by DazzimusP » Mon Jul 07, 2014 5:29 pm
I really don't understand all the hate that has been directed at Michael Bay, even from the very beginning of the movieverse Transformers. He has, to quite a large extent given the hardcore G1 fans what they wanted (and I am taking all the movies, not just AOE). Good examples include:
1) A more kick ass Prime (he kinda got kicked around by Megs in the first one, so what does he do in the second one...he kicks three Decepticon's in the tailpipe no less, before getting stabbed in the back by Megs).
2) Gave us characters we requested for: Jazz, Ironhide and Ratchet (even though he killed them off,)Shockwave (we got him in DOTM), Laserbeak and Ravage (both made appearances in DOTM and ROTF), Dinobots (we got them, even though they did not talk and were on screen for a limited time...but still they are the Dinobots and they are super awesome)and Hound.
3) Dug up some legends (The Fallen and the hinted Quintessons in AOE).
4) Gave us the Matrix of Leadership.
5) Homage to G1 (Evasion Mode Prime's G1 truck mode, and as someone also mentioned Lockdown's gun mode which closely resembled Galvatron's cannon mode in G1).
6) Getting rid of female exploitation and stupid racial and toilet humor (less in AOE).
7) Giving us a believable hero (Mark Warlberg in AOE).
Overall though I think AOE is the best one yet. Good storyline, great action scenes, fleshed out Transformers, more Transformers less humans and most importantly showing us a different side of Optimus Prime (jaded and disillusioned, he has to be reminded why he fought for us humans in the first place). Granted that it was out of character for him to keep saying kill this and kill that, would you act that way if you were stabbed in the back so many times, and have your close friends hunted down, torn apart and melted down (I almost wished they did not do that to poor old Ratchet...but we needed Prime to really get pissed off)?
Like the rest I do have some gripes (Movie is wayyyy too long and could have been shortened! More Galvatron (but then again he is setting him up for the next in the series)), but overall I think this movie is a vast improvement over the first three....can't wait to see what we get next....