Captain Placeholder said:
PurpleLeafRave said:
DEATHROAD said:
I dont think the internet will allow me to be exited for this, but i am one of the supprisingly large group of people who enjoyed the transformers films, having not grown up with the old transformers i found them very entertaining and personally i cant wait for the new one, Let the quote-flaming begin!
This was basically what I was going to say. I haven't seen Revenge of the Fallen, but I loved the first one.
It is good, you should watch it
Straying Bullet said:
I personally enjoyed both movies. I don't suffer from "Nostalgia" or whatever from the old cartoons. I also enjoyed the game "War for Cybertron". Love it!
THANK YOU! God I am so sick and tired of the naysayers with their rose-tinted glasses thinking that Micheal Ruined Transformers. Personally I think the movies are a shit ton better than the crappy cartoon. (Yes it was crap, but a good kind of crap - Like all the old 80's horror films were crap, but good kind.)
See, I'm a huge Transformers fan. I've been collecting them from 1984 when I first saw Optimus Prime and Megatron at Wal-Mart (Conned my mom into buying them both lol) up until today when I bought the last of the powercore Combiners sets I needed (Dinobots) to have them all up until now.
Even as a kid I knew that the cartoon wasn't great, it's fun, but not great. The comics were where it was at (save for a few goofy issue like Bumblebee going to a rock concert). My favorite thing about Transformers is the engineering that goes into making them. Taking a car and making it so that with some twists, snaps and folds and making it into a robot with it's own personality takes a lot of work. Sadly, Bay wanted realism (in a movie about shapeshifting alien robots no less) and make the transformations work the way they would i n the real world.
That took away all the personality from the robots and made them interchangeable. You can't tell Decepticons apart and the only reason Autobots look different is because they aren't all gun metal grey. Seriously, if you don't understand what I mean, spend $10 on Sgt. Kup or Perceptor at TRU and look at the story the robot mode tells. That's what is missing from these movies.
Well that and writers who understand the source material (the writers of the first movie went to us fans at a Transformers site and was asking things like "So are Optimus and Megatron brothers? Why don't they like each other? Who is the yellow good guy?")