My Transformers review

[Konedima]

I just saw Transformers a couple of hours ago, and here's some points of what I think about it:

Full of clichés. I can't really hold this against it since these days, what movie isn't? (Don't provide examples, it's a rhetoric question.) Hope I don't ruin it though, but the end (well part of it) wasn't as cliché as I expected.
The acting, while it works, doesn't seem exemplary in most situations. It just seems stereotypical. That's what you get for filling a movie mostly with people I've never heard of. Hugo Weaving makes a good Megatron, at least.
The robots and transformations look (for the most part) pretty good. Finally a movie that really needs ILM's magic uses it.
While it's nowhere near the focus of the movie, there are some parts are genuinely funny.
<Standard "ridiculously inaccurate physics/technology" rant.>
Prominent product placement. That reminds me, I have to buy a Panasonic SD card after I find the holder for my 7up in my new Camaro.
I'm not going to make a big deal of Optimus Prime's flames, because I've never watched the cartoon or bought a Transformers toy before.
I was sad not to see this preview footage in the movie though .

Overall I think it's worth seeing, if only to see giant robots beating the **** out of each other.
4 "stuff you Michael Bay"s out of 5.

[Poo Bear]

I'll definitely have to check it out. Seems to be getting begrudgingly reasonable reviews everywhere.

[Fost]

Torn apart by this movie. On the one hand, it's Transformers - yay! on the other hand, if it bombed hard, then MB would likely not get so many projects coming his way.


Q: Does he pan around a few of the actors in slow mo? Like he always does...

[Konedima]

[icarus]

Well I just watched it and.

I will never doubt Michael Bay's movie genius again.
Movie kicked ***. Badass robots that turn into Badass cars.

So what if it was unfaithful to the over elevated toy commercials of the 80s. It was the concept not the designs that made you like them in the first place. If I wen't back in time to the 80s and showed you this along side the origonal show you would have preferred this one. Who cares if they changed the designs. Bay was right the originals would not work in CGI and the new designs are poetry in motion they way the move and transform like steel origami. All the good stuff is still there and multiplied by a factor of 10.

Anyways flames KICK ***!

[icarus]

[Agrajag]

I really didn't think it was that great. The beginning of the movie (everything up to about when the Sector 7 guys first show up) was really well done, but after that it just got silly. It's like he didn't know where to go with the plot so he just filled it with action movie cliches, shoddy writing, and badly choreographed never-ended fight sequences. Not a movie I would recommend or want to see again.

I found the second half unintentionally hilarious though, I couldn't stop laughing for the last half hour. Optimus and Megatron's lines were so silly, and there were so many cheesy bits.