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News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:25 pm

JacobPGalvatron wrote:So after orchestrating the whole plot to drain earth of all it's resources and possibly rip the planet apart by having cyberton and earths gravity collide, not to mention the thousands of human deaths from the invasion and the murders of all the humans HELPING the deceptions, megaton deserves a second chance when asks for a truce AND keep his army?

You're nuts. That's like having bin laden coming to help us in conflict and ask the US for truce.

Megatron deserved to die. He's a Decepticon. There is no truce. Didn't anyone see Beast Wars?

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:30 pm

Varia31 wrote:Okay, so, Megatron dies. Hopefully it makes a little more sense when you see it in the film. Sounds pretty crazy though. Hopefully seeing the movie will be better than a review, it sometimes is better to see for yourself. Thanks for the review Seibertron, I really appreciate the opinion of a fellow fan. I have a question though Seibertron, before Starscream's death, does he still get to kill Mirage/Dino like in the novel? It's nice that he gets to blow more stuff up, but does he still get to overpower an Autobot?

That's why I hate writing reviews. My goal is not to discourage you guys from going to see a Transformers film or from buying a Transformers toy. I'm just not one of those people that likes to do that. My goal is not to financially hurt any one or any company by trying to prevent any one from going. I just wanted to tell you what I thought, the problems that I thought the movie had and possibly what I thought could've been done to improve it. I'm also a highly skeptical fan that seems to think that there is always room for improvement. Not sure if it's age, or experience, or my desire to have someone ask me, just once, what I think of what direction they're taking something in before they complete it. I'd like to think that I actually know what I'm talking about since I own Seibertron.com, which I've run for 11 years, collected for 27 years, and am one of the few people you guys know who works on Transformers (albeit unofficially) for a living.

End of rant.

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:35 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:So the kill count is as following;

Autobots

*Ironhide (why?! He was so cool in the movies! But he was cooler in the original show though)

*Sentinel Prime (maybe should be in either Decepticons or just neutral)

*"Q" (Wheeljack)

Decepticons

*Megatron (is this for real, or was Seibertron just saying that Prime was doing what he does best?)

*Starscream

*Shockwave

*Barricade ( )

So let's get to the point; Utterly disappointed how not only do some of these beloved characters die out, but the fact Sentinel ends up betraying, killing Ironhide, and gets killed by Optimus. I also hate how Shockwave doesn't speak at all, including the game.

You forgot Soundwave!

....What?! MY LIFE IS RUINED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :BOOM:

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:36 pm

ill wait til its on hbo and watch it for free, doesnt sound worth $16 or even a ticket voucher. plus ill be able to fast forward.

by **TheWolverine7** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:37 pm

DAMNIT! There names are really Dino and Que, Wtf Bay! So Stupid..

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:46 pm

Seibertron.com staff member First Gen submitted this review for you to read.

First Gen wrote:Director Michael Bay bids farwell to the Transformers live action movie franchise with both a figurative and literal bang in the third installment of the series, Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Filled with more characters and action than any of the previous films, Dark of the Moon gives many Transformers fans what they were hoping for in the first two films.

For the fan that was hoping for a very "Dark" and gruesome film, filled with intense battles and hopeless situations, Dark of the Moon delivers on all counts. Where it misses, yet again, is storywise. Throw continuity out the window when you sit in your theatre seat to watch this two hour plus film. Don't expect to learn anything, at all, about new characters introduced in the film and forget trying to connect the three films together because its just not gonna happen. DOTM seems to try and erase the fact that Revenge of the Fallen ever happened. It almost makes the first film irrelevant, but you can stretch your imagination a bit to kind of see how the two are related beyond starring characters.

Warning!!! Spoilers ahead ...

The film starts with are most detailed look at Cybertron and its landscape as the battle between Autobots and Decepticons rages on. The Ark ship is in flight but is shot, and presumably lost, at the end of the scene. Back on Earth, the Autobots are working with NEST to take out human threats, illegal neucular facilities and such, while the human protagonist, one Sam Witwicky, struggles to find a job post graduation. One thing about DOTM, the human interaction scenes give you time to take in who the people are and lay some sort of foundation on them, but when you get to the robot scenes, they just kind of appear and leave.

