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I grew up watching the Transformers as a kid, so I had to go watch it. This was one of the best movies I have seen in a LONG time. The CG was outstanding. It had a great story and there was a lot of humor. I highly recommend this flick. 
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Thought it doesn't come out til tomorrow?
We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.
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I have Thursday and Friday off, and I plan on catching a late morning/early afternoon matinée of this flick.
Also thinking about checking out Die Hard and/or 1408, which I've heard great reviews for.
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I have Thursday and Friday off, and I plan on catching a late morning/early afternoon matinée of this flick.
Also thinking about checking out Die Hard and/or 1408, which I've heard great reviews for.
Die Hard is well worth going to see.
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Transformers: Can't miss.
1408: I was pleasantly surprised with this one. I can see how people would not like it (Can't say why without giving it away) I thought I figured out the movie 10 minutes into it (Which I do a lot and it pisses me off). What I thought was going to happen, actually did....but then a big twist at the end saved the movie.
Die Hard: A lot of people seem to like this one. It is next on my list.
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I have to go see it, such a huge part of my childhood.... When I was growing up it was Transformers, Ninja turtles, and everything else.... that being said Tommorrow, Ill be heading out to see it
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Next movie....VOLTRON!!!
Then maybe Thundercats
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Then maybe Thundercats
Then you are in luck. Both of these are being made into movies. As will He-Man done right. With no Dolph or coming to earth b.s.
I loved Thundercats but just can't see it looking right as a movie. If they don't work real hard it will look ridiculous.
Never watched Voltron but all my friends did.
Give me a G.I. Joe movie too! Snakeyes vs Stormshadow, one on one baby!!!!
I'm so stoked for Transformers. Sunday at 11:30 AM feels a long way away!!!
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Then maybe Thundercats
That would rock.
Watched them both.
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I also understand that they will be remaking the debacle that was the '03 Incredible Hulk (remake). Edward Norton playing Bruce Banner, in an "fugitive on the run, looking for the antedote for the cure" type storyline. http://movies.about.com/od/nortonedward/a/hulk041607.htm
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Great ... I usually *hate* the "big twist at the end" because it usually makes the rest of the movie make no sense logically. We'll see how it goes though.
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Remember that tape recorder "Soundwave",,I was going thru a a box the other day and I still have the little cassette guy from that toy  Too bad the rest of them never survived the great Transformer vs GiJoe/Star Wars epic battles of 1985  I do wanna check it out but I want to see Die Hard first.
Our honor defend, we will fight to the end, for OHIO! GO BUCKS!
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Here's a review ... I'm a little worried, but it still sounds alright: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/02/DDGJRQO5G01.DTL&type=movies "Transformers," the new movie about sentient alien robot vehicles that fight each other on Earth, is even more ridiculous than it sounds. In this film's reality, the nation's top scientist looks like a stripper and our defense secretary is Jon Voight. At one point, a giant robot urinates on John Turturro.
But it's definitely ridiculous in that good 1980s way, like an AC/DC concert after Brian Johnson took over as lead singer or any episode of "CHiPs" where Ponch goes to the roller disco. Sure, the action is over the top, but the people in charge seem completely aware that every scene is hokey. It's a triumph of lowbrow consistency.
And "Transformers" is way better than anyone could have expected from Michael Bay, the director who gave us "Armageddon" and "Pearl Harbor." The movie is still infected with Bay's usual -- flat characters, huge lapses in logic and Shaky-cam™ quick-edit directing style (Noooooooo!) -- but it lacks the self-seriousness that doomed many of his previous big-budget efforts. Bay also got more than his money's worth with the visuals and sound, which provide a nonstop feast of coolness throughout the film.
Before trying to describe the plot (not a simple task), can we all agree that this summer-movie season is actually starting to rock? After stumbling out the gate with "Spider-Man 3," we've had an excellent run with "Knocked Up," "Live Free or Die Hard" and "Ratatouille." If we get one more excellent flick between "The Simpsons," "Harry Potter" and "Superbad," kids may have to put down their video games and start watching movies again.
"Transformers" is based on the mid-1980s cartoon by the same name, which itself was based on a line of toys. The movie is squarely aimed at older boys and men who are able to channel their inner 11-year-old. If you have an IQ higher than 115, better skip this one, or at least drink as much Keystone Light as possible before entering the theater. (Rut-Roh!)
The first 45 seconds or so aren't very promising, beginning with this narration: "Before time began, there was a cube. We know not where it comes from." Seriously, say that out loud a few times. Have you ever felt like a bigger dork?
But things get infinitely better when Shia LaBeouf appears as Sam, a smart-mouthed teen who discovers the Transformers with his would-be girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox).
Sam buys a beat-up Camaro that's really an Autobot named Bumblebee, the first of a dozen of the movie's Transformers. And the names get more idiotic with each appearance: Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream. The bad Transformers attack the United States, some good Transformers arrive and an impossibly attractive computer scientist (Rachael Taylor) tries in vain to warn the military of the impending attack. The hot ones are always right.
Along the way, Turturro does a really bad Al Pacino imitation in his government agent role, the fighting robots destroy a small city and we finally find out the real reason for the construction of the Hoover Dam. Hint: It's not to apportion the power of the Colorado River for utility usage in the Western states.
