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What I Liked About The New Transformers Movie

I absolutely loved the part when it said, THE END…

Alright who wants to tell me know how wrong I am? Let the comments begin.

Update: This is better than the new Transformers movie.

Soundwave: The Touch

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Jul 5, 2007 8:49 am
University Update - Transformers - What I Liked About The New Transformers Movie :

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Chris

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I won’t go that far- but the self-centered director sure did alienate the true fanbase. I wish that he stuck with the original storyline and not screw with the characters so much. I don’t care WHAT he felt he had to change about the characters he should not have changed anything unless he at least put it through a fan-based sanity check.

Lips, on robots? Shameless plugs for the automobile industry I could live with (even the Bumblebee change- including him dinging the door of a bug), but when you change the style and face of Optimus Prime (my generation’s father figure) you go too far!

Frenzy taking the place of soundwave? Megatron not a gun? The director made the excuse of not wanting to mess with the physics by having a giant robot turn into a gun- but then he has a giant cube become a little cube…
Optimus Prime a long nosed semi without trailer- I could have maybe stomached if they didn’t mess with his face or make him so pushy.
Starscream as an F-22, good update.
Devastator as a tank? what???
Jazz not a porsche? what? Only a line?
Ironhide sans Texan accent? NOOOO!
Ratchet- eh… he was barely in the movie
Bumblebee not a bug- I heard VW wouldn’t sign, so fine… they could have made another killing in bug sales had they jumped on board- I think maybe the director didn’t try very hard. Clever trick using the radio to communicate… one of the few redeeming things.

I loved the one-liners- to a point.

Allspark? Why not the matrix of leadership? I know he didn’t introduce this dumb change, but he didn’t have to stick with it sense he didn’t stick with just about anything else.

The action scenes were so fast the CG blurred on the screen and pretty much detracted from any expensive effects- sure it took a lot of computing power to do what they did, but seeing as he spent half as much making the movie as most productions he did not need to cut so many corners.

What was up with the gibberish and comical behavior from Frenzy? We’re not the jar-jar binks fan-club, and they wouldn’t be watching this movie anyway with all the talking about jerking… yep… in a story about an epic conflict between good and evil the mom has a monologue about whackin! Did I mention she got more time than nearly any of the supporting robot cast?
We waited 20 years for the ability to pull off a live action Transformers movie- I would have waited another couple of years if it meant they would have done it right. The characters are supposed to be deep, and if a 30 minute cartoon from the 80s can have more depth than a full length movie, there is a serious problem.

If you take away all previous knowledge and ideas of the original Transformers, and go into it with an open mind it was a good movie- and better than most of the crap on the screen these days. But, since the majority of the people who would watch the movie expected an homage to some of the greatest characters of all time, it really is very hard to accept it. I loved that they did a live Transformers movie, but felt horribly betrayed at the same time.

The latest Wired magazine has a good article about the movie with many of the same gripes… evidently the director KNEW he was screwing with things, and didn’t care because HE’S the director.
July 5th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Chris

2

PS- Yeah, that was better than the movie! LMAO!
July 5th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Wild Bill

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Chris you just about nailed everyone of my gripes about the movie. I’ll add one.

Bumblebee damaged his voice circuits during a fight and could not repair them on his own, but he could change from a rusty old Camero into a brand spanking new concept Camero in less than 5 seconds. Come on, I know it is already a giant leap for vehicles to turn into robots, but changing into new vehicles with a totally different look.
July 5th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
RT

4

Funny! Malt liquor…the poor man’s version of ‘roid rage.
July 5th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Smoke Eater

5

Dude, I’m sorry, but I liked the movie. I did have some issues (Bumblebee not being a bug) and the lips thing, but over all, I did like the movie.
July 5th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Wild Bill

6

I liked a few parts and I was glad to see some of my childhood heroes on the screen, however something really just rubbed me wrong about the whole movie.
July 5th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Smoke Eater

7

Trust me, the movie that true fans would have made would be WAY to expensive, so I guess we’ll have to live with this one. Now, if they try to spin it off into a new series, or make another movie, then I’ll get mad…..
July 5th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
BigMike

8

I know what.. lets make a new movie where David Spade plays John Wayne and maybe we can get Rosanne to play Marilyn Monroe. Bobcat could play James Stewart in the New It’s a Wonderful Life. Thanks Michael Bay, why don’t you ruin somemore of my fondest childhood memories
July 5th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Wild Bill

9

Smokey, it wouldn’t be very expensive, just take one of the old cartoons and have someone redraw it. Wahla you have a movie. Michael Bay, no happiness for you!
July 6th, 2007 at 7:59 am
ShadowFox

10

You’re right, that WAS the best part of the movie…
July 15th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Leah Jackson

11

Hehe! Good work!
July 25th, 2007 at 5:44 pm