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Message: <blockquote data-quote="horacethegrey" data-source="post: 3567315" data-attributes="member: 40123">Just watched that on youtube. Have to admit, it's a very good scene. And eons better than any robot fight the original cartoon could ever muster up. Optimus looks and feels like a semi in humanoid form tearing up the highway with those huge feet of his. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Anyway, just wanted to post about my feelings for this film. First off, I don't like Michael Bay. I find him an overrated hack who gets too much praise that I feel is undeserving. I also find his arrogance and disdainful attitude towards movie critics abhorrent. Second, I'm not a diehard Transformers geek. While I liked the cartoon when I was a wee youngin, I find it pure torture watching it today. The dialogue is horrid, the characters laughable (with a few exceptions, Optimus being one of them), and some of the most cheesy stories that I've seen in a cartoon. Sorry, but there's no nostalgia that clouds my vision when watching this show. The original toys are still cool though in my book.That said, I'll now state that I wait for this new film with great anticipation. Those new designs threw me off at first, but since then they've started to grow on me. And I can appreciate how utterly alien they are, which I think was the intention in their design. I also want to say how happy I am for Peter Cullen in returning as Optimus Prime. Not for any fanboy nostalgia, but because I think he's an amazing voice actor and deserves all this renewed success (I find it touching that in recent interviews when he says how very grateful he is for all the fan support). Yet despite that, I'm going to have to share in the cautious optimism with the rest of you here. This is probably the most hyped movie of the summer, so while I do wish for it's success, the involvement of Bay makes me feel we should steel ourselves for a massive disappointment. It's nothing new when a big film fails to live up to all the hype surrounding it (*cough*Spider-Man 3*cough*). Let's just hope my fears are proven wrong come June 30th.</blockquote>

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