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Jul. 6th, 2007 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kat8chaSo. Transformers.
I give it 2 1/2 stars.
The robots? Wicked. I really enjoyed them. I liked the sequences when they changed from cars to robots as well. And the battle scenes were pretty cool, though at some points I wished the camera wouldn't swing around quite so much.
They didn't kill the guy I was worried about them killing. Yay!
And they get serious thumbs up for having one of the robots speak only in bits and pieces of radio jargon through the movie. That was a nice touch. It would have been cool if that was how all the robots, or at least the Opticons, communicated, but it was not to be.
However, they lose points in a lot of other places. They obviously had no idea what they were talking about with hacking, or military lingo, or .... a lot of things. I took a computer geek to see this movie and she was like 'you can't do that' every time they made up shit about computers. They incorporated DDR and had no idea how to play it, or what they were talking about.
There were a few characters who served no point and could have been better put to use. The female character, whose name I can't remember, slips into the main character's car and spills all of her 'I have low self esteem' secrets. She doesn't even remember that the kid goes to school with her and she's asking 'do you think I'm shallow' and talking about how she likes guys with 'big arms'.
Shia LeBouf gives a 2-dimensional preformance, but that's because his character has no depth. He comes across as a flat cardboard cut out teen boy, who at some point develops amazing courage. The adults are either idiots, incompetant, assholes, or in the army. The secretary of defense? Cool. The army dudes? Cool. And hot. The hackers Fairly pointless. And the others? Needed to die.
There was MAJOR casualties going on there. Nothing we really saw, but cars were destroyed all over the place, and then at one point the Opticons and Deceptacons were battling in a city and buildings were being crashed through. A lot of property damage was also delivered.
Plot holes the size of WHALES at some points. And I'm still not sure whether the Deceptacons wanted to kill off humanity, or were going to enslave them. At one point there is a deceptacon with the statement 'enslave and punish' on it, and at another the deceptacon offers Shia the option of giving up the *very important object* and being his pet, or dying. Personally I think that could have been done better. Shia's character, while it stated that he had displayed courage, didn't really take a HUGE stand. He spent most of the movie relying on being saved and on someone being there to back him up.
The girl character, who was also poorly developed, had a little more depth. And she liked cars, despite being a hot chick who liked football boys. Shia didn't really fit into any definable 'clique'.
I would have enjoyed the movie a lot more if I was at home with a bowl of popcorn and iced tea instead of sitting in a movie theatre watching it.
Rent it on DVD, watch it on cable, but unless you've got a couple kids who are DYING to see this movie and don't want to go see Rattatoille or something.. or if you want to see the transformation's and fights on the widescreen. Migraine inducing, but pretty impressive.
I give it 2 1/2 stars.
The robots? Wicked. I really enjoyed them. I liked the sequences when they changed from cars to robots as well. And the battle scenes were pretty cool, though at some points I wished the camera wouldn't swing around quite so much.
They didn't kill the guy I was worried about them killing. Yay!
And they get serious thumbs up for having one of the robots speak only in bits and pieces of radio jargon through the movie. That was a nice touch. It would have been cool if that was how all the robots, or at least the Opticons, communicated, but it was not to be.
However, they lose points in a lot of other places. They obviously had no idea what they were talking about with hacking, or military lingo, or .... a lot of things. I took a computer geek to see this movie and she was like 'you can't do that' every time they made up shit about computers. They incorporated DDR and had no idea how to play it, or what they were talking about.
There were a few characters who served no point and could have been better put to use. The female character, whose name I can't remember, slips into the main character's car and spills all of her 'I have low self esteem' secrets. She doesn't even remember that the kid goes to school with her and she's asking 'do you think I'm shallow' and talking about how she likes guys with 'big arms'.
Shia LeBouf gives a 2-dimensional preformance, but that's because his character has no depth. He comes across as a flat cardboard cut out teen boy, who at some point develops amazing courage. The adults are either idiots, incompetant, assholes, or in the army. The secretary of defense? Cool. The army dudes? Cool. And hot. The hackers Fairly pointless. And the others? Needed to die.
There was MAJOR casualties going on there. Nothing we really saw, but cars were destroyed all over the place, and then at one point the Opticons and Deceptacons were battling in a city and buildings were being crashed through. A lot of property damage was also delivered.
Plot holes the size of WHALES at some points. And I'm still not sure whether the Deceptacons wanted to kill off humanity, or were going to enslave them. At one point there is a deceptacon with the statement 'enslave and punish' on it, and at another the deceptacon offers Shia the option of giving up the *very important object* and being his pet, or dying. Personally I think that could have been done better. Shia's character, while it stated that he had displayed courage, didn't really take a HUGE stand. He spent most of the movie relying on being saved and on someone being there to back him up.
The girl character, who was also poorly developed, had a little more depth. And she liked cars, despite being a hot chick who liked football boys. Shia didn't really fit into any definable 'clique'.
I would have enjoyed the movie a lot more if I was at home with a bowl of popcorn and iced tea instead of sitting in a movie theatre watching it.
Rent it on DVD, watch it on cable, but unless you've got a couple kids who are DYING to see this movie and don't want to go see Rattatoille or something.. or if you want to see the transformation's and fights on the widescreen. Migraine inducing, but pretty impressive.
