TruckOSaurus said:
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.