Posted on Monday, July 02, 2007 by Father McFeely
This is to any critic who may have bashed Michael Bay for Transformers... GET A NEW JOB cause you suck.
Now on to the review!
I am not going to provide any spoilers to this movie as I believe it needs to be enjoyed by the audience member.
We got to the theater today for the 8:30 pm PST showing of TRANSFORMERS the Movie an hour early, and half the theater was full already. The anticipation for this event was insane, everyone was just so damn eager to see this movie. This was a movie based on the toys and cartoons which shaped many of our young lives and there was a lot riding on it. If it was great it was going to be FACKING AMAZING, but if it wasn't great it was going to suck and suck hard.
After waiting for an hour the lights dimmed, there was a hush over the crowd, then the longest damn commercial package anyone had ever seen started playing. It was just teasing us, making us wait, it wasn't going to just give up the goods until we were in a relationship.... so we lied to it and it finally gave up the goods and oh it was soooo sweet.
Right from the get go I knew this movie as going to be GREAT! It started off with the attack on the army base in the middle of the desert, the one from the preview with where the helicopter lands and then lays waste. From that point on I was hooked and begging for more.
This movie delivered on so many fronts, the action was amazing, the CG was out of this world, a story that will forever be part of my life and it had great moments of comedic genius. To top it off there were some amazingly beautiful women in this movie, Megan Fox, and here is Megan Fox in a few other maxim shots, I would sell my best friend on the black market if you asked me to and Rachel Taylor you made geeks everyone go to fantasy land thinking you just might be in their class one day.
For anyone who thought the robots themselves may be poorly done, this is not the case. The crew at ILM did not only met my very high expectations but far exceeded them. The movement was fluid, the transforming reminded me of what being a kid was like again, and to top it off they were able to emote like any other actor on the screen.
Mr. Bay, if you somehow ever stumble upon this blog please know your movie changed my life. I will for the rest of time be using this movie as my new meter stick. I've seen most of the other "SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS" and sir yours made them drop to their knees and ask who's turn it is next ... if you catch my drift ;). Spider Man 3 was OK, it wasn't great but it was far from bad. Pirates 3 ... as my friend put it, he wouldn't use his own bandwidth to pirate this movie. Shrek 3, sure you were cute and animated but it could always be better. Fantastic Four, once again OK but not great. At no point in any of those movies did the entire audience stand and show their appreciation for being completely entertained. Mr. Bay your movie did something no other movie I've every seen do, and that was make the entire audience stand up, clap, cheer and roar to show just how great the performance was. I wish the actors could've heard it. There were two showings of the movie in our town and I had friends in the other and he said the same thing happened in there also.
This movie grabbed my attention, no scratch that it demanded my attention and I fully gave it for the entire length of the movie. Transformers destroyed my out of 10 scale, the only way I can rate this movie is by saying I will pay money to go see it again at the theaters. I've only ever done that once before and it was for Armageddon, and in case you didn't know that was also a Michael Bay movie.
If you haven't seen this movie, go see it. If you are a critic who ragged on this movie, please do not hesitate to have your friend or one of your co-workers come kick you in the junk so you remember what a complete and utter mistake feels like.
This movie couldn't have been casted better, all these actors and actresses made magic on the screen. Go and get to know them all!:
Shia LaBeouf - Sam Witwicky
Megan Fox - Mikaela Banes
Peter Cullen - Optimus Prime
Josh Duhamel - Sergeant Lennox
Tyrese Gibons - USAF Tech Sergeant Epps
Rachel Taylor - Maggie Madsen
Anthony Anderson - Glen Whitmann
Jon Voight - Defense Secretary John Keller
John Turturro - Agent Simmons
Labels: Movies, Reviews, Transformers
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