I will even go as far as to say that a flurry of scenes in the movie with serious dialogue between the bots (of which there was almost none) just wouldn’t work. I could be proven wrong, but I just can’t imagine it.

I didn’t despise the movie like many Screen Rant writers did.

A lot of the humour parts I found funny, I totally dug the designs (comparing to the original show is such and overrated and invalid argument – organic metal aliens ppl! Not easy-to-draw box figures for a low-budget cartoon… a cartoon that if you watch now is bad if not for nostalgic purposes. It was fun when I was 7 but is not past that (unlike the X-Men animated series which is high quality still to this day).

My problems came with how some of the characters were used or not-used to be more accurately. Optimus goes from being a killer in the highway scene to being absolutely useless against Megatron and not using the weapons that he has built into him.

Also, there were many horrible characters from the Sector 7 dude played by John Turturro to the Australian nerd to the cop on drugs…. poor poor writing. Oh and John Voight’s character…bad as well.

This movie had everything going for it except for a bad screenplay which brought much of it down.

Nevertheless, it was very entertaining for me the second time watching it and onwards and I expect the sequel will do the same. After just watching it once, I felt a lot of what Vic says about it except I still loved the action scenes at the end and how the Autobots act in those scenes.

I felt whiplashed back and forth through the whole film. As a matter of fact it felt like two different, incongruous movies intercut into one.

Vic

I totally agree with you, but you’re posting on the wrong site saying anything positive about TF.

I get the backlash about the stupid humor (I just ignore it). Underneath it was a successful movie that achieved what Bay and co. set out to do. I don’t know anyone out there that would argue it’s a 5-star, but it was entertaining

As for the acting; yes some of it is tacky but come on sometimes its a bit of a laugh most of the other things make up for it like the special effects and the fact that its Transformers, I mean come on the fact that they managed to pull off a transformers film is something don’t you think?

I think I speak for most when I say it was a very effective portrayal of a excellent old TV show. The second one, with the more money and possibly bigger production team should have a lot more in store for us. Just looking at the trailers says alot about what is coming. I for one am so excited and will probably like it no matter what =D.

1)I like the TF robot designs. To me, it feels more realistic. If they had done the TF’s in a G1-CGI style(Liquid metal?), I’m pretty sure the movie would have been laughed at and nobody would like it. It would be much too cheesy. And very unrealistic.

2)Budget. Budget. Budget. So many movies are ruined because of budgets, exspecialy in this time. That’s why the TFs had so little time.

3)Humor? I enjoyed a lot of the humor. (She said ‘If you hurt my DOG, I’ll kill you.’). And I’ll asure you, many people enjoyed it just as much as I did.

4)And, you do realize, that stereotypes like you described do exsist in real life? I walk through my school and hear many, many kids talk just like Jazz(It’s strange, because even white kids talk like him). The ‘mammy’ or ‘speak english’ thing? Samething. I come across people just like that as well.

5) I also greatly enjoy Shia, he’s been one of my favorite actors since I was little. He’s got very good humor and he’s a great actor.

6)The ‘shaky cam’ and ‘close ups’ add to the movie, if you ask me. Action movies aren’t very still.

7)I agree with Rob. If what you said applied to other movies, you’ve just dissed many, many movies. Good and bad alike.

8)Yes, there were things wrong with this movie but there were still good things to it as well. In my eyes, the good out weighs the bad. I teared up when Bumblebee was captured and I laughed(as did my mom) when they talked about ‘Sams happy time’. I was still able to attach myself to the characters. It wasn’t what they said but their actions.

I much too tired to write everything that I want to but I really just don’t have it in me to fight you, after all, it’s just a movie and these are oppions. I just wish you stated yours more kindly becuase there are people out there, like myself, who greatly enjoyed this movie. When I read your comment, I feel like you are saying, ‘Anyone who likes this movie is wrong/stupid.’ But I understand your comments and I will respect your right to state them as you will. Thank you for taking the time to read mine.

To Rob, I hope nothing too bad happens to Ratchet. He is my favorite. When I first saw the movie, it was his parts that made me laugh the hardest(‘His pharamone level sudjest he wants to mate with the female’ ‘Tingly! You should try that!’) As a medic, he is also very important to the team. Also, cool picture of Ratchet and his much-too-cool saw blade.

Is that video really scenes from the movie? Why isn’t Optimus leading? Or at least Ironhide as the heavy hitter. just seems strange.

You nailed most of them. I love the Shia quotes, haha

…but if some of your thoughts were applied to other movies, the original Star Wars would become horrid

One of the points that sticks out is the action part – you missed out on all the chase scenes which are important since the title characters are in Car mode most of the time. So if you count up the the actual “action” minutes and worked out some crazy ratio and applied that to The Matrix, you’d bash that film too on percentage of action to non-action.

