A few thoughts on the film.
- This was a lot like the other Michael Bay Transformer films. I didn't really expect that - you'd think that DOTM's billion dollar box office was a sign he needed to radically change the formula, maybe make it more in line with the IDW comics. The guys I talk to down the local comic shop agreed that the film wasn't great so it must've gone down really badly with the general population.
- The Dinobots were nothing like they are in [continuity], which was a big shock. Who does Bay think he is, messing with they way they were portrayed in [continuity] by [hack]?
- There was no characterisation for a lot of the Transformers. This surprised me as in most films more than half a dozen characters get fully developed.
- Michael Bay needs to go. He should be replaced by [modish superhero film director who would turn out basically the same movie but get better notices through not being Michael Bay].
- Some of the new characters were silly. There's no place for humour in Transformers.
- It should have been more like a James Robert comic, with lots of TFs acting like humans and less humans. Why Hasbro aren't just adapting MTMTE I don't know - all the few dozen hardcore TF fans I know really like it and we all agree it would make a better film.
- Some of the action scenes were just noise and violence, like a computer game.
- It should have been more like a High Noon computer game. Why Hasbro aren't just adapting FOC I don't know - all the few dozen hardcore TF fans I know really like it and we all agree it would make a better film.
- All the product placement by car manufacturers sucks. Since when has Transformers been about whoring merchandise? Let us true fans have our franchise back!
- There were loads of plot holes. And not the sort of plot holes I'm going to use initiative, common sense or imagination to mend like I would in any other TF media; these are plot holes from a Michael Bay film.
- Suddenly I randomly miss some of the regular human cast despite bitching about them for seven years. Obviously I don't mean actually miss, I mean it's a good entry point to bitch about the new ones.
- Obviously I'm holding back my overall verdict until I've seen what everyone else is sayiong, but I'm thinking praise for now, use as unflattering example of getting everything wrong in about three months time.
SPOILER! (select to read)Because it's not like people are actually going to let seeing the film inform their opinions after all, right?