Transformers ! :D

Rich_L · 30 Jul 2007 at 13:01

Watched this on Sunday afternoon, I think the best compliment I can pay it is that despite having slept for a total of 1 hour the previous night, outside on a weights bench, (don't ask

), and being in uber-comfy reclining cinema seats, I was absolutely riveted throughout and stayed awake!

Seriously though, absolutely fantastic film, an assault on the senses but what an enjoyable assault! Robots were brilliant, Megan Fox is riiiidiculously smokin' hot, and some genuinely laugh-out-loud moments as well.

Brilliant, it was like everything you imagined as a kid playing with Transformers come to life on the big screen, most enjoyable film I've seen in a long, long time.

G-MAN2004 · 30 Jul 2007 at 13:14

Rachael Taylor. Mmm :cool:

THMRK · 30 Jul 2007 at 13:20

There was a lot of Starscream/Megatron dialouge cut, so I hear.

Timdog · 30 Jul 2007 at 14:39

TBH i thought it was crap.

humans played WAY too big a part in it imho. and they just tried, and imho failed, to make it funny :rolleyes:

especially the garden scene :rolleyes:

and sector sector 7? come on, wtf was that about? imho they should have just had transformers with a few humans

the deceptacons where not in it anywhere near enough, and there was no dialogue at all between them, except megarton telling starscream he failed

and why oh why did they go and put a love story in it that annoyed me a lot :mad:

and i might be wrong, but originally werent the police car (prowl i think) and helicopter autobots?

and how did that hacker get the information off of that communications so easily when the whole of the nsa couldnt get a thing off it lol, thats just silly

now i liked the models and the fight scenes loads, but tbh as a fan of the original series, it fails for me :rolleyes:

sorry if it was all repeated but i couldnt be bothered reading it all

Rich_L · 30 Jul 2007 at 15:00

especially the garden scene

Haha I loved that bit, seeing Optimus Prime trying to hide against a house the same size as him tickled me.

Then again, I liked Godzilla, so have no taste in films

and why oh why did they go and put a love story

Oh c'mon, no love story = no stupidly hot girls, at least tolerate it for the eye-candy alone

Timdog · 30 Jul 2007 at 15:08

Rich_L said:
Oh c'mon, no love story = no stupidly hot girls, at least tolerate it for the eye-candy alone

yea, fair enough

, but still the movie fails

oh and there was one bit, the bit where one of the autobots 'lubricates' on the s7 dude. made me lol

Andybtsn · 30 Jul 2007 at 15:45

Rich_L said:
Then again, I liked Godzilla, so have no taste in films

Wow, another fan of the Godzilla movie! Like gold dust finding people who like that film

R0B75 · 30 Jul 2007 at 15:48

I also loved Godzilla, infact I have the superbit DVD version. Great film.

Megahurtz400 · 30 Jul 2007 at 23:09

Saw tonight!!!

One word...

******* AMAZING!!!!

Will be going to see it again soon, then buy on DVD

Megan Fox is sooooooooooo hot though!

monkai666 · 30 Jul 2007 at 23:52

I've just got back from seeing it now, i have never felt so ripped off in my life. Here's the top 3 things that i think made that film the atrocity it is.

1. It basically starts off with some whiney young lad going after a girl. Then for no reason whatsoever the car acts as a date finder and tries to hook him up with a lame romantic cliche situation. That was ridiculous.

2. They added 50,000,000 more moving parts to each transformer and some genius thought, " I know guys, make megatron look completely different and lets optimus prime a flame job for the hell of it." And megatron was only in it for something like 20 minutes in total.

3. The transformers were totally different in character. Clumsy falls into electrical wires? Pretending to pee on men? The decepticons were as they should be but the autobots were just silly. (I do like how they got original voices back though.)

In all this film was a waste of my time and i should.ve just rented the original, it would've been better and cheaper.

