Took in a second viewing this morning and was shocked to see the theater about 90% full for an 11:10 a.m. showing.

Overall, I found the film moved faster the second time around. The scene where the Autobots are at Sam's house didn't feel as slow as it did the first time. The battle scenes at the end made a little more sense as I became more familiar with the autobots and decepticons body stylings. It was sort of confusing the first go-around, but not as much this time. I did want Sam to give Mikaela a kiss after she told him she was glad to get into the car with him, and before he went racing to meet the helicopter with the cube on top on the building.

The audience had a good time with the film, just as the audience did on opening night this past Monday. It's going to have some good legs at the box office.

I picked up a Bumblebee figure at Target (already marked down from $20 to $14).

Never watched transformers as a kid, a little before my time so I didn't really have any expectations this, but man what an awful movie. I really liked The Rock and Bad Boys and was hoping it would be at least stupid fun movie, but it was really horrible.

The jokes were moronic. Like something you would find on a fox sitcom. And they kept pushing the jokes, they never stopped trying to be funny to show any sort of emotion or sincerity.

The robots looked like shit, half the time I didn't know if it was a robot I was looking at or part of a building exploding.

The fight scenes lacked any sense of scale. He tried to make them humans and have all the fight scenes be wrestling moves. And because the robots were so shitty I wasn't even sure which part belonged to which robot. Or which one was the good guy and which was the bad.

The music was also shit. It's as if someone made a playlist of the worst bands today and put it over ugly robots wrestling.

I don't think there was one thing I liked about the movie. Even though the cgi was great, it was still for really shitty looking robots. That's like forcing the beatles to play a britney spears song.

I didn't even want to stay for the scenes during the credits. I just wanted to leave and wash out my eyes.

took my 3 nephews and girlfriend to see it today, they loved it. this was my first experience with Transformers as I never really watched the cartoon or read the comicbooks. best fun movie in a long time.

Went to a few stores today...and I can't find a Megatron figure anywhere, Leader, Voyager, Deluxe, or otherwise. The closest I found was this tiny little figure the size of a pencil.

Went with Starscream, though. Pretty cool looking...adds to my (hopefully) eventual collection of Transformers/Lego Star Wars (although right now, said collection consists only of a TIE Destroyer and Starscream :)).

http://www.amazon.com/Transformers-V...3856569&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.com/Hasbro-81110-T...3856569&sr=8-1

This was the stupidest movie Michael Bay's ever done...

Honestly, if you take away the technical aspects: the huge budget, production design, effects, good actors, etc., you'd be left with nothing but an Ed Wood film.

And as bad as they are, even Ed Wood's films have a certain sense of joy that this film will never have.

Now that I realize it's cool to not like this movie...I've decided it's the worst thing I've ever seen.

Mainly looking for the movie version of Megatron, which neither of those look like (although the second one is supposed to).

LOVED IT. It only fell slightly below my expectations, which were pretty damn high. I was a Transformers junkie in the 80's (born in 77), and I think this certainly did them justice. Second best movie of the summer so far. Can't wait for a sequel! Bring on the Dinobots and Insecticons!

OVERALL GRADE: A

Those are the movie versions of Megatron..whether or not they look like him, well thats a judgment call

The first one isn't...it's the classic Megatron.

The second Megatron looks like him, except for the colors and all of that - Megatron didn't have any of that.

Pretty happy with the other figures I've seen, though...will likely end up grabbing them.

Dude.. you sure do have a LIVE FREE DIE HARD Hangover!

I'll add my two cents...

I'm 23, and grew up with things like the TMNT as opposed to Transformers. So I wasn't aware of the characters and all.

But, I actually thought it was a good movie until they all came together and started talking oddly enough. When it was just a yellow transforming car trying to desperately help/save Sam, I was interested. When the many robots got together, started talking, and followed Sam to his house for a 15-20 min long scene, I became dissinterested.

I thought the action and CGI was great, though I agree that I had a hard to figuring out who was fighting who. I also didn't understand the plot...is the whole glasses having a code on them from the cartoon? It just seemed quite random, especially coupled with the eBay plot point.

They also have the rights to the line of toys for a little something called "Star Wars". Maybe you've heard of it? :p


But it was OK to show a Porsche dealership and a Volkswagen Beetle in the movie?

There's a great article about the toys and the history behind them in last month's Wired magazine.

Alright, I concede* it wasn't blatant ad placement but lazy scriptwriting 101. Come on, they couldn't come up with something better than that?

A fly on the wall in the writers room:
Micahel Bay: "our alien race comes to earth looking for a pair of spectacles that are 100 years old. Where do we have them look for it?"
Scriptwriting Intern #1: ummm, how about ebay?
Michael Bay: Genius!

Horrid. That my friends is product placement, not a well crafted plot device. But either way, pick your poison either way you look at it it pulls you out of the movie.

*not really. :)

I like Perry Bible Fellowship's version better, since it came earlier:

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/501...ssemblery7.jpg

This is a must see listing!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Ultimate-Box...ayphotohosting

The Clerks cartoon did it even earlier than that, and funnier too:


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Yeah, thats exactly how movies are made, but ok genius...how would you have gotten the transformers and Sam together? Dumb robot luck? Google Earth? an iPhone?

It really doesn't at all.

Who said they went looking for the specs on Ebay? If the Decepticons are going to go to all the trouble to hack the defense computers then obviously all of the Transformers are going to search the public internet as well.

Whether they were searching the internet for either info about the explorer Witwicki or his next of kin, it would eventually lead to the Ebay page.

They could have had the search lead to the specs being in a museum somewhere but that wouldn't have brought Sam into the picture. Thats where the Ebay thing comes in as a simople and efficient plot device.

The only thing thats not clear is how the Transformers knew about the spectacles and Sam's grandfather in the first place.

Didnt they know of Sam's grandfather because he went 'insane' rambling about a giant ice man? Remember Sam holding up the news article with the Transformer symbols during his school presentation...and then the same article coming up in the defense computers Project Iceman or whatever it was.

Actually, after sitting here and reading ten pages in a row after catching this flick Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning, it seemed the cool thing to do was declare this the "best summer flick evAr!1!11"