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Saw "Transformers" last night...

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Sir Auros:
Jazz had the urban slang thing going on in G1 too. I was kind of disappointed that none of the Autobots used "lol" or something like that since they said they learned English from the internet.

NightGod:
I'm on old school Transformers fan-grew up when the cartoons were originally on TV, had a bunch of the toys, and the ones I didn't have, one of my friends did-we kinda worked out our toy begging so that we ended up with a nearly complete set between us.

And, seriously, the people saying they hated this movie need to get over it-it's NOT the Transformers we grew up with, was never meant to be, it's a re-telling of the story in a new era. And it just kicked insane amounts of ass-easily the best special effects I've seen in a movie to date, simply disgustingly awesome fight scenes and all around better than I even dared hope for something taken from my childhood and re-imagined.

The "real mass conversion" transformations were excellent, I thought. No 100 foot robots turning into 10 foot long handguns or disappearing 55 foot tractor trailers here. The whole Soundwave to cell phone back to full size thing has already been explained.

Honestly, I haven't seen a movie twice in the theater since, uh, Silence of the Lambs, IIRC. I'll be seeing this one at least once more with a friend who hasn't seen it, maybe another time or two past that, as well, because it's just that good.
(very minor spoiler, barely worth calling it that)
And I was ecstatic that they actually DIDN'T do the cheesy "kiss in the middle of a fight for the survival of the species" near the end of the movie-I was sitting there groaning when it looked like it was going to happen and very pleased when it didn't-always seemed like a ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- piece of camp whenever it happens in another movie, so it was nice to see it was resisted in the one.
(bigger spoiler)
I didn't like the fact that the All Spark caused everything it created to automatically be evil-I really thought it should have been a mix of the two.

RTSDaddy2:
Having gone into it expecting to hate it, I personally loved it.  Thought the first hour and a half (which seemed to fly by) was the most entertaining action movie I'd seen in a while.  There was only about a 5 - 10 minute gap in the finale where I began to think "ok, let's get on with it here"...Bay just drug out the "will they make it" thing too far. 

WunderCade:
I thought the same thing NightGod, about the AllSpark. "How did the Autobots come about if it only creates evil machines?" - I kept thinking.

Anyways, I didn't care for the Sector 7 guy, thought he was a week actor especially for a character that was trying to be a heavy-handed intimidating figure, he seemed a little too scrawny and geeky for that part. It didn't work fo me.

Also, Optimus Prime never said his trademark "Autobots, transform and roll out!" another disappointment.

But those are all minor gripes, t was a very good movie. A definate DVD purchase for the collection.

NightGod:

--- Quote from: WunderCade on July 08, 2007, 01:42:01 pm ---I thought the same thing NightGod, about the AllSpark. "How did the Autobots come about if it only creates evil machines?" - I kept thinking.

Anyways, I didn't care for the Level 42 guy, thought he was a week actor especially for a character that was trying to be a heavy-handed intimidating figure, he seemed a little too scrawny and geeky for that part. It didn't work fo me.

Also, Optimus Prime never said his trademark "Autobots, transform and roll out!" another disappointment.

But those are all minor gripes, t was a very good movie. A definate DVD purchase for the collection.

--- End quote ---
Sector Seven, not Level 42 =p Though I'll agree he wasn't nearly "special agenty" enough for the role. Ironic that they used Agent Smith to voice Megatron when he would have worked so well as the Sector Seven guy (though I can fully understand why they wouldn't want the cross-over issues).

I was almost sure Prime said that during the movie, or something very similar, IIRC it was when they were at the dam getting ready to head to the city for the showdown at the end.

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