Gaffer Tape said:skyjedi2005 said:They have a lot to prove since these guys wrote the awful script for Transformers. Bayformers as it is now called by its haters. That was a good popcorn flick but raped its source material i hope the same is not done here.
I grew up with and loved Transformers myself, but I gotta call this into question, sky. I admit I haven't seen the whole of the new movie, but I have seen parts of it. And I have heard quite a bit of people saying it didn't respect the source material. But that's never really bothered me too much. Because, honestly, how much serious respect can you give the original cartoon knowing that it only existed to promote a line of action figures?
Some friends and I just tried watching Transformers on Blu-ray this past weekend. At first we started it and let it play. Then we started skipping to the action scenes. Then we just flat out turned it off. Every couple of minutes, even during the action scenes, we found ourselves saying how lame it was. From the Autobots transforming into cars on the guys lawn to the 10 min travel time from LA to Vegas, it's just aweful.
The first time through the movie was just alright. It has some good action scenes in the beginning, but even there we had to look past that lame things (like the unauthorized vehicle actually landing at a military base in a war zone). Each subsequent viewing gets worse.