, and then some. I was most impressed - and so was my wife! At first I think she was just doing her geek husband a favour by accompanying me to the show, but after it was done she said, "I loved it!" Then she was humming the old TV tune the rest of the afternoon. :D

So, I guess Michael Bay brought my wife and me closer together. Who woulda thunk it??
 
blind_fury said:
Well I'm one of the few people who feel it's terribly underrated. I realize I'm in the minority though.

It explores the human condition in ways most sci-fi movies don't. It gets right at the dirty honest truth about the human drive for love, sex, and family. And it ain't pretty.
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You're not in the minority. It's a highly well-reviewed film, on the top 100 sci-fi flicks at RT, and one of Spielberg's most earnest efforts. "Cerebral masterpiece" is subjective... and IMO Darthphere should forfeit his bet winnings from Ragdus for even calling out my quote the way he did especially since what I meant- in context- is obvious. It's not like I said "Cerebral masterpiece like 2001, and CATWOMAN." Anybody agree?
 
Ragdus should just donate 100 cents to Darthphere's favorite artificial intelligence research company.
 
CFlash said:
if you think this movie is “good” you need to have your IQ checked. [...]
I don’t really know how to close. I can understand how some people liked it or just 'enjoyed' it. But, you have to do some SERIOUS brain checking at the door… something I was apparently unsuccessful at doing.
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Hehe, and if one has an IQ of over 130 and loved the movie....? :woot:

I just can't get why people has to attack others just because people have different taste. It's so little constructive. Arguments like "no woman/man would like this movie"/"you have to be stupid to like this movie" etc is just not right. ;)


I think it's sad that someone can not love this movie. I'd rather people feel joy then "hate" and I'm just glad Bay managed to bring joy to so many people with this movie. I think you are very disappointed that you were not capable to feel the love and excitement that so many of us felt. It is your loss, bear with it and don't go bashing the people who liked it just because you were incapable of liking it. But I get it, you were probably just joking. :)

Peace out. I hope your next movie-experience brings a big smile on your face.
 
i enjoyed this movie

however this is my brother's review( kinda)


In the "enhanced words of Team America, "Why the **** does Michael Bay keep making movies"!!!!!!!?"

Yes, that's right!! I saw Transformers and it sucked!!!.

Now, don't get me wrong, it had its moments, and it was going somewhere. But like all Michael Bay movies, it ends up in the chaotic ****ter!!!!

Warning! Spoilers!! If you should decide to watch that dumb**** of a movie!!

First off, where the hell does Michael get the idea that Megatron should only be in the film for like ****in' 20 minutes. HE'S ****ING MEGATRON!!!! And how does Megatron know English!? Optimus Prime said that he learned English off the World Wide Web and Megatron crashed in 10,000 B.C., I didn't know English or the World Wide Web existed back then? Oh wait, THEY DIDN'T!!!

And about Optimus Prime...WHAT THE **** MICHAEL BAY?!! Why does Prime's dialogue almost always seem over the top!? Whatever I was listening to him, I thought he was the ****in' announcer guy off those damn anime ads on toonami!!! Oh wait, that was the announcer guy off Toonami!! Peter Cullen, right?! **** him!! No, wait, wait, don't totally **** him! He had his moments in the movie!! But who the hell was the acting supervisor?! The one from 300??!! Yeah, I said it, **** you!!!

And what about the rest of the transformers!!? Where were they?!! Sure, they were shooting at each other, but when they were, I couldn't care less what happened to them!!

The Autobots? Ha! **** them!! They're the Autobots, so we should just automatically go 'Heil Autobots'! They didn't need emotional depth, some characterization, a little interaction to at least tell me they really are the good guys!! Hell, they could have been playing good cop, bad cop, but the good cop really is another bad cop and the other bad cop is just to ****in' ******ed to say anything!! "Yeah, let's not harm the humans...yet"

And the Decepticons? **** them too!! Who the hell were they anyway?! Seriously, WHO THE HELL WERE THEY!!!!? It's like Michael Bay gets 75% of the way through the film and decides, "****!! There were Decepticons!!? They seem important...so let's put them in!". If the Autobots were characterization-lite to the near max, then the Decepticons were characterization-null!!! There characters were so much cooler than the Autobots, but not only does Bay not give them more screen time, he ****in' clubs them like baby seals!! TOO ****ING EASY!! And then the only one left is Starscream and he just flies off into space, probably going, "Goddamn you Michael Bay for creating this movie with sequels in mind rather than focus on the movie itself...BASTARD!!!!!!!!!".

