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JD · 07-03-2011, 11:03 PM

Well count me as one who enjoyed the movie, for the most part.

But let's not mistake that with me thinking it was a good movie. It was frustrating, contrived, and even annoying at times.

But for me, the enjoyable thing was the Transformers lore being much more a part of the story. Things that were buried in the back of my inner child's memory like space bridges were brought back to life. Seeing Shockwave and Soundwave, and Laserbeak as he was in the cartoon. The robot characters were more evident and more true to the ones I remember from when I was a kid.

But every time I was starting to enjoy the movie, we got dragged back to that awful Sam Witwicky storyline. They were trying to depict him as insignificant and tossed by the wayside. I wish they left him that way.

But it was darker and the Decepticons were certainly more ruthless. This was an improvement. Megatron actually seemed to have a plan that was typical of his plans from the old cartoon, even if it was a little more grandiose and possibly far-fetched. Perhaps they were so advanced that they were somehow able to eliminate Cybertron's gravitational field? I managed to ignore that in order to maintain my enjoyment of the "plot".

I think they're getting closer to having good Transformer movies. I would like to see someone else give it a try, taking some of the elements from these movies that work. The storyline, cast, idiotic characters, and overall tone of the movies are not some of these elements, however!

07-03-2011, 11:03 PM	#142
JD First Line Centre Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Not Abu Dhabi Exp:	Well count me as one who enjoyed the movie, for the most part. But let's not mistake that with me thinking it was a good movie. It was frustrating, contrived, and even annoying at times. But for me, the enjoyable thing was the Transformers lore being much more a part of the story. Things that were buried in the back of my inner child's memory like space bridges were brought back to life. Seeing Shockwave and Soundwave, and Laserbeak as he was in the cartoon. The robot characters were more evident and more true to the ones I remember from when I was a kid. But every time I was starting to enjoy the movie, we got dragged back to that awful Sam Witwicky storyline. They were trying to depict him as insignificant and tossed by the wayside. I wish they left him that way. But it was darker and the Decepticons were certainly more ruthless. This was an improvement. Megatron actually seemed to have a plan that was typical of his plans from the old cartoon, even if it was a little more grandiose and possibly far-fetched. Perhaps they were so advanced that they were somehow able to eliminate Cybertron's gravitational field? I managed to ignore that in order to maintain my enjoyment of the "plot". I think they're getting closer to having good Transformer movies. I would like to see someone else give it a try, taking some of the elements from these movies that work. The storyline, cast, idiotic characters, and overall tone of the movies are not some of these elements, however!