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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4134454" data-attributes="member: 8863">*resurrect* Not a bad movie.&nbsp;&nbsp; I remember watching the Transformers cartoons when I was a kid, but I have to be honest here.&nbsp; I haven't seen them in like 20 years, and I left the Transformers behind when I hit puberty.&nbsp; Honestly, I sometimes am surprised the toys are still popular.&nbsp; The only ones I remembered were Optimus Prime and Megatron, I pretty much forgot all the rest of the stuff.So I'm almost coming to this movie from the angle of the uninitiated (though I knew damn well when that rig rolled by the crashed Autobot that that would be Prime (and when did Prime get those flames, wasn't he solid red and blue?)).&nbsp; And to be honest, I think it turned out to be a pretty good movie that was born out of an '80's toy line and the cartoon that was pretty much a marketing device for those toys.&nbsp; It could have been way cheesier.&nbsp; The story wasn't too bad, and there were some decent action sequences.&nbsp; Shaky camera doesn't bother me that much, but I'd have to say it's a bad cinematic technique.&nbsp; Sometimes realistic DOESN'T work in a movie, for whatever reason.I do agree that there wasn't enough screen time of the Autobots and too many humans.&nbsp; The Sector 7 crap and the hip-hop hacker in particular felt extraneous.&nbsp; But the scenes with the army guys fighting the Decepticons was pretty good.Did Hasbro think they weren't getting enough of a plug out of an entire movie based on one of thier toy lines?&nbsp; There was that girl with a big stuffed My Little Pony when the one Autobot crashed into the family pool, and the big fight scene in the city had a truck with a Furby on it. The DVD was kind of disappoiting.&nbsp; No special features, cut scenes, theatrical trailers or anything like that.&nbsp; Am I the only one who's getting disappointed by the seemingly increasing lack of material on DVDs these days (are they saving all the stuff for freakin' Blu-Ray?)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 4134454, member: 8863"] *resurrect* Not a bad movie. I remember watching the Transformers cartoons when I was a kid, but I have to be honest here. I haven't seen them in like 20 years, and I left the Transformers behind when I hit puberty. Honestly, I sometimes am surprised the toys are still popular. The only ones I remembered were Optimus Prime and Megatron, I pretty much forgot all the rest of the stuff. So I'm almost coming to this movie from the angle of the uninitiated (though I knew damn well when that rig rolled by the crashed Autobot that that would be Prime (and when did Prime get those flames, wasn't he solid red and blue?)). And to be honest, I think it turned out to be a pretty good movie that was born out of an '80's toy line and the cartoon that was pretty much a marketing device for those toys. It could have been way cheesier. The story wasn't too bad, and there were some decent action sequences. Shaky camera doesn't bother me that much, but I'd have to say it's a bad cinematic technique. Sometimes realistic DOESN'T work in a movie, for whatever reason. I do agree that there wasn't enough screen time of the Autobots and too many humans. The Sector 7 crap and the hip-hop hacker in particular felt extraneous. But the scenes with the army guys fighting the Decepticons was pretty good. Did Hasbro think they weren't getting enough of a plug out of an entire movie based on one of thier toy lines? There was that girl with a big stuffed My Little Pony when the one Autobot crashed into the family pool, and the big fight scene in the city had a truck with a Furby on it. The DVD was kind of disappoiting. No special features, cut scenes, theatrical trailers or anything like that. Am I the only one who's getting disappointed by the seemingly increasing lack of material on DVDs these days (are they saving all the stuff for freakin' Blu-Ray?) [/QUOTE]

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