The other night I saw Transformers with the roomies. It was that or Lord of War, and having never seen Transformers, I thought I would give it a shot. For those of you who have no idea what the movie is about, it basically tells the story of two futuristic robots who have an epic battle on earth, in which the final outcome rests in the hands (quite literally) of some random kid.
As far as the making of the movie goes, the visual effects stole the show. There were only a small handful of shots where you could definitively tell there was CGI (except for the fact that these robots obviously don’t exist… yet). Now, as far as the writing goes… wow, I was stunned. I didn’t know that Transformers was supposed to be a comedy, and apparently it was because I spent half the movie laughing. I kind of felt like someone went to the Disney lot, pulled the good looking teenage stars, gave them something a four year old wrote as their first screenplay, and then started shooting rubber bullets at them telling them to read the script as it happened. As you can tell, that kind of ruined the movie for me as far as something I would want to own or see again (except for the comedic value of course).
But given better actors and writing, I think the film would have a lot more potential. I like Michael Bay’s work, but I think his writer and casting director could have done a much better job.
Kevin’s movie rating:
Good, but only time I am seeing it
Movie Rating Key:
- Best movie I have ever seen
- Absolutely incredible
- Pretty darn good
- I would watch it again
- Good, but only time I am seeing it
- Disappointing
- Not very good
- Horrendous
- Shouldn’t have been made
