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archbrix on 18 February 2022
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TruckOSaurus said:
archbrix said:

It was the intro of the first movie that impressed me initially.  I really enjoyed the entire base attack at the beginning, up until that part ends and we get to the classroom scene when we realize that the script sucks.  But except for the stupid fart joke with the baby, that battle sequence made me feel like a kid again while watching.  The Scorponok fight is similar for me:  Great scene, marred by that stupid credit card joke part, which could've been funny... but wasn't.

My thoughts were:  Terrific battles and transformations... even the story itself wasn't bad (it's a sci-fi movie based on a kid's toy, what do ya expect).  They just need to ixnay the Jar-Jar Binx moments and fix the script for the next movie, but unfortunately, Transformers 2 embraced all of the bullshit and ended the chances for this series to be taken seriously as good entertainment.

Here's hoping that the new trilogy is better like Bumblebee was, but I have my doubts.

Personally, I had problems with the transformations. Apart from Optimus Prime, most robot forms don't look like the vehicle they transform into. Starscream had a yellow cockpit on his chest, wings in the back, red and blue on his chest and legs in the comics. In the movie, he's a grey hunk of metal that through the magic of CGI transforms into a jet.

Yeah, I get that.  Personally, I love the original designs of the 80's and the transformations in the cartoon looked more like the way the toys articulated.  The animated movie looked particularly good; I still love the scene where Unicron transforms to this day.

In a real world setting though, those boxy designs wouldn't translate well to a real-life setting, so they went for how alien robots might look, I guess.  I agree though that, except for a couple of them (Prime and Bumblebee), they looked kinda generic, and some just sucked, like Frenzy.  I do like the way the material they were made out of looked - not like metal exactly but some kind of "alien" looking alloy. 

However, I was thoroughly impressed by many of the transformations themselves - so many moving parts.  The first transformation of Prime on the street is great and the way he and Bonecrusher transform at high speed in that battle on the highway was amazing.