Transformers What did you hate about this movie?

[mMark]

what I hate the most? like many other.

I just hate it that how those autobots has to rely on human to defeat decepticons.

THAT ........... IS ......... JUST ........... WRONG !!!

 

[AgentPat]

Even if you never caught the original G1 toon (I didn't either, but I did my research and watched alot of episodes), God forbid you missed out in the 90's with Beast Wars!

Nope. Never saw any of that stuff. You can *totally* label me a Transformers' n00b!

 

[The Apocalypse]

I don't think I can really hate anything about this movie. The movie was awesome. Then again I don't really remember much of Transformers from my childhood years and I didn't follow so I can't really complain. I just remembered the names them. So far best movie of the summer.

 

[cky]

- Bland plot
- Michael Bay
- Jazz's death
- Starscream not getting more screentime (I didn't even notice if he had his high pitch voice)
- Megatron and Starscream using matching vehicle forms
- Megatron's death
- There was no epic feel to it
- The script
- Sector 7 should have been cut completely out of the movie

I thought it was a good movie, but it wasn't that impressive to me. I think James Cameron should have directed it.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Beast Wars owned.

Was Beast Wars a carbon copy of Transformers or something? Because that gorilla's name was Optimus Prime also. He wasn't a truck. hmmm..

Beast Wars would've been harder to translate on live screen, but it would've been cool though, like Jurassic Park mixed with A.I.

Beast Wars is a sequel to "G1". By that I mean it was a sequel to this vaguely defined G1 universe that resembled the original cartoon but was actually some combination of both the Marvel/UK and US cartoon continuities. It ignored any Japanese follow ups and seemed to cherry pick from those other three. It's unclear how much, or to what extent the original G1 plays out in the BW world. Some events seem to contradict moments in the original cartoon.

However we know Beast Wars takes place millions of years after Transformers G1, and through a time warp they end up somewhere on a pre-historic earth. Megatron almost distorts the time stream by killing Optimus Prime while he slept in stasis aboard the crashed ark, and eventually the Maximals are able to recapture Megatron and shuttle him back for internment...or so they thought.

 

[The Dark Defender]

Um, just about everything.

Shia LeBeaof yet again plays himself, regurgitating the same bs he did in that piece of crap Disturbia (this and that being by far the two worst films of 2007), yet again engaging in a pointless puppy love story that wastes away screen time and offers nothing that hasn't been seen a thousand times before.

Anthony Anderson served NO PURPOSE at all to the narrative, he's just there to pile on to the already excessive and wildly unfunny "comic relief" that the movie is flooded with.

Sector 7...God God. Yeah, lets throw in a group so damn secretive that the President of the United States doesn't know about, and they act like a bunch of Three Stooges like goofballs, yet again piling onto the abundancy of unfunny humor in the film.

The stupid miliary cliches that make the military look like idiots, even breaking into an intense action sequence for a lame comedy bit on the damn phone.

The Transformers were ok for what little time they were given, but they were horribly underdeveloped because this was not a Transformers movie, it was a movie exploring every dumb comedy cliche imagineable guest starring some CGI robots.

As Galvatron said during Starscream's coronation in the REAL Transformers movie from 1986, "Coronation? This is bad comedy." He prophesized the live action version that would come 21 years later.

Even the action scenes weren't nearly as epic and exciting as they should've been. They were pretty straightforward and lacked real imagination, it was just interchangeable robots bodyslamming each other and breaking stuff.

Horrible film pretty much across the board, easily the biggest disappointment of 2007 and the worst raping of great source material since Bryan Singer's hackneyed excuses for X-Men films, which much like this had undeserved praise dumped all over them despite being the paper thin pieces of **** that they were.

 

[Hound89]

haterz, tch tch tch

 

[The Dark Defender]

*****ty movies, tch tch tch

 

[LastSunrise1981]

As much as I loved the film, there are a lot of things that I hated about it.

1) Anthony Anderson, Tyrese, and who was the other guy? They weren't needed at all and didn't serve the plot in any fashion. They took away the much needed time to develop the Transformers.

2) Lack of Starscream, Megatron, and other Decepticons that were lacking development. They just didn't seem as a huge threat when they should've been portrayed as more vicious and ruthless than anything else.

3) Sam's parents could've been removed or they could've been a bit more on the serious side of the spectrum.


Again as I stated many times the focus on the human perspective is what I really didn't care for. This film is called "Transformers". The sequel NEEDS to focus on the alien robots themselves and write them in a fashion that connects with the audience. Just because they're alien robots doesn't mean the audience can't care or relate to them.

