ok....wasn't the biggest fan of this movie....sorry, guys!
I went in knowing that the story was gonna be ****...turn off my brain, enjoy the 'Formers....buuuuut.....it couldn't be helped....and here goes my overview of the film...roughly....
my Cons:
First of all....that damned EFFING SONG!!! my friends and I couldn't help but laugh out loud every time they played that DAMNED song! lol! c'mon guys, U know what i'm talkin' about! lol! it was just soooo damn cheesy!!! I didn't need that in the movie! WE didn't need that in the movie!! once, sure....but about 4 more times?!?! really?? that time could've been used more wisely on the 'Formers! really....
Second....No mention of who, what, wheres of the Witwickys....like they just vanished from the Bayverse! (please, correct me if I missed it in the movie!) Sam was such an integral part of the Transformers' lives that they weren't even worth a mention 5 years after Chicago?? did 'Bee just completely desert Sam??? again...an explanation of that cast would've been more ideal than that repeating song....just sayin....
Third.....inconsistencies.....there were soooo many of them in this movie.....enough for me to question "what the hell? how'd that...? wait what??"
it was also enough to deter my enjoyment of the movie.....guess I couldn't really shut my brain off for long! lol
Fourth (don't hate me too much, folks)....Optimus Prime....that's right...the badass that he was in this movie....was a fault for me....He wasn't a leader anymore....not in this movie...what made him great was his compassion for all life. He's ALMOST like Superman....will put his life in danger before any other life....in this movie, he was just a soldier....a COMMANDING soldier...but far from the Optimus Prime leadership we're used to....I get it, he's pissed at the humans....but again...the way he acts in this movie almost exempts the fact that he's the Prime that he SHOULD be. He shows lil old Optimus here and there...but then there he goes on a rampage...he killed. a. freaking. human. Prime would NEVER take a life like that! a true leader like Prime would have a more reasonable way to have diffused that situation! (and yes, he was helping Cade, but still....I feel like he could've handled that better!) I was just disappointed in how they made him into this very vengeful "leader".
Fifth....DINOBOTS....no talking?? approx. like 10 minutes of screen time and then Prime sends them off..."U R now free"....BYE!! lol!!!! Prime just released GIANT ROBOT DINOSAURS into the population of the world!!! THAT'S NOT EVEN HIS WORLD!!! HAHAHAHA!!! He thinks that they're gonna be easily tameable???? Good luck with that humans! Just pray they stay out of human population! :/
And last of all....all the minor things that also weren't explained.....Drift...triple changer....how? when? where? why? Joshua went from almost "evil" to agent simmons in almost a matter of seconds....how did Attkinson contact Lockdown??.....NO. DECEPTICONS. 2! Lockdown (if he's actually counted as one...and Galvatron??? who's in the movie for like 10 minutes too??....we better see more of them in the next one!!!).....crosshairs....why, out of ALLLLLL the other popular Autobots that r out there, that haven't had screen time yet, was CROSSHAIRS chosen??....it made me going "who again?".....annnnnd bumblebee still can't talk....wait...didn't he wtalk at the end of the first movie??? what happened there?? lol!.....annnnnnd that's it.....for the most part at least! (these r just things I didn't like....I'm obviuosly gonna get some disappointed comments....but hey, it's all good! just wanted to add my 2 cents!)
my Pros...
Hound aka Bulklhead....great character.....wish he did a lil more "Hound-like" things...like being the recon guy that he's actually supposed to be!
but all in all...a fresh character to add to the team!
speaking of teams....the autobots seem to like to roll in that odd number of 5! and this team was pretty cool! i enjoyed drift and hound! and as for the dinobots, i enjoyed what screen time they DID have....albeit the lack of their voices, but we can't have it all now, can we? lol!
Good autobot team to kick some butt.
the CGI, for the most part is ALWAYS amazing! it never ceases to amaze me to watch the 'Bots transform! altho I wasn't too entirely sure how I felt about the new "decepticons'" transformations....
Sound FX, always loud and crisp!
Annnnnnd that just about wraps my "overview" of the movie. Love it or hate it, it's just one opinion...I don't expect any agreeance with this, but I just wanted to put it out there that this was almost as enjoyable to watch as somebody playing an RPG game....going thru ALLL the missions....backtracking....leveling up....at least RPGs have a more COHERENT plot that I could sit thru! lol!
Anyway, I apologize for this long rant! I really wanted to enjoy this movie but it fell way too short for me to enjoy. The 'Bots weren't enough to save this movie. Also, don't get it twisted....I LOVE watching Transformers on a big screen! it's awesome! I guess I was expecting the faults from the first 3 movies be at least wiped clean with this one. But oh well, what can U do....it's Michael Bay.....In about 10 years, I'm expecting a reboot, done PROPER! No Michael Bay involvement...AT ALL!!! that's just what i'm seeing happening in the next decade.
Again, I hope this was informative and I just wanted to share with u guys, my point of view! hope u enjoyed some of my points!
sicstep out!