K, so ive seen transfromers...

[darth los]

I don't recall his name. Do you remember it? My favs were the constructocons and dinobots. Probably because the joined to for voltron like super robots, which is like my fav cartoon ever.

[Rottedfreak]

Soundwave did return as a stealth bomber And Shockwave (purple, one eye, maintained Cybertron in cartoon, siezed Decepticon leadership in comic) was in the movie video game .

[_liam_]

can anyone sum up what the big deal with transformers is? the toys were cool, but honestly, how am i supposed to take it seriously as a concept for a non animated movie? it looks like it takes itself pretty seriously

[Rottedfreak]

It was a blast! Fave parts: - Barricade interrogating Sam - Starscream taking out the F22s. - Scorponok attacking the marines and one trying to call in a airstrike but dealing with a Indian operator about the phone credit. - Frenzy infiltrating Airforce One and taking out the SS. - Sam dealing with his parents and the Autobots impateintly waiting for him outside. Bad points - the camera during the action scenes it would have been okay if not for the overly complex designs of the transformers, I couldnt make out what parts were taking a pounding - the voices of the transformers, they really should have lost the mechanical tones.

[MikePizzoff]

This is one of the only movies I had to FORCE myself to stay seated in the theatre for. I really had to stop myself from getting up and walking out on this piece of junk after only about 45 mins to an hour into the film (and it's 2 and a half hours long). The robot battles were cool but they were few and far between. I'd say out of the 2.5 hours you probably only get like 15-20 mins of robots battling. It was a movie geared toward teenie boppers with horrible acting, bad dialogue, and lame jokes.

[mista_mo]

i take it you didn't have mikes happy time then?

[blind2d]

NOBODY should have any sort of happy time with shia lebarf. dude's mental for being in this movie... couldn't. be. worse. I just know that the originators in Japan are laughing at us stupid Americans for this.

[MinionZombie]

I take it you've recently seen this film? Why not just post your own thoughts on it in a totally new thread along the lines of 'I finally saw Transformers ... oh dear' or whatever, rather than resurrecting not one, but two really old Transformer movie threads? We've had this happening a bit recently with some other members, and like we've said then, if you've got something new, fresh, meaty and interesting to add to an old, long dead thread, then by all means resurrect it. Otherwise just leave it be, or even use the shoutbox if the opinion to be expressed is quick.

[MikePizzoff]

NOBODY should have any sort of happy time with shia lebarf. dude's mental for being in this movie... couldn't. be. worse. I just know that the originators in Japan are laughing at us stupid Americans for this. Ahem... my turn.

[SymphonicX]

One reason why this movie sucked: "they're recruiting right out of schools now" Oh shut the **** up, no they're not. They're just looking for an excuse for the token sexy bitch, token comedy, and token youth characters to be put in a situation where there's literally no call for tweenagers. Oh and look, the twelve year old is the one who discovers everything's going wrong on the computers way before all those paid, trained and expert professionals who're supposed to have designed the system.

[bassman]

One reason why this movie sucked: "they're recruiting right out of schools now" Oh shut the **** up, no they're not. They're just looking for an excuse for the token sexy bitch, token comedy, and token youth characters to be put in a situation where there's literally no call for tweenagers. Oh and look, the twelve year old is the one who discovers everything's going wrong on the computers way before all those paid, trained and expert professionals who're supposed to have designed the system. I'm not a huge Transformers fan, although I did enjoy the film for the meaningless piece of fun that it is. That being said, isn't Sam in the film based on a similar young character known as Spike in the series? If so, wouldn't that mean that it's not THAT far of a stretch to have teenagers in the film? Granted, the high schoolers working for the Pentagon was a bit silly, But you're watching a film about giant alien robots. All real world credibility should have left your mind the moment the opening credits finished rolling. This hot teenage girl thing makes me think of that fake Michael Bay Dark Knight script: "A gorgeous blonde with enormous tits. But she wears glasses, so she's also the smartest girl in the world".

[MinionZombie]

Erm, weren't the ones working for the Pentagon 20-somethings, not teenagers? Sam and his lady friend actually are teenagers in the film, although probably around 16 or 17 perhaps. They get roped into it because Sam possesses the glasses with the info on it about the All Spark. The computer whizz kids were early-career professionals, but they're no doubt either playing their own age, or are actually about 30 playing about 5 years younger, meanwhile La-whatever and Miss Fitty are a bit younger or about my age playing teenagers. I actually quite enjoyed the movie, and the extras on the 2-disc are quite good too, they go into a lot of depth about how and why they made the movie the way they did and they lay out clear, sensible and understandable reasons. But in the end of the day, it's a movie based on a tv show that was only created to sell a new brand of toy, so it's not exactly Shakespeare to begin with.

[SymphonicX]

comments about them being 12 was a joke - but they were about 18/19 years old I gathered. Either way, "recruiting right out of schools"...gimmie a break. Pure excuse for a way to get the younger kids watching, a total cop out - and if I'm gonna suspend disbelief, I aint gonna go that far...absolute mindless rubbish imo

[AcesandEights]

The movie was fun. The story was a good fit for a movie based on a toy franchise and cartoon...

[SymphonicX]

The movie was fun. The story was a good fit for a movie based on a toy franchise and cartoon... a 20 year old franchise and cartoon....original viewers have grown up....