Just back from the 12:01 showing. Holy Shit that was a beautiful looking movie! And quite funny too, Shia seemed to be mimicking another comics style with the really fast talking but he pulled it off well and managed to stay pretty funny throughout. But none of us will see this movie for Shia Lewhatever's acting skills.

Echoing everyone else, this movie was simply amazing for the senses. The visuals were top notch and not spared at all in the scenes that were shown, but also the soundtrack was really effective as well. The heavy rock tracks, I'm going to call them rock b/c I don't know enough about music to tell the differences, were really good at indicating mood changes and sounded great. I'll be getting the soundtrack for this one with certainty.

The plot was good, but not air tight of course. There's no way you could reverse engineer our comparatively crappy technology from something as complicated as a Transformer. It'd be like sending an iPhone back to the Romans and having them discover how to make their own rudimentary telephones. However they did a really good job of integrating the humans into the story so that it wouldn't have worked without both them and the Autobots. There are several times where you might be focused on the Transformers and what they're doing when the action shifts back to the humans and you see what they're doing in the same circumstances. Some people may not like this, but I thought it worked fairly well to keep us from forgetting about the people (and making the movie more appealing to non-Transformer fans, who could easily go in and enjoy this with absolutely no previous experience with anything Transformer related.)

The one thing I noticed and didn't like about the way the movie was made was that they did a lot of cutting away and then having time skip forward what seemed like hours while the characters responses indicated only minutes had passed. Example: A helicopter that was detected 20 miles away from a base in broad daylight making a beeline for the base at average helicopter speed. Said helicopter doesn't land at said base until the sun is all the way down. A couple instances like that don't really mess up the movie but they are noticeable if you're paying attention to little details, which by the end you certainly won't be. Also that section 7 guy was an annoying little prick, and I'm really sad he didn't die.

Another Note...I think the only reason this movie is PG-13 is because only robots get really roughed up on screen. Some of the stuff that happens is downright brutal and certainly would warrant an R if it was humans involved.


As to a sequel, they left it possible but they didn't do a good job setting up a potential Unicron/Galvatron scenario with the way they handled Megatron, though I think they could still make it work if need be.