The Transformers Movie

[Kuriin]

rofl Malakriss.

[stehle]

As i mentioned previously, I loved the movie but I felt disappointed that Jazz was a Pontiac Solstice and not a Porche. He was one of my all-time favorite Transformers--and he was the first $12 transformer I bought and subsequently broke.

[Urlithani]

I liked it a lot. I saw many of the plotholes some people are blowing up about, but they don't bother me at all.

I will miss Jazz, though. He's awesome and it sucks he had to die. I guess it's cuz he sounded black, and the black dude always dies first in the movies. I also wish there was more Optimus vs. Megatron fighting though where Optimus actually fought and didn't just take an assbeating.

I can't wait for the next one. I am not saying that this movie was one of the greatest I've ever seen, but I definitely got more than my money's worth. Besides the action, I can't wait to see which new Transformers show up.

Maybe a giant squid decepticon in a scene grappling Megan Fox...okay, just pretend I didn't make any vague reference to tentacle hentai.

[Pontiusont]

Spoilers.

I didnt care about the product placement. The shitty action scenes were what ruined it for me. The first battle at the army base was great. Easily the best part was when the camera was far back and you could see Blackout wrecking everything infront of him. Putting the camera 2 feet from the Bot is just stupid, especially when they are transforming. When Barricade (police car) first transformed infront of Sam it was waaaay to close, what the fuck. It looked awesome when he went back into car mode to chase bumblebee though because you could actually see everything at once. I dont even need to say anything about the two fighting. Also, that little robot that went with Barricade, everytime he moved around it was a mindfuck. It was like they sped up all the action scenes. I dont need to go through the rest of the movie saying what parts I liked, its all in the trailers, go figure.

All I was hoping for was some awesome action scenes. The trailers and countless tv spots had me real excited. Why couldnt they film it all like that? They knew those were the best parts, as I didnt see any shaky cam clips in the trailer. Is it cheaper to film scnenes like this? Why do they have to throw this shit in the movie?

Also, this is sort of nitpicking, but I was really hoping that the scene where the Robot went through the bus would be filmed in 1 smooth shot. Him transforming looked awesome, but then they had to cut away to the humans before going back to him. Doing it all in 1 shot would of been so much better.

Edit. Whoops, names wrong.

[Twobit Whore]

The police car is Barricade, not Frenzy. Frenzy is the little robot, and that's how he is. A spastic evil little fucker, hence the name Frenzy.

[Vorph]

Originally Posted by Malakriss

Perspective on the haters in this thread:
They hate Michael Bay, he directed it, thus they hate it
They hate corny story and plots, Transformers has that, thus they hate it
They hate jokes and satire, Sector 7 was in the script, thus they hate it
They hate seeing cars they can't afford, studio was loaned some 2008 prototypes, thus they hate it

I'm a a Transformers (gen 1) fanboy. I know just enough about the subsequent stuff to not be pissed about things like Megatron not being a gun, etc.

I like Michael Bay and own all of his movies on DVD except for Armageddon and Pearl Harbor, including two copies of The Rock since I went and got the Criterion edition too. I think he overdid the product placement, but at least it didn't get any worse in Transformers than it was in The Island. It has nothing to do with seeing recognizable brands btw, it's all about lingering the camera over a product with a really tight shot so that all you see is the "ad". At least he didn't do one of his trademark 360 degree shots rotating around a bottle of beer this time around (see: The Island, bar scene).

The real problem is that the movie needed a larger budget outright. How about the studio just man up more than $147M to make a movie of this scale? When fucking Evan Almighty outspends Transformers by $25-90M (depending on whose budget estimate you believe, I believe the high end) you know someone is just being retardedly cheap. No matter how you spin it, $147M is not a lot of money anymore, for a summer blockbuster of this sort.

I did think the jokes were corny but I can accept that since it was at least partially designed for kids. I did get tired of Frenzy really quick though--he may not have been Jar Jar level of annoying like some reviewers have said, but he was up there. The plot pissed me off because there was way too much human involvement in the story, to the point where they might as well have called it Transformers vs. GI Joe. The sideplots were utterly worthless and could've been trimmed to get the movie down to two hours easily. The political message was heavy-handed and doesn't belong in a movie such as this at all.

The CGI was entertaining, but that was more the wanton destruction than the Transformers themselves. It would obviously have been helped by having another hundred million or so to play around with. Fights were confusing, and the robots were so detailed compared to the cartoon that it was hard to tell who was who at times. I found the final confrontation between Prime and Megatron to be a letdown because Prime was a big ol' pussy, and Megatron gets defeated by a retarded deus ex machina-type plot element.

In the end, I didn't hate the movie.. I just felt it could've been so much better.

Anyways, for the sequel, S7 got pink slipped, the introductory backstory is done, the cars will be 2 years old and outdated (you can buy used at Enterprise), but alas you'll still have to deal with Michael Bay...

The 2009 Camaro will just have gone into production, actually. :P

Even though I thought this movie was a big disappointment, I'm still looking forward to the sequel. With success comes a larger budget (hopefully), which should mean more robot characters, more focus on the robots instead of the humans, and maybe Bay will have learned to make his product placements a bit more tasteful and will fuck off with the politics. I'm glad the backstory is out of the way too.

[PerritoBites]

What the hell is wrong with having product placements in a movie? Ok, the e-bay thing was a bit annoying... but who cares if they show real products in the movie instead of made up brands or products without brands? If it means that there will be more money for movie production... then go ahead and do it! I rather have product placement, than having them interrupt the movie to put commercials between segments of the movie.

Why not complain instead about how f*king expensive movie tickets are? Why not complain about how it costs more go see the movie at a theater with you friends, than what it costs to actually buy the movie.

If you complain about products being placed in movies... then you better start removing logos from T-shirts, cars, gadgets, bags, heck... just about anything you buy had ads in it. You don't like it? Well too bad... make your own movies and products. Then you won't have to look at ads all the time.

[Twobit Whore]

Complain about 4 dollars for a fucking coke. I mean seriously, that is just insane.

[Soundwave]

gg double post

[Soundwave]

$13 "combo" soda & popcorn. WHAT THE FUCK.

[Kuriin]

$5 for candy. When you can get it for $.99 at the grocery store.


It's that absurd.

[Malakriss]

Piracy is clearly the reason for the decline in popcorn purchases and the plight of the American farmer.

[Presarc]

All I know is that Megan Fox was hot as FUCK in this movie.

[thunderbunny]

Wait, people actually buy their candy from the concession stands? Do the cinemas you go to pay their attendants more than minimum wage so they actually bother to check whats in the backpack you bring in??

On topic, ok movie, nothing fantastic, too many shots of Megan Fox by far.

[Zuuljin]

Originally Posted by thunderbunny

... too many shots of Megan Fox by far.

And yet others would find that one the best parts of the movie.....