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Originally posted by FunkyCrew no it didn't.

It didn't suck. But could have been better. Than again, our expectations are probably much higher than when we were kids.

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Originally posted by FunkyCrew no it didn't.

Yea it did.

I wouldn't say it outright sucked, but it most definitely did not live up to the hype.

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3 things were good about the movie:

-The scene where the hot chick is checking out bumblebee's engine.
-Optimus cutting the head off of that one Decepticon.
-Starscream's battle with the F-22's. That scene had the potential to be incredible, but it was just good because of how short it was.

Everything else about the movie was average at best. I was never expecting something Oscar-worthy (Michael Bay directed it, afterall) but I was really expecting a much more entertaining and involving movie.

6.5/10

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH There is a simple reason to why people fail to listen so that they grasp everything they hear. Most Americans speak at the rate of about 125 words per minute. And they think at least 4 times that fast. The result? One-fourth of the listening mind is occupied with what is being said, the other 3 quarters is unoccupied, and the devil quickly finds work for an unoccupied mind. If the listener disagrees with what he is hearing, 75% of his mind busies itself drawing up counter-arguments to what the speaker says, and in turn misses more than half of what is being said.

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur i agree with Smitty so much here that I'm not even going to write a review. It just felt like your most typical action movie you can imagine infused with lots of cool fucking special effects.

I saw it for the second time and I think I"ve lightened up a bit on it. This time I sat at the back row and it really made a difference. The action is much more clear as compared to when you sit down in the front two rows at a typical Silver City theatre.

Still though, my original points remain unchanged. LKD has a great point in that the cartoon (and comics if I remember) were pretty cheesey. It's the 1986 movie that was fucking dark as hell and the last season of the cartoon (with the new characters) that had some pretty riske story lines for a kids show. The first two seasons of the cartoon with Optimus, etc were very corny if you go watch them again.

Even though it's a bit of a mixed bag for me, I will still buy this on DVD and occasionally watch the last hour, which I have to admit is pretty damn good action. I still don't like the way that Megatron totally handed Optimus Prime his ass during their very short fight but oh well. I'm definitely going to follow the progress of the sequels and I have to say that I smiled during this movie a lot more than any of the other so-called "blockbuster" movies that came out this year.

I just wish Michael Bay had less control over the story arc than he apparently enjoys. I watched a "making of" thing last night and he SINGLE HANDEDLY picked out the designs for Optimus (the flames are still gay, come on!) and Starscream.

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur OH! but the absolute best part are all the hacking scenes with the computers diligently telling the users it is being hacked with a virus in a nice little red popup box. AHAHAHHAHAHAHHA I will never tire of Hollywood's interpretation of how computer security and hacking work.

hahaha. My friend whom I saw it with last night is a comp. sci nerd and he blurted out in the theatre during those scenes "what the fuck kind of operating system is that!!??"

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ppl who claim it sucked went in with way too high expectations for an action movie based on a cartoons story
also, hard core fans of the original cartoons should just stop over analyzing everything about the movie, cos obviously it doesn't stand up to your expectations

cheesy or not, it was superbly done.

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Originally posted by FunkyCrew ppl who claim it sucked went in with way too high expectations for an action movie based on a cartoons story also, hard core fans of the original cartoons should just stop over analyzing everything about the movie, cos obviously it doesn't stand up to your expectations cheesy or not, it was superbly done.

considering they wrote the script, shot the movie and completed the astounding number of totally believable SFX in about 18 months, I'd agree that they did a superb job all things considered. the production value was quite high. I think the people behind the movie (except one of the producers who wanted a more faithful adaptation) made the movie they wanted to make and who can argue with them? It's a huge success already and two sequels have been given the go ahead.

I have to say though that it's not nearly as good as I hoped it would be but in the same breath, it's not nearly as horrible as I feared it would be.

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Originally posted by Dj Smitty20 considering they wrote the script, shot the movie and completed the astounding number of totally believable SFX in about 18 months, I'd agree that they did a superb job all things considered. the production value was quite high. I think the people behind the movie (except one of the producers who wanted a more faithful adaptation) made the movie they wanted to make and who can argue with them? It's a huge success already and two sequels have been given the go ahead. I have to say though that it's not nearly as good as I hoped it would be but in the same breath, it's not nearly as horrible as I feared it would be.

also - I don't think this movie is claiming to be anything more then action movie adapted from the original cartoons, i.e. it is not claiming to have an immensely interesting story line, or amazing character play..

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Originally posted by FunkyCrew also - I don't think this movie is claiming to be anything more then action movie adapted from the original cartoons, i.e. it is not claiming to have an immensely interesting story line, or amazing character play..

true but I think the original storyline of two factions of robots fighting a civil war that drained their planet of energy so that the near-defeated side (autobots) go in search of new sources and end up on earth, etc, is much less silly than the "allspark".

Plus, given contemporary issues, maybe the fact that the Decepticons wanted to rape our planet of all its resources might hit home with more people? There was potential there for it to be a little more intelligent but again, it's all about money...

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