I won't say this film was a piece of ****, because it wasn't. I got what I wanted out of it as I got to relive my childhood again by watching it on the big screen. Was it perfect? No. But I think it lived up to its expectations when you consider who was directing it.

 

[The Dark Defender]

The Cloverfield 3 minute teaser (which barely showed anything) was better than this entire movie btw, not that it takes much.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

The Cloverfield 3 minute teaser (which barely showed anything) was better than this entire movie btw, not that it takes much.

The Cloverfield?

 

[D Rock]

Jazz being killed.
One of the true OGs was killed off like it was nothing. It wasn't heroic or anything. He got snapped in half by what seemed to be a huuuuuuge Megatron. Seriously, he had the most personality and was kick ass and Bay got rid of him like it was nothing.

Brawl being called Devestator? WTF. Good job you ****ing idiot. Way to mess up the Constructicon arc.

Barricade seemed like the only Decepticon we got a real feel for...and I guess Frenzy. Where was the treachery of Starscream? All we got was a, 'You let me down again Starscream' or something like that from Megs...Lame!

The whole concept of the human weapons being able to harm the Transformers.

 

[K.B.]

Just a few things....

For all those folks who feel the need to put "HATE is too strong a word..." crap into they're post...I don't care! The thread title is cuz it's alot easier to put up 2 what did you love/hate thread than a whole bunch of ones decribing various levels of enjoyment or disapponiment.

Stop being so anal retentive.

As for all those folks putting up the whole "the black bot dies" garbage....get over it. I'd like to thank shadowboxing for pretty much summing it up best.

Jazz was my favorite autobot when I was a kid and I saw np with Megatron snapping him in 2 like he did. It showed that you cared about Jazz (I mean your all on here complaining he died right?) and it also showed just how badass Megatron was by just killing him right off the bat the way he did.

Also I don't think it's at all out of character for Jazz to jump into the fray the way he did even if the end result was getting killed.

 

[Riddick2009]

I loved the movie so much! I do have one huge gripe though, GM! Why was everysingle autobot a freaking GM product? I mean the way they showed Bumble Bee change into the concept Camaro? I mean comeone, what are the odds of a Concept Camaro being on the road and being yellow just like Bumble Bee? Concepts aren't even aloud on the road because they don't have safety features and aren't made to drive around anyway. Only a few of them exist anyway! That was the one thing that bothered me in the movie. GM paid alot of money to have their cars used and it felt like a General Motors ad!

 

[OverMyHead]

Corporate America, kid, corporate America.

Do you think they would put a Japanese car?

In fact, they actually mock the Japanese, the way they put down blacks. It's unbelievably hilarious.

 

[nosebleed.]

Um, just about everything.

Shia LeBeaof yet again plays himself, regurgitating the same bs he did in that piece of crap Disturbia (this and that being by far the two worst films of 2007), yet again engaging in a pointless puppy love story that wastes away screen time and offers nothing that hasn't been seen a thousand times before.

Anthony Anderson served NO PURPOSE at all to the narrative, he's just there to pile on to the already excessive and wildly unfunny "comic relief" that the movie is flooded with.

Sector 7...God God. Yeah, lets throw in a group so damn secretive that the President of the United States doesn't know about, and they act like a bunch of Three Stooges like goofballs, yet again piling onto the abundancy of unfunny humor in the film.

The stupid miliary cliches that make the military look like idiots, even breaking into an intense action sequence for a lame comedy bit on the damn phone.

The Transformers were ok for what little time they were given, but they were horribly underdeveloped because this was not a Transformers movie, it was a movie exploring every dumb comedy cliche imagineable guest starring some CGI robots.

As Galvatron said during Starscream's coronation in the REAL Transformers movie from 1986, "Coronation? This is bad comedy." He prophesized the live action version that would come 21 years later.

Even the action scenes weren't nearly as epic and exciting as they should've been. They were pretty straightforward and lacked real imagination, it was just interchangeable robots bodyslamming each other and breaking stuff.

Horrible film pretty much across the board, easily the biggest disappointment of 2007 and the worst raping of great source material since Bryan Singer's hackneyed excuses for X-Men films, which much like this had undeserved praise dumped all over them despite being the paper thin pieces of **** that they were.

I seriously take what this guy says with a grain of salt.

Serously this guy LOVED:

Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four 2

and HATED

All the Spider-Man movies (along with the Evil Dead movies)
All the X-men movies


so if you're likings are similar...then you will probably have similar tastes as far as Transformers goes. But I find his "likings" pretty singular and very suspect.




edit...my buzz is soo gone.

