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Just got home from an early showing... wow. What a great flick. Easily the best movie I've seen since Batman Begins. Totally awesome experience, the graphics were top notch, and it was actually pretty funny, too.
Keep in mind I'm no fanboy, so I don't know if it was loyal to the television series or not, but honestly, this was the most fun I've had at the movies in a long, long time.
Ohh, it was that good? Well, I plan on seeing it Thursday. I'm even paying 4x what I usually do to go to the good theater...
Were there lots of robot fights? Or was it like the hulk and you only saw the hulk for the last 10 min of the movie.
No, this was absolutely nothing like Hulk. Hell, probably 2/3 of the entire film was action scenes, all which were incredibly well done. The machines really came alive, and they actually probably had more personality than the humans in the film. The last 40 minutes of the movie are just fight scenes, too...
It's a great summer movie, a lot more fun than anything else I've seen this summer, including Live Free or Die Hard (a good flick, but really repetitive), Pirates 3, Spiderman 3, and Fantastic Four 2.
Goody, then that means my money wont be wasted. I take it the story was good too, or was it just an action only movie? Well...dosen't really matter, I already told my friend that we were going. So I guess we are.
The plot's secondary, but it works. It's just an amazing summer movie, groundbreaking in it's visuals.
i've heard lots of good things about it, I'm going to see it Wednesday.
I was skeptical at first because Michael Bay directed it and his movies are usually pretty cheesy, lots of action and little plot...but I guess he pulled off this one.
This... makes me happy.
Transformer fanboy... I admit it.
http://www.luminomagazine.com/2004.1...ogre/ogre2.jpg
I will probably see it by the weekend- only movie out I even want to remotely see.
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Originally Posted by Visionray
robots take the form of cars/planes/tape players, and a gun and fight over a cube of power.
This was right up his alley;)
a bit hard to see whats going on during robofights, apart from that it's highly entertaining
good movie though. well filmed.
just watched this movie today. it was nice. :)
i wonder what happened to those robots created in the end, where the hero dropped the cube and created some robots from some soda drink machine and stuffs...
dude
spoiler warninggggggs
Dude, I can't wait to see this later. BIG fan boy:)
For those that saw it. Does Megatron and Starscream still fight with one another?
That's not really saying much, but I'm kinda glad to hear that maybe Michael Bay didn't totally eff this up.Quote:
Originally Posted by DigitalOne
Kinda concerned about the plot being secondary, as long as the characters are somewhat solid. The cartoon may have been one big toy commercial, but as kids, we all bought into the characters, they had real personalities.
All I have to say is that there were cheers at the credits. Best movie I've seen in 3+ years. Some of the matting was flat out perfect. I want to go off about all the cool sh*t but I don't want to spoil anything like Nogol. idiot.
Good casting, absolute correct level of seriousness, well placed comedy... you're in for a treat.
wow. this is quite a surprise. i never thought this movie would get the reviews it has been getting (been reading rottentomatoes too)
now im kinda pissed i agreed to work at gap tonight.
it was pretty good. about as good as it could be keeping it true. i think its dumb that if they choose to transform into anything why choose stupid cars? the decepticons had way better vehicles
I agree with Drunknbass, they should all have turned into F22's. Would have been a sick squadron.
If I recall. It wasn't really there chose. Where ever they crashed they scan there area and take the objects around them so they fit into that area. that might be off somewhat, but thats what I recall from the cartoons.
There is a point in the movie where one of them chooses another form. Ie, that is incorrect.
I know a few of them had 2 different transformations. But I don't recall them ever changing there forum.
I haven't seen it yet, but only very few of the 'original' transformers. IE Alpha, Beta, Prototype ones could take more than one form and that was usually limited to only one other similar form.
The form they first take is kind of imprinted into them and the body adjusts to it so that is the only form that could be taken. From what I remember they looked humanoid before they chose a form then some form of nano-tech changed them and they got to shape change.
There was one that had a whole library of shapes and could change to nearly anything at will.
OMG, saw it over the Holiday. Wow, one of the greatest movies I've seen. The realism on the bots, just mind boogling. Same goes with there transformations. Just amazing, Light and Magic did a kick @$$ job
still waiting to see what gerbick thought of it.
I was shocked, it was actually good.
I really wasn't that shocked. Of course I decided months ago that I was going to get to see big ass robots fight on the big screen and that that would be enough for me no matter what.
Just saw it last night. Amazing. Easily the best effects I've ever seen in a movie. The robots movements were fluid, but carried weight. They didn't stand out as being digital characters, which is nice, not being distracted by shotty 3D. Its probably the best job anyone could do with the source material. Plus Spielberg was associate producer, and is known to be a huge transformers fan.
I don't think this was really meant to fit into the cartoon transformers universe (Optimus Prime would already be dead), so they were pretty much free to tell their own interpretation on the story.
The only complaint I have is how close the camera was to the busy action. It was really hard to tell what you were looking at during the battles.
*Spoiler*
Did you notice one of them was an xbox 360. The transform sound was the same one as when xbox first boots up. Wonder how much Microsoft paid to get that in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nogol
Well, lucky me gets to go see it in 3 min when I get off of work.
Oh, and did anyone else leave the theater and look at every car on the way home expecting them to sprout legs.
No? I knew I was crazy....
Yeah I think I did the same thing.
I remember when ever they'd pan into a driving scene and thinking, "ah, these must be the real world props for driving scenes." and then as soon as you're up close the fk'r starts transforming! Anyone catch the kill bill music for bb?
So funny you should mention that. I told my friends the same thing leaving the theatre.Quote:
Originally Posted by pooon
Seen the movie twice and have to say it's the best movie I've seen in many years.
Only complaint is that many of the Transformers didn't really have a well thought out character. And there's a few holes in the storyline - sorry don't want to spoil it for anyone. But the flawless CG and awesome fighting scenes make up for it.
The geek that I am, I can't promise I won't go see it again very soon :)
Oh, totally. I'd like to see it again to catch some of the stuff I missed, like all the decepticons. There really wasn't a good introduction to the whole decepticon team. I only found out now, after reading online, that there are infact eight.Quote:
Originally Posted by flipsideguy
Hey, I don't know if this was in everyone else's previews, but did you see the one that looks like it was shot on a cheap handycam, then all hell breaks loose. There wasn't a title for it. All it says is it's J.J. Abrams movie.
Hm, I only noticed 7 cons - megatron (alien jet), starscream (raptor fighter jet), bonecrusher (construction truck), barricade (police car), devastator (tank), frenzy (boombox etc), scorponok (scorpion). So which one am I missing??
Edit: Forgot about the chopper. Nevermind :)
I saw that trailer pooon. Looked pretty bad ass what ever it was.
I have a movie buddy who can call out what trailer is about to be shown from the second they show the studios logo. I looked at him after that trailer and he was dumbstruck.
Here's the IMDB for it.
http://imdb.com/title/tt1060277/
Almost no information, expect for the fact that they haven't begun principal photography and its set to release in Janurary. They better get a move on.
^ I immediately thought 'Godzilla' when I saw it.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/06/...-transformers/
Me too.
But Godzilla has been done fairly recently.
its called cloverfield.
There is a ton of gorilla marketing happening for it right now.
Apparently something about aliens a war and gods