Phategod1 wrote:We can argue bay's skill, The, quality Of the 1ST Movie, Till were blue in the Face but I think we can agree the 1St Movie could have been better
Here's a task for anyone with an opinion on any Transformers media; Name one show, one series, one toy, one film, one anything in Transformers that couldn't have been better. Just one. And be prepared to understand the moment you ready your post for the perfect item in Transformers, that you'll easily find its flawed. Perhaps you liked something about this item so much, or so many things about it so much, that the one flaw or more seemed small, insignificant to you. But that's to you, and its still some flaw present. Others who don't feel the same will quickly list everything wrong both factual and subjectively based on their own opinions about your single, perfect Transformers item. Fact is, there has never been a Transformers show, film, comic, anything that is utterly flawless.
Myself? I was knee deep in the details back when Murphy was shopping Rogers crap version of a script around unsuccessfully like many others who frequented places on the web like DM.net, MB.com and TFLive. Every twist, turn, contradiction, leak, etc was a rollercoaster. Every yay moment that was followed by a 180 a true disappointment. Every harsh comment or dismissal on the part of those making the film a real insult to the franchise. And now, years after the whole venture started, just a couple of years after the end result hit theaters, I hold the same opinion I did the day I saw the first Michael Bay Transformer flick. Michael Bay is very full of himself. VERY. He's a diva and a self-involved attention seeker who will yell, cuss, be a step away from a tamtrum if he doesn't get things done his way. He's Mariah Carey and Dr. Cox rolled into a movie maker. His approach and direction taken with Transformers is not in any way what I'd have expected, what I truly wanted, or the direction I would have gone at all had I been thrust into the spotlight of creating the first live action/cg big screen debut. But he knows a load about making successful action movies. I said successful, not fantastic, that's subjective. I don't like his Megatron much, but now that he's established he should stick with it. I thought I wouldn't like his Prime, and despite not liking the flames still I find the face of Prime endearing what with Cullen's aged voice coming from it. I don't like things like how the camera moves just a little too much in an action sequence, how Prime couldn't hold his own in a fight with Megs, or how the legend of a line "One shall stand, one shall fall" was visually paired with Sam hiding in a hole. But I dug Blackout, enjoyed Shia's performance, and again have come to love the face of this new Prime (to the point I hate Hasbro for not making a single Prime toy with a removable or total lacking faceplate). There's a lot to like, a lot to not, no matter who you are. But the fact is, being the wife's an action flick junkie, I've seen a lot of action crap (the worst in recent years being Shoot'em Up - I wish I could erase it from my memories forever) I'm going to say for an action/scifi flick Bay's TFs win out, because no matter how you feel about how good or bad a Transformers movie it is, its a Transformers movie. In the end its just another continuity added to the stack. It'll come, go, and eventually another will take its place. Maybe the next will be more traditional, maybe something entirely different from oldschool and Bayformers altogether. Let Mikey run his course with this trilogy in peace, because no matter how much someone could hate me for a direction I was taking in something I was creating, I'd still demand the respect to finish what I started my way, then be judged when its over.
Ramble, ramble, ramble.
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