The Energon Pub

Ok, I ma not a Bay fan, my god I hated most his movies. With that said, this, was his best ever, and was actually DAMN good. My only set backs, no Welker, seeing as they masked most voices until un recognizable as famous actors, they could have done something for Welker to better fit the movie look. The shaky camera and blurred fighting, a bit too much. But good homages throughout, very good direction, he made me care about the characters, and was very well done all around. Just some questions and ideas. Why did the all spark only make evil cybertronians? Like in this movie, the next should concentrate more on the Decepticons. Bonecrusher should have had more screen time. And on the dvd release, they should have a version where Welker voices Megs, that would rock. Again, I walked in thinking this will stink, came out a happy ticket buyer. Oh, and another question, was the robot Soundwave? Or Frenzy?

Frenzy

Thank god, still some hope on Soundwave.

I kinda agree.... there were a ton of inconsistencies that made this neither a good nor bad movie.
In 2 minutes chunks, this is an awesome flick.
All together I found it lacking.

The mass shifting allspark tube.
Zany Sector 7 secret government organization.
All-spark fragment (destroy it or don't destroy it, make a decission about this plot point)
Mechanical life being made so easily out of anything.
Auto-self-reformating.
No space ships.
Shaky cameras.
Changing POV.
Lack of TF banter. The CG body language stuff was too subtle.

These things all contributed to my frustration with the movie.

Tusko wrote:In 2 minutes chunks, this is an awesome flick.

That's the most accurate review I've seen so far.

Buttz wrote:

Tusko wrote:In 2 minutes chunks, this is an awesome flick.

That's the most accurate review I've seen so far.

I'm sure that as the dailies on this movie were reviewed everyone was ecstatic. I think disappointment in this film happened when all those scenes got put together.

I'm hoping the Super-Transformed-Mass-Shifting DVD version with 37-hours-of-extra-footage will have a super-Directors-cut-fan-edition that'll let them put it together a bit better.

Mmmmm cash grab.

Lets not forget this was the first movie and its effects budget for ILM was 40 mill. Now its a success next one maybe 100-150million for Transformer FX then look out. So all the gripes regarding why this bot was here and for such a small amount of time!. It took the best ILM many many months just to do the freeway action with bone and prime\. They raised the bar for FX so patience and realizing the budge 140150 mill for the ENTIRE FILM. Next one will destroy trust me!!!!!!!!!

MAYTAG wrote:Lets not forget this was the first movie and its effects budget for ILM was 40 mill. Now its a success next one maybe 100-150million for Transformer FX then look out. So all the gripes regarding why this bot was here and for such a small amount of time!. It took the best ILM many many months just to do the freeway action with bone and prime\. They raised the bar for FX so patience and realizing the budge 140150 mill for the ENTIRE FILM. Next one will destroy trust me!!!!!!!!!

Each Lord of the Rings movie was made for ~$100M. I don't buy it. The effects were awesome, however its the way they were used that was uninspired.