 

[Theweepeople]

I haven't seen it yet. However, based on what I've heard Ironhide does not sound like G1 Ironhide. It's deviations from the source material like this that annoy the hell out of me. The production crew has no excuse for not knowing what Ironhide sounded like in the cartoon. It's obvious that this voice change was made just for the sake of making a change. Freaking ego maniacs. Some of these changes remind me of the crap that John Peters came up with for Superman Lives.

 

[DaneShobe]

Jazz always spoke like that.

I'll grant you this...but c'mon this movie is a new continuity, not G1. Ironhide has been a hotheaded teenager as well.

Ratchet was originally voiced by Don Messiach, who was very old. He was always depicted as being old.

That's simply not true. He spoke in monologues and was very protective of the characters. As for his impatience and "naggy daddy" attitude. He told Blaster and Jazz to "shut up" in the old cartoon frequently when they played music, would get very pushy when he was given medical attention and in the comics was known to lose his temper. He was quiet in character, and if you disagree with that statement why don't you ask Peter Cullen who himself said Optimus was the same character he always was in the film.

Uh, sorry, but no. Jazz did NOT always speak OR act like that. If he did, I wouldn't be pissed, and neither would anyone else who was offended by it. They turned Jazz into full on Bro-Bot. Seriously, "whassup lil' *****es?" I'm surprised there were no scenes with him drinking red kool-aid. He was the Spec. Ops. commander for christ's sake.

Don Messick also voiced Hamton J. Pig, Scooby-Doo and Astro. We all know how ancient they were. Because the VA is old doesn't mean the character sounded old.

And I never once saw Prime in G1 shaking his fingers like Ward Cleaver saying things like "now Ironhide, you know we don't harm humans!" Or shooing the Autobots, scolding them because they couldn't be quiet. And let's not forget "Bumblebee, stop lubricating that man!" Those sound more fit for a babysitter than the iconic leader, military general figure that is classic Prime.

They missed the mark. End of story. And yea, Shadowned? Amazing.

 

[OverMyHead]

It's like this:

Jurassic Park owns Transformers just as Apocalypto owns 300.

 

[Riddick2009]

Ok I hate saying things I didn't like about this movie because I loved this movie to death!! I can name a 1000 things I loved but just a few I didn't like or hated. The thing that bothered me most was how easily human soldiers beat the baddies, wtf! They easily beat Decepticons and that bothered the hell out of me. I hope in the next movie they adapt to the Military's fire weapon, don't know what it was called but the bombs that burned there metal so easily. Maybe they can adapt and have better armor cause Humans should get there asses kicked.

 

[OverMyHead]

What really pissed me off was that Jar Jar Binks crap.

They should've cut all that out, christ. I want to see Optimus Prime and that police cruiser fight, but noooo.. we just cut back to him already dead, and spend hours on that ******ed mini bot.

 

[Conebone69]

The only thing I didnt like about the movie was the comedy. There was just way too much comedy

 

[Riddick2009]

Beast Wars owned.

Was Beast Wars a carbon copy of Transformers or something? Because that gorilla's name was Optimus Prime also. He wasn't a truck. hmmm..

Beast Wars would've been harder to translate on live screen, but it would've been cool though, like Jurassic Park mixed with A.I.

Actually his name was Optimus Primal, he was a decendant of the original Optimus prime. Not being a smartass just figured I would fix that.

 

[mMark]

anyone feel the movie was edited a little too short? 140mins is though pretty long, but I still feel that the whole thing is like going on a rush.

anyone got that feeling? maybe give it a 15 mins more to further smooth up the storyline and give more showtime to those killer decepticons?

 

[The Kid]

It all boils down to Megatron. I wasn't at all bothered by the whole deceptisquad being ruthless rather mindless animals. That works. But I think great movies have great villains and if this movie gave Megatron more spotlight, it would be sitting besides some of the classics. By having the main threat frozen for most of the movie, the movie bounces around from one minor antagonist to another until all holy hell comes when megatron is unleashed. But the flaw is that we don't really know him beyond a mini-clip suggesting he's a big meanie. Which he is, but we're missing some dialogue he could have had to set up his evil ambitions, which was shoe-horned all into the finale with a few throw away lines like "humans don't deserve to live" wtf? why does he even care about humans deserving to live or not? They're merely insects to him... This is a misstep. In the end megatron comes up shallow. He's Mummra the ever living, more than megs and weaving is truly not doing much more than Welker could have done with ease. Wasted casting.

I imagine his demise would have been more powerful had he been allowed to do more serious damage than rip up one autobot and boot prime in the face. He should have been shown just killing and stomping on people and then having prime at a serious disadvanatage at which time spike comes and shoves the allspark up his ass.