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Vadakin	Jun 24 2009, 03:49 PM
Battle Angel Posts: 279 Group: Members Member #2,070 Joined: April 3, 2008	Lebanon James Jun 24 2009, 01:54 PM Quote: Repulsive, obnoxious, idiotic, inane garbage that represents Western filmmaking at its most hollow. It's a damn movie about f***ing robot toys, wtf did you expect Citizen Kane??? What possible more could they do with the storyline. I'm sorry I found the movie purely entertainment, great action and humor. Wtf more could I ask for, especially a movie about Robots that transform. No!!!! No! No No! I will take issue with ANYONE who uses that excuse. Especially on a site that promotes live action anime. What did you expect from Dragonball? Citizen Kane?? It's a fraking story about a monkey boy who fights bug monsters and aliens. See my point? Origin of the source material is NO EXCUSE for bad storytelling. It doesn't matter if Transformers is a line of toys, or if the old cartoon was crap. It doesn't matter if it's giant robots fighting each other. Batman is just a ninja who dresses up as a bat. Ridiculous, right? There can be no depth there... The whole thing about expecting Shakespeare or Citizen Kane doesn't work. What did I expect? Something coherent. Something that was based on a solid script. A movie without juvenile jokes that are as offensive as they are stupid. Without catchphrases that replace characters. Without a plot that serves no purpose other than to break up the action and speaking of which, a movie without action that has no cohesion, no sense of progression and doesn't show motion blur fights rather than giant robot fights. Raiders of the Lost Ark was conceived with Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan sitting around a table coming up with action scenes (I have the transcript, it's awesome). It was the trio coming up with stuff they would love to see in a film...but that brainstorming session also came up with character motivation and development and a coherent plot. The result was one of the most entertaining films ever made that didn't require you to turn your brain off to enjoy. Transformers could have and should have been so much more than mindless action that is as hard to follow as Carmen Sandiego (now that's an adaptation I want to see). Here was Bays chance to make Raiders for the 21st Century. An action adventure film that was intelligent and enjoyable, with the added bonus of having giant robots fighting each other. Instead what he produced was an inane borefest that was nothing more than $200 Million worth of feces on the big screen for 2 and a half hours. Oh and Thrash, after listening to the podcast, technically speaking my review was the first on the site, not yours


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