QUOTE(n00b13 @ Jun 30 2009, 12:46 PM)
<sigh> Please stop justifying the movie's weaknesses with the supplementary novels and comics. A movie needs to stand on its own. You want to spend your money on the extra junk, go ahead - the rest of us have every right to complain if our RM12 gives us an unsatisfying experience.
dude this movie is based on a extensive literature that spans over comic books,novels and also cartoon series, hey werent you the guy that said the humans have no role in the G1 series? what,now you are changing camps all of a sudden? just because i could justify it with facts with past work and you cant,that doesnt warrant you to say im spending money on junk. Some of us actually spend our money on toys,comics and novels because we are true blue fans how does it make em junk? The movie has obvious references on the past literature,you just need to know where to look, its not like a story that came up from some random writer's head to stand on its own. Its based on a franchise that has been around for years of course it has to relate to that and it did in many instances. What do you mean the "rest of us" if i were to do a calculation of the number of positive comments and negative comments of this movie,your "us" is just but a small number.
hmm wait to make my comments above more stingging i'll show you how you flip flops in your commentary.
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I mentioned this in my review on my blog, but I'm raising it here, just to see what you guys think.
This is not a Transformers movie.
Remember Transformers? G1, or Beast Wars, or Armada, or any of the cartoons? Who were the characters? The robots. Who were the heroes? Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Ratchet, etc. Who were the villains? Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave, etc.
Who's the hero of this movie? Shia LaBeouf. Who is Bumblebee? He's the hero's car. Who is Megatron? Second fiddle to another robot. Who is Starscream? A robot who has a little more screen time than the others. Who is Optimus Prime? A hunk of metal for LaBeouf to stick a Plot Device into.
The robots are not characters. They're MacGuffins.
So no, this is not a Transformers movie. This is a Shia-LaBeouf-Megan-Fox-and-some-giant-robots movie.
And because I realized this, I managed to enjoy it.
wow you gotta wonder werent those past literature? arent those junk too? first you base your comments on a past work and say its not the same now you say its junk and irrelevant,wow you can really change your stance that fast.
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I enjoyed the movie despite itself. I recognize the fact that most of what it aimed for simply didn't work.
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I'm already feeling kinda ashamed for liking it.
hmm you like it but you dont like it now,flip flop again.
This post has been edited by nimrod323: Jun 30 2009, 01:29 PM