Post by grond on Aug 17, 2009 19:22:50 GMT -5
The Decepticons are so villainous and destructive that they have even managed to destroy my love of Transformers in general. Actually, it isn't their fault. After all the robots only got about 45 minutes out of the 2 plus hours in which they got to be in a second, slightly smaller, dimmer spotlight. And it was the comic relief-bots that got most of the screen time.
The first movie had an excuse. It had to introduce the Transformers in order to make them significant players in America's struggle against . . . um . . . the Transformers
But this time around they had the nerve to waste the 1st 45 minutes of my time showing me all about some dweeb-become-hero getting started at his new life in college. Where were the flickin' robots!!!! And no, his little awkward touchy-feely moments with Bumble-Bee, in which he treats the giant, extremely advanced robot like a dog, or a tragically brain-damaged childhood friend, and the robot responds in a justifying manner ( ), DON'T COUNT!
And since when were Transformers born the same way as vampires in "Van Helsing" and people who were freed from the matrix! I thought that they were made from other machines given a "spark" the way the first movie showed it. Now they come out of eggs looking like half aborted insects embedded in a coal miner's loogie? WTF!!!!! (no number of exclamation points came convey how loudly I shouted the expletive phrase initialed above at the time I typed it).
Seriously, they should have remade the old cartoon, either in a single installment or a trilogy, with today's graphics in a "live-action" version. And maybe removed the break-dancing junk planet robots, but as popular as dance-off movies seem to be I think the dancing junkbots are keepers.
Wow, that was a rant. I can't stress how depressing it is to want to see a movie about the robots I grew up with, and watch all of their doings revolve around the petty lives of suburbanites. GARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!
The first movie had an excuse. It had to introduce the Transformers in order to make them significant players in America's struggle against . . . um . . . the Transformers
But this time around they had the nerve to waste the 1st 45 minutes of my time showing me all about some dweeb-become-hero getting started at his new life in college. Where were the flickin' robots!!!! And no, his little awkward touchy-feely moments with Bumble-Bee, in which he treats the giant, extremely advanced robot like a dog, or a tragically brain-damaged childhood friend, and the robot responds in a justifying manner ( ), DON'T COUNT!
And since when were Transformers born the same way as vampires in "Van Helsing" and people who were freed from the matrix! I thought that they were made from other machines given a "spark" the way the first movie showed it. Now they come out of eggs looking like half aborted insects embedded in a coal miner's loogie? WTF!!!!! (no number of exclamation points came convey how loudly I shouted the expletive phrase initialed above at the time I typed it).
Seriously, they should have remade the old cartoon, either in a single installment or a trilogy, with today's graphics in a "live-action" version. And maybe removed the break-dancing junk planet robots, but as popular as dance-off movies seem to be I think the dancing junkbots are keepers.
Wow, that was a rant. I can't stress how depressing it is to want to see a movie about the robots I grew up with, and watch all of their doings revolve around the petty lives of suburbanites. GARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!