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<blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3630858" data-attributes="member: 4936">I have to agree. In fact, I have to go farther.My big beefs are as follows:1) For an &quot;action movie,&quot; there sure wasn't much action. You have to wait nearly -half the movie- before you get your first really good fight. What do they spend all this time on? Setting up characters? No. They spend it pointlessly teasing us with the &quot;mystery&quot; of what's going on. I promise Mr. Bay...NO ONE who sees this movie will -for one second- not know what's going on. The movie would have been a lot better (not saying much) if it had started out with the Transformers already on Earth (all of the Transformers, I mean), and the opening scenes were used to establish MUCH NEEDED characterizations.2) When the action started, you couldn't SEE it. Most of the time the camera was either so shaky, or so close to the scene that the frame simply wasn't big enough to show more than...a leg whizzing by, or a momentary glimpse of a torso. 3) Only the Autobots got any noncombat screen time, and what time THEY got was HORRIBLE! 30' robots -sneaking around the kid's house so as not to get caught?- While muttering complaints. Making -pee jokes-. I just...gah! It was as if Bay watched the TV show and said, &quot;Well, these robots are cool and all, but we need to DUMB IT DOWN a bit.&quot;Etc etc...I could go on for ages.And, like Spiderman 3, what really hurts is that this movie was maybe 2 rewrites (Admittedly, rather drastic ones) away from being a passable, even good movie! If the scriptwriter had just stuck to his guns, picked a focus and went with it...if he'd been able to write decent dialogue and didn't get hobbled with demands to make the Autobots act like frathouse goons, and to completely ignore the Decepticons... If Bay knew how to frame shots and spread the budget more evenly between beginning and end (CGI wise that is)... If if if.But they didn't. And it isn't.Mew.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shayuri, post: 3630858, member: 4936"] I have to agree. In fact, I have to go farther. My big beefs are as follows: 1) For an "action movie," there sure wasn't much action. You have to wait nearly -half the movie- before you get your first really good fight. What do they spend all this time on? Setting up characters? No. They spend it pointlessly teasing us with the "mystery" of what's going on. I promise Mr. Bay...NO ONE who sees this movie will -for one second- not know what's going on. The movie would have been a lot better (not saying much) if it had started out with the Transformers already on Earth (all of the Transformers, I mean), and the opening scenes were used to establish MUCH NEEDED characterizations. 2) When the action started, you couldn't SEE it. Most of the time the camera was either so shaky, or so close to the scene that the frame simply wasn't big enough to show more than...a leg whizzing by, or a momentary glimpse of a torso. 3) Only the Autobots got any noncombat screen time, and what time THEY got was HORRIBLE! 30' robots -sneaking around the kid's house so as not to get caught?- While muttering complaints. Making -pee jokes-. I just...gah! It was as if Bay watched the TV show and said, "Well, these robots are cool and all, but we need to DUMB IT DOWN a bit." Etc etc...I could go on for ages. And, like Spiderman 3, what really hurts is that this movie was maybe 2 rewrites (Admittedly, rather drastic ones) away from being a passable, even good movie! If the scriptwriter had just stuck to his guns, picked a focus and went with it...if he'd been able to write decent dialogue and didn't get hobbled with demands to make the Autobots act like frathouse goons, and to completely ignore the Decepticons... If Bay knew how to frame shots and spread the budget more evenly between beginning and end (CGI wise that is)... If if if. But they didn't. And it isn't. Mew. [/QUOTE]

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