And now we get to the ****in' humans! Seriously, Optimus Prime should have just said **** 'em! **** THEM!!

Shia LaBeouf seriously overrates himself!! On E! he's like, "When we saw the trailer for Superman Returns, we wanted Superman, not some lovee-dovee movie" Shia...**** you! That movie was boring, dragged on, and didn't have enough action in it, and it was still better than you and that ****ty movie you starred in!! I felt like throwing my ****in' cellphone at the projector and hope the electrical interaction would fry the movie so I wouldn't have to hear your ****in' voice every time some bad **** started happening and you just ran your mouth in overdrive!! **** you!

And Megan Fox? Wow Michael, wow! Congratulations, You just pulled off the Fantastic Four move and got it half right! You got someone who was actually pretty to play the role(**** you Jessica Alba, you talentless, narcissist *****!), but you forgot to make sure that ****in' pretty someone could voice her ****in' lines right for five seconds without bending over to the camera. I don't care if she's hot, if I wanted to see hot, I got my porno collection! I want to actually see a movie where there's some decent ****in' acting!! It's a ****in' movie! Not a promo!

And speaking of promos. Congratulations Michael for once again making us realize that movies now a days are really just very extended ads. Chevy, Hummer, Dance Dance Revolution, World Wide Web, Ebay!!? GOD ****ING DAMN YOU!!!

And then there's that final battle scene in...in...what city was it? Los Angeles? Thank you Wikipedia, I could never have found it in the movie? Or was it really in Los Angeles...oh, the filming took place in Los Angeles. Then where was the city...Mission City? Where the hell is that?

Anyway, I had no ****ing clue what the hell was going on in that battle! Some scenes with the Transformers felt too short! Oh wait yet again, all the the scenes of the Transformers felt way too short! Guess we gotta make room for more of Megan Fox...*****!! And then there were those military guys that I thought had there moment in the shoot out at the Arabian city (One of the few sweet moments in that movie), but I guess they're our only hope...or something...I still don't get just how the **** they go from having a shootout with a robot in Qatar, to being in a shootout in "Mission City" as if they are the only soldiers on the entire planet who can stop the Decepticons.

And where the **** was everybody else?! At the end, when everything was done, everyone started acting like nothing happened! What the ****!? You're telling me that an entire city was under attack, F-22's were ripped off the sky, an entire military base was destroyed, comets falling out of the sky, and you're telling me that no one ****in' noticed that?!! Oh wait, that's right, Bush was the president in that movie, he's too stupid to notice anything! Probably him and Cheney blamed it on Iran and finally started that war they've been jackin' off too in his dreams!!

And then there's the story. What ****in' story?!! What? Really? They're really was one?! I thought I was watching a rip-off of Independence Day! Oh don't tell me you guys weren't thinking the same thing when Jon Voight went, "And you didn't bother to tell the military about this alien threat?" and the guy next to him replies, "We didn't deem it to be a credible national security threat". COME ON!!

And before I end this. Was it just me, or was this movie asking me to love it? All those slower scenes, like when in the city, after Starscream bombs them and everyone is trying to get up and Shia and Megan reach for each other; and that scene where Megan seems to be all stress out in the car and then all of a sudden gets the courage to step on the gas, felt too clichéd as if Bay was saying "Hey! There's that kind of scene! Love Me!!" **** you! If I want to love your movie, your movie better prove to me that it's a damn good movie first.

From the inspiration of the South Park two-parter, Cartoon Wars, I end with this. If I ever get into the movie industry and someone comes up to me and says "Hey, are you trying to be like Michael Bay?", I'll reply, angrily and insulted, "No! Don't you ever try to compare me to that ego-centric *******! When I make my movies, they have well-thought out plots with well-developed characters, and action that makes sense and is relevant to the overall plot! Not chaotic storylines with CGI-stuffed violence just because you think it's cool when it's not!!"

Tee-hee,
Nader
 
Is it just me or did anyone else notice this too:

When BB was chasing Sam down the street on that pink bike, and Sam flips and lands on his ass in front of Mikaela, did anyone else see the glasses case fall out of his pocket? It was on screen right above his left shoulder. If he had the glasses on him, and didn't go home until after Prime and Co land, he should have had them on him, thus the house scene was irrelavant. :confused:
 
Your brother needs to masturabate more. Release some of that tension. Take a cue from the movie.
 
