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...It was like a badly written cross between Independence Day and the Doctor Who The end of Time.

I couldn't stand to watch the whole thing without a couple of breaks playing TF2. (With the film still playing in the background)

It's hard to overstate my disappointment.

Please watch this video to see how I like my transformers cinematics:

(And the worst part is that it isn't coming out on the PC platform!)

And also, my 9-year old sister was watching it with me. Sure, I expected it to be bad, but she's fine the first TF film and from my original understanding this was better than ROTF. Wrong!
They dropped the Goshdarn F-BOMB in a PG-13 film! Flak it, PG-13 is the old R.

Michael Bay and his writing squad have been demoted to 'schweinehund' status in my books.

cool story bro

Don't know what to tell you. Everyone has different taste in movies and what they like. Liked the movie just fine. The movies got my 14yr old nephew into TF's and can't stand G1 (to corny for his taste) and cringes at thought of beast wars. (i kinda feel the same way)

It is what it is. even if you don't like like it just remember that the profits at least helped fund other TF series and toys (generations, TF: Prime and Animated (well TF1 helped that)) not to meantion WFC and FOC games.

If you diidn't like any of those then i still don't know what to take ya.

Yeah. You put up the trailer for FOC. That's your WFC and DotM dollars at work. Well, the dollars from the toys of those 2, anyway...

TulioDude wrote:cool story bro

This.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah. You put up the trailer for FOC. That's your WFC and DotM dollars at work. Well, the dollars from the toys of those 2, anyway...

On the contrary, over half of the DOTM figures I have bought in
the last year where on sale. And I borrowed DOTM from my library, and I've never bought WfC
either.

And I only bought 2 WfC figures.

And besides, even if I didn't buy anything made by Hasbro, how big of a difference would it make?
My main gripe is against the TF film writers, not the people who fund them. And even if I could make a difference and stop Hasbro from funding Bay and his madmen, then he'd just go and ruin some other fandom's life.

I am just sickened that this is a film that was indirectly marketed to children. Meh, that's what I get for living in a Capitalist society where no one has any taste or moral compass.

I agree partially that Orci and Kurtzman are talentless hacks, but Ehren Kruger did alright with Dark of the Moon. It was much better than Revenge of The Fallen. They fit a lot more story into roughly the same amount of time. I'm putting just a little of the blame on Bay, because when the writers' strike happened, he had to fill in what O&K couldn't so the film would come out on time, and he miserably failed. I would have much rather had RoTF come out in 2010 with enough time to get a decent story. That way we could have done without leg humping and Devastator ballz.

IMO, Bayverse, from best to worst, storywise (including action, comedy, flow of story, character variety, development):

DotM
2007
RoTF

Flakmaster wrote:They dropped the Goshdarn F-BOMB in a PG-13 film! Flak it, PG-13 is the old R.

The F-bomb was, for whatever reason, added in the DVD/Blu-Ray. The theatrical version only had "freaking" or "fu--(*cut off by something*)".

I suppose one could argue that PG-13 implies the audience should be 13+ (i.e. not a "family film"), and the vast majority of 13+ knows of the F-bomb in at least the non-sexual explicative form (i.e. the form used in the movie).
And I suppose there is a bit of a contradiction if you're fine with multiple "shit"s and Optimus violently tearing his opponents to shreds but not with the non-sexual explicative form of the F-bomb used once.

RhA wrote:

TulioDude wrote:cool story bro

This.

No, not this. It would have to be cool, first. LOL

Noideaforaname wrote:

Flakmaster wrote:They dropped the Goshdarn F-BOMB in a PG-13 film! Flak it, PG-13 is the old R.

The F-bomb was, for whatever reason, added in the DVD/Blu-Ray. The theatrical version only had "freaking" or "fu--(*cut off by something*)".

I suppose one could argue that PG-13 implies the audience should be 13+ (i.e. not a "family film"), and the vast majority of 13+ knows of the F-bomb in at least the non-sexual explicative form (i.e. the form used in the movie).
And I suppose there is a bit of a contradiction if you're fine with multiple "shit"s and Optimus violently tearing his opponents to shreds but not with the non-sexual explicative form of the F-bomb used once.

The F word is allowed 3 times in a PG-13 movie. Anything over that, and it's rated R.

Rodimus Prime wrote:I agree partially that Orci and Kurtzman are talentless hacks, but Ehren Kruger did alright with Dark of the Moon. It was much better than Revenge of The Fallen. They fit a lot more story into roughly the same amount of time.

I'm not sure how DOTM had much more story than ROTF... I thought it felt a lot more simple. A Cybertroinain ship crashes on the moon, it's captain turns out to be a traitor and tries to enslave humanity.

In ROTF, they managed to give the full story of the Primes, The Fallen, The Matrix, and what it meant to be a Prime.