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I saw the pre screening tonight.

Now. I just want to say, I really dislike Bay's work. I was extremely disappointed when I first heard he was doing this movie, fully expecting it to be a complete load of pants.

I'll happily admit I was wrong. I will happily admit that I had many many joygasms watching this movie, and will also happily admit I almost cried at various scenes out of pure happiness.

A quick lowdown of my opinions.

Megatron: Voice was perfect. I was disappointed when Welker didn't get the part, but Agent Smith did an excellent job, his voice suited Megs perfectly.

Frenzy: Could have done without him. Sounded too much like an ewok crossed with Johnny 5.

Jazz: Kinda glad he died. He was just plain irritating, really. No real character development, although he died well.

Prime: Lips were disturbing for a little while, but you get used to him. Cullen did an excellent job.

Ironhide: Wow. That is all. All I'll say is: Bazooka jump from Doom.

Starscream: Didn't really get alot of screen time, his voice was good though, just whiny enough to be him, yet stronger. Hopefully will see more of him in the next one.

Plot: Thin. And yet, if they'd made it too complicated, it would have been a distraction. It was simple enough for the movie to work.

Oh, and for a director who doesn't like mass shifting, what the HELL was that with the All Spark? I mean, seriously, you wont make an 80ft robot into a tape deck, but you'll happily make a 3,000 tonne rock cube into a handy bite sized chunk of Styrofoam? Meh.

All in all, I loved it. It had a few little tiny problems, but overall, it was the best movie I have seen in a long, long, long time. The action sequences were brilliant, Megatron was -way- more of an utter bastard than he was in G1, which he needed. It had a little more comedy than I thought was necessary, but it seemed to work pretty well, all things considered.

My one HUGE problem with the movie, was this. The 'Prime Speaks' competition. The lines in the movie were SO forced, they just sounded unnatural. They just didn't fit. I mean, Kudos to Bay for trying to keep us fan boys happy, but guys? Let's just stay out of it for the next one. Even people who didn't know about the competition were complaining that the lines sounded way too cheesy and forced.

So yeah. That's my opinion. I'll be seeing it again when it opens here.

Glad that my robot-man Ironhide seem like he is pretty kickass but I will sad when Jazz die

Thank you Autobot City for your share this review.

I could imagine on some of Bay's working piece. I am not completely dislike him, I think he has some good part of working but he just has some managing wrong with his strong confidence.

He got the good elements and time for making Trilogy films but I disappoint of some story line when I seen their scripts, This is the prequal film but it lack of some robots screen time ,dialouges and they have skip also some important scenes.

I will going to see by myself this Sat.

Woohoo, *just* got back from seeing it too (Midnight screening, New Zealand time ). The first post was pretty much spot on, but I just wanted to add a few things.

So I'm well and truly a Gee-Wunner, and at first I was quite dissapointed that the movie, although touted as a G1 movie, was going to be nothing like it. I couldn't care less about Michael Bay, I liked The Rock and Armageddon, so I knew he could make entertaining movies. But my main gripe was that it still wasn't 'true' G1.

Not that it mattered. This movie was wicked! And Peter Cullen made the movie, for me. Hearing him was all that I needed to make me happy, which just so happened to be during the opening lines. Hearing the original transformation sound at the start with Blackout's transformation was icing on the cake, but I was disappointed that it didn't turn up at all after that

The action was good, the CGI was believable, and suprisingly I didn't really mind the character designs. It was still Transformers to me. Yeah, the plot was thin and the way it ended was a bit anti-climatic. But at least I know there's going to be more to come. So for me, I can break it down like this...

It's definitely 'Transformers' (ie it has the spirit of TFs)
Bay did the fight scenes well, awesome set pieces
The human characters weren't annoying, but I felt they had a tad too much screen time
For me, Peter Cullen was the smartest move Bay made, not that he made too many stupid ones
Welker would have made an AWESOME Megs. Weaving was OK though
I'd see it again, in the theatres. And buy the DVD.

*Edited for spelling - I was red-eyed after getting back from the movie last night!*

Can someone please show me where Bay said the movie will be G1-ish?

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So I really haven't been keeping up with all the movie talk...

What where the winning line(s) from the Prime speaks thing.

I just want to know so when my buddies see the movie and tell me that this Prime is ghey I can try to use this info to defend him

Bun-Bun wrote:So I really haven't been keeping up with all the movie talk...

What where the winning line(s) from the Prime speaks thing.

I just want to know so when my buddies see the movie and tell me that this Prime is ghey I can try to use this info to defend him

Hey BB. Long time no hear.

Bun-Bun wrote:So I really haven't been keeping up with all the movie talk...

What where the winning line(s) from the Prime speaks thing.

I just want to know so when my buddies see the movie and tell me that this Prime is ghey I can try to use this info to defend him

IIRC, it was

"Autobots, Roll Out" (Which almost worked and wasnt too bad)
"One Shall Stand, One Shall Fall" (Big Showdown with Megs at the end, just didn't work imnsho)
"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings" (Just way too forced.)

I'd like to echo Cheebots sentiments. Im also a G1 fan, Born in the 70's, grew up with them. And this movie was more TF than the follow up cartoons over the last 15 years was. To me, anyway. It was more successful at capturing the feeling of Prime and his posse than any of the Manga rubbish they've been churning out recently.

However, I did find Sam stupidly irritating. But then, didn't like him in the cartoon either

Well that is another good response although there were a few things that were bad.

Awww, they scrwed up Prime's motto? But that's his motto! Roll out was always kinda cheesy to me (Cause they were all cars) but I grew to like it. One Shall Stand One Shall fall has always been my favorite line in TFTM. Let's see how badly it turned out. Thanks for the reviews guys.

Decepticlone Soundwave wrote:Awww, they scrwed up Prime's motto? But that's his motto!

I don't think 'they' screwed it. I just think it didn't fit in the movie. And really, we only have ourselves to blame for that one.

I honestly think, if this is the blockbuster it looks like it's going to be, and they make a sequel, we really need to keep our faces out of it and just let them do their thing.

Thanks.

Milanion wrote:
Hey BB. Long time no hear.

yeah, I'm not around much. and when I am it's generally only in HMW.
And don't call me BB, people'll think I'm linked to that Bullet Bike guy *shudder