LOL terry. That was a fun read JM :D
 
question:

after the scene of
Starscream leaving the Earth's atmosphere during the ending credits
, was there anything else after that?

If there was or wasn't, someone please fill me in.
 
Hi, I'm the new. I just saw Transformers and simply loved it. It got some bad parts and it got lot of good parts! So here is my review for Transformers!


Review

The movie starts out with Blackout attacking the base. I loved the start and the CGI but I did't like that this movie went right into action.This movie enjoyable and very entertaining! We then see the two main human characters of the movie,Sam and Mikaela.I liked the comedy. Shia did a great job acting as Sam and Megan did a also good job with Mikaela.
Now with the Autobots,they were great! I liked all of them. From all of them Optimuse was my favourite Autobot of all. The action that took place in this movie was breathtaking! I kinda hoped that they did't show so much of Bumblebee.Now the rest were good aswel.

Now on to Decepticons, Megetron I enjoyed the most but I was disapponted that he only arrvied in the near end. The rest were okay. Bonecrusher got soo less time and same goes to Brawl. Barricade somehow disappeared which I did not like! Startscream was great too!

Overall this movie was superb! I give it a 8.9/10!
 
my bro is just a very opinionated person ( still lol terry) and he takes out his anger in writing. (he's not like that in real life). whenever something ticks him off he just puts it into this story he's writing. it's actually pretty good, it makes fun of well...everything.
 
JoLiE_MeNdEz said:
i enjoyed this movie

however this is my brother's review( kinda)


In the "enhanced words of Team America, "Why the **** does Michael Bay keep making movies"!!!!!!!?"

Yes, that's right!! I saw Transformers and it sucked!!!.

Now, don't get me wrong, it had its moments, and it was going somewhere. But like all Michael Bay movies, it ends up in the chaotic ****ter!!!!

Warning! Spoilers!! If you should decide to watch that dumb**** of a movie!!

First off, where the hell does Michael get the idea that Megatron should only be in the film for like ****in' 20 minutes. HE'S ****ING MEGATRON!!!! And how does Megatron know English!? Optimus Prime said that he learned English off the World Wide Web and Megatron crashed in 10,000 B.C., I didn't know English or the World Wide Web existed back then? Oh wait, THEY DIDN'T!!!

And about Optimus Prime...WHAT THE **** MICHAEL BAY?!! Why does Prime's dialogue almost always seem over the top!? Whatever I was listening to him, I thought he was the ****in' announcer guy off those damn anime ads on toonami!!! Oh wait, that was the announcer guy off Toonami!! Peter Cullen, right?! **** him!! No, wait, wait, don't totally **** him! He had his moments in the movie!! But who the hell was the acting supervisor?! The one from 300??!! Yeah, I said it, **** you!!!

And what about the rest of the transformers!!? Where were they?!! Sure, they were shooting at each other, but when they were, I couldn't care less what happened to them!!

The Autobots? Ha! **** them!! They're the Autobots, so we should just automatically go 'Heil Autobots'! They didn't need emotional depth, some characterization, a little interaction to at least tell me they really are the good guys!! Hell, they could have been playing good cop, bad cop, but the good cop really is another bad cop and the other bad cop is just to ****in' ******ed to say anything!! "Yeah, let's not harm the humans...yet"

And the Decepticons? **** them too!! Who the hell were they anyway?! Seriously, WHO THE HELL WERE THEY!!!!? It's like Michael Bay gets 75% of the way through the film and decides, "****!! There were Decepticons!!? They seem important...so let's put them in!". If the Autobots were characterization-lite to the near max, then the Decepticons were characterization-null!!! There characters were so much cooler than the Autobots, but not only does Bay not give them more screen time, he ****in' clubs them like baby seals!! TOO ****ING EASY!! And then the only one left is Starscream and he just flies off into space, probably going, "Goddamn you Michael Bay for creating this movie with sequels in mind rather than focus on the movie itself...BASTARD!!!!!!!!!".

And now we get to the ****in' humans! Seriously, Optimus Prime should have just said **** 'em! **** THEM!!

Shia LaBeouf seriously overrates himself!! On E! he's like, "When we saw the trailer for Superman Returns, we wanted Superman, not some lovee-dovee movie" Shia...**** you! That movie was boring, dragged on, and didn't have enough action in it, and it was still better than you and that ****ty movie you starred in!! I felt like throwing my ****in' cellphone at the projector and hope the electrical interaction would fry the movie so I wouldn't have to hear your ****in' voice every time some bad **** started happening and you just ran your mouth in overdrive!! **** you!

