Honestly quite glad...
That I'm not a Transformers fan, at least not a genuine one. Matt's one, Nick's one, and their honest and true love for all robots in disguise got me mildly interested too. Yes, after seeing Transformers 2, I'm glad I'm not a Transformers fan, because I'd be royally pissed. Damn shame that the pointless and stupid humans get more lines than all the Transformers combined. Sam accomplished that feat on his own, I'll bet. I was hoping for good characterization and increased depth about the robot war and why the Autobots are so driven to protect Earth. Instead I got humping dogs and ball jokes. Argh.
Being a Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series fan, I have some insight into what the Transformers characters were originally in the first cartoon, since they shared a head writer in David Wise. Given the great characterization that MD:TAS had, I can understand why people feel so strongly about their favorite Transformers after all these years. Must be a real damn shame to finally have that favorite character shine on the big screen, only have them not shine at all, and instead have to sit through an hour and a half of pointless humans blathering. Why focus on a stupid romance story when there's a war descending? I'm sure they were loathe to cut from shots of running bra-less women and butt-angles. Poor storytelling is why I knew long ago I wasn't going to be seeing the GI Joe movie. But I would have thought twice about Transformers if I knew I'd be dragging myself through that for a few good tidbits of fight scenes and some rare moments of something that could pass for character development.
Hell, Bumblebee was the one character I found I could actually access on some level, and the damn thing can't even talk!
Being a Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series fan, I have some insight into what the Transformers characters were originally in the first cartoon, since they shared a head writer in David Wise. Given the great characterization that MD:TAS had, I can understand why people feel so strongly about their favorite Transformers after all these years. Must be a real damn shame to finally have that favorite character shine on the big screen, only have them not shine at all, and instead have to sit through an hour and a half of pointless humans blathering. Why focus on a stupid romance story when there's a war descending? I'm sure they were loathe to cut from shots of running bra-less women and butt-angles. Poor storytelling is why I knew long ago I wasn't going to be seeing the GI Joe movie. But I would have thought twice about Transformers if I knew I'd be dragging myself through that for a few good tidbits of fight scenes and some rare moments of something that could pass for character development.
Hell, Bumblebee was the one character I found I could actually access on some level, and the damn thing can't even talk!