The Autobots learn of the lunar landing and its purpose when they visit a quiet town in the Ukraine known as Cherynobl. Here we get our first look at Shockwave, and I literally mean looks cause he appears and he's gone. He doesn't speak, not that it matters cause he only speaks Cybertronian for about 3 lines at the end of the film anyway. We get our first glimpse at how humans have been working with, or for, the Decepticons since the beginning of the space race of the 60's and just how much the Decepticons value our friendship.

Optimus is pretty upset that information has been withheld from him but quickly recovers as he flies to the moon to retrieve the long lost Sentinel Prime. They bring back Sentinel and revive him with the Matrix of Leadership (yeah, I thought Optimus blew it to dust in ROTF too) while Sam rejoins the Autobots very upset that his prior involvement with them seems not to matter to the new Director of NEST, Mearing. The story skips along as they learn of the Pillars, the space bridge and the Decepticons plan to activate it.

Sam figures out that the Cons are after Sentinel as he's the only one that can use the pillars to create the bridge and quickly enlists the Autobots help to protect him. They form a defensive around the former Autobot leader as "dread" Decepticons attempt to attack him. Ironhide promptly hands them their robotic butts and is quickly repaid by Sentinel with a blast to the face and chest, killing him and turning him to rust. Sentinel has betrayed the Autobots, not just now though, he did it when he left with Ark in the first place. You see, he meant to come to earth, he planned to enslave the human population into rebuilding Cybertron, somehow, and use the space bridge to literally bring Cybertron to earth.

Many main characters, such as Starscream, Megatron and Soundwave seem no more than sidenotes in the movie, til their end of course (Yes, they all die. Every single Decepticon dies) and aside from Sentinel admitting that space bridge technology defies human thought, the scene where Cybertron is coming through the space bridge is even too much for your die hard Trekky to accept.

The story skips and bounds and expects you to fill in the blanks alot, but the action is more than worth the price of admission. There is a ton, and I mean a ton of human fighting in this last film. Humans do not stand helplessly idle as Lennox and his crew reunite with a retired Epps and his crew to help end the space bridge threat.

Optimus Prime proves, yet again, why he is the bravest and most honorable of the Autobots with heroic fighting, taking out Decepticon after Decepticon after Decepticon. Starscream and Shockwave both die at the hands of humans (these parts will probably make you upset) and OP puts an end to Megatron and Sentinel with no remorse whatsoever. Some Autobots meet their demise, but you never really know them anyway so its not hard to take. There are some very emotional scenes and desperation will grab you as the Decepticons start killing humans in my beloved downtown Chicago.

This film is the answer, yet leaves you with many questions about the Transformers movieverse.

Overall I give Transformers: Dark of the Moon 2 and 3/4 stars for some serious action, a bunch of characters and an overall exciting end to the trilogy. As my boy told me before the film released, don't expect to see the answers to everything in this film, cause in the cartoons, each episode really has nothing to do with the next, yet they are all together. DOTM should have been Revenge of the Fallen and its definitely a must see for any Transformers fan.

Special thanks to Jose Cruz and Jose Jara of LatinoScoop.com for making this review possible.

Til all are one.

News Credits: 15 · by **PrymeStriker** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:52 pm

When I get back from the movie tonight, I'll type up a storm on what I think of it...see ya 2nite.

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:55 pm

Gyrotron wrote:When I get back from the movie tonight, I'll type up a storm on what I think of it...see ya 2nite.

Looking forward to it!

by **Capt.Failure** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:57 pm

-The ending is different to the adaptions. Optimus is a mega dick. Megatron offers him a truce and Optimus responds by PULLING HIS HEAD OFF!

Considering what Megatron has done to Earth three times now I'd consider him out of strikes, so to speak. Mind you I have yet to see the film so I lack context, so I'll render a final judgement tonight when I get back from the theater.

by **zenosaurus_x** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:08 pm

I'm gonna see it this Sunday, I read the spoiler alert and I should've just left :lol:

The only thign I wish I didn't read though was

Megatron says something to the affect of “what would you be without me” to which Optimus replies “Let's find out.” and he proceeds to kill Megatron.

