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by **FlamingDeth** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:55 pm

This movie is made of totally awesome, and you must all go see it RIGHT NOW.

by **glu-glu** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:00 pm

it will not be playing here for about another 17 days : (

by **PriamNevhausten** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:09 pm

FD, I have a very important question for you.

Do the humans play a very important role? If so, I cannot in good conscience consider it fitting of the "Transformers" name. "Independence Day 2" would be more fitting. As you can see, this is a pivotal issue.

by **BrainWalker** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:53 pm

I'm still unable to forgive the previews for never allowing the 'bots to say anything.

by **FlamingDeth** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 2:05 am

Walker of many Brains: Well, if it makes you feel better, they *do* have Peter Cullen for ol' Optimus. Y'know, they voice of the original Optimus. And holy crap Hugo Weaving makes Megatron seem like just about the most evil thing in the history of the universe.

Priam of being Somewhat Smelly: The humans do play a somewhat important role. I mean, "distraction" is a pretty pivotal position.

Glu^2: :(

To go a bit further in depth: If the original Transformers movie crew had a ginormous budget, much better special effects technology, and didn't have to go for a 'G' rating, they would have come out with something like this. It harkens back to the roots of Transformers -- it's a whole lot of action scenes meant to get you to buy toys. (which works, by the by, as I have almost the entire first run of movie toys)

It is by no means a deep movie. There are no shades of grey. The Autobots are quite clearly the good guys, doing everything they can to keep any humans from coming to harm, perfectly willing to commit great acts of self-sacrafice at the drop of a hat. The Decepticons are clearly the bad-guys, remorselessly doing what they can for power, and occassionally things out of spite, because they're evil, that's what Bad Guys do. Also Megatron scares them shitless, so they gotta do what he says. Unfortunately, the cannon fodder characters don't get much in the way of charicterization, but I don't blame them for not doing so -- you can only fit so much in a movie, and it was *already* pretty long.

And I guess I lied. :V The humans are actually pretty useful, but they definately aren't center stage, they're useful in support.

In summary: Keep shooting that tank robot, army guys, I'm sure it'll do something *eventually*.

EDIT: Actually go read the review on Shortpacked, that's much better.

Edited for link convenience, because some of us had to google Shortpacked to find it. --Priam

by **Spleen** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:05 am

It felt like someone took a movie about a boy whose car is alive and then tacked it on to another movie about giant robots o_o

However, besides that it was so awesome it blew my fucking mind.

And it was way funnier than I thought it would be. Funny in a completely surreal way, for instance when

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Or when Sam

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Or the entire

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It was way more adult than I thought it would be, too, especially language-wise (I can't tell whether or not

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).

by **Kai** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:06 pm

I've never wanted to badly to glomp a car before. Certainly not a yellow one. But oh, man. There would be flying Ashley tackle-glomp grapple affection going on if he were within about a million miles of me.

by **BrainWalker** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:42 pm

Looks like someone's developed a fetish!

by **evilkillerpoptarts** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:35 pm

Having traveled to Rhode Island from Cincinnati in order to attend this year's BotCon and spent nearly $400 all told in order to get to see the movie on the 28th at Hasbro's charity screening, I think it's safe to assume I totally love this movie.

Also, they brought Optimus Prime, the truck from the movie, to BotCon. I got to glomp him silly. Had they brought Bumblebee I would've stolen him for sure.

So... yeah. As resident Total Transformers Nut, I give it my stamp of approval. Send me toys.

by **PriamNevhausten** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:18 pm

I never thought a Transformers thread would become so disturbing to me.

Now I know better!

by **PriamNevhausten** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:56 pm

I have now seen this movie! Going into it with pretty much NO knowledge of Transformers "canon" and considering it going in to be "Independence Day 2: Featuring the Transformers" probably helped my enjoyment, but it still had a lot of elements that actually have my great respect.

Also it was extremely vindicating that Bumblebee

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by **Ganonfro** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:30 am

....I came back home, and watched the cartoon movie and played with my Gundam models because I need more robotic action after that. I loved that movie so much, I joygasmed like 20 minutes in. It is my most favourite movie I've seen in far too long. It lacked the crazy 80's lazer noises when shots are fired.... And Eric Idle as a junkbot. (I wish Grimlock was in it... I <3>:(

by **evilkillerpoptarts** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:39 pm

Junkion, boy, Junkion. Wreck-Gar, to be specific.

....I'm not obsessed. Not in the least. >_>

by **Ganonfro** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:21 pm

...Don't make me say it.

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by **Nekogami** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:37 pm

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/new ... mers_N.htm

How the hell am I supposed to chose????

by **Ganonfro** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:53 pm

Yes! 18% voted the correct way, with Soundwave! It was between him and Grimlock for me, though I do like Jetfire for his obvious rip off of Macross/Robotech.

by **WillBaseton** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:53 am

evilkillerpoptarts wrote:Junkion, boy, Junkion. Wreck-Gar, to be specific.

....I'm not obsessed. Not in the least. >_>

What's horrifying is that Weird Al Yankovic is supposedly playing Wreck-Gar in the new Transformers cartoon on CN.

...as for me, it was a total toss-up between Grimlock and Jetfire since the producers pretty much already confirmed Soundwave is going to be in Transformers 2. As much as I love the Dinobots though, Jetfire won on the sheer value of being one of the only flying Autobots.

by **Ganonfro** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:29 pm

Xaq, unless you mean horrifyingly awesome, you are wrong. Please be sure not to be wrong in the future.

Weird Al voice acting ANYTHING is going to be something I'm going to have to watch.

by **WillBaseton** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:14 pm

Well, seeing as I'm not Xaq, I'll ignore that first statement. >_>;

As for Weird Al, I've got nothing against the guy, actually seen him live before. It's not BAD, it's is just horrifyingly weird to think about Weird Al voicing a Transformer. Should be awesome though.

I think people will be more angry to know that the new Optimus Prime is in fact the guy who's voiced Megatron for the past decade or so, which is an odd reversal. Then again, David Kaye is awesome (Clank, anyone?), so I don't forsee this being too troublesome when the show actually hits.

by **Ganonfro** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:44 pm

...I misread your name. IN MY DEFENSE, there shouldn't be two Will's on the board. People should know I hate reading more than I have to! </old> So yeah. Sorry about that. ^_^;

Wait, you think Weird Al is an odd choice... But Eric Idle, one of the premier English comedic figures of his time, is LESS weird?

I love how they had Optimus' original voice for the movie. It made it ooze with nostalgia.