> Michael Bay has made a film on par with Uwe Boll's in the name of the king imo.
> I think in all truth many episodes of the cartoon, a show made only to sell
> toys, made A LOT more sense. Compared to this, the animated film looks like
> Citizen Kane.
>
> It starts off awful, and just keeps digging. You have a robot with a beard, a
> robot get choked, robots spray out red fluids like blood repeatedly, people
> climbing up buildings just to jump off with flying squirrel suits for no other
> reason than just to do that... In fact, there are so many set pieces in the film
> (guys come up out of water with guns, monster hiding behind column so you stay
> quiet, guy looks at girl while describing curves on a car, guys in plane watch
> as others around them get shot down, and on and on) that it almost seems like a
> montage taken from lots of other movies or perhaps a failed parody.
>
> They actually have Leonard Nimoy paraphrase one of his most famous lines from
> Star Trek, but just flip it around since he's evil! Who writes like that? I
> didn't actually see him twiddle his mustache (which he totally has) but it
> wouldn't have been out of place in this wreck of a film.
>
> There are no likeable characters in the entire film. Not one. Take Optimus
> Prime; he's either ripping off King Leonidas (slow-mo sword attack and all) or a
> gigantic retard, at one point getting tangled up in wires and requiring others
> to cut him down like a stuck kite. He does something stupid or wrong nearly half
> the time he is on screen, and spouts gems like "Mankind have given up on the
> autobots, but you must never give up on yourselves."
>
> The cincher has to be when Optimus Prime, hero of our childhood, shooting an
> unarmed, injured, elderly opponent point blank in the back of the head, then
> TURNS HIM over so he can point blank shoot him in the face then stand proudly in
> front of a ruined cityscape with an American flag waving in the background. It's
> like a scene from Team America with robots.
>
> Just such a bad, bad, bad, bad film...
>

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