Things I hated :
- Starscream was wasted. Period. He's literally more robot cannon fodder.
- Megatron doesn't appear till the final parts & is underutilized. His Machiavellian goodness is nonexistent thru most of the film.
- The Autobots spend their time doing Keystone Cop impressions at Spike's house. Fucking pathetic.
- Optimus LEAVES BEHIND one of his soldiers w\o so much as a struggle. He also proceeds to engage the Decepticons in a heavily populated area, laying waste to numerous buildings & killing fuck knows how many folks. He also apparently forgets about the last fight till he comes rolling in to save the day (not really, he gets beat down severely by Megatron). Optimus is supposed be Megatron's martial equal. Here, he's portrayed as nothing more than a lucky pile of scrap who's got a martyr complex.
- When running away from a giant metal killing machine, always use the most convoluted, idiotic escape routes, like going to the top of a building to be picked up by choppers the likes of which have been swatted out of the sky like flies by the OTHER giant metal killing machines. Cos they'll like, be safe.
- Jazz talks like a punk ten-year old ghetto boy.
- When Spike casually slips in the phrase "more than meets the eye" to try & hit on that one chick, I cringed.
- Devastator was a fucking tank. Come on, if you use him, at least make it some construction equipment or just make him Blitzwing or some other ALREADY EXISTING TANK in the mythos. Don't take the premiere combiner & piss him away.
- Most of the transformers were just there to get killed. But since you don't get to know any of them, you won't care.
- The Decepticons have little to no personality. This is due to Megatron not appearing till late, Starscream not acting like Starscream, & the lack of dialogue between the two. There's no Soundwave, either.
- For a period of time, Bumblebee can't speak except thru what are apparently radio/mp3/musical/movie quote soundbytes. Gets old after about 0.12346785 seconds.
- You fuckers just leveled a substantial portion of a fucking city, causing MILLIONS of dollars in damage & killing dozens, if not hundreds. No one will like you after this.
- Are there just not any Decepticons left except the ones in the flick? If you'd been fighting a war for years on end & had the chance to get the one item that could win it all, wouldn't you send more than half a dozen troops to scour a planet for it? Hell, the same planet where your great, kick-ass, bad-ass to end all bad-ass giant killer robot leaders was MIA for a few decades?
Any other things that bugged me, I'll post them here.
Edited By Malcolm on 1183480057
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There WERE more Decepticons. At the end during the credits they showed Starscream leaving the planet.
I did like how they merged "normal" dialog with the humans with the same stupid cheesy dialog from the cartoons when the Autobots were talking. That was an interesting thing.
She made it worth seeing.
I did like how they merged "normal" dialog with the humans with the same stupid cheesy dialog from the cartoons when the Autobots were talking. That was an interesting thing.
She made it worth seeing.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
By that time, we were making our way to the door & to his place for an already-in-progress booze up to wash away the pain. Just the thought of another of these films makes me sobre.Vince wrote:There WERE more Decepticons. At the end during the credits they showed Starscream leaving the planet.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
The thing I hated most was the "let's take the cube to the city where we can kill as many innocent bystandards as possible!" wth? If you want to have a CGI war in the city, fine, but come up with a reasonable reason to get there. That was utterly stupid.
Edited By TPRJones on 1183845635
Edited By TPRJones on 1183845635
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Indeed. Singularly un-Prime-like.TPRJones wrote:The thing I hated most was the "let's take the cube to the city where we can kill as many innocent bystandards as possible!" wth? If you want to have a CGI war in the city, fine, but come up with a reasonable reason to get there. That was utterly stupid.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Ok, so we just had a huge giant-robot battle in the middle of L.A. (?) then at the end we are going to dump the wreckage int he ocean so their existance can't be proven? Wah?
Must have been President "Can you russle me up some King Dongs, darlin" with the oddly familiar Texas accent that I haven't quite placed yet's idea.
Must have been President "Can you russle me up some King Dongs, darlin" with the oddly familiar Texas accent that I haven't quite placed yet's idea.
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