> > 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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