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And yeah, they were Air Force, not Army.
The whole time I had goosebumps...Simply Amazing. I had only 3 thoughts that could have made it better. A little bit slowdown in the end I want actually see my favorite Robots kick ass. Optimus although awesome I thought he could have been portrayed to actually be a match for Megatron. 3rd Sometimes I didnt know what robot was what cause they were the same damn color and they blurred together at the end.
Dont get me wrong I'm saying these are things that could have been improved on but by no means hurt the film whatsoever. Truly awe-inspiring fun.
4.5 stars out of 5
I went to the cinema to see some transformers, cause thats what it says on the fucking title.. TRANSFORMERS!!! And in the teasers and trailers and many many posters they promise you TRANSFORMERS. And when you go to collect you get some humans with their fears and there emotions and whatever. WTF!! If i wanted that i would go see Casablanca 2 or something.
How is it possible that anyone can manage to make a boring movie about transformers? But that is what has happened. I almost slipped into a deep coma the first hour. After the first hour Optimus Prime FINALLY (there must be a god after all)appeared. After 90 MINUTES we saw Megatron appearing fully on screen for the first time.
Check the title Bay!! It says TRANSFORMERS and TRANSFORMERS is about a battle between autobots and decepticons. That being the case, you CANNOT introduce Megatron and gang after 90 fucking minutes in a movie that is called transformers. Is that so hard to understand?? Did you NOT finish kinder garten????
This movie should have been called "the greatness of humans" or "our great military" or "about a heroic boy". Or maybe "crystine 2" the story about a boy and his car continues... But for heavens sake not transformers, cause the movie is not about transformers.
I watched the movie twice just to be sure. And there's no doubt about it... It really sucks as a transformers movie. The plot should have been simple.. Transformers crashland on earth. Megatron sees potential in this planet and tries to enslave everybody. Human armies are crushed, cities are destroyed. The autobots are earths final hope. Theres a big clash between autobots and decepticons. The autobots are initially defeated. Then Starscream backstabs Megatron and the decepticons are weakened and Prime comes and saves the day. And the only humans in the movie are the ones who are stepped upon or the ones who get blown away. Simple but affective. There was no reason for Bay to try to re-invent the wheel. The moron doesn't have the brains to do so anyways.
And so we have a movie in our hands that is called transformers, but tells the story of a boy and soldiers. Its just sad... Just so sad.
But I do agree with John that also the history is no strong enought to be just a transformers movie.
Lets remember that this is just the introduction to new generation to "our" transformers. I do beieve the second movie will be awesome. And I hope some director or film company, can create a version of the Trasformers, all CGI if necessary, from the War Within, Cybertron getting destryoed all Transformers no humans or at least no humans capables to destroy trasformers.
I love this movie, but is not all about robots.
in short i personally rate this movie 20 out of 10, it is my favorite movie, and every autobot owns apart of my soul espically the Big B (Bumblebee)
This was easily one of the best movies ive ever seen, without a doubt, nuf said.
Every person that said this movie sucked, either knows too much about transformers or just flat out suck chode.
nuf said
As to the question of whether or not the soldiers were Army or Air Force - who knows. They had Air Force rank insignia and Army unit patches and training tabs and fought like Army personnel, not Air Force (I was Army and worked with some Air Force units).
The script had so many holes in it and so many factual errors - are Michael Bay or thw writers Smarter than a Fifth Grader? Why would the Transformers be there one minute to rescue Sam, then disappear the next minute. Why was it that Decepticons could be standing right next to a human one minute, about to kill them, then get distracted and leave. Are they that stupid? Why is it when they had the Box secure under acres of concrete, knowing the Decepticons were on the way, that they decided it would be safer transporting it in the open into the middle of a densely populated city - filled with vehicles any one of which could also have been a Decepticon.
John Torturro's overacting was clearly intended so the children would know "ooh, he's a bad government guy." but was totally incogruous with John Voight's more constrained "This is a serious movie" style.
It was a jumbled script, wasted special effects, incomprehensible fight sequences and it was not about the Transformers. All-in-all, a waste of money and time.
July 14th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
r you nuts. just cus its called transformers doesnt mean it has to be purely autobots vs decepeticons.
WTF!!! You are SO right!!!! They should just call it transformers and make a documentary about pregnant frogs expecting triplets!!! Make way for the genius...
Here's some free advice: Read your comments before you actually post them...
I saw a transformers poster with Optimus and Megatron with the lines: Their war. Our world. I just cant understand that anyone could expect anything less than pure autobot vs decepticon after seeing that poster.