About the screen time the Transformers had… I think everyone can agree on that… but why doesn’t everyone get the reason why? budget! It feels like in every thread I need to remind people that $150 million can only go so far in start-from-scratch development of the first movie in a franchise. The budget for the sequel is double and there are many re-used designs so we should expect significantly more Transformers on-screen… let’s just hope they’re used right this time.

Welcome to Screen Rant, you should feel right at home here.

Vic

1.Incoherent plot? scenes in the movie lead nowhere or had no real purpose, comedy filler, waste time, no story logic. The movie’s script made it hard to suspend belief and enjoy the movie. B movie but with a bigger budget…

2.Laughably bad CRINGE INDUCING dialogue? “My bad” Shia “NoNoNoNoNo”…..” Whats up lil Bitches”…..”Touch my bush I’ll kick your ass!” ….”Happy Time” ect. ect……… VOMIT

3. The army can kill the Decepticons? Why even have the autobots.

4.Transformers look like metal scraps glued together.

5.Dramatic scenes that fly straight out of left field? (“I’m so glad I got in the car with you.”) B movie

6.Formerly respectable star sinks to a new low? John Turturro Jon Voight,Golden Shower Bumblebee pees now and farts? comedy gold….

7.Incredible overacting that is obviously encouraged by the director?

8.Bumblebee who cannot speak for no apparent reason? Damaged in battle ….please, prequel comic or motion comic just try to cover up bad story telling .Makes no sense other than that is what the director or script calls for in the movie. (no story logic.^)
Wouldn’t need to waste so much time If BumbleBee could repair himself. Like Barricade repaired himself after the first fight and tell Shia that he needs the glasses!

9.Rampant racial stereotyping?” Hey Mammy ”
“Speak English dude ”

10.Characters with a lot of face time who end up playing no important role in the “story?”
Hackers and soldiers.

11.The action in some shots is hopelessly muddled? Shaky Cam, close ups, and quick cut editing.

12. Jazz’s hilarious death scene is matched only by his hilarious eulogy? B movie

13. Transformers had little scene time due to over elaborated designs which made them too expensive? Prime shows up 70 mins into the movie.

14. Blatant over the top product placement? Takes away from the movie experience. Not just minor product placement the movie stops just for the product placement. Bumblebee updates to a newer car. The pilots getting into the F 22.

15. Transformers are secondary characters with little to no dialogue?

16. Hard to tell the Transformers apart. As long as the camera stands still long enough and the transformer is not silver. If it is an action scene forget about it..

17. For an action blockbuster there is not much action: 5 min of action in the beginning 10 min of action in the middle and 15 min of action at the end. In a 2 hr and 30 min movie. All of which jumps around from robots to humans every 2 seconds, due to the quick cut editing. Shaky Cam and close ups ruin most of the action.

18. Shia LaBarf can’t act? NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo BS comedy shtick, Even Stevens with robots…

19. Meagan Fox can’t act? ……..LMAO please

20. Michael Bay can’t direct? ” I make movies for 13 year old boys.” Can’t remember the Transformers names. Brawl is the tank Bay.. not DEVASTATOR!

Intense slow motion shots of characters

Has the camera moving during most scenes. Very rarely uses static shots.

Actors/characters in his films are almost uniformly shot in tight, emphatic close ups, framed under the hairline and above the chin.

Often has over-the-top visuals (i.e. key events taking place at sunset or dramatic events taking place behind actors doing routine activities).

Utilizes monotonic but intense musical cues during action-filled car chase scenes. Bad Boys II (2003), The Island (2005)

Uses shots of aircraft against a setting sun, especially helicopters (Armageddon (1998/I), Pearl Harbor (2001), Transformers (2007)).

Often features a slow-motion shot of an object crashing into, or tumbling towards the camera.

Uses a shot where the camera spins in a circle around characters. (Bad Boys II, Transformers)

Frequently incorporates scenes that involve characters running or moving towards the camera (almost always shot in slow-motion)

A character doesn’t need to give a monologue or tell his friends he’s going to sacrifice himself to protect them before he does exactly that… Actions speak louder than words in many instances. Did you miss the part where Bumblebee couldn’t talk… AT ALL till the very end?

We all know and agree (and I wrote about it in this article) that the bots didn’t get enough screen time. However, the last act is all them and all the characterization you’d need for Ratchet is given then and before that, there just wasn’t enough time given to enjoy the bots more.

I highly recommend re-watching the last act of the film if you get a chance to see what I mean now that what I’ve said will be fresh in your mind.

However, from what you complained about the designs you’d of been negative about it regardless of the amount of screen time.

And for clarification, out of the Transformers in the movie Ratchet and Ironhide became my favourite and I gave my reasons why out of what was shown in the film.

The film overall was disappointing in many ways and had many huge problems which we all could point out.

So what I’m trying to say is, I don’t understand your logic… it sounds like you’re implying people can’t have favourites from the movie despite it’s problems…

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