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User Reviews for: Transformers

dahj
CONTAINS SPOILERS7/10  2 years ago
This was one of the favorite movies of my childhood. Due to it I still want to drive a Chevrolet Camaro one day (just renting one for a day or so) xD
I love cars, CGI, artificial intelligence (AGIs), etc. (and of course I don't mind the action :D).

So this movie was a perfect fit for me and those transformations are very cool to watch :)

Anyway, I re-watched this after quite a few years and realized that the films (at least this one) weren't as good as I remembered them :o :D It wasn't that bad but in my memory they were just much better. There are a lot of strange/weird/silly/cheesy scenes so it's hard to take things even remotely serious (plus it is kinda embarrassing to watch at times). They're cool to watch (e.g., due to the action) but the story certainly isn't as good as it could be. And for me it's just annoying and silly that Bumblebee cannot speak. The Transformers are technologically super advanced, even we humans have text-to-speech / voice synthesis technology (although that technology probably was very basic/experimental at the time of this movie), and yet Bumble be doesn't find a better way than switching between radio channels for communication (which wouldn't work well at all and require that he can simultaneously listen to all radio channels). He could simply use any speaker directly... (or generate a radio signal for his synthetic voice if he really wants to use a radio as speaker).

Back then I wondered how they could loose Megan Fox and later Shia LaBeouf from such a well known and high-budget franchise but the lack of a good story might explain that (just a speculation though, I never researched what really happened).

Anyway, the voice of Optimus Prime is still epic! <3 (that always was one of the coolest parts, especially his monologues)

Oh, and there's that awesome soundtrack of course! <3 Steve Jablonsky's "Arrival To Earth" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_FHPJIhNBw) is just superb :)

Edit: I just found a nice quote on YouTube: "Transformers will always have a place in my heart".

PS: In hindsight I wonder if I found Megan Fox that hot :D IIRC I did at that time but now I don't find her that attractive anymore (sure, she looks good, but nothing special). I like Maggie Madsen (that young DoD data analyst recruit) much more now. Rachel Taylor's Australian accent is just so cool :)
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