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Better than I expected. VERY intense sound effects.

I could recommend this in good conscience.

My wife and I both enjoyed it. While she grew up watching the cartoon, I was just a couple of years too old for the toys when they first came out. I remember all the little kids on the school bus playing with them, and thinking "those look cool." I was more interested in cars and girls at the time, though.
What did you think of it, Charlie?
I thought the first hour or so was the best part, it sort of went down hill for me when they (the Autobots) started talking. I was especially disapointed in John Turturro's role. He's one of my favorite actors: hilarious in "Mr. Deeds" and "Oh Brother" and chilling in "Miller's Crossing" (a must-see, though perhaps underrated Irish vs. Italian mobster movie.) Was it supposed to be comic relief? All things considered, a very entertaining summer flick, especially (apparently) if you grew up with them a few decades ago.
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I liked it and it is supposed to be funny in alot of ways.
Wife even liked it alot and this friday i am taking 3 of my 7th grade tuba students to see it.

loved the music and special effects and non stop action. 2:15 min move with around 1:50 of action.

i will buy it when it comes out too.

haha well, i think there were three fairly cool things:
1. the "HOLY CRAP!!" moments visually in the fight scenes.
2. the tuba part. if you listen there is a HUGE tuba solo. more on this later.
3. the CLEAVAGE. that girl was smokin' and she wore the right clothes. i bet the costume designer was a guy. hats off to him.

i thought the movie was better than i anticipated but lived up to the traditional michael bay. personally i think the best actor was shia (duh, he's the lead actor). but adding anthony anderson is too much. im not a big fan of his or tyrese for that matter. john turturro was the comic relief but COME ON. idk if it was me but it didn't do much for the movie. the fight scenes WERE AWESOME. HOLY CRAP. i'd pay the 8 bucks just to see giant robots fight for the entire 2 1/2 hours. the girl.. i don't care if she's young. i am too. she was, well, good lookin :oops: who was the composer? my guess is that he was the compose of pirates of the carribean. i sat there thinking "whoa, johnny depp is going to pop any minute now." overall, it's worth the money. i saw it for the second time today (in HD Digital :) ). and think of it this way, it's going to be made into a trilogy. it has to be. THE LEFT OUT THE DINOBOTS. and tons of others such as soundwave. and hopefully they'll see what people are saying and fix the minor problems such as the cast (the girl can stay :twisted: )

Casey Tucker wrote:...and tons of others such as soundwave

I thought the little radio guy would be soundwave...maybe not?

If not, soundwave wouldn't be a cassette player anymore with little cassette guys popping out! Kids everywhere would be asking, "what are those things supposed to be?!" I would think he would be an iPod or something, thats why I thought that was him.

i really liked it. It is always nice when a movie is better than you expect it to be.

Casey Tucker wrote: 3. the CLEAVAGE. that girl was smokin' and she wore the right clothes. i bet the costume designer was a guy. hats off to him.

and it does help that megan fox was in it. she did a GREAT job.

the boombox was not soundwave. 1. not big enough, 2. didn't have the terror tapes. also, i just looked up the name and it's frenzy.

Casey Tucker wrote:the boombox was not soundwave. 1. not big enough, 2. didn't have the terror tapes. also, i just looked up the name and it's frenzy.

Not big enough according to...? Those original transformer cartoons were never very consistent in scale...sometimes the autobots were just barely larger than the humans!!!

But, I see you did homework, so I'll believe you. I still think Soundwave would have to be an iPod, or at the very least a CD player, for this generation of kids to relate.

Albertibass wrote:i really liked it. It is always nice when a movie is better than you expect it to be.

Yeah, what he said.

Bloke, don't wait for video on this one. The special effects are lost on the small screen.

Casey Tucker wrote:the boombox was not soundwave. 1. not big enough, 2. didn't have the terror tapes. also, i just looked up the name and it's frenzy.

True. I wish they had made the real soundwave...along with the cool voice. Seeing Ravage and Laserbeak pop out of his chest would have made a nice effect as well.