2/10

monkai666 · 30 Jul 2007 at 23:56

ChroniC said:
Wasnt as happy watching this as i thought i would be. Effects amazing, story amazing, cast appauling.
That sector 7 guy was a plank, that black guy who made the computer do morse code, ridiculous and annoying. Optimus Prime wasnt nearly as cool as he should have been, and no where near enough of the transforming noise, the sound like makes your spine shiver.

And the Autobots seemed a bit girly in the garden bit, how many film do we have to see where the parents are oblivious to the most obvious of things. I feel this film was designed for a generation that didnt watch the Transformers.

Transformers living on earth, poor, its such a hollywood setup for cashcow #2
Id say this is a film that relied to heavily on effects. Effects that like many of the recent cinema releases, shoves digital heaven down your retinas so quickly you cant tell whether your coming or going. I cant see well at the best of times but at about 300fps my brain just shuts down to detail, i cant appreciate it.

Trailer 10/10
Movie 5/10

This is a better way of saying what i just said, if you didn't see transformers when you were a kid its probably okay but they changed it far too much for me to enjoy.

Sean_UK · 31 Jul 2007 at 00:03

Must agree, all the hype from Director (Jerry.B :rolleyes:

) been the film was to be aimed at its core audience from the late 80's etc, was infact aimed at the new generation not the core fans to generate maximum post add on sales revenue etc, shame.

Nitefly · 31 Jul 2007 at 00:04

monkai666 said:
This is a better way of saying what i just said, if you didn't see transformers when you were a kid its probably okay but they changed it far too much for me to enjoy.

I havn't seen the film but the reason they do change things (think the recent Italian Job) is because they never could live up to the originals and it would just offend the fans far more.

Gerard · 31 Jul 2007 at 01:14

***SPOILERS***

I liked it, just thought the end battle between megatron and prime was waaaaaay too one sided, primes only offence was literally tripping megatron up after the raptors walloped him with a few missiles. Besides that he just seemed to get smacked about the place. :confused:

They went out of their way to introduce the autobots but the decepticons im sure most people hadn't a clue who they were besides the obvious, megatron and starscream.

And why the hell did the autobots basically drop a few bricks and shout retreat when they seen megatron? There was quite a few autobots farting around at that point with their combined firepower it would have been a good fight but they just ran away. :mad:

Frame352 · 31 Jul 2007 at 01:49

Saw it last night and I was disappointed. I know it was an action movie, based on a cartoon, based on a range of toys, but that's no excuse for the poor pacing, plot and script.

To be fair, I did think there were some quite funny moments, but humour is best used as a break from the high octane action (literally, comic relief). But parts of this film were so slow and dull, that the comic relief was unnessecary imo. Oh, and by comic relief, I do not mean the smaller decepticons who talked like Japanese Jawas.

And as for the dialogue, the Transformers themselves just had incredibly cheesey lines. Really annoyed me that they were upstaged by LeBoeuf (who's very talented let it be said) - surely the robots should have been the stars?

Anyway, I give it 6/10. Most points come for the last half hour, but even that was badly directed (no surprise given Bay's pedigree).

5tephen · 31 Jul 2007 at 02:05

monkai666 said:
I've just got back from seeing it now, i have never felt so ripped off in my life. Here's the top 3 things that i think made that film the atrocity it is.

1. It basically starts off with some whiney young lad going after a girl. Then for no reason whatsoever the car acts as a date finder and tries to hook him up with a lame romantic cliche situation. That was ridiculous.

I thought it was quite humorous and Megan Fox just unbelievable, if you're wanting a less lame love story then ignore this start bit and go watch the Titanic.

monkai666 said:
2. They added 50,000,000 more moving parts to each transformer and some genius thought, " I know guys, make megatron look completely different and lets optimus prime a flame job for the hell of it." And megatron was only in it for something like 20 minutes in total.