In the end i think that Michael Bay missed the mark with this film although i didn't necessarily go into the theatre expecting a great piece of filmmaking. He does have cool action scenes but the movie was too much about a crappy storyline and bad script and acting.
C- !!!
I'd hate to see what movies are on your shelf at home!
And to the rest of you teenage film critic wannabees, just stop trying to make a good point about the movie, its lack-thereof a quality moment speaks for itself. Anyone who feels this was the best movie they have seen probably doesn't spend more than five seconds learning about what good quality filmaking is all about. Michael is sitting at home right now laughing at you easy to entertain add, children while he swims around in his piles of money made from the film and its advertisements.
Siskel would be rolling in his grave if he heard your reviews!
I mean yeah it is one thing for the star of the movie to heroically/miraculously /somehow survive everything, like Rambo or John McLain or Frodo, but c'mon, EVERY important human in this Transformers movie survived! In most cases they were barely injured! The hell? Now I'm not asking for a bloodbath, but even in the ultra-kiddy Star Wars Prequels, a whole bunch of main characters died and…ah screw it just give me a bloodbath! I mean the Transformer Cartoon movie showed more deaths than this movie did! I repeat, the CARTOON had more deaths!
So anyway- scenes about Transformers=excellent. Scenes about Humans=â€Âmehâ€Â.
WELL DONE EVERYBODY
*Waits for people to start insulting him in a badly written comment, saying something along the lines of " WTF WHARE IS ALL THE TRANSFORMERS???/!!!?"*
Damned wannabe reviewers.
It will be a block buster without it anyway.
Starscream is a F15 and not a F22
Bumble bee is a vw bug/beetle at least they could made it the new
Beetle
I dont recal that they could morphe into anyting they see/scan!!! am I wrong???
Too many humans and few robots
In the original cartoon, humans were just sideeffect
What happened to the
It will be a block buster without it anyway.
Starscream is a F15 and not a F22
Bumble bee is a vw bug/beetle at least they could made it the new
Beetle
I dont recal that they could morphe into anyting they see/scan!!! am I wrong???
Too many humans and few robots
In the original cartoon, humans were just sideeffect
What happened to soundwave and blaster?
Its a shame they made it a movie between good and evil instead of autobots vs decepticons
They made it a movie between GM cars VS us army instead of robots vs robots
Too many humans and few robots, humans had a siderole, now they are starring.
I also missed the original tune, is it hard to remaster that opening tune????
This movie was supposed to be for the diehard fans.
I didnt get what I expected from the movie
This movie was worth the money but is definatly not entilted to be called Transformers because it isnt.
Secondly, I originally hopped on the net to see how much money Transformers has made, but out of curiosity I decided to see what people were saying on here and I just HAD TO LAUGH at the thought of Bumblebee being a VW bug! I'm SO glad they made him a Camero instead. I mean, think about it... you're a teenage boy looking for a car to pick up chicks. You're going to choose a VW bug? Uh, I don't think so. It worked for the comic books and the cartoons, but not for this movie. Definitely needed a "muscle car" to make it work.
And for Texican - the All Spark needed to be moved because it wasn't safe where it was. If you'll recall, Megatron was located in the same underground building and they couldn't risk the cube falling into his hands. So, that part makes perfect sense. However, taking it into a crowded city didn't make as much sense to so I agree with you there. But when you REALLY think about it, where could it possibly be safe from Megatron anyway?
That being said, I thought it was a great movie. It was a great start to what I'm hoping will be a trilogy, but this movie also stands on its own quite well. I was never into Transformers as a kid (but my husband was/is and he stilled loved the movie), so I didn't care that things weren't exactly the same. And I don't think they should be exactly the same anyway... You want what you remember as a kid? Then just watch the cartoons. Quit nitpicking at the differences between the cartoon and the movie and you might actually enjoy the movie. Or maybe not. We're all different and we can't always please everyone (I just wish the reviewers would be a little more respectful and actually try to act like "big people" instead of spoiled, potty-mouthed children... it's not a personal attack if someone doesn't like your favorite movie - or if someone happens to love the movie you loathe most in the world).
As for the movie being one big commercial, if you think about it, it does reflect the lives of most Americans. How many people are Ebay addicts? How many people take their laptops, like, everywhere? How many people do you see with a Blackberry or other similar gadget permanently grafted to their body? And seriously, they have to get their funding from someone... you can't expect them to leave out the products of the people giving them money to make the movie.
A movie with such ads should be free downloadable
overall the film had everthing it needs, if the director focuses on one part too much he loses his audience, bay had to take into consideration that not everyone going to see this movie is going to be a transformers enthusiast like myself and many others, if it was purely a single fight between megatron and prime then it would completely reject a good 30% of the audience who came to see a movie.
