Thankfully, TP proved I'm not the only one who thought the animated movie was better. This one was too...err...Hollywoody...if that's a word
I paid $20 for this movie and I thought most of it went to waste. Only the last half-an-hour was worth it.

Sucks you had to spend that much. I saw it at a local theater here for something like $7.50. Then I saw it in an awesome theater in Denver for something like $5. I spent less than $10 at the movie in Denver with popcorn and a soda.

I haven't seen the animated one, I have watched some of the cartoons. I'm sure I saw most or all of the cartoons when I was a little kid, but I've forgotten everything, but I acquired them again and watch when I get a chance and feel like it.

Just got a HD DVD copy from Netflix. I haven't seen it yet but will do in the next few days. I believe it's going to be a good way to use the Xbox's HD DVD drive for the first time (bundled King Kong sucks IMHO).

I bought it on regular DVD. Wish I had an HDDVD player, but I'd like to see load up times for disks to drop and for them to come down in price. They really shouldn't be that expensive.

I can't remember the animated series. I remember having some of the toys in the 80's though.

The movie was ok - typical Bay movie - but CGI was good as it didn't stand out as being too CGI-like.

I agree with just about everything said thus far haha. I'm a bit late commenting, but I had been busy with work and playing on xbox live. This movie had exactly what I expected. Not so great plot, but amazing visuals. I know they did build the robots for a few scenes, but I think we can all agree there's nowhere in the movie where you are thinking "that's so fake.." If nothing else this movie must be respected for action scenes and visual effects.

I got the 2 disk special edition, the second disk has a bunch of extras about how things were done. Instead of doing entire sequences in CGI many of them were done mostly real, and only the robots for CGI. The explosions and stuff were for the most part real. I was really suprised on the car throws and some of the explosions how close people were to them, only a few feet on several occations.

That scene with Sam towards the end with the All Spark on up on the roof, there was no safety net, he did have a chain around his waist incase he fell, but he wasn't going to fall into a net.

I didn't think the plot was bad. It is an action movie, you don't normally find excellent plots in them, this one one of the better ones.

I thought the movie was okay, but I don't believe it lived up to all of the hype it received even months before the film was released.

I'm just glad to see that kid Shia LaBeouf growint out of the whole Even Stevens acting role.

why does everyone hate the plot of Transformers so much? of course it's fiction, but I thought they did a good job, adapting it to today's world... I dunno, just my opinion :-P

i sit true nest toy movie is gi joe

wtf did you just say ?!?!?

it was horrible

Lord knows, there's been a resurrection!

Anyway, Dude, (or dudette, as the case may be), that's harsh.

Since this was an adaptation of a comic book, the story line followed the classic morality tale of the battle of good versus evil, plus the special effects were categorically excellent.
Someone mentioned earlier that they only went to see Megan Foster, they certainly have a valid point. Perhaps the movie would have benefited from an upskirt shot of Ms. Foster. After all, that could be rationalized by writing FX next to it on the shot list.

In any event you, and everybody, have a Happy Thanksgiving! That of course is if you live in the colonies, (as I do). Oh heck, do it anyway.

captaincranky, don't you mean Megan Fox?

Well, I suppose I did.

"La boeuf" means "the beef" in French. This strikes me as somewhat ironic, since Shia "LaBoeuf" seemed like a prime candidate for an upskirt herself, er himself. Still, in spite of an "heroic" effort, he was unable to ruin the movie for me.

I further predict that Megan Fox's slash "Foster's" acting talent will place her in competition with Jessica Alba for an Academy Award one day. Oh baby, baby, that's some stiff competition! <(dual entendre and pun intended)> This is a bold prediction when you consider that Ms. Alba can generate as much or more interest by walking out of a scene as she can by walking into one.

Well, that'd depend on how clothed or -er- how unclothed she is.

I've managed to resist getting the HD DVD version, already bought the special edition regular dvd. Unless I can sell that to someone it looks like I'm going HD DVDless (unless I obtain it through other ways...)

OK, I suppose it's a given that neither Megan Fox or Jessica Alba compare favorably with respect to acting ability with say, Katherine Hepburn, Dame Judith Dench or even Meryl Streep. Still, you do have to consider the exuberance of youth. By this I mean that none of the foregoing "real actresses" would fill out Jessica's costume in the fantastic four. Fast forward a couple of years to Ms Alba's first Botox treatment, after which I'm sure that she will be much more expressive walking away. This assumes of course that she doesn't embrace southwestern cuisine or Jennifer Lopez doesn't write a cookbook.

To pull this thread further off topic, (not maliciously of course), I watched "Live Free or Die Hard" last night. In spite of the fact I wasn't certain I'd like it, I enjoyed it thoroughly. Maggie Quigley is scorching hot, although this treatise on cyber-terrorism probably could have benefited by allowing her talent to "shine" with say, a Jacuzzi scene. You can catch Ms.Q in "Naked Weapon", sort of a cult classic martial arts flick.

Anyway, how much of the computer hacking in that movie do you think could actually be accomplished? Could anybody pull off a "fire sale"? Should we start a poll?

enjoyed the movie, thought it was pretty good. better than most other films on at the time.

hell yea, im gonna watch this movie tonite before i sleep!!