por Kodiack » 11-07-2007 04:08
Aqui una opinion que lei en IMDB, me parece muy acertada:
[quote]Aside from Optimus Prime, this movie was pretty bad.
It's called TRANSFORMERS. That should have given the people making it some clue as to what it should be about. But instead we get a story about humans. Poorly written, completely uninteresting humans. And not just one or two, but a whole movie full of them. I was hoping to see a semi-realistic take on an invasion of giant robot aliens, and I got a poorly made comedy with a few Transformers thrown in at the end.
Now, I know people will complain that my expectations were too high, but I assure you, my expectations were quite low because I had seen and heard enough going in that I knew it wasn't going to be what it could or should have been, but it still was worse than I could have imagined. A *masturbation* joke in Transformers? From Spike's MOTHER? Robot Chicken is more intelligent...
And anyway, if they are going to spend $100+ million to create a movie, why is too much to ask that they put a little thought into it first?
I knew from the beginning that there would have to be changes to make all of this work in a real world setting, but I never expected that the Transformers themselves would be such a minor part of the story. When it was announced that the writers and producers of this movie were all Transformers fans, I expected that it would at the very least be a Transformers-centric story, and my concerns were mainly related to how much personality the TF's would have, and how similar they would be to the original characters.
Then Michael Bay was announced as the director, and I started to worry. Michael Bay is not a TF fan, knows nothing about them, doesn't care, and is a hack director to begin with. Ok, so much for the characters. But at least Bay is an action movie director, so there was still hope for the action scenes.
Wait, what action scenes?
The base attack with Blackout at the beginning is decent enough, but it's all downhill from there. Skorpinok is a generic monster, who happens to be made of metal. He is seen mostly from a distance attacking the Iraq base, while the audience is treated to scenes of an Indian telephone operator picking his nose and chastising a soldier who is about to die for not having a credit card at hand. Is this supposed to be funny? Is it supposed to be excited or suspenseful? What the hell were they thinking?
If they couldn't be bothered to attempt to make characters we could feel *concern* for, then at least they should have attempted to make us feel *something*. They should have made us afraid of Skorpinok, or at least excited to watch him moving around and fighting. Instead, we watch a "comedy" sequence that would not be funny in any movie, but is painfully out of place in this one.
How are we supposed to take a war zone scene seriously if it has this kind of BS in the middle of it, and how are we supposed to laugh (had there been anything worth laughing at) when we know that there is something important going on, and we aren't getting to see it because someone thought that it would be cool to replace scenes of the giant robot with scenes of a nose-picking foreigner and his funny accent?
Once the little bit of action at the beginning is out of the way, it's nonstop moron comedy for an hour or so, half of which is spent at Sam's house, while the Transformers are seen briefly outside, trying to hide. Aside from the fact that nothing funny at all happens here, what kind of a way is this to spend a special effects budget? If they're going to spend millions of dollars creating these things, I want to see them doing something more interesting than walking around a house.
This is the attitude of the whole movie. The comedy is not simply out of place, it's *bad*. [/Galvatron]
Frenzy, another metal monster created specifically for this movie, probably has more screen time than Megatron. Doesn't anybody else see anything wrong with that?
In the middle of the Bumblebee / Barricade fight, we cut to a supposedly humorous scene of Frenzy attacking Sam and pulling off his pants. Meanwhile, the giant robots are fighting somewhere offscreen. Sam arrives just as Bumblebee emerges the victor, and we see what has happened to Barricade, but not how it happened. Great action scene, Mikey.
In the middle of what should be the climax of the movie, we keep cutting back to the irrelevant humans fighting the scampering metal monster Frenzy, and for this we miss seeing more real Transformers fighting each other.
Of course, they aren't doing enough of that anyway. The humans are doing a substantial portion of the fighting, and they are *winning*. They kill a decepticon all by themselves, and another is finished off by a single rocket from a human. What the hell is the point of having the autobots there if the humans have the ability to kill the monsters themselves? Even the movie's tagline suggests that humans will merely be caught in the middle of the Transformer war, but the events of the film leave one with the impression that the humans could probably kill all of the transformers if they really had to.
The Australian woman was completely unnecessary, as was the fat black dork who was supposedly the world's greatest "hacker", despite the fact that he lives in an apartment with his mother. This guy can supposedly do in a few minutes what the entire resources of the US government couldn't accomplish. And yet he is stupid enough to point out, in an excited child voice and in the middle of what is supposed to be an important story scene, that Freddy Krueger has four claws, and Wolverine has three. Yeah, he's a superhacker alright. I buy it completely...
The big fight at the end is too little too late, and is filmed like some sort of Vietnam war movie. The camera is jumping around and shaking, and we never get a good look at anything. I wanted a still clear shot of Optimus and Megatron beating the hell out of each other, and we barely got any of that at all. The "one shall fall" line was a nice touch, but keeping with the complete lack of respect for the Transformers as characters, Prime is not on the screen as he says it. All we see is Sam running away.
And then it ends abruptly, and in such a dissatisfying way. A perfect example of the fact that this is not at all a Transformers movie...
Anyway, I could go on, but it's all the same - too many humans, too much "comedy", too little story, too little Transformers screen time. If they make a sequel, I hope nobody behind the scenes returns. The writing and directing were so bad that they would be hard pressed to do worse.