This...drat. Due to...things I'd heard I kept thinking he survived.

I expected StarScream's death based on the previews, I have to say, from the first preview it was really disappointing. Can't believe they'd axe him so pathetically.

and Shockwave both die at the hands of humans (these parts will probably make you upset)

WHYY?!?!? MUST...STOP...READING!!!

It seems like they overdid Prime in this film.

News Credits: 5 · by **RodimalToyota** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:27 pm

It's what happens in Hollywood. You take a good idea, drive it to a place it was never meant to go, and push into oblivion.

The Writing in movies has been progressing into **** for a couple years now. I mean really, I can't think of a movie that came out since "Batman Begins" that really told a story just like a book, that left you with no questions outside of what was asked. Everyone who has seen a Micheal Bay film should know that the Story is not what is important to him. It's setting the visual orgasm of effects and camera angles. It's technically his job to put everything together.

I blame Bay for any revisions he made, in an attempt to be different from the already existing "DOTM" material. Taking the twins out, but leaving in the confusion of what was going to happen is just pure stupid logic. I think sometimes his own Ego to be in the spotlight is his weakness as a Director.

I really hope that Spielberg can find someone with some true story telling abilities to helm either number 4, or a reboot. I am all about a reboot at this point, just because I think the characters have been lost in translation, and it's made Transformers into a thing of cinematic mockery.

News Credits: 1 · by **vegetacron** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:34 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Varia31 wrote:Okay, so, Megatron dies. Hopefully it makes a little more sense when you see it in the film. Sounds pretty crazy though. Hopefully seeing the movie will be better than a review, it sometimes is better to see for yourself. Thanks for the review Seibertron, I really appreciate the opinion of a fellow fan. I have a question though Seibertron, before Starscream's death, does he still get to kill Mirage/Dino like in the novel? It's nice that he gets to blow more stuff up, but does he still get to overpower an Autobot?

That's why I hate writing reviews. My goal is not to discourage you guys from going to see a Transformers film or from buying a Transformers toy. I'm just not one of those people that likes to do that. My goal is not to financially hurt any one or any company by trying to prevent any one from going. I just wanted to tell you what I thought, the problems that I thought the movie had and possibly what I thought could've been done to improve it. I'm also a highly skeptical fan that seems to think that there is always room for improvement. Not sure if it's age, or experience, or my desire to have someone ask me, just once, what I think of what direction they're taking something in before they complete it. I'd like to think that I actually know what I'm talking about since I own Seibertron.com, which I've run for 11 years, collected for 27 years, and am one of the few people you guys know who works on Transformers (albeit unofficially) for a living.

End of rant.

You're only the hardest of the hardcore unless you've done the following:

- Have no less than 3 G1 Transformer tattooes on your body. Full sleeves only count if both arms are covered with G1 Transformers.
- Sleep on "The Transformers" sheets and comforter every night
- Eat "The Transformers" cereal every morning
- Have Peter Cullen AND Frank Welker on speed dial
- Own no less than 5 of every Transformer toy ever made from any company
- Lost yer virginity while watching the G1 Transformers movie
- Can recite The Transformers movie and several episode, word for word, straight from memory
- Have Hasbro's President of Transformers on speed dial
- Drive a car that is an exact replica of either Smokesceen, Jazz, or Prowl in car mode as your daily driver (or any other G1 car transformer i've failed to mention here)

...whew!...I think thats enough for now. If you have all the above, you sir, must be the most hardcore Transformer fan ever known.

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:36 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Gyrotron wrote:When I get back from the movie tonight, I'll type up a storm on what I think of it...see ya 2nite.

Looking forward to it!

I think I might do the same as well, but it's going to have to be either tomorrow night or later on. It will probably be more focused on positive stuff than the negatives. I'm a little more weirder than your average Trans-fan, and so I try to look at the positive things in the fandom (except Kiss Players. Japan's gonna have to earn my respect back after that little episode. :shock:

)

by **ironballs** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:58 pm

Kudos to Seibertron@Site Owner for the review his written..