And Megan Fox? Wow Michael, wow! Congratulations, You just pulled off the Fantastic Four move and got it half right! You got someone who was actually pretty to play the role(**** you Jessica Alba, you talentless, narcissist *****!), but you forgot to make sure that ****in' pretty someone could voice her ****in' lines right for five seconds without bending over to the camera. I don't care if she's hot, if I wanted to see hot, I got my porno collection! I want to actually see a movie where there's some decent ****in' acting!! It's a ****in' movie! Not a promo!

And speaking of promos. Congratulations Michael for once again making us realize that movies now a days are really just very extended ads. Chevy, Hummer, Dance Dance Revolution, World Wide Web, Ebay!!? GOD ****ING DAMN YOU!!!

And then there's that final battle scene in...in...what city was it? Los Angeles? Thank you Wikipedia, I could never have found it in the movie? Or was it really in Los Angeles...oh, the filming took place in Los Angeles. Then where was the city...Mission City? Where the hell is that?

Anyway, I had no ****ing clue what the hell was going on in that battle! Some scenes with the Transformers felt too short! Oh wait yet again, all the the scenes of the Transformers felt way too short! Guess we gotta make room for more of Megan Fox...*****!! And then there were those military guys that I thought had there moment in the shoot out at the Arabian city (One of the few sweet moments in that movie), but I guess they're our only hope...or something...I still don't get just how the **** they go from having a shootout with a robot in Qatar, to being in a shootout in "Mission City" as if they are the only soldiers on the entire planet who can stop the Decepticons.

And where the **** was everybody else?! At the end, when everything was done, everyone started acting like nothing happened! What the ****!? You're telling me that an entire city was under attack, F-22's were ripped off the sky, an entire military base was destroyed, comets falling out of the sky, and you're telling me that no one ****in' noticed that?!! Oh wait, that's right, Bush was the president in that movie, he's too stupid to notice anything! Probably him and Cheney blamed it on Iran and finally started that war they've been jackin' off too in his dreams!!

And then there's the story. What ****in' story?!! What? Really? They're really was one?! I thought I was watching a rip-off of Independence Day! Oh don't tell me you guys weren't thinking the same thing when Jon Voight went, "And you didn't bother to tell the military about this alien threat?" and the guy next to him replies, "We didn't deem it to be a credible national security threat". COME ON!!

And before I end this. Was it just me, or was this movie asking me to love it? All those slower scenes, like when in the city, after Starscream bombs them and everyone is trying to get up and Shia and Megan reach for each other; and that scene where Megan seems to be all stress out in the car and then all of a sudden gets the courage to step on the gas, felt too clichéd as if Bay was saying "Hey! There's that kind of scene! Love Me!!" **** you! If I want to love your movie, your movie better prove to me that it's a damn good movie first.

From the inspiration of the South Park two-parter, Cartoon Wars, I end with this. If I ever get into the movie industry and someone comes up to me and says "Hey, are you trying to be like Michael Bay?", I'll reply, angrily and insulted, "No! Don't you ever try to compare me to that ego-centric *******! When I make my movies, they have well-thought out plots with well-developed characters, and action that makes sense and is relevant to the overall plot! Not chaotic storylines with CGI-stuffed violence just because you think it's cool when it's not!!"

Tee-hee,
Nader
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Hopefully this is a joke. If not that guy is a serious *****e bag! Someone needs to get a life if they got that pissed over a damn movie. LOL, dude! This is reality, there is more to life than movies. Go outside, there are girls out their. When you make your movies huh! What have you done? Either nothing and your full of it or a bunch of boring pretentious crap Im willing to bet.
 
FigmanJ said:
Hopefully this is a joke. If not that guy is a serious *****e bag! Someone needs to get a life if they got that pissed over a damn movie. LOL, dude! This is reality, there is more to life than movies. Go outside, there are girls out their. When you make your movies huh! What have you done? Either nothing and your full of it or a bunch of boring pretentious crap Im willing to bet.
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hey hey now it's my big brother you are talking about :csad:
 
Dotten said:
Hehe, and if one has an IQ of over 130 and loved the movie....? :woot:

I just can't get why people has to attack others just because people have different taste. It's so little constructive. Arguments like "no woman/man would like this movie"/"you have to be stupid to like this movie" etc is just not right. ;)


I think it's sad that someone can not love this movie. I'd rather people feel joy then "hate" and I'm just glad Bay managed to bring joy to so many people with this movie. I think you are very disappointed that you were not capable to feel the love and excitement that so many of us felt. It is your loss, bear with it and don't go bashing the people who liked it just because you were incapable of liking it. But I get it, you were probably just joking. :)

Peace out. I hope your next movie-experience brings a big smile on your face.
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Dotten, don't mind CFlash. I think the main reason he rags on the movie is because of the "stereotypes" of hispanics that he seemed to see in the movie.
 
