The Idiot’s guide to Idiocy

TRANSFORMERS!! YAY! Being the undisputed ‘King Geek’ this was a really big deal for me ^_^ I got to see them on the big screen, as real as current special effect allow them to be. I left my childhood expectations of this movie at the door, they shouldn’t be tarnished. The cartoon were the cartoons, they’ll remain forever as cherished memories. This is new. This, I like.

So what if they don’t transform like they did in the cartoons? It’d be dorky if they did. Come on, seriously, if you’re a true fan, you’d want the Transformers to be cool. To me, they weren’t just cool, they were a riot. Let’s see… it’d take too long to go through the entire cast, so let’s keep it simple.

Optimus Prime. The man err… robot. He’s still intact. Prime doesn’t fight unless absolutely necessary. But when he does, it’s a sight. He only loses out to Megatron, so I don’t really mind, even that monumental fight was a close match. He believes that everyone has a right to be free. Not to say I’m completely happy, nope. We didn’t get to see Prime as the leader that he is. Most of the battles are chaotic at best, with no real coordination between them. Ratchet? Firing off blasts in the middle of the city wouldn’t have been ‘him’. He’d be the one getting the humans out of there. Jazz turned out too thuggish for me, he just wasn’t smooth enough. Maybe the producers need to start looking for a rapper Ironhide.. funny new version.

I didn’t really get a sense of 2 armies going at each other in this movie, just a lot of showdowns, not really what Transformers was to me. Megatron did make an impression. He’s just as mean as he was when I was a kid. Yeah, the whole human flicking thing was definitely Megatron. The fact that most of the Autobots ran upon seen Megatron was a little disheartening, but seeing Optimus bravely stand up to him was… inspiring. Seeing a machine, granted a sentient machine, stand up for good. If only us mere humans could aspire to such deeds, oh wait, we can, but we choose not to almost all the time since it doesn’t benefit us in any way.

Hints of a sequel to those of you who waited until the credits to walk out. I really really hope there is.

Things I’d like to see in the sequel:

• Soundwave!!!! Megatron’s bodyguard, Starscream may be second in command, but Soundwave obeys Megatron without question.
• More robots, we’ve already established the human cast as part of the core story now.
• More of a sense of battles, not just giant robots wrestling in the middle of a  city. They are 2 armies, start fighting like one. The chain of command now is chaotic at best.
• MORE MEGATRON!! Yes, he’s down for the count now, but Megatron shouldn’t be defeated that easily, he should come back, this time with a really really huge cannon. Alien fighters are fine and dandy, but you don’t get a sense of his power when he transforms, instead it feels understated. Megatron doesn’t hide his power, he flaunts it.
• BIGGER OPTIMUS!! What’s this?! Prime is shorter? Where’s his trailer? He is Megatron’s equal in size and power. Period.

And now that’s I’ve completely ruined all chances for any type of female relationship by writing this, I think I’ll go watch it again some time, this time on iMAX! ^_^

PS. I actually saw this on Thursday at 11:30AM. Waited for the rest of you to see it first

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