Michel Bay sucks the life out of Transformers

note:this only really makes sense if you grew up in the 80's or hate directors that insist on doing thier own interpretation of classic stories with only the goal of making as much money as possible by taking someone elses work and bastardizing it for fame and profit. Also you gotta like Generation 1 Transformers.


My big problem with Bay’s Version of Transformers is he didnt bother to try to keep faithful to the source material. I mean WHY change the basic fundamentals of Transformers lore? Allspark instead of Matrix? Sam instead of Spike? A camero instead of something smaller? I know VW wouldn't let them use the bug but come on.. I mean look at the redesign of Devastator! He looks like a pile of twisted rainbow crap sprinkled with pixiedust.    There was ABSOLUTELY no reason to change the basic design of the character. At least Prime looks sort of like the original. The fact that they MISNAMED a character in the first film (Brawl was named Devastator) and just went..”oh well lets just use the name again who cares” should tell you something about how passionate they are about the franchise. The fact is we fans of the original series and comics are the ones that kept the story of the Transformers alive for 20+ years. I got my first one in 1984 and have been hooked ever since. They crapped on our fond memories of a great toy and comic and said…lets do it again!
If someone redid Lord of the rings and made the hobbits blue with giant ears that flopped when they walked, Gandalf a woman and Aragorn a comedian played by Jerry Sienfeld people would have cow. Its the same darn thing here. I’M not trying to compare Transformers to LOTR in regards to the quality of the story but you get the idea. Theres a basic fundamental story and Bay just took what he wanted to make money and disregarded the rest.

If they had named the movie “gobots” and changed all references to Autobots/Decepticons and Cybertron then you could watch it and NOT get that it was about the Transfomers but just another robots invade earth film. You should be able to take one look at a film about something like Transformers and immediately say…” hey thats Optimus Prime or Dude look it’s Megatron !! Awesome!.” With this film they basically wrote thier own movie and slapped the Transformers name onto it it and shoehorned the history into it.
Why the hell is Megatron a jet? And soundwave is supposed to be one in the next film too? Thats just lazy writing. Bay said that they couldnt have soundwave a Boombox or music player like in the original history because it didnt fit the role they have for him in the film. Well dude….seriously…why name him soundwave then? Name him something else . Dont use names for robots that have had the same general form for 25 years and make them something different just beacause you want to make money off the plug of thier name into the film.

If they had released the movie without the Transformers name it probably wouldn't be so controversial but they tied it to something that alot of people who were kids in the 80′S have fond memories of and they gave it to a directorial team that said " F it ima do what I want im a big time hollywood director woot! Lets make some greeeen! $$$"

Bay wanted to do his take on the Transformers well who the $%@* cares about your “take” on transformers? You took a great story with interesting characters and absolutely ruined it. Box office be dammed.

You go to hell Michael Bay you go to diry hell and  you fail .