LaBeouf is a good choice to act out the lively script by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who never forget that they're writing a movie about robots from outer space that can turn into helicopters and boom boxes. The rising young actor, who will play Indiana Jones' sidekick in next summer's big movie, has a geeky charm that recalls a young John Cusack or Patrick Dempsey.
"Transformers" is scripted with a nice self-referential wit. "I think there's a lot more than meets the eye to you," Sam says after he purchases Bumblebee, in a line taken from the "Transformers" cartoon theme song -- something you might not know if you were more into girls in the 1980s than playing with action figure man-machines that turned into ambulances.
Even more important is the special effects work from Industrial Light & Magic, which creates its most seamless visuals on a big budget picture since "Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World." The transforming effects are awesome, and the sound is equally fantastic -- especially when the Transformers start to speak. Imagine if James Earl Jones got a tracheotomy and started shouting commands through the public address system at Monster Park.
So what exactly is the problem with the movie? After some great battle and chase scenes early in the film, the Big Finish is confusing, mostly because of Bay's infuriating editing style. And while "Transformers" moves briskly, it's still way too long. At 144 minutes, the running time is in "Gandhi"/"The English Patient" territory, which is especially taxing when the plot turns don't stray far from the movie's Saturday-morning cartoon roots.
But there's never more than a few minutes without a good laugh or a gratuitous huge explosion, and the plot wisely avoids any moral messages, parallels with the 9/11 tragedy or anything else that might get in the way of the machine-on-machine carnage. "Transformers" is about blowing stuff up for the sake of blowing stuff up. Can you think of a better way to spend the Fourth of July?
-- Advisory: This film contains violence, sexual humor, adult language and full-frontal robot genitalia. (Despite the masculine voice, apparently Bumblebee is female.) 
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This guy is a moron.
A 2 year old could figure it out.
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Sam buys a beat-up Camaro that's really an Autobot named Bumblebee, the first of a dozen of the movie's Transformers. And the names get more idiotic with each appearance: Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream.
Also fairly obvious that the guy didn't watch the cartoon as a young kid and is more pissed that Michael Bay has a crazy editing style (which i honestly dont care about.) The Movie was great. It is what the cartoon was but revamped for the late 2000's. If your looking for a great action movie with amazing effects, go see the movie.
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When have movie reviewers ever been right?
I think they see so many movies, that they just can't sit and watch a movie for what it is, entertainment, they feel the need to dissect it, and unless the movie company or the director are friends or give freebies to the reviewer, they are always looking for something wrong with a film.
They are similar to a food critic. It's all personal opinion on what you lie and don't like.
We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.
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This movie is for geeks... I'll be paying my eight dollars to go see it.
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Geek alert! ............Oh ! that mean's me also 
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Phil Dawson rocks is probably laughing his butt off at us. He helps make this mindless drivel but can't understand why we like it. 
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It's a guy thing!
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Are you saying Phil isn't a guy?
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LMAO! No ! not at all....Just saying us guy's are entertained easy
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Also fairly obvious that the guy didn't watch the cartoon as a young kid and is more pissed that Michael Bay has a crazy editing style (which i honestly dont care about.) The Movie was great. It is what the cartoon was but revamped for the late 2000's. If your looking for a great action movie with amazing effects, go see the movie.
I'm not taking the review word for word, as obviously critics are going to pick a movie apart, but it's words like: "Shaky-cam" That have me worried. Shaky-cam is what ruined Batman Begins. It's the first action movie where I loved the story line, and just hoped they wouldn't cut to more action. Shaky-cam is my biggest pet peeve with movies today.
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I don't think I would call it "shaky-cam"
I would call it more like "off-set-cam" if you know what I mean.
There are a few fight scenes that I think were zoomed in a bit much.
I have not seen Batman Begins in a while, but I don't remeber it being "shaky-cam"
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It's more like "Blair-witch" cam. It's like they gave an amateur a handheld camcorder and told him to go right up to the action and film it. It's as if the producers and directors got together before the movie and said ... "We'll we've accidently budgeted all our money to special effects, what are we going to do about choreographed action and fight sequences? ... I have an idea, let just have two guys hug each other, and we'll focus the camera up close and move it around a lot so it just looks like an intense fight". 
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Not that there's anything wrong with that....
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Was Brokeback Mountain a blockbuster, record-setting action flick? ... I rest my case!
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I see where you are coming from, but I don't think it is bad enough to ruin the movie.
I think people will enjoy it. Especially if they grew up on Transformers.
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I'm sure I'll enjoy it, as I grew up on Transformers (even though they left out Soundwave! How could they!?!) ... I just have the feeling I'll leave the theater like I did after Batman, loving the movie, but dissappointed because it could of been so much better.
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I'll leave the theater like I did after Batman, loving the movie, but dissappointed because it could of been so much better.
Kind of how I feel right now, I just got back from it. Good overall with some general movie cheesiness. Definitely worth a see if your a transformers fan.
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Im going to the 6:30 showing tonight. Cant wait
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Begins .... I think we had this discussion before.
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I think so. Basically the same thing as I said above ... GREAT movie, could of been much, much better.
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Don't recall. I agree to a point though. I thought it was a good beginner movie. Most of these comic book movies come in threes, and the first always has to tell the story.
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This is open to anybody who has seen it.. My 11 year old son wants to see it. I've read some of the reviews where they tell you what's in it, like how many times the F word is used, etc... and it seems borderline... any parents seen it who have any advice?
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They use the f-bomb in Transformers?
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