This film needed to make you feel like you were 10 again and sitting down watching the cartoon useing the words "cool" and "wicked" and if you didnt watch the cartoon, you now wish you had!
Just to solve the whole "VW beetle should of been bumbleebee" issue not a camero,
Bay wanted BBee to be authentic but VW refused to let him due to them not wanting one of there cars to be portrayed as violent and destructive although they had forgotton where the beetle had originated from.
At the end of the day the film clearly shows what it set out to, autobots vs decepticons and earth stuck in the middle. people need to remember we are sometime now since transformers first took our hearts away. and the story needed to be updated to match society as it is, as we all know if a destructive alien race did come to earth the first thing we would do is fire a missile at it and if that dont work a bigger one!.
overall the story line has its blips but with some very small improvements needed the actors were cleverly chosen and matched the story, as i cant imagine sylvestor stallone trying to cut megatron open with a knife.
some people are going to hate this film because its not what they wanted and some people and going to sit there in amazement while there child hood heroes are reborn infront of them, leaving the cinema if you now wanted to go get a happy meal at mcdonalds feel free because i left the cinema feeling like i was 10 again with the biggest face of amazement and enthusiasm in the world after viewing a damn good movie.
and starscreams voice was the one that played cow from cow and chicken OMG.
Sure, it didn't have my favourite Decepticon in it, that green tank fella. I think Brawl? But overall, it PWNED MY SOUL
Sure, it didn't have my favourite Decepticon in it, that green tank fella. I think Brawl? But overall, it PWNED MY SOUL. As soon as i left the cinema, a chopper flew overhead, me and my mates were like, "Oh hell it's Blockade." And then I spent about twenty minutes explaining why a building couldn't be a Transformer. -"How would it get anywhere? It's concreted into the ground."
And to all of you saying, 'Oh MAN IT TOTALLY SHUD HAV BEEN ALL AUTOBOTS VS. DECEPTICONS CUZ IT IS CALLED TRANSFORMERS???' Then I'm sorry but you're wrong. Did you not notice that the worst bit of the film was the blurry, shiny battle between Optimus and Megatron? That for two hours not only would have induced major epilepsy, but would also have been super boring and just really bad to watch.
Yeah fair enough, blasting each other from a distance would be awesome, because that's my favourite thing, but up close it ain't so good. They're just too BIG.
Loved the voices, expecially Jazz. And good old Ratchet, and old BBee soldiering on with his legs wopped off. Good lad. But Bay showed that he could be a bit sensitive, when Starscream attacked the city for the 1st time, and there was the big white light and Sam went to hold the girl's hand. I was like, 'Aaawwww'
So all in all, Really Really Really good. Just watch it. You totally won't regret it.
10/10
Id rather eat my own hat than watch this film again, it was total rubbish!!! I actually wanted to leave I was soooo bored!
Yes this film had cool special effects, probably some of the best ive seen BUT most of this film consisted of utter rubbish and cheese and the kissing on the car with the sun going down at the end made me wanna claw the eyes from a small infant.
The fight scenes were messy too, you could barely make out who was fighting who and at no point did I see anything imaginative!
This is the worst film ive seen all Summer.
If you liked Pearl Harbour (piffle) you will love this film!
I suggest alot of people need to go watch some real films before suggesting this film was in anyway good!
I was impressed by the combat and action, however short they were.
Another film made, that should have been great but was shit.
shite
oh and what the hell is Mike (look above) going on about did he have he's eyes shut during the film its amazing Ass Hole
Spiderman 3 did a kind of similar thing in where they introduced lots more humor and funny bits to it but that just fell flat on it's face. Transformers actually worked. This, along with the effects, action and down right craziness just blew me away.
Some people will hate this film. They'll probably think its to unreal, or hate the fact that theres no character development or something. Those people need to let themselves go. The film is pure entertainment. And the best blockbuster I've seen for ages. People need to realize that it's based on a cartoon and action figures. Stuff that's made for kids. Not adults.
Also, transformers is know more for it's figures and cartoon rather than the comics. From what I remember anyway. And comics usually have lots of different dimensions to them. Being clever in there use of social/real life issues etc. Action figures and cartoons, especially the transformers ones, were straight forward. And didn't need to have depth. This was good vs evil remember.! In that respect I don't think you can fault the film. It didn't try and be anything more than it was.
This was a big money making American action film and I know many people don't agree on these type of films but if there was ever an example of how to do it right them this film would be it. Pure escapist fun.
Well done to Bay aswell, cause hes done some bad bad blockbusters hasn't he.
controller but the rest of the team including Josh are Army. The uniforms they are wearing
are the Army's experimental Future Force Warrior Multicams.