I myself had just came back from watching the movie & by the looks of its there are gaps & holes that are left unanswered especially if you tried to link the storyline with ROTF i.e what happened to the twins & Arcee? last known facts is that they survived up to the ending of the 2nd movie..also too much info was been crammed to make the 3rd storyline works...I appreciate M.B efforts to make the 3rd installment of the Transformers movie franchise the best one out of the 3 but it only attain 5 out of 10 to what I feel,I dont know Seiberton would agree with me on this part..all to be said about the movie has been mentioned by him..

What really pisses me off & even made my 3 small sons cried in the cinema is that M.B never did justice on how Ironhide died..man oh man he was totally robo-slaughtered by Sentinel without having the chance to fight back!!!! Even the G1 anime did justice for Ironhide....at least you could see him firing laser shots at the Decepticons before being taken out..This time round in the movie verse he got totally smoldered without a trace!!!! God damn it M.B,I guess u really manage to make the whole Transformers fandom mad yet again like what u did in the characterization of the first movie...

The ending part...ol' Meg got owned as per expected but Sentinel's demise...well at least M.B could have made it more epic like Opt's beheading Sentinel & crushing the spark right out of him rather than blowing Sentinel's head off with a laser shot gun or whatever u might call it after giving some retribunal speech lines.

'Nuff said...got it all out of my chest fhuhhh..Good movie for sound effects,CGI & whatever movie magic that M.B could conjure,I could see that he did put in effort this time round to make happen but it still is disappointing in a certain aspect...

P.M to M.B (at least if he is reading this & decides to do a 4th installment...for the love of GOD..PLS CONSULT THE TRANSFORMERS FANDOM AROUND THE WORLD TO GET BEST IDEAS OR AT LEAST TO PICK UP GD POINTERS TO MAKE THE MOVIE WORK THAN TOTALLY GOING OFF BOARD..YOU WON'T EVEN HAVE TO PAY US M.B,WE'D DO IT FOR FREE AS LONG AS THE MOVIE IN SOME WAYS COINCIDE & CO-EXISTED WITH THE MULTITUDE OF TRANSFORMERS MULTIVERSE IN A MORE APPROPRIATE & LOGICAL ASPECT. :BANG_HEAD:

by **ironballs** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:09 pm

ironballs wrote:Kudos to Seibertron@Site Owner for the review his written..

I myself had just came back from watching the movie & by the looks of its there are gaps & holes that are left unanswered especially if you tried to link the storyline with ROTF i.e what happened to the twins & Arcee? last known facts is that they survived up to the ending of the 2nd movie..also too much info was been crammed to make the 3rd storyline works...I appreciate M.B efforts to make the 3rd installment of the Transformers movie franchise the best one out of the 3 but it only attain 5 out of 10 to what I feel,I dont know Seiberton would agree with me on this part..all to be said about the movie has been mentioned by him..

What really pisses me off & even made my 3 small sons cried in the cinema is that M.B never did justice on how Ironhide died..man oh man he was totally robo-slaughtered by Sentinel without having the chance to fight back!!!! Even the G1 anime did justice for Ironhide....at least you could see him firing laser shots at the Decepticons before being taken out..This time round in the movie verse he got totally smoldered without a trace!!!! God damn it M.B,I guess u really manage to make the whole Transformers fandom mad yet again like what u did in the characterization of the first movie...

The ending part...ol' Meg got owned as per expected but Sentinel's demise...well at least M.B could have made it more epic like Opt's beheading Sentinel & crushing the spark right out of him rather than blowing Sentinel's head off with a laser shot gun or whatever u might call it after giving some retribunal speech lines.

'Nuff said...got it all out of my chest fhuhhh..Good movie for sound effects,CGI & whatever movie magic that M.B could conjure,I could see that he did put in effort this time round to make happen but it still is disappointing in a certain aspect...

