2007 Directed by Michael Bay
Young teenager, Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.
Shia LaBeouf Megan Fox Josh Duhamel Tyrese Gibson Rachael Taylor Anthony Anderson Jon Voight John Turturro Michael O'Neill Kevin Dunn Julie White Amaury Nolasco Zack Ward Patrick Mulderrig Luis Echagarruga Michael Trisler Brian Shehan Ashkan Kashanchi Rizwan Manji William Morgan Sheppard C.J. Thomason Bernie Mac Carlos Moreno Jr. Johnny Sanchez John Robinson Travis Van Winkle Peter Jacobson Glenn Morshower Frederic Doss Show All…
Steven Spielberg Michael Bay Don Murphy Ian Bryce Lorenzo Di Bonaventura Tom DeSanto Brian Goldner Mark Vahradian
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"bang, bang, crash, no, no, no, go, go, go, boom, bam, pew, pew, bang, crash".....there, you just saw Transformers without waisting 2.5 hours of your life.
in which bay hijacks a ludicrously expensive, mediocre toy commercial with a solid family blockbuster base by spielberg and instead teaches millions of 10 year-olds the visual vocabulary of violent, racist military action movies. still so funny to me that this was literally only conceived because hasbro felt GI joe would be considered too controversial with the iraq war under way and then greenlit bay turning their children's space robots movie into one of the most jingoistic disaster movies of the bush era. what's even funnier is that it's one of the better ones, operating on a level of visual sophistication only matched by how monumentally stupid it is. in other words: a perfect merging of material and maker. soundtrack includes linkin park, goo goo dolls, the used, smashing pumpkins, taking back sunday and disturbed. we have to go back
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It's odd to return to the (relative) simplicity of Transformers after The Last Knight, which was so bursting at the seams that it inadvertently caused Bumblebee to exist. In comparing the 2007 film to even the first couple sequels, this is a mild Michael Bay scrambling of a Spielbergian concept. It's still batshit crazy - from the post-9/11 distrust of the Iraq War, the Decepticons stealing American secrets, the hilarious 'ding-dong' portrayal of George W. Bush with his red socks - but rooted in a calmer structure, a less toxic overview, and more traditional set-pieces. Of course, you can't tame Michael Bay, so the military tech fetishes, racist/sexist caricatures, and often hypnotic transformers interlocking, exploding, collapsing mid-battle find their…
Rotten Tomatoes: 58%
Metacritic Metascore: 61
IMDb:
77/100
Release Date: 03 July 2007
Distributor: Dreamworks
Budget: $150M
Worldwide Gross: $709M
OSCAR Nominations: 3
Total Film Awards: 20
Sam Witwicky: "Fifty years from now, when you're looking back at your life, don't you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?”
SYNOPSIS: An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager.
I was not a Transformers kid when I grew up in the late 80's - early 90's and I think that's why I wasn't so hard on Michael Bay's film when I caught it…
So many memories.....😢
I remember when I watch this movie for the first time with my friends. We would spend all are recess and lunch time just talking about this movie. I miss those times :(
If I were charged to compile a list of ten or twenty scenes which I feel are the worst in the history of film, the bullshit that takes place at the Witwicky residence about halfway through Michael Bay's cinematic abortion Transformers might just make the top ten. Culminating with the introduction of John Turturro's government agent, and Mrs. Witwicky shouting "get your hands off my bush," this scene is the moment that my blank indifferent stare at the nonsense that was washing over me turned to a seething rage, and I realized that not only did Michael Bay not give two shits about what he was doing, but also that the film was an aggressive insult to the intelligence of…
On the one hand, it is functionally insane that a movie based on toys contains so many bizarre racial and sexual jokes. On the other, they simply had to be here in this, the ultimate pairing of subject and artist. It's altogether fitting that Bay and his writers should refashion Japanese toys into the ultimate War on Terror era franchise, one that came out at the tail end of the Bush admin and thus embodies both the feverish militarism of the decade and the growing resentment of the American public to its own mess. Thus you get baffling contradictions like civilian programmer nerds instinctively standing respectfully for the Secretary of Defense and absolutely no end to the love-in for the…
Bay's inability to negotiate a tone other than "extremely loud, all the time" is far more damaging to the expository but rather good-natured first half than the usual culprit of his diabolical sense of humor (relatively restrained here, left mostly to extraneous, momentum-killing comic tangents like Anthony Anderson's hacker). Fox, over-bronzed, coated in lip gloss and physically objectified though she may be, actually claims the most credible and defined character (especially placed next to Shia's shrieking, entitled asshole). And then once the action gets rolling in the last hour or so Bay slows down the cutting in favor of lengthy CG-assisted tracking moves; the mayhem is (unsurprisingly at least to me) extraordinarily well-oriented in the final urban assault. I've said…
Sam Witwicky: How did you know about his glasses?
Optimus Prime: eBay.
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I have never seen any of the Michael Bay Transformers movies before so I have decided to watch them all.
This movie was so stupid but I honestly had fun with it. The characters were terrible and their dialogue was cringeworthy but the action scenes and special effects really saved the movie for me.
Almost none of the characters were believable and they felt very loud and exaggerated for no reason other than being annoying. The humor also didn’t work all the time and often made scenes too ridiculous (for example the soldiers needing a credit card to call the pentagon during a battle). …
i dunno man when the cars turn into robots and fight each other and things blow up i tend to smile
Michael Bay is a magician and understands the concept of misdirection a bit too well.
The first time I watched this he managed to convince me that this wasn't a total disaster by bombarding me with cosmetics, explosions and a constantly sweaty Megan Fox.
This time around the cosmetics still look great, the explosions are annoying and Fox could do with a shower as she looks nasty in all the wrong ways. For some reason I always thought the second part was far worse than this one, but when push comes to shove this is an equally hollow affair. The fact that it was the first one and that it doesn't suffer that much from the ridiculous stacking of moronic over the top and poorly choreographed action the sequels have, is probably the reason why it gets a bit more credit.
It's just a rather dull collection of pixels (Fox included) and LaBoeuf running and not much else.
