I saw Transformers the Movie last night with my wife and it’s not bad after all. I mean it’s really good - the special effects that is. Michael Bay doesn’t suck after all. Last year, I posted an entry about the movie saying that it would really suck but I was wrong in the end. Maybe Michael Bay has learned already from his past mistakes on movies.

Transformers the movie kicks ass and it’s not as boring as SpiderMan 3 or Fantastic 4:Rise of the Silver Surfer. What I mean is I can’t help but worship special effects team on the wicked job they made. Those robots may seem to be very complicated but that is what’s cool about it. Before I didn’t really like the idea on Bumblebee being a Camaro but I guess it really worked out. The story was cool. Megatron wasn’t transforming into a gun but well, I guess the concept was still the same. It’s good versus evil. Maybe if they’d took the same image of those robots from the old cartoons it won’t be appropriate to the present times and that’s where Michael Bay hit the target. Cool. I’m not saying that I’m starting to love Michael Bay’s works. But I guess what I learned is I should reserve my judgment until I see the whole stuff. Well, there’s more than meets the eye.

Funny thing is, I drove my pregnant wife home and I told her to hold on to her seat because our car’s gonna transform into a robot. She told me I’m crazy. Heh.

I know you guys have already heard about the upcoming Transformers movie next year. If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, you can watch it on the official Transformers movie website or at YouTube. The Transformers movie trailer shows a rover that was launched to Mars in 2003 that sent transmissions back to earth showing lifeforms or more like robot-life forms in Mars. At first, I was excited but then I realized that my favorite robots as a child, the Transformers, were not from Mars. Once you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve probably never want to see it again as it sucks. Well, if you don’t believe me, read the comments about the Transformers trailer at YouTube.

So who is responsible for the movie? It’s no other than director Michael Bay. The man responsible for blowing up good movie titles like Pearl Harbor. I don’t really know anything about Michael Bay but what I know is that he is one of the most hated directors. Well, probably because some song in Team America has this funny lyrics about Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor movie. Here it goes. You can sing it if you know the Tune.

I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark,
When he made Pearl Harbor.
I miss you more then that movie missed the point,
And that’s an awful lot girl.
And now, now you’ve gone away,
And all I’m trying to say,
Is Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you

I was just hoping that Michael Bay wouldn’t again blow up the Transformers movie but I guess my hopes just deteriorated instantly. I just came across SERVE with CHIPS, a blog, showing photos of some of the characters in the Transformers movie. I was very disappointed when I saw what they did to Megatron. Why can’t they just design the Transformers just the way they should look in the original animation? Even Bumblebee is not a Beetle anymore but instead a Camaro. Even Optimus Prime doesn’t look like the original one. They have just over-designed the robots.

What is excessive is dangerous and that saying too, goes for the movie. They should have kept the robots’ original appearance. Why am I against this? It’s not that I can’t accept change but the truth is I love the Transformers and changing their looks in major ways makes me just wanna despise the upcoming movie. But I’m not totally gonna hate it right away. It’s still in the works and maybe, just maybe they will realize that the Transformers should look how they really look.

But then again, I just wish Spielberg should have just directed the movie.

Update: I made this post a year before the movie was released so before you leave a comment saying how stupid I am for this review (well this isn’t actually a review), I’d like you guys to know that I’ve seen the movie and my god, here’s my reaction to the movie.