While I know tht the majority of us are thinking "YES, It's about @3&$ time!" as far as the Autobots finally doing what needs to be done to win the war, has anyone thought about what imprewssion it made on the younger viewers? I know there was a rating on the movie and it warned about violence etc. etc. but I think we all saw that many parents failied to notice the rating and brought yougnsters anyway.
Well I knew fully well it was going be a bit violent, but they were all robot deaths. Which if you watched any cartoon before, its ok rip a robot to pieces , as in Xmen, wolverine tackles all the humans, moment a sentinel comes on screen hes taking it apart like a chop shop.
Any parents who didnt realize what PG-13 meant well that have only themselves to blame. Especially with there being a movie before this. Prime beheaded Bonecrusher in that one. Rachet sliced off Brawls hand. Jazz got torn in half. Bumble bee and Barricade knocked the crap out of each other, which he left Barricade a broken mess. Really the autobots didnt do much worse than what happened in the first film. Just they did more of the killing the human airstrike to make it more noticeable. (majority of the Cons died by humans.)
Honestly Star wars showed far worse things, since they had storm troopers being gunned down left and right by the heroes. They blow up an entire planet of people. The light saber wielders hack off limbs of humanoids with trails of blood.Darth Maul gets cut in half down the middle. Anakin slays entire villages and children. (mostly off screen but the idea is there.) Which most parents left their kids watch star wars with out a second thought. The violence in transformers really is about the same. I feel Star wars got the pass since PG-13 didnt exist when it first came out, and later when it got rereleased, it got the pass since it was PG before. Revenge of the Sith probably only one that got an honest rating.
As far as Transformers goes, they wrecked each other plenty of times over the years. The same lvl of violence was there, just the consequences of it wasnt most of the time. Hound got blown up by lazerbeak in the first episode, he was just put back together. Blitzwing crushed several autobots in his tank mode in triple takeover. They all manage live despite being damaged waaay worse than the 86 movie.
Which characters often missed as they couldnt hit the broadside of Broadside. (the aircraft carrier hehe.) So mixing the forumla of 80s saturday magic, most attacks miss, and they get repaired from all the damage they take, no one ever seems to die.(GI Joe was a worse offender of not showing the harm of combat as everyone always bailed out of their vechiles like they had freaking spider sense of incoming missiles heh, but refused move their tanks instead. Why they decided to kill Duke in the Movie first to show people die in war, which lead to Prime dying.) As the only deaths before the 86 film were Alpha Trion (he merged with Vector Sigma) and 3 unknown seekers who were buried alive during one of the early episodes.(who could of techinally survived.)
Later they started putting some of the consequences into things, as obviously the 86 film did. Which I think was far more harmful than this film since no one saw it coming.(On top of they swore twice which had some parents up in arms.) It really should been PG-13 but since it was animated violence it got the pass despite being too dark for most of the intented audience. I didnt see a theather of crying kids during revenge of the fallen(heh not that I didnt want too..they killed Prime those bastards...), as people knew it was war and this things could happen. Plus I think Prime dying kind of one of those things we all know happens by now.
Other series have death tolls in them as well, as beast wars had its share of brutuality. Again majority of the time it played by the saturday morning cartoon rules, everyone got put back together after the fact, but it still did alot of damage to characters. (like waspinator.) Silverbolt goes to impale Tyrantulas in another episode.(rampage stopped him but he was consumed with raged despite being one of the most honorable characters.) Dinobot basically smashes everyone in his way in code of hero. (which primes forest battle felt like that moment.) Depthcharge rams an energon weapon into rampages heart and kills them both. Tigerhawk dies in a fight against the nemesis. Tartulas gets blown to million pieces.
To say Transformers was all warm and cuddly prior to the movie was a largely incorrect. Even Animated had limbs getting blown off here and there. They had a body count even along the way. Not huge, but there was some. So really you think anyone whos watched a bunch of transformers hasnt seen this sort of thing. Or sci fi or comic movies as they all have simliar lvls of violence, often with people instead of robots.
"The question that once haunted my being has been answered. The future is not fixed, and my choices are my own. And yet, how ironic...for I now find that I have no choice at all! I am a warrior...let the battle be joined." —Dinobot
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