Szmitten wrote:
Please, please, please do not use semantics to create a sense of superiority. (I have probably explained this awfully, so do please ask for clarification of what the hell I'm saying)

No, I get your point. But it's the same thing with "cartoons" and "anime". In reality, they're the exact same thing, but the connotations of each are different (especially over here). I feel the same way about 'film' and 'movies' (I assume it came from "moving pictures", which I think was the term used in America when it first came out). I tend to feel that "film" is - for lack of a better word - a more 'correct' (I could just say better) term anyway.

I managed to go see Transformers today, and it wasn't the total suckfest I expected. From a layperson's (me, a guy who doesn't watch movies in theaters much, or any movies for that matter) it was a decent film. The only part that really bugged me was the last part of the movie, with rapid cuts to other scenes and most of the action taking place offscreen (Megatron vs. Optimus, all we see is a couple of shots of them getting thrown into other objects, and a short cut of hand to hand combat taking place in the background, with missiles flying around in the foreground). Otherwise, I think the movie was worth the money, and I'll probably end up getting it on DVD.

But furthermore, its restored my hope in Live-Action Eva a little bit, because the CG in Transformers was beautiful and by the time they could possibly start on Eva, the computers will be even better.

BTW, was it just me, or did Megatron remind anyone of Unit-01? SPOILER/or Megatron under the Hoover Dam give off Geofront overtones/SPOILER

ONE SHALL STAND. ONE SHALL FALL.

Transformers was, as I was expecting, the best film I had seen at the cinema in quite a long time. Planning on seeing again in a few weeks when the IMAX version drops.

CorporalChaos wrote:
BTW, was it just me, or did Megatron remind anyone of Unit-01?

I did a thread about this when pictures of ol' Megs first broke. People said I was silly.

EDIT: Snip snap, here's a link to that thread.

Saw it a while ago. Disliked it.

I'm afraid to post my opinions around, because every other Transformers fan I know *loved* it, to the point where some others whom I *don't* know, attacked the people who disliked it.

Me, well, I didn't. My biggest problem was that it focused too much on the humans. Yeah, I know the adult, mainstream audience has trouble relating to nonhumans as leads, and it might have blown the budget to make Transformers focal, but dammit, that just bored me.

Outside of that, the movie was pretty loud and obnoxious and the action scenes were cut so bad it was sometimes hard to tell what was happening. But I am not going to put much thought into picking it out, because I just don't care enough. :roll:

Hearing Optimus Prime's again after so many years, was pretty awesome. Other than that, there wasn't a lot of redeeming value to this movie.