JoLiE_MeNdEz said:
hey hey now it's my big brother you are talking about :csad:
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Sorry, just when I see someone that wrathful.....they got issues. Most of the people who didnt like the movie had good and mature reasoning behind why. His was so full of cussing that it was over the top and figured him for joking. If not though, hook him up with some girls or something!!!
 
FigmanJ said:
Sorry, just when I see someone that wrathful.....they got issues. Most of the people who didnt like the movie had good and mature reasoning behind why. His was so full of cussing that it was over the top and figured him for joking. If not though, hook him up with some girls or something!!!
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lol no it's cool i'ts cool it's your opinion. seriously though, like i said, he takes it out in his writing, and this is just part of it. when he came home after watching it he didn't say all of what he wrote in the above, he just said man it was a disappointment to him.
 
blind_fury said:
Conclusion

I still feel that G1 has alot more to offer than what was presented. I in no way feel this movie elevated the source material but made the concepts easier to swallow for mass audiences. The same reason Flinstone vitamins taste like candy.

If you think the source material is disposable garbage and fandom should be ignored and trivialized, you're still wrong. Don't bother trying to use this review to validate past attacks on the source material. You'd be wasting your time. G1 rules. Let's explore why G1 resonated with millions more and more with the sequels.

This movie is still only a 7. As a life-long Transformers fan I should be able to give it a 9 or 10. But I simply can't. This movie had me at times happier than a pig in s--t. Unfortunately the smell of wasted potential became too great of a distraction. Hopefully the sequels won't have this problem.

The skepticism, scrutiny, debate, and constructive criticism will continue for future adaptations. And rightfully so. We're fans, not studio cheerleaders.

Till all are one. :trans:
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Interesting stuff here Blind

(it's the "haters turned" reviews that are the most interesting)

everyone has their reason for the months of "negativity" mostly it's either bay or g1 purism...

i think with u it was a mix of both
but looking at ur last words i'd say more the latter

then again in looking at some of those closing statements...u say missed opportunities and things that should have been tweeked...
how many part one of comicbook films have we said that about in the past?
xmen
batman
superman
spiderman

it's often in the sequels that they get things all kinked out...i'm sure that the starscream character is very much in the same situation as batman being a detective...no room in said particular story...

I don't have much to say right now and i'm avoiding these boards till i see the film myself(can't wait to review it)

i do have so questions tho;

bay has said himself that he doesn't make movies for the critics who are paid to tell ppl what's bad about a film... he makes them for the general and (very) paying audience...
i've seen two of his films with a full audience and they got cheers and loud applause at the end

having seen this in a similar situation what do u have to say about the eberts who say he's out of touch with society or the verns who sit i the roaring audience and just nod their heads?
and say stuff like "this isn't funny"
 
First off, where the hell does Michael get the idea that Megatron should only be in the film for like ****in' 20 minutes. HE'S ****ING MEGATRON!!!! And how does Megatron know English!? Optimus Prime said that he learned English off the World Wide Web and Megatron crashed in 10,000 B.C., I didn't know English or the World Wide Web existed back then? Oh wait, THEY DIDN'T!!!
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My guess is that since he was connected to all those cables, once he woke up he learned from the web... I guess
 
Marvin said:
i do have so questions tho;

bay has said himself that he doesn't make movies for the critics who are paid to tell ppl what's bad about a film... he makes them for the general and (very) paying audience...
i've seen two of his films with a full audience and they got cheers and loud applause at the end

having seen this in a similar situation what do u have to say about the eberts who say he's out of touch with society or the verns who sit i the roaring audience and just nod their heads?
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Because his movies are like Ice Ice Baby. When it comes on people cheer and dance. But, you can't fault music critics and buffs for thinking the artist sucks and the song is schlock.
 
Saw it tonight. I'll give it a 7/10.

It was okay, but it wasn't as great as everyone is saying. I wasn't blown away. I even went in with very low expectations hoping to be surprised.
 
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