Silver_Surfer1 wrote:So, is this a racial issue, or not? What do you think?
Having seen the movie yesterday, I think that article is blowing it out of proportion. The characters do seem like walking stereotypes, but that line about not being able to read?
They couldn't read a dead language that likely hadn't been used since the pyramids in Egypt were built. I think that can be forgiven! However, I would have been just as happy if those characters weren't in the movie. Some more established Transformers characters could have been used in their place and it would have been more enjoyable.
GhostVoices wrote:Not only do they largely fail to recapture the magic of the cartoons, but they seem tailor made for the dregs and hipsters,
Yeah... if they didn't have Peter Cullen for Optimus' voice, I probably would have passed on the first one entirely. I found it enjoyable once I got past the fact that most of the robots look like piles of scrap. The second one, while it makes a good action flick,
has the most unnecessary crude humor and out of character representations I've ever seen. Optimus and Megatron were very badly written in this one. All the forced, unnatural feeling attempts at catchphrases in the climax really annoyed me, too.