P.M to M.B (at least if he is reading this & decides to do a 4th installment...for the love of GOD..PLS CONSULT THE TRANSFORMERS FANDOM AROUND THE WORLD TO GET BEST IDEAS OR AT LEAST TO PICK UP GD POINTERS TO MAKE THE MOVIE WORK THAN TOTALLY GOING OFF BOARD..YOU WON'T EVEN HAVE TO PAY US M.B,WE'D DO IT FOR FREE AS LONG AS THE MOVIE IN SOME WAYS COINCIDE & CO-EXISTED WITH THE MULTITUDE OF TRANSFORMERS MULTIVERSE IN A MORE APPROPRIATE & LOGICAL ASPECT.

News Credits: 1 · by **vegetacron** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:17 pm

ironballs wrote:P.M to M.B (at least if he is reading this & decides to do a 4th installment...for the love of GOD..PLS CONSULT THE TRANSFORMERS FANDOM AROUND THE WORLD TO GET BEST IDEAS OR AT LEAST TO PICK UP GD POINTERS TO MAKE THE MOVIE WORK THAN TOTALLY GOING OFF BOARD..YOU WON'T EVEN HAVE TO PAY US M.B,WE'D DO IT FOR FREE AS LONG AS THE MOVIE IN SOME WAYS COINCIDE & CO-EXISTED WITH THE MULTITUDE OF TRANSFORMERS MULTIVERSE IN A MORE APPROPRIATE & LOGICAL ASPECT.

He already know. He knows that he isn't making the fanbase happy, nor does her care about any of the continuity. The only reason he made the film was to make money and make the powers that be, above him happy.

As im reading more and more of these reviews, i just gotta say congrats to Team Bayformers. Hope you guys are happy with this...

by **Capt.Failure** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:22 pm

While it's nice Ebert mentioned this site, it's unfortunate it was in a blog entry that essentially called fans of the second film idiots or as he put it, "insufficiently evolved."

That said I'll be back tonight with my own review of the film.

by **SoooTrypticon** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:49 pm

I'm pleased that Seibertron's review both accepts the inherent crumminess of the film- but acknowledges the quality of the spectacle. Seems that's all this soulless franchise has to offer.

Maybe Spielberg's conscience was tweaked slightly at Fox's "Hitler" comment, because in his mind he wonders if old Leni Riefenstahl would approve of the Transformer films...

Maybe next time the filmmakers can throw some of that budget towards good writing?

Maybe we could even get a movie where Transformers are central characters who matter to the plot?

Only time will tell.

by **WeatherManNX01** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:03 pm

It's really hard to avoid spoilers when I have to scroll past the entire freaking post on the news page.

Just saying. :evil:

by **MINDVVIPE** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:09 pm

Autobot032 wrote:I'm incredibly disappointed. I'm going to go see it, but my expectations have been lowered.

This.
I picked at your review to avoid reading spoilers, and every start of a paragraph or line I read made me feel so nauseus from the fact that the TFs I love are going to take another round of downgrading... :SICK:

News Credits: 668 · by **Autobot032** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:21 pm

Hey, Seibs? I have a question.

My Dad and I are going to the film tomorrow during a matinee, and I noticed you mentioned the vaporization of humans and it being graphic.

I need to know, is it excessively bloody or gory? Is there any gore in the film, or it a flash of light and you see a skull roll across the floor?

The reason I ask is, neither of us is great with gore, though most doesn't bother me unless it's really over the top, but my Dad has been through a lot, and he's incredibly squeamish.

Is this something that'll make him faint? (he's not good with the sight of blood much past like a stain on a shirt, and definitely not on the big screen.)

Or is it watchable without worry? I tried searching the thread, and I ain't readin' through 13 pages lol....

Thank you in advance.

Website · by **Varia31** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:23 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Varia31 wrote:Okay, so, Megatron dies. Hopefully it makes a little more sense when you see it in the film. Sounds pretty crazy though. Hopefully seeing the movie will be better than a review, it sometimes is better to see for yourself. Thanks for the review Seibertron, I really appreciate the opinion of a fellow fan. I have a question though Seibertron, before Starscream's death, does he still get to kill Mirage/Dino like in the novel? It's nice that he gets to blow more stuff up, but does he still get to overpower an Autobot?

