NorCalRoach

The movie was funny, action packed, titillating, impressive, inspiring, with a splash of cheese. Fun to watch for sure. Bumblebee’s Bee-oatch air freshener had everyone in the theatre crackin’ up. The action scenes got me dizzy. Everything seemed too blurry. And who was the hot babe? Very Jennifer Connelly like….mmmm….the Ausie chick was hot too. Micheal Bay and his camera angles/ wide shots/use of high contrast patriotic scenes were fantastic as usual.

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I just realized there’s a lot of love emanating from this thread, where are all the haters? The movie barely held true to any original TsFormer storyline. What cracks me up most is that TsFormers reminds me so much of the Spiderman and X-men movie series- very entertaining but not true to the original story line. Remember how most of us nerds got bent out of shape when X-men didn’t deliver its full potential. Yet Hollywood seemed to hypnotize us in looking past this with the brilliant special effects. I wonder if the same marketing crew worked on Bush’s 2nd campaign. Just a side note.

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msdz

Seeing the Transformers made into a live action movie made me also start thinking about another old cartoon I used to watch, "Voltron". Which when I looked, it is also being made into a movie due to release sometime in 2008.

Also seen Underdog is suppsed to release on 8-7-07, that has got be more hilarious than anything.

Amazing hoiw some of the older cartoons are being taken off the shelves and brought to life.

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Iceberg

Amazing. I'm seeing it again.

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Gambit7

X-men WAS a let-down, I wouldnt say a BIG one... but a let-down nonetheless. Fact is, Xformers was a way better done movie with a much larger budget. And as I see it, when we get sequels they'll have plenty of opportunity to dig into the original storyline. As I said before, this movie was like a serious intro. into the transformers world. If they got any more true to the original I believe they would've lost a lot of their audience.

Back to X-men... they seriously need to continue that movie franchise - either with a Wolverine or X-Factor title, or both. They barely scratched the surface in 3 whole x-men movies unfortunately, which is where they failed... too much fluff, not enough action. Quite the contrary in Transformers.

Course... the first 3 x-men are more indicative of our current Govt.

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Ferris Bueller

I also think a big difference wasnt just the special effects, but how the movie played out. People expected nonstop fighting in x-men. They didnt get it in any of the 3 movies. With Transformers, it was talk less, fight more. You wanted an action flick and you got one!

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Gambit7

Which is funny, because in the Xformers cartoon there was a heck of a lot of talking and not always a lot of action. Things got pretty "operatic" at times. And in the X-men cartoon it was nothing but action and not a whole lot of talking.

I remember with X-men though that they just flat out "cheaped-out" on the special effects/action. They coulda went further, but they just didnt. And the script was written to accomplish this. argh! dont get me started about x-men.

Anyways, how 'bout THUNDERCATS the movie?! Jessica Biel as Cheetarah and Djimon Hounsou as Panthar!
And while we're at it... how 'bout a re-do of the He-Man movie... and G.I. Joe wouldnt be a bad thing either. A "real" version of Robotech is in the cards fer sure.

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Ferris Bueller

Awww, you couldnt re-do masters of the universe! Dolph Lundgren saying "I have the power!" was the tops!

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NorCalRoach

Very true.

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mat552

With all of your pretty wordiness, you are all overlooking the only way to truly describe this movie: ABSOLUTELY *Expletive* EPIC

No further question is needed on that point, feel free to explain why though

Vulcan

I saw babies 2-3 year olds in this movie. I remember back in the day, I hated listening to them take FOREVER to figure out that they need to go stop this or that. What was worse is they'd send the recon guy out and he'd ALWAYS fail forcing them into a conflict. On the rare occasion he did succeed, the auto-bots roll out and 10 minutes later finally start doing something. With the decepticons it was immediate action. That's just the nature of the two factions though.

The movie did a good job of relaying this now but man did they fix the auto-bots really are wimpy part. They used to be so wimpy and sometimes careless except for a few of them. In the movie they'd have no such business and I loved it.

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aeroripper

I saw the movie last night and I thought it was pretty entertaining for about the first hour, then kind of average for the rest. The action scenes were kind of neat, although I really couldn't understand all what was going on in a lot of the battles which took away from it. I was really expecting a more epic final battle between optimus prime and megatron at the end. It was also lame how prime had this sort of sadomasochist desire to kill himself with the cube, when all he had to do was shove it into megatron's chest like that kid did. It was like "NO NO, don't put that burning cigarette on my skin! I can't take the p... OH YEAH THAT FEELS GOOD!" sort of deal going on.

I was really getting tired of that megan fox chic who played the kids love interest. It's like she was only there in the last half of the movie to look hot as the camera swung by in slow mo. I swear to god the last half of the movie she was wearing a cheer leading outfit or something, it was getting pretty retarded like banging metal pots together by the end of the movie. They could have just been yelling "SHE'S HOT" over and over again rather than rubbing it in your face the whole movie. She seemed a bit fake and shrink wrapped.

The whole movie seemed like it was a recruiting ad from the Reagan era for the USAF. Also, the "freedom is the right of every sentient human being" seemed like something that was ripped out of a presidential address rather than something more thought provoking that prime would say.

Overall I'd give it a C, a good first hour, spectacular CGI\effects, but a rather shallow plot and mindless action sequences.

FatCobra

Anyone notice how when the credits were rolling, they showed Star-Scream flying away?

Vulcan

Yeah and he said something but i couldn't make it out. Any ideas?

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FatCobra

I didn't know he was saying anything. If anyone knows do tell

msdz

Give them time, I believe they will do it, I had talked already to a bunch of people saying that they would actually like to see a "ThunderCats" movie, I would like to see that one myself. He-Man, I still do not see any help with that coming to light, the first movie was made, leave that one alone and touch it no more. It was poorly done then and would only get worse IMO. G.I. Joe, basically we see a lot of movies that would/could be already based on that one, not to much could be done with a G.I. Joe movie IMO. But hey, never know, if they see a demand for it and money to be made, then maybe. I think a lot more comic book/cartoons are going to be adapted to the big screen, with technology available, anything is possible for them now.

I wished they woulda followed the actual story line from the cartoon for Transformers, but I have already noticed, how many comic book/cartoons actually make the transition to the big screen and KEEP the same story line? Reason I think is so they DON'T have a story line that has already been heard. People would say, "Oh, that was BS cause they did the same in the comic book/cartoon and if I wanted a repeat I would have just went and read the comic book or watched the cartoon again.", and wouldn't go over very good.

Anyway, I would give Transformers a 8 out of 10.

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