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Jul/071

Transformers

Last week I managed to get a pass from work to go see an advance preview of Transformers along with a few co-workers. I’ll try to keep this as short post and will not spoil anything about the movie (Actually one minor spoiler near the end, but just there for contrast). Before I begin I should start off by saying I am a big fan of Transformers, all of the Generation 1 series and characters were truly amazing and still enjoy watching the old episodes now and then.

Now another small piece of background info, I worked on the DS version of the Transformers game only for a month or so early on in production till I changed projects. Anyways during that time I saw some of the concepts of the characters and I pretty much went into shock. For the longest time I could not accept the new designs that were made for the movie. However, a few months ago I came to terms and began to like a few of the new designs, but still could not get over the fact of what was done to Starscream and Megatron. If your classic Gen 1 fan, and have seen some of the trailers or teaser material out there for the movie then you know what I am talking about. (Or you can ignore everything else in this rant and go straight to end and look at the two images)

Moving on, so now that I came to terms with a few of the character designs, I thought to my self a few weeks before seeing the movie that it may suck in terms of story and I will cringe when I see some of the robots, but in the end the action and heap of explosions would make up for it and and I would walk out midly satisfied.

Well there I was in the theater with some of friends watching one of the worst movies I have ever seen. And out of the crew that went to see it I was not the only one to say that…

I would really enjoy ranting about everything that went wrong in that movie but I won’t since I don’t wish to spoil it for anyone that has not seen it. But word of advice if you really respect and admire the Transformers as they were then don’t see this movie, it will probably kill you on the inside. However as a synopsis I’ll say this, it was a fairly immature take on the Transformers franchise, the “orginal” and only Transformers movie from 1986 was a hell of a lot more better and more focused than the live action version. Well I did hope that action sequences would save it, I was wrong on that, the action was so bloody fast and blurry most of the time I had no clue as to what was going in some of the fight sequences.

Anyways I could go on for hours about everything that went wrong. Point is the reviews and most of the general public have hailed this film as the best ever. Hey everyone is entitled to their own opinion and mine is that it sucked. In the words of comic book guy, ” Worst movie ever! ”

Though I would like close things of on a good note. Transformers the game for DS is actually pretty good. Both of them in fact are good, by both I mean the Autobot and Decepticon version. Yeah, that’s right there are two seperate games the team that worked on it pulled it off quite nicely. Well some of the online reviews think it is ok, but most of the reader reviews are pretty good. I personally have been playing the Decepticon game and have enjoyed it thus far for two reasons. First it has a lot of action, secondly it tells a much better back story as to why Deecpticons are on Earth and what their motive is as compared to the movie. Plus playing it along side the Autobot verison really adds to the story as you see similar missions and cutscenes from a different perspesctive. As for the 360 version I had some high hopes for that game but seems to getting really low scores online. But perhaps one of these days I’ll check it out it may not be as bad as the reviews say, but I sure hope it is not as bad or worse than the movie.

Gen 1 FTW !!!!

This is Megatron:

(http://images.wikia.com/transformers/images/f/f2/Megatrong1.jpg) A bit stylized but pretty much spot on.

Heap of scrap metal, A.K.A Megatron from the new movie. Not even voiced by Frank Welker. (At least Frank Welker lends his classic voice for the games)