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Sunglasses — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:49:20 -0000

I really the transformers movie.. Great special effects..

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Brittany Stokes — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:16:32 -0000

it is my favorite movie that has robots on it

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Brittany Stokes — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:15:09 -0000

i thought that the transformers movie was a great movie!!

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Tom Watson — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:57:21 -0000

I enjoyed the flick a lot - watched it with my 12-year-old - pure guiltless, hollywood action fun. Jason's right - the "sub-plot" of the love interest's past wasn't that interesting and its only plot purpose in the end was that she knew how to hotwire a car. Still, I was kinda dragged into investing the two hours into Transformers - and I was thoroughly rewarded for giving in the prodding. Turturro was, by the way, hilarious - the guy's a great actor.

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Jason Chervokas — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:59:56 -0000

Looking forward to seeing this one.

But I'm also looking forward to the day when Hollywood can make an action adventure movie entirely devoid of romantic sub plot.

Look, when our generation first came to computers we needed the metaphor of the "desktop" to be able to enter the computer...kids today don't. And in a sci-fi action/adventure, earlier generations may have required a romantic subplot, but kids today don't (shoot 'em up sci-fi vid games don't have romantic subplots!).

SheÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s the daughter of a criminal. Her fatherÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s a car thief who used to take her along when he went out to steal cars, and when he got caught, she got caught.

This is the kind of dopey contorsion into which writers twist themselves to squeeze in the pro forma Hollywood element in the name of broadening the audience. (Do you really non geeks decided to go see Transformers because it wasn't just about big robots!?)--less believeable than a '74 Camero actually being a giant robot from outer space!

Sure you can mix genres and make it work--Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was like a Henry James Kung Fu movie! Brilliant because both its action story and its romantic stories were equally magical and inextricably intertwined, not just placed side by side as a matter of convention.