Hm Im a little late posting on this thread but I just saw the movie and I can safely say that I thought it was a crazy waste of money and very very stupid. However the movie did not dissapoint me because im actually good friends with Engared and he hyped it down so much (that correct English?) that the movie was actually slightly better than id expected. Il give my review fairly briefly before I make a point that's hopefully gonna make this post worth reading.
Pros: Optimus. I have to admit
having the original voice actor play him again was a good idea and his voice was very cool. That one scene where he fought off 3 deceptacons while protecting Laboofe was a direct rip off of
Tim Burtons King Kong (
Optimus was even a gorilla in beast wars) but I dont think thats a bad thing because complaints aside this was a cool scene.
Megan Fox. Alot of people say shes over rated and Engared goes as far as saying he wouldnt fuck her because of
toe Thumbs. I dissgaree with both of these statements and think she is hot as hell :).
As much as im NOT a Linkin Park fan I actually think the TF2 theme is kinda cool. Also when the background music it played during the movie... Yeeah It created a almost epic feel. Well as epic as it could get without being brought down by the movies stupidity.
Cons: BLATANT continuity errors! 5 deceptacons go down under water and the submarine detects 5 objects going down. 1 deceptacon sacrifices himself to bring back megaton and the sub detects 6 objects comming up, 5-1+1=6!? whatever Micheal Bay!
That one scene where Laboor and bumblebee crash through a warehouse roof to be greeted by megatron and all. After this the after mentioned fight takes place and in no time at all their in a forest with nothing industrial behind them. When they crashed through the roof while they were in the sky no forest was visible.... Oh I didnt know they could teleport too??
Stupid dialog, too much non funny commic releif, IDC about human characters and all the other shit thats aready been mentioned.
Now the point I wanted to make was this. I see alot of you arguing for the movie with statements like "Micheal Bay did what he could with some toys from the 80s what do you expect?" ect ect.
I genuinely dont think that a movies source material instantly determines whether a movie is good or not. Its based on transforming Robots from out of space. Thats original and out there stuff I really think there could have been an intriguing story behind this. Just because said story would involve suspension of disbelief it doesn't mean said story doesn't have to exist!
Did you guys know that the godfather the novel was never very highly regarded? Coppola makes it into a movie script and turns it into one of the most highly regarded movies of all time. The Show Seinfeld premise was 'a show about absolutely nothing' and its very highly regarded. The Dark knight, another example is a movie based on comics of a guy who dresses in a batsuit and fights crime. In fact same goes for any good super hero movies. At a glance the concept is unrealistic and stupid and yet we as an audience can totally sympathies with the characters on screen in some cases. Story's dont need to be realistic to be good at all! Stanley Kubrick did the
Shinning which was a
part of the 'slasher' franchise. A
Franchise that's forever been looked down upon by critics and this movie was a masterpiece of suspense. Alien and Aliens were about killer aliens from outter space and they still managed to be totally original movies!
So in summation I think you guys are all setting your standards way to low. Is it that unreasonable to expect more from a movie that cost hundreds of millions of dollars?
Could they not have hired a decent script writer for it? WTF!? and its not like the movie has to be simple to cater for the kids either! Alot of the jokes are way below the belt and are Skid and Mudflap really a good way to introduce kids to Urban dialect? Fuck off!
Lets also talk a bit about fan service as im sure alot of you 20-somthings (myself included) loved the cartoons in the 80s and 90s. Alot of the autobots and deceptacons who did play
big parts in the cartoon had about
1 line of dialog each! Now lets compare this to the amount of time Micheal Bay Opted to spend on Shy's 1st day of Uni. Can any of you TF fans honest to god
tell me that you would rather watch Shy's mum walk around Campus stoned than have extra dialog between your favourite robots from the cartoons? Not only were these scenes totally irrelevant (and stupid and unfunny IMO) but they could have used this time to actually give the movie a plot and the robots some personality! Millions of dollars and valuable screen time wasted on totally irrelevant shit!
No true fan can say that this was for the best!
Micheal Bay did not do a good job with the material he had! He took some reasonably silly material and turned it into a total fucking mess and a waste of money ad time! His only decent movie IMo is 'the Island' and he even managed to turn a movie with an interesting take on cloning into
more of a 5th element style action movie than a new age gattaca.
As some of you may have realized some of what ive said has already been said (I think the same so im not stealing opinions) so here's My reference
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/797-Transformers-Revenge . Check out this guys other reviews he is quiet good IMO.
