transformers
Why the original Transformers movie is better than the new one
This quote from that article pretty much sums up my feelings about the movie:
Bay's new Transformers is fun in its own goofy way, and there are enough sops to the fanboys that most will go home happy. Peter Cullen reprises his role as the voice of Optimus Prime, and the screenwriters manage not one but two invocations of the immortal phrase "more than meets the eye." But there's nothing even approaching the original's narrative depth. The good guys beat the bad guys, and no one we care about is harmed in the process-the movie hasn't succeeded in making us care about anyone. Prime comes across as a stand-up guy, but we have no real sense of Megatron's motivations or of Starscream's ambition. Bumblebee, the robot we spend the most time with in the movie, doesn't get a speaking part until the penultimate scene. The high-octane violence and PG-13 attentions lavished on Megan Fox's torso may attract some new young fans, but in the end Bay's Transformers feels timid compared with the 1985 version. [emphasis mine]
In the end, I was entertained, but I really felt sorry, sayang, with the CGI, they could have created a movie that BOTH kicked ass and had heart. I loved the CGI, but in the end, it was really just a very cool glorified toy advertisement. So was the original, actually, but back then it actually turned out a work of art. Ugh, so disappointed.
This quote from that article pretty much sums up my feelings about the movie:
Bay's new Transformers is fun in its own goofy way, and there are enough sops to the fanboys that most will go home happy. Peter Cullen reprises his role as the voice of Optimus Prime, and the screenwriters manage not one but two invocations of the immortal phrase "more than meets the eye." But there's nothing even approaching the original's narrative depth. The good guys beat the bad guys, and no one we care about is harmed in the process-the movie hasn't succeeded in making us care about anyone. Prime comes across as a stand-up guy, but we have no real sense of Megatron's motivations or of Starscream's ambition. Bumblebee, the robot we spend the most time with in the movie, doesn't get a speaking part until the penultimate scene. The high-octane violence and PG-13 attentions lavished on Megan Fox's torso may attract some new young fans, but in the end Bay's Transformers feels timid compared with the 1985 version. [emphasis mine]
In the end, I was entertained, but I really felt sorry, sayang, with the CGI, they could have created a movie that BOTH kicked ass and had heart. I loved the CGI, but in the end, it was really just a very cool glorified toy advertisement. So was the original, actually, but back then it actually turned out a work of art. Ugh, so disappointed.