Well, I just saw Transformers last night... I'd like now to repost the statement I made about it in the TF group.

Why? Because venting my anger makes me feel better... that's why!

+ about ten million!

Guy come on... put an ice pack on your fanboy hard-ons and actually THINK about this movie for a second!

Yes the FX are brilliant... The use of the military had some major plus points... I even though the cast was pretty good... But for the love of Prime the plot!!

I can just imagine how the writers must have talked when putting this abomination together:

Writer 1: OK. We can put another cliche in here, here and a couple more here for good measure. Should we do some character development?

Writer 2: Oh who needs it.

Writer: What about plot development then?

Producer: Hold on there son! We don't want this thing to look intelligent, now do we?

Seriously: The Transformers were hardly even in the film. It was ALL about Sam form beginning to end. The redesign of the TF's was pretty awful (Except Jazz... he looked pretty cool. A total Appleseed rip off.... but pretty cool). There was NO character development at all. The plot was so pathetic I truly believe a child could do better. The whole part abut hacking the signal was useless rubbish and shouldn't have been there. The idea about Megatron being frozen in ice for thousands of years... No. That he was the basis for our advanced technology... give me a break! To reverse engineer anything means taking the original apart... If that were the case old Megs would have been sprawled over the whole site in about a trillion little pieces. And then... the crown jewel here... at the end of the movie: The military successfully cover it all up!! I nearly cried... I mean these giant robots destroy half a fucking city, kill dozens of people in the process, and their going to pretend it never happened? BULLSHIT! That goes beyond suspension of disbelief into the realm of the ridiculous!

wow it feels good to vent all this....

If there is one thing I always hate in movies it is wasted potential. This film was nothing BUT wasted potential. Done properly the Transformers movie could have been the next Bladerunner... the next 2001... the next STAR WARS! (original not the shitty perequels). Instead we get this... This pathetic fucking joke of a film.

the more I think about it the angrier I get. I know I'm a G1 fanboy... But I also recognize the multitude of mistakes G1 has in it. It still suprases this movies sad excuse for a plot line however. I'll just end with a quote I last used to describe the afore mentioned star wars prequels:

"It is all light and sound, signifying nothing."