Transformers

kyanges

Junior Member
This movie was a three hour recruting commercial for the US Army.

Also I thought it was interesting that the movie seemed to reflect on the immigration issue when several characters told the Hispanic US Marine to "stop speaking Spanish" rather vehemently.

I'm sorry you (and some others) feel this way. In all honesty, this was no "recruiting commercial", it was just action for the sake of action, using the military that has the global reach needed for the kind of scenes they wanted.

As for the Spanish, it was no immigration issue. Think about it logically in a military situation, what good does a whole speech in Spanish do if no one else can even understand it? (For example, that scene in the early part of the movie, where that odd scorpion robot caused that tower to fall, and the soldier asked him, "What was that?". He responded with tons of Spanish, and for what? Nothing he just said would help them in any situation tactical or otherwise. It would be like an english speaker constantly reverting to english even if he was attached to say, a Chinese team. That kind of behavior only jeopardizes lives.)


In short, it was movie with explosions for the sake of having explosions, and nothing in that film should be read that deeply with respects to real life events.

Except that scene which was an obvious mockery of Bush. :rofl: .
 

Diving Falcon

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The scene with AWACS & land station was very well executed IMO...half of the film seemed like a USAF epic IMO lol! Still very good film though!
 

Chengdu J-10

Junior Member
Don't forget the F-18 Hornet people it also recieved a moment of glory in the movie, and if my memory is correct I think also a "Predator" UAV was also shown in it too in taking pictures of the transformers.

Movie was really action packed so I loved it. But one thing I didn't quite like is the North Korea thing. They are no way near in technology terms as to doing something like that, and besides they have an obselete military force. Russia and China yeah plausible to put into the movie.

Overall Thumbs up for the movie.
 

jwangyue

Junior Member
I think it is a fictional UAV based on the predator. It showed in the movie that the UAF has a jet engine (from the look of it, has afterburner on as well) where as predator is propeller driven. The Force Protection's Buffalo MPCV also had its first movie appearence.
 

tphuang

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saw it today, kind of interesting, the girl is extremely hot (best of the movie for me by far), dialogue was horrible as expected, nice show of modern gadgets, especially with the F-22, V-22, Predator, E-3 and C-17 (I think?)
 

Chengdu J-10

Junior Member
Yeah agree...dialogue? What you mean cause Im not following you...i'll add to my previous list C-130 Hercules and M1 Abraham.
 

dollarman

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This movie was a three hour recruting commercial for the US Army.

Also I thought it was interesting that the movie seemed to reflect on the immigration issue when several characters told the Hispanic US Marine to "stop speaking Spanish" rather vehemently.

A recruiting vid that disses the U.S government? Pretty contradictory to me.

Yah, overall it was great flic, a perfect summer blockbuster. The action had me going to the very end (which was short and a bit dissapointing). But since I'm a military fan, I loved all the depictions of hardware. Maybe too many jokes, but the movie was far funnier that I expected. Based on that clip of Starscream leaving Earth during the credits, I think it's pretty obvious that there will be a sequel. Apparently the guy and girl have both signed on.

Btw, add MH-53 Pave Low helicopter to the list, thats what Blackout was.
 

Roger604

Senior Member
Just saw it... overall excellent

Good
- military stuff
- 80's nostalgia
- funny jokes / lines
- intriguing political commentary
- great special effects

Bad
- not consistent with Transformers canon
- robots not anthropomorphic like original show
- one scene with parents in Sam's room totally unnecessary
 

AssassinsMace

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"Leave your brain at the door" movie!

Purely on action and effects... it was entertaining. Everything else... story, characters, plot points... meaningless and useless. The cartoon had more character in the Autobots and Decepticons.
 
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