Quote Originally Posted by Shirokaze View Post
Really surprised to come on here and see such positive reactions.

I thought as a movie is was barely watchable. Kept checking my phone to see when it would end Maybe I'm too cynical.
Likewise. It was exactly what I was expecting and that isn't a compliment.


The thing that irritated me the most is the whole film felt like a bunch of scenes just slapped together. There was not much in the way of smooth flow from one part to the next. Jumping around China, driving in the city and then suddenly in the desert. The Autobots skiing down mountains yelling "Yay! Prime's here" Where did they come from? Jumping all over the mountains like that is a good way to bring attention to your area.

  • Prime has some serious issues with revenge and wanting to kill everything, so at least that's consistent with ROTF onwards Prime. Corsswise wasn't very Autobot like at all, wanting to fight Bee and be leader. Wha? Did I miss something?

    Other bits:
  • Lockdown was cool and I liked that he even had a hook hand every now and then although I was never very fond of his human looking face. Drift's freaked me out the most though!
  • What's this "Legend" Prime suddenly blurts out?
  • Why does Lockdown have a huge vacuum thing in the bottom of his spaceship and why does he turn it on so early and just float around the city?
  • Why was the movie so frigging long?
  • There was so much extra fluff and things that could have been cut or replaced with something relevant that it made it rather hard to enjoy.


Sure the set up for following movies has lots of possibilities (Quintessons, Unicron and much more) but anything that will be done will just be a half assed mess of turd like this movie.

Rather unexpectedly the first two thirds of the movie wasn't bad and I was enjoying it. Then the last part comes along and it's just a mess of poo that ruins the enjoyment I previously had.

Could those Earth Decepticons be called G2?

This just goes to show that Bay still has little idea of how to direct a good movie. I certainly won't see it in theatres again and will only buy the bluray if ridiculously cheap. Then I don't think I'd watch it for a while anyway

In the end, it wasn't bad. But it certainly wasn't good.