Comments on: TRANSFORMERS http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2007/11/22/transformers/ What we're watching and how it measures up in Contour Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: David Goulet http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2007/11/22/transformers/comment-page-1/#comment-9 David Goulet Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:05:10 +0000 http://totallywrite.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/transformers/#comment-9 My main problem with this flick, apart from the cookie-cutter script, was that the CGI Transformers were too detailed. Way too many metallic angles, shadows, glints, parts sticking out of everywhere -- making it difficult to tell many of the robots apart. When you can't follow an action sequence, it loses all the zing. And at the risk of revealing my true inner fanboy, compare the movie with the Beast Wars (Beasties) tv series, which was the first Transformers project using CG animation. Amazing visuals that still hold up today, mature complex characters, a cool mythos (the Spark) and a novel location (a deserted planet). The sparse locale may have been budget driven, but it also kept the storyline clean. I was hoping the movie would be more like Beast Wars, sadly it was far, far from it. My main problem with this flick, apart from the cookie-cutter script, was that the CGI Transformers were too detailed. Way too many metallic angles, shadows, glints, parts sticking out of everywhere — making it difficult to tell many of the robots apart. When you can’t follow an action sequence, it loses all the zing.

And at the risk of revealing my true inner fanboy, compare the movie with the Beast Wars (Beasties) tv series, which was the first Transformers project using CG animation. Amazing visuals that still hold up today, mature complex characters, a cool mythos (the Spark) and a novel location (a deserted planet). The sparse locale may have been budget driven, but it also kept the storyline clean. I was hoping the movie would be more like Beast Wars, sadly it was far, far from it.

]]> By: Dave Niezabitowski http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2007/11/22/transformers/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Dave Niezabitowski Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:39:00 +0000 http://totallywrite.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/transformers/#comment-8 OMG! Finally someone that agrees with me. The glitter was so overpowering that I think that people just loved the film for that. I don't think they realized that it was truly an empty story. <br/><br/>I loved the glitter but, I left the show feeling unfulfilled. The story was extremely weak and left me without involvement. They could have all been killed and I would have cared less. OMG! Finally someone that agrees with me. The glitter was so overpowering that I think that people just loved the film for that. I don’t think they realized that it was truly an empty story.

I loved the glitter but, I left the show feeling unfulfilled. The story was extremely weak and left me without involvement. They could have all been killed and I would have cared less.

]]> By: Anonymous http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2007/11/22/transformers/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Anonymous Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:47:00 +0000 http://totallywrite.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/transformers/#comment-7 Congratulations on the new blog, Jeffrey.<br/>Regarding Transformers, I agree about the lack of emotional involvement. I saw it with my 15-year-old son and, after the initial awe at the brilliant CGI effects, we were both totally bored about an hour in. It was just one fight scene after another.<br/>It just goes to prove you can't have a good movie without a good story.<br/>Cheers,<br/>Dan McG. (Australia) Congratulations on the new blog, Jeffrey.
Regarding Transformers, I agree about the lack of emotional involvement. I saw it with my 15-year-old son and, after the initial awe at the brilliant CGI effects, we were both totally bored about an hour in. It was just one fight scene after another.
It just goes to prove you can’t have a good movie without a good story.
Cheers,
Dan McG. (Australia)

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