QUOTE(Vinci777 @ Jun 29 2009, 11:21 AM)
God sake this is not cartoon or animation. They film this movie for worldwide not only for the cartoon fans. So dont except the same storyline as cartoon. Take it as a new dimension or story. If still cant except it and miss the old times transformer, go back to ur store and look for the tapes.
Normal ppl will like the movie. Cartoon fans will have higher expectations because they expect a freaking million dollar investment to a 2 hour movie to give the same storyline like months of 45mins cartoon. I dont even pay high expectations on the likes of dinobots or unicorn etc. I dont think this is gonna happen. The movie has always been related to humans which is why i don't forsee dinobots or unicorn but instead it might be a Reventon decepticons in the future.
MB sux but u still watch TF2 dont u? No matter ur comments is bad or good, u ard put ur money into them. $ is all they want. I bet u're gonna spent it again on TF3 just to see whether it meet ur expectations do u?

Of course I still pay to watch it
The problem is not the storyline. I don't expect to have Unicron storyline or Return of Optimus story line. Just something that makes sense and flows nicely. ROTF doesn't. Even later animations like Robots in Disguise, Armada, Animated all have crappy stories, but they keep the spirit of the original to some extent.
The first movie was ok. If you notice it still deviated from the cartoon, but it was still good enough in terms of plot/action/flow to make it great. But the second movie fails in that they try to amp up the action but sacrifice any semblance of story.
Overall I did enjoy ROTF, but it left me feeling it could've been much more than that. I had no fault with the action CGs, they are very nice. But the whole thing just feels disjointed. You can clearly see the poor directing when a transformer is there in one scene and in the next, he disappears. There is no flow.
But hey, just as you said I'll still pay for TF3 no matter what. If only to see how much more they mess up the franchise