Sark Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Just wondering If anyone has and what they thought. I'm certainly not expecting too much other than a special-effects fest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 (edited) Saw it last night Great Movie! Bay did a a very good job with this one The Effect were Outstanding and the Story was decent very good Family Movie! Just wrote a Review What are you seeing Edited July 4, 2007 by Batman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya_Big_Tree Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 OMFG!!!!!! THIS IS QUITE POSSIBLY THE GREATEST MOVIE IN EXISTANCE!!!!! Excellent story, Megatron still scares the shit outta me like when I was 4. And Optimus Prime was the greatest in the universe!!!!! Hells yeah 5 stars!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALifeson85 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 I just saw it last night...AWESOME!!! "Bumblebee...stop lubricating the human!" LOL The CGI effects in this were OUTSTANDING, as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 We saw this opening night before the Darien Lake show. We loved it. I'm a diehard Transformers fan, and I'll agree with the reviewers: - Excellent CG - Excellent acting (surprisingly) - Hot actress - Excellent fight scenes Lacking in story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrinxpriest 2112 Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 A truly awesome movie. My only complaint is that they mixed beast wars and the original transformers by throwing in Scorpinock.(speaking of which, i hope Cheetor is in the next movie.) SPOILER: Man, when Optimus cut off Bonecrusher's head i about freaked!! truly awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboGames Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 It was the best 2 1/2 hour General Motors commercial I have ever seen! Seriously, the movie was pretty darned good. The same dude that voiced Optimus Prime in the cartoon series was Optimus in the movie. Will definately see again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectricEye Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 (edited) QUOTE (JimboGames @ Jul 14 2007, 04:02 PM) . The same dude that voiced Optimus Prime in the cartoon series was Optimus in the movie. Same guy as Megatron too! Seriously, this movie just blew me away! I loved the fact they used a lot of the old characters from the cartoon, but I dont remember Scorpionlock and some of the Deceptions like Barricade or Starscream, then again it was a long time ago. It was CGI but it was done so good, it was completely real looking. The scenes with Starscream flying and then turning into a robot were incredible. The scene when they are trying to hide outside the Kid's house is the best, trying to avoid getting caught by his parents "Let's just call it...Sam's Happy Time" oh and Megan Fox is one of my top 10! Edited July 16, 2007 by ElectricEye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtron Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 Awesome movie, I almost cried at the greatness of it. I loved the part where Megatron sort of scolded Starscream...that was straight from the cartoon, as Starscream was always a bastard. Let's get Soundwave (my favorite) and some of the Dinobots (GRIMLOCK!!) in the next one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro2112 Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 In full disclosure, the Transformers were a little after my time. By the time they became a popular toy (and subsequent cartoon), I was too old. I never had one toy and never saw one single cartoon. My wife, who is older than I, didn't know anything about them either. Yesterday, we dropped our daughters off at my mother in law's house, in Rockford IL. There is a nice Showplace theater nearby, with stadium seating and state of the art sound. We decided we'd go to a movie that would take advantage of the theater, as the movie house in our hometown sort of sucks. In any event, we decided to see "Transformers," for the hell of it. As a couple who had no clue what it was about before hand, we both enjoyed the movie tremendously. It was fast paced, exciting, funny and very entertaining. The only negative in the movie was the actress cast as the protagonist's girlfriend. She couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pt2112 Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 great, great movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sark Posted July 16, 2007 Author Share Posted July 16, 2007 I finally saw it, and I was pleasantly surprised. They brought it up to more "modern" times as the cartoon was a number of years ago. The action sequences were fast-paced and hard hitting. It also had time to throw the jokes in too. Some of the dialogue and the writing could have been better, but I was entertained. Did anyone notice the air freshner on Bumble Bee's rearview mirror? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrinxpriest 2112 Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 QUOTE (Sark @ Jul 16 2007, 12:59 PM) I finally saw it, and I was pleasantly surprised. They brought it up to more "modern" times as the cartoon was a number of years ago. The action sequences were fast-paced and hard hitting. It also had time to throw the jokes in too. Some of the dialogue and the writing could have been better, but I was entertained. Did anyone notice the air freshner on Bumble Bee's rearview mirror? "beeotch" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectricEye Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 QUOTE (pedro2112 @ Jul 16 2007, 12:25 PM) The only negative in the movie was the actress cast as the protagonist's girlfriend. She couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. who was looking at her "acting" she is Brian Austin Green's (90210 ) girlfriend in real life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pags Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 QUOTE (ElectricEye @ Jul 16 2007, 07:58 AM) QUOTE (JimboGames @ Jul 14 2007, 04:02 PM) . The same dude that voiced Optimus Prime in the cartoon series was Optimus in the movie. Same guy as Megatron too! Seriously, this movie just blew me away! I loved the fact they used a lot of the old characters from the cartoon, but I dont remember Scorpionlock and some of the Deceptions like Barricade or Starscream, then again it was a long time ago. It was CGI but it was done so good, it was completely real looking. The scenes with Starscream flying and then turning into a robot were incredible. The scene when they are trying to hide outside the Kid's house is the best, trying to avoid getting caught by his parents "Let's just call it...Sam's Happy Time" oh and Megan Fox is one of my top 10! I can't believe I'm quoting this from so long ago. I was given the 2-DVD set as a b'day present and finally got to see this movie, as well as all the making of features. We all thought the movie was astounding and not just for the special effects. The cast was awesome, the dialogue was sharp, and the kid is a riot. Then I got to watch the specials on how they created these things. It blew me away. Do you know they engineered the transformers to actually transform? Part by part. Over 110 THOUSAND individually moving parts transform Optimus Prime - each adjusting and moving into proper position. That, to me, was mind blowing. It took something like 36 hours (I forget exactly how long they said) of creating the frame by frame transformation to film. Outrageous. There are tons of references in this movie which they cover in the DVDs. Bumblebee being parked next to a yellow Volkswagon Beetle (as he was in the cartoon) was rather clever. Anyway... I quoted this post to make a correction. Michael Bay did not choose the original guy who did Megatron's voice to be in the movie. He considered it, but decided against it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melll Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 QUOTE (ElectricEye @ Jul 16 2007, 12:58 PM) QUOTE (JimboGames @ Jul 14 2007, 04:02 PM) . The same dude that voiced Optimus Prime in the cartoon series was Optimus in the movie. Same guy as Megatron too! Nuh-uh, Hugo Weaving was Megatron. Starscream was in the cartoon. Besides it being a "disengage-brain" movie, I enjoy this enormously. And Megan Fox? Very shiny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiriusRushFan Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 We were all over this movie at the theater. Great stuff. Will see it again soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 I've only just watched this film and it was better than I expected, with some good actors, (John Voight, John Turturro) and pretty decent special effects. I never followed the TV show back in the 80s so the story and characters were all new to me, the plot was a little corny, as were some of the character names (Megatron!!) but it wasn't too bad. Some of the action scenes suffered from the dreaded herky jerky camera disease, they were otherwise entertaining though. One thing I found weird was Megan Fox, even though she was like 20 when they made the film, the same age as her Wil Wheaton lookalike co-star, she looked at least 30 and looked way too old to be playing a high school kid. I thought she was the teacher at first. It was like he was dating his hot auntie, in fact she could have been his stripper mother! What a mofo! Anyway, overall nothing to get too worked up about but a pretty good popcorn film. I'll look out for the sequel now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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