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Post by DocD83 on Jul 6, 2007 6:40:49 GMT -5
(Sorry DocD, I'm crashing your thread for a sec.)
SPOILER ALERT FOR THIS THREAD
-Sue
Speaking as someone who does not remember the cartoons except for the 3-D cut scenes when they repackaged the orginal series, I loved the movie. Whenever you have 40+ foot tall whatever fighting in a city, it runs the risk of becoming just the same as two guys fighting in the woods--except the trees are square and covered in glass--so I actually enjoyed all the bits with the humans doing stuff. I didn't miss the Bumblebee/Barricade fight, because so early in the movie it's a foregone conclusion that Bumblebee would win or at least get away, but how the kids deal with the little robot is something different.
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Post by Al on Jul 6, 2007 10:28:43 GMT -5
I my first thought about the movie was 'Gee, that gave me a headache.' Once that cleared up, I was able to think a bit more cogently.
The first hour really had me. It was goofy, but I thought it was well paced and had a good balance of robot money shots and stuff that moved the plot forward. About halfway through, around the time Bumblebee got captured, I just started to lose interest. The bits with Devestator and Bonecrusher were neat, but think that was because I could tell what was going on as opposed to the rest of the robot wrestling, which just seemed like a tumble of metal. And can anybody tell me what happened to the cop car? Anybody? I'm pretty sure they forgot about it entirely.
I really didn't hate it, I didn't even dislike it, I was just disappointed.
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Post by DocD83 on Jul 6, 2007 15:36:12 GMT -5
Wasn't he the one killed by Prime's sword?
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Post by deusdragonexx on Jul 6, 2007 19:43:23 GMT -5
No, Bumblebee killed him. Barricade is his name. Bonecrusher was the one that prime decapitated.
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Post by Hucklebubba on Jul 6, 2007 23:23:06 GMT -5
Urk! (That's me getting completely perforated by spoilers. Serves me right for not seeing it opening night.) Bumblebee....totally badass. Using Gen 1 as the basis for judgment, this is perhaps the least likely phrase to ever happen in the entirety of recorded history. Maybe if one were to omit the "bad" part. I didn't like how you FINALLY get to see bumblebee and some decepticon finally start to duke it out... and it cuts to the awkward teen-age dude and token hot chick running away from the "jar jar binks" look-alike robot. They beat up Jar Jar, and the big duke-a-roo fight is OVER. I didn't pay 8 bucks to watch teenagers fight a little robot. I paid 8 bucks to watch big honkin 40 foot tall robots knock the living bejesus out of eachother. This illustrates what is perhaps the single greatest fear I've had regarding this movie since day one. Namely, that Michael Bay or whomever would fail to realize that the surest path to success would be to limit screentime occupied by the tiny meatbags to the absolute minimum. In all fairness, I'm sure Shia and Megan both do a fine job performing their respective duties of likable weiner with the heart of a hero and mobile breast platform, but I wouldn't take ten of the likes of them over any giant robot. |
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Post by StarOpal on Jul 13, 2007 14:24:20 GMT -5
Saw Transformers yesterday. I really liked it. I went in with low and undefined expectations, which may have something to do with it, but I really liked it. 4/5 A lot of fun and the robots came out great.
I was impressed with how good the effects were. They couldn't have done it even just a few of years ago.
The human characters were appropriately simple and stereotypical.
I swear, in the theater I was in, there were people crying at the emotional Autobot moments, and at the end from joy. And when Optimus Prime came up there was cheering.
One thing that creeped me out was where Shia and the chick are making out on top of Bumblebee and the other Autobots are watching. Ick! Robot Voyeurism... Kinky.
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Jul 13, 2007 15:14:59 GMT -5
One thing that creeped me out was where Shia and the chick are making out on top of Bumblebee and the other Autobots are watching. Ick! Robot Voyeurism... Kinky. Heh. A good friend of mine posted the following on another message board a few days ago: Somethings been bothering me about the very end of the Transformers movie . . .
Very small non-plot spoilers ahead:
After the victorious battle the very final scene is Megan Fox and Shia LaBeof making out on top of Bumblebee's hood while all the other Autobots watch.
What the [heck] is up with that?
First of all why are these two kids making out on top of Bumblebee? He's not a [bleep]ing car, he's a sentient alien. Show some [bleep]ing respect.
Second. Why is Bumblebee allowing this? Do you allow your dogs to [bleep] on your stomach? Show some [bleep]ing pride BB.
Third. Why have all the Autobots gathered at the top of this cliff to watch the human-on-human action? They like a good show?******* I responded by pointing out that when Spike first showed interest in Whatsername, Bumblebee instantly turned "Sexual Healing" on the radio and conveniently broke down in a deserted location. Which I think answers that question fairly definitively. I reviewed it, imagine that'll probably be posted next week or the one after that. Wasn't a fan, but I can understand why some people would be. I'm just too attached to the characters. -D |
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Post by CheshireKat on Jul 18, 2007 19:07:53 GMT -5
Well there it was...it didn't tank. Reviewers are calling it the most fun movie of the summer, (or were, until Harry Potter came out). What do you guys think? I'm not saying Bay redeemed himself (you didn't think it was going to be THAT easy, did you, Michael Bay?), but it did seem to rock something fierce. I'm reserving judgement till I see it again, but I am seeing it again, that's saying something. What did you guys think?
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Post by TheOogieBoogieMan on Jul 18, 2007 19:30:49 GMT -5
My thoughts coming out of the theater after seeing Transformers were basically "Well...how about that?". As much as I liked the visuals and such, I was more bothered by the looooooong running time and the obscene amount of product placement. So all in all, it balanced out into a very average movie.
The best thing I can say about it is that I've since made it my mission to inject the phrase "Put the cube in my chest!" into as many conversations as I can.
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Post by blinkfan on Jul 21, 2007 20:14:03 GMT -5
I loved the movie from start to finish, I would easily choose to see it again that go see Harry Potter, Michael Bay did a decent job, its an overall fun movie and is incredible. I say go see it.
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