The only thing that was truly disappointing about the movie was that there was no real dialog between Starscream and Megatron. I guess we'll have to wait for Transformers II for that.

yeah the cartoons were pretty inconsistent when it came to the size of the actual bot. the movie however i think is trying to make the bots more "real life". i mean, look at the cartoon megatron and the one in the movie. night and day. really, face wise, optimus is the only one that looks like the cartoon (minus the flames). i agree with the ipod thing. i was the last generation of kids that used a tape player in my family and i was born in 88. my brother, when old enough to cope with electronics, had a no-skip cd player. it's a changing of the times. still, i think if they do bring him up later on he will still have the tape deck and on the bottom there will be a description of what's on his chest. i still want to see the dinobots.

Tubaryan12 wrote: The special effects are lost on the small screen.

Oh, definitely. This is one of those movies that's only properly experienced when filling your entire field of vision and bombarding you with a few kilowatts of sound.

I've read an opinion elsewhere that talked about Michael Bay being "heavyhanded" as a director. Sounds like the perfect guy to make a movie about big robots blowing each other up.

I was only partially interested until all the guys at work said it rocked. Collectively, they had mixed opinions about recent fluff like Spidey 3 and Fantastic Four, but they all dug Transformers.

If you don't want to see it, or don't want to have your eyeballs bludgeoned by the experience in a real theater, watch this instead:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=k7SKDnhI3Eg

spiderman 3 did nothing for us
didnt see the silver surfer cause we didnt like the first one all that much

back row and volume up is right on this movie. that really works like leland stated.

Saw it in DLP in a big theater and liked it even more. took 3 of my best 6th going to 7th graders with me. end of the movie in the last huge fight in town they were on the edge of their seats the whole time.

sc_curtis wrote:If not, soundwave wouldn't be a cassette player anymore with little cassette guys popping out! Kids everywhere would be asking, "what are those things supposed to be?!" I would think he would be an iPod or something, thats why I thought that was him.

Keep Soundwave as a cassette player. It could bring back another retro fad/look. Kids walking down the street with giant boom boxes up on one shoulder.

I thought the movie was good. I had been waiting for this movie for over 20 years. Ever since I saw the cartoon for the first time as a little kid and started imagining my parents' cars transforming in the driveway.

If it was in fact frenzy (I'll take your word, I'm too lazy to look it up), then he's one of the doom tapes that came out of Soundwave. Frenzy was the Ravage look-a-like with the pile-driver hands. He didn't appear as frequently as ravage did in the cartoon, and he didn't talk much when he did.

My brother has all the seasons of the original transformers on dvd, and I've watched all of em in the past few years. Such a classic. I think Soundwave should have been in the movie. Him, Megatron, and Starscream are the three most important and consisten decepticons in the cartoon. They're there in season 1, and they're there in the last episodes.

I didn't like how they had the transformers look though. I understand the idea of making them look more real or whatever, but it was just too much. In some of the fights, it became difficult to tell which transformer was which and who's side he was on. They should have resembled their original forms more. It would have been more pleasing on the eyes.

Holy smokes she was hot! Lucky dog! if I go save the world, do I get a chick like that too?? Why couldn't bumblebee have made ME buy him...

Anyone notice bumblebee opens his door at the car lot and hits a...you guessed it, a yellow bug (his cartoon form).

i think they left some room for a sequel (or trilogy, if you will). The old cartoon was well known for inserting random characters and giving no explaination where they came from (*cough* Random autobots who didn't come with them to earth in season one who appear miraculously), so they could do something with other decepticons who were in space looking for the off spark. Some sort of revival of megatron? Or a special appearance of Unicron?

The dinobots were pretty cool, but I was fine with them not being there. They actually had a back story, being that they were made on earth, and would have been difficult to incorporate into the story. Things happened in too short of a time frame for them to decide to make a couple more autobots.

I was a little pissed about Devastator. A tank? Excuse me? The Decepticons had plenty of tanks on their side in the old cartoon to chose from. if you're going to choose the name devastator, he better be the 5 construction vehicles who combine to make a building tall decepticon who smashes lots of things really well. They should have used a name from the original cartoon if they wanted a tank.

Phew, I think I'm done now. I saw the movie the night it came out, I just never frequently the Off Topics section, so I didn't realize this thread was here.