Megatron looked completely different compared to what? And where in any rule book is optimus prime allowed to only have some particular colour scheme? In my opinion they both looked pretty classy, and Prime in Kenworth truck form with LED's and flames did the business for me at least. And complaining about having 50 million extra parts is really just looking for excuses. It'd look well having 2007 CGI technology with 20-year-old robot designs in them :rolleyes:

monkai666 said:
3. The transformers were totally different in character. Clumsy falls into electrical wires? Pretending to pee on men? The decepticons were as they should be but the autobots were just silly. (I do like how they got original voices back though.)

A bit of humour. That's all it was.

monkai666 said:
In all this film was a waste of my time and i should.ve just rented the original, it would've been better and cheaper.

2/10

Saving £1 to watch a 20 year old video on your little home TV with a tin of beer rather than taking a night off to enjoy a modern-day cinema display & sound setup and atmosphere, with a film that demonstrates these facilities to the full. You're stuck in the past. You just cannot pass off a £multi-multi-million film with comments like that.

Gerard · 31 Jul 2007 at 02:10

Only original voice in the move was Peter Cullen doing prime, the guy who done megatron in the cartoon does it in transformers the game, but Hugo Weaving (agent smith) is megatrons voice in the movie.

ChroniC · 31 Jul 2007 at 02:36

monkai666 said:
I've just got back from seeing it now, i have never felt so ripped off in my life. Here's the top 3 things that i think made that film the atrocity it is.

1. It basically starts off with some whiney young lad going after a girl. Then for no reason whatsoever the car acts as a date finder and tries to hook him up with a lame romantic cliche situation. That was ridiculous.

2. They added 50,000,000 more moving parts to each transformer and some genius thought, " I know guys, make megatron look completely different and lets optimus prime a flame job for the hell of it." And megatron was only in it for something like 20 minutes in total.

3. The transformers were totally different in character. Clumsy falls into electrical wires? Pretending to pee on men? The decepticons were as they should be but the autobots were just silly. (I do like how they got original voices back though.)

In all this film was a waste of my time and i should.ve just rented the original, it would've been better and cheaper.

2/10

Yeah feel the same as you do. Spot on. What i missed from my post. I litterally shiver to the trailers from the helcopter scene only to feel very let down by the rest of the movie.

Saving £1 to watch a 20 year old video on your little home TV with a tin of beer rather than taking a night off to enjoy a modern-day cinema display & sound setup and atmosphere, with a film that demonstrates these facilities to the full. You're stuck in the past. You just cannot pass off a £multi-multi-million film with comments like that.

Thats why this film sucked, its target audience should have been part of that era. Fail.

mrk1@1 said:
Thank goodness for that, do you remember how poor the old cartoons and film really were.

I own the Generation 1 box set so i f-ing love the originals, they are chessy now, but i remember them as a small child and i always will, but i know how i want them to be now. Like my heros! Admittently copying the cartoon would be cinema hell, which i think it turned out to be.
Right im going to create The Mysterious Cities of Gold film (c)

Gerard · 31 Jul 2007 at 03:04

Gerard said:
Only original voice in the move was Peter Cullen doing prime, the guy who done megatron in the cartoon does it in transformers the game, but Hugo Weaving (agent smith) is megatrons voice in the movie.

According to imdb theres 2 people from the old series, Peter Cullen as prime and Charles adler who now does starscream but did "silverbot" in the old series.

Werewolf · 31 Jul 2007 at 03:07

re the designs of the transformers, I quite liked them, a little "busy" but better than completely flat surfaces.
Remember the original series (and film) were done with their character designs keeping three primary things in mind.
1: To look like the toys they were selling.
2: To be able to be animated consistently (it's very hard to keep even moderate detail consistent on traditional animation).
3: To do 1 and 2, at a reasonable cost and in a reasonable time frame.

As for Prime's paint scheme, iirc he's had something like 6 different paint schemes over the years on the toys, just for his "classic" form