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I just recently saw it and I will admit it was a good movie. Although I think the $300 million or somewhat budget was used mainly for special effects, it blended the CGI and live action scenes rather well. Although every other scene was filled with the name of a company for product placement, HEY they have to earn back that money somehow, to the point where a MOUNTAIN DEW machine gets turned into a Decepticon. But still I didn't follow the Transformers series to close and I still got most of the references.

Have you seen the movie? If so, what do you think?

I haven't seen it, and don't plan to. So there.

I haven't seen it, and don't plan to. So there.

I second that

Saw it...

Good eye candy movie, lots of explosions and military hardware...and slick sports cars.

Plot wise...dare i call it sophmoric humor, ...well...
Just go see the film...turn off your brain and enjoy it.
Thats the best way to have fun with it.

I figure, the fact that it's a modern movie it can't be as fun as the real transformers, and it's got that one disney kid in the commercials as the main character, so I don't want to see it.

I can't turn off my brain. I always have blood rushing into it.

Just turn off the thinking part of it.

LOL. Seriously though, LOL.

Awesome Clip, Foxhound!

Nice clip, anyway, I just got back from seeing it and I have to agree; This movie is mostly eye candy, lots of booms and explosions, oh and fighting robots.

I LOVED that movie.
The comedy is choice. If you can't laugh at it then you're way too stuck up.
Optimus shoves his axe into a decepticon and tears it's head off for christ's sake. It's so BEAUTIFUL.
Yes there's a lot of subliminal advertising, but is it really that bad? I mean jeez if you're so hung up on that that you can't enjoy watching a soda machine turn into a whirling tool of alien devastation then you have issues.
The plot obviously doesn't follow the original storyline. If you expected it to, you're an idiot.
What you might not know is that it actually does follow an obscure part of the story. The All-spark was in part of the story. Something to do with Vector Sigma and Beast Wars.
As for Shia LaBeouf... Hey, he's a good actor. I rather liked him and he fit the roll quite well in my opinion.

My only issue with the movie was that bumblebee was a Camaro instead of a VW Bug. I found out later that VW refused to sponsor the movie, so they couldn't use the Bug for Bumblebee. I guess VW didn't want to sponsor anything having to do with War. *shrug*

I saw the movie twice and all the people I watched it with loved it too. We might go see it again this week. Also, everyone in the theater applauded at the end.
*****
10/10

I have fond memories of the original Transformers cartoon so I went and saw it. Mostly it was good, I enjoyed it. Seriously, if you go to a movie about robots that wage a good/evil war against each other and expect to see a complex intellectual New Wave film about the condition of humanity then you're going to be disappointed.

I liked the whole big government secret angle and how they got modern tech from Megatron. It was rather unbelieveable how the Autobots could hide around the Witwicky house and how his parents told the reporter at the end that there were probably no alien robots when they were fighting IN THE MIDDLE OF A BIG CITY!

Two things - Bumblebee not a VW, that's not kosher. And Optimus's battle axe was great to see.

Seriously, if you go to a movie about robots that wage a good/evil war against each other and expect to see a complex intellectual New Wave film about the condition of humanity then you're going to be disappointed.

Unless that movie is The End of Evangelion.

Ya but that was a seriously messed up ending to a decent series.