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 Transformers :: 0847829642
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| "I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot. Who knew?" deadpans Sam Witwicky, hero and human heart of Michael Bay's rollicking robot-smackdown fest, Transformers. Witwicky (the sweetly nerdy Shia LaBeouf, channeling a young John Cusack) is the perfect counterpoint to the nearly nonstop exhilarating action. The plot is simple: an alien civil war (the Autobots vs. the evil Decepticons) has spilled onto Earth, and young Sam is caught in the fray by his newly purchased souped-up Camaro. Which has a mind--and identity, as a noble-warrior robot named Bumblebee--of its own. The effects, especially the mind-blowing transformations of the robots into their earthly forms and back again, are stellar. Fans of the earlier film and TV series will be thrilled at this cutting-edge incarnation, but this version should please all fans of high-adrenaline action. Director Bay gleefully salts the movie with homages to pop-culture touchstones like Raiders of the Lost Ark, King Kong, and the early technothriller WarGames. The actors, though clearly all supporting those kickass robots, are uniformly on-target, including the dashing Josh Duhamel as a U.S. Army sergeant fighting an enemy he never anticipated; Jon Voight, as a tough yet sympathetic Secretary of Defense in over his head; and John Turturro, whose special agent manages to be confidently unctuous, even stripped to his undies. But the film belongs to Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and the dastardly Megatron--and the wicked stunts they collide in all over the globe. Long live Transformers! --A.T. Hurley More Than Meets the Eye
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Author: Guest
Transformers was a movie with some interesting special effects and CGI, but the script was pretty boring and I never felt like I could really sympathize with the characters because they seemed so driven by a plot. A lot of the characters were also "types" instead of feeling very real. It had an interesting 80's feel to everything though, and that was kind of fun.
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Author: Guest
Terrible constructed story and a real missed opportunity. Did not show off any of the beauties of the mythology and just became another dime a dozen blockbuster. This film had the resources in story line and mythos to be the next star wars. Whilst the effects were amazing and some of the best I have ever seen, none of it amounts to a hill of beans when the rest of the films components are just embarrassingly awful. Both stars given are just for effects only.
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Author: Guest
This HD-DVD/Blu-Ray thing is getting out of hand. I didn't care who won, but it was nice to see that one side was closing the market and thus ending the war. However Paramount decided to prolong the absurd and go exclusive. If you are a Blu-Ray supporter, don't fret. You'll be able to import this movie on Blu-Ray (right now South Korea looks like the best bet for a region 1 copy) or just wait until this "exclusive" deal runs out. This contract is only good for 18 months which we are almost two months into (funny how that's not talked about huh?). You may have to work or be paitent to get this on Blu-Ray, but it will be possible.
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Author: Guest
To start with, I'm also a child of the 80's, but not obsessive about that particular decade's culture. I grew up watching and playing with transformers but did not commit to memory every detail of every character. That said, there are obvious discrepencies with the storyline (for more information, read the 1 star reviews). Keep in mind the rating of this film, though, and remember that this movie was created with today's teenagers in mind. We children of the 80's are no longer teenagers and our nostalgia for the greatness of the original transformers is not the governing power in the screenplay. However, with movies turned out by the dozens with cheap effects, bad acting, bad writing, and gratuitious sex and nudity, I wanted to see what Transformers could offer the big screen. I was very pleasantly surprised. The CG was amazing and the writing thoughtful and original. For pure entertainment purposes this is a true winner for anyone who can enjoy an old story with a new twist.
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Author: Guest
i enjoyed this film when i first saw some desgins on the net i was a bit nervours on how they would look on screen starscream for on very big and bulky but once i saw the film starscream turned out better than ever would have liked it if he had more screan time with megatron and others.
transformers has made it big into therters it has made a Domestic Total of $311,389,000 and
harry potter order of the phoenix Domestic Total $288,240,000 so i for one liked transformers more than harry potter and all the other summer film either transformers made more or less money at the boxoffice or not i realy like how prime has got an upgradeed look to his vehicle mode as well gives him attitude once i saw his truck mode hit the net i liked it from the start i had no problems with the flames or any of the other bots once ive seen them in action on the big screen.
this film was alot of fun for me i saw this 5 times allready and plan on seeing it again as for the dvd release i expected more where are the bloopers, dleted scenes, the that prequel scene i heard one of theactors talk about in the interview to show in movie format how bumblebee got his voice box damaged in battle on planet cybertron wheres that scene none of those are included on the dvds what so ever ill be getting teh set but i will alos be waiting for another and version of the dvd release to be out with pleanty of more speacial features along the way.?
dvd cases are ok looking not that impressed with it like the single disc version cover more than the 2 disc version to compare dvd with hddvd to me i dont see a big differnce between the 2 dvds hddvd has brighter picture thats the only thing that stands out for me in the hddvd but the sound in hddvd i cant tell the differnce between the original dvd and the hddvd both dvds sond the same to me when i compare the sound, music, and the explsions and for hddvd ,bluray dvds the menus are nice but the dvds feels like im buying a game and not a movie some bonus matrial with hd and bluray only avaliable online to download feels like i own and xbox360 or the Wii play the game get extra boards, characters by downloading off the net and spending game pionts i dont want to watch a movie with little windows popping up every where with the making of this scene, comentary on that scene while im watching the film itself feels like im on the net watching a movie with popups every where.
for the sequel i cant wait for dont what bay has wants to do for the sequel but if megatron does comback somehow he should be named galvatron i really like how ilm created the robots and the transformations as well ginat robots that looked the animated series woulld be boring the the robots look in this version of transformers robots look more realistic and menacing looking.
if i didnt say it before ill be very pleased if they release another version of this to dvd with much more features extended scenes, bloopers, maybe prequel scene with bumblee on planet cubertron if that was true, bios, a little idea what to expect in the sequel maybe if possible.
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