...has officially ruined all other action movies for me. I don't think I'll be able to watch any other action film and go "wow" ever again.

Ya know, until Transformers 2 comes out

Anyone else feel this way?

You know, this si pretty much the only action movie that ever made me say wow. Or even got me excited.


not that kind of excited.... ... why's it always gotta be dirty with you?

Nope.

That doesn't surprise me...

What does surprise me though is that you entered this thread.

Wait...

Actually, that does not surprise me at all.

Oh well, different strokes for different folks and all that

I have to say "No." Shockers...but NOT because I don't love much of this TF Movie.

Yes. I went wow and the entire drive home (at 11:45 at night) and since, I've never looked at a vehicle the same way again. There's a vet tech at the hospital I work at who drives a Mustang. And it's black. All I see is Barricade (yes, Barricade, even though he's not a Mustang but a Saleen S281)

Whatever else you want to say about Bay, the guy knows how to photograph cars and shit. So he knows what they're supposed to look like. I think that background served him really well with this movie, because it made him relentless with pushing ILM more and more towards genuine photorealism. And I think they darn near accomplished it. You can just *look* at the robots in this movie and be wowed.

Exactly.

I also think listening to the commentary and watching all of the extras is what's making me love Transformers more and more - those just show even moreso how much love and hard work was actually put into this movie.

this holds true. one of my friends was telling me "you should go watch sweeney todd" and is telling me about it. his main point was "it has awesome knife fights" and i'm like "Powerglide knife fights! i saw giant Powerglideing robots killing each other in LA/Detroit/backlot!"

I agree with this 100%!!

I felt the same way, watching all of that stuff. But it was hard to watch at the same time. It was just a shame that Bay really isn't a storyteller, because that is the one shortcoming of the movie IMO. It's the reason why the movie is 30 minutes too long, the action sequences are hard to follow, and the plot seems to get muddled in some places (and maybe even the reason why he so often got distracted by military stuff). I don't say that to rip this thread off-topic, just to voice my frustration I guess, because the movie WAS such a huge labor of love, and it shows.

Depends what kind of action movies you like. Personally for me I liked Bourne Ultimatum and Live Free or Die Hard best and thought each did a really good job of raising the bar for action/car chases. Both of which I love.

Transformers raised the bar for visual effects and Giant on screen robots.

As a movie and visual effects experience I loved it very much the same way I like a lot of Spielberg's movies. Not perfect but a lot of love/work went into the overall production and it shows. This is the same reason I loved AI and The Island. The production value is definitely there and with so much going into a film like these as well as Transformers it's really hard to fault them for not being perfect. Personally I'm not frustrated by anything in Transformers. Could have it been better, undoubtedly but for me Bay has already proved more adept to storytelling than Lucus and his NT prequels. I'm surprisingly enjoying Transformers a lot more with each viewing where as by the third time through TPM I was pretty much meh. Too much political bullBlot, slow pacing and nothing that really retained the look of feel of the originals. Transformers was the first ever live action attempt so there's nothing for it to compare to and no G1 doesn't count.

its not a wow for me, its more of a OMFG whos going to top this movie. in mean in the last 10yrs what movie has had a mine blowing impact as this movie did (really)? you have giant robots destroying Blot and transforming into super cool cars........nuff said!!

Jurassic park.

Think about that

cool but not even close, GIANT ROBOTS THAT TRANSFORM INTO ANYTHING, dinosaurs dont get me wrong i love dinosaurs, but there not in the same ball park.

Well no, but remember, it was Jesus' gift to mankind in it's day.
Now... not so much.

It's still an important film, though. It was the first major motion picture EVER to rely on photorealistic CG animation. The compositing doesn't hold up that well over time, but the animation itself is still pretty freaking awesome.

http://jurassicparkwtf.ytmnd.com/