That's why I hate writing reviews. My goal is not to discourage you guys from going to see a Transformers film or from buying a Transformers toy. I'm just not one of those people that likes to do that. My goal is not to financially hurt any one or any company by trying to prevent any one from going. I just wanted to tell you what I thought, the problems that I thought the movie had and possibly what I thought could've been done to improve it. I'm also a highly skeptical fan that seems to think that there is always room for improvement. Not sure if it's age, or experience, or my desire to have someone ask me, just once, what I think of what direction they're taking something in before they complete it. I'd like to think that I actually know what I'm talking about since I own Seibertron.com, which I've run for 11 years, collected for 27 years, and am one of the few people you guys know who works on Transformers (albeit unofficially) for a living.

End of rant.

That's alright Seibertron, I felt the same way when I told a friend of mine about the DoTM game, I didn't want to discourage him about its flaws, but he still enjoyed it for what it was. I'm going to see the film regardless with an open mind. I've looked forward to watching it for some time now, and nothing will keep me from that. Plus, I have a tendency to like things other people don't unless it's utter garbage. But hey, I've seen some say it's the best of the three, and others such as yourself still like it overall. If it tops RoTF, and at least comes close to the first film, I'm sure I'll like it.

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:25 pm

Autobot032 wrote:Hey, Seibs? I have a question.

My Dad and I are going to the film tomorrow during a matinee, and I noticed you mentioned the vaporization of humans and it being graphic.

I need to know, is it excessively bloody or gory? Is there any gore in the film, or it a flash of light and you see a skull roll across the floor?

The reason I ask is, neither of us is great with gore, though most doesn't bother me unless it's really over the top, but my Dad has been through a lot, and he's incredibly squeamish.

Is this something that'll make him faint? (he's not good with the sight of blood much past like a stain on a shirt, and definitely not on the big screen.)

Or is it watchable without worry? I tried searching the thread, and I ain't readin' through 13 pages lol....

Thank you in advance.

No it's not bloody or gory. It's very "poof" human exploded into dust with no blood or guts. Might make you roll your eyes, but it shouldn't be that bad. I'm not a fan of gore either so I'd tell you if it was gory or something inappropriate.

by **vectorsigma757** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:31 pm

Haven't seen the movie yet.
On the whole Optimus thing. I always wondered what Optimus would have done to Megatron if Hot Rod hadn't gotten in the way? He was urged to finish Megatron off but seemed to hesitate. Look where it got him.

Peter Cullen got the feel for Optimus from his brother who told him to be tough enough to be gentle.

It does seem odd that he's almost a traitor to his race. But if you read the bios for this incarnation of Starscream it notes many times that he believes both Optimus and Megatron have lost their way in this war.

Maybe being surrounded by death is enough to break a man(bot). PTSD, anyone?

In the cartoon, he was never really right after coming back in the return of optimus prime (he was on a mind trip in the Rebirth).

All this doesn't make up for lack of storytelling though. It should have been more of a space opera than a kid and his car. Really, deep down, it's not Michael Bay's fault or SS. It's Bumblebee's. Stupid kid appeal toy.

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:50 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Autobot032 wrote:Hey, Seibs? I have a question.

My Dad and I are going to the film tomorrow during a matinee, and I noticed you mentioned the vaporization of humans and it being graphic.

I need to know, is it excessively bloody or gory? Is there any gore in the film, or it a flash of light and you see a skull roll across the floor?

The reason I ask is, neither of us is great with gore, though most doesn't bother me unless it's really over the top, but my Dad has been through a lot, and he's incredibly squeamish.

Is this something that'll make him faint? (he's not good with the sight of blood much past like a stain on a shirt, and definitely not on the big screen.)

Or is it watchable without worry? I tried searching the thread, and I ain't readin' through 13 pages lol....

Thank you in advance.

No it's not bloody or gory. It's very "poof" human exploded into dust with no blood or guts. Might make you roll your eyes, but it shouldn't be that bad. I'm not a fan of gore either so I'd tell you if it was gory or something inappropriate.

Similar to the X-Men: The Last Stand "poof" or its own unique "poof"?