The score was perfect for the movie...this is about a war that has ravaged one planet already and now spread to another, earth and the tone of the score is reflected in each scene accordingly from light hearted when sam and his friend were at the lake trying to impress mikaela to a more action oriented sequence in the movie.
Primes face as well as the other bots had certain "ticks" tweaks and movements to express each scene, I'm not saying by any means it was perfect and maybe more could have been done but that would have meant a bigger budget and a lot more time to render them on the computers and they simply were not granted any more time or money.
I think things will be different in TF2, maybe not a quantum leap but even more detail, these are the types of movies you really can't see just once and say things like the special effects sucked because there are so many nuances that get missed.
It took me three viewings and a "oh really ?" moment to realize that the girl that got knocked to the ground in the final battle as Ironhide flipped over her ( one of my favorite scenes )was not mikaela but just some random girl that kind of looked like her at least to me and that scene was in slow mo!
Back to the score again...Jablonsky's score effectively drew upon the intended emotion of the scene...when bumblebee had been captured I really felt sorry for him even though he was part cgi rendered or a animatronic it's the music that really makes a scene complete.
I felt the same way in the final battle when bumblebee was damaged and he had to crawl over to give the cube to sam.
As said above I agree that Prime has been through a lot and has been fighting this war in the 2007 movie continuum for thousands of years and they are emotional thinking beings like humans are so these heavy times will get to you in various degrees from time to time.
If you were placed over in Iraq or Darfur for a year then came back honestly how would you feel ?
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