I have been a Transformers fan my whole life. I followed the 80′s cartoons all the way to the sequel of the Michael Bay movie. But never in my life have I been so appalled by what my eyes saw in Transformers 3 – Dark of the Moon. It was so bad in fact, I had to list my top ten reasons to hate the movie. Here goes:
10. Mudflap and Skids are still there. (Update: They got cut out.)
What on God’s green earth was Michael Bay thinking when he brought these two back? I hate the twins as much as I hate the Decepticons having tentacles in places where they should not be. (Update: Apparently the twins got cut out from the movie. I saw the two characters still in the toyline and without even looking for them in the movie, decided that they were there, somewhere, hopefully being pummeled to their extinction. Thanks #1 Fan!)
9. The storyline is the same as the last movie.
Revenge of the Fallen, hello? Some ancient autobot that’s been raised to life only to bring destruction to Earth through some old technology hidden somewhere? As for the script, did you even understand anything? I felt like I’m hearing parts of the the previous two movies mashed up together.
8. Sam saved the Earth twice but can’t get a frickin’ job.
Seriously, if I were in this guy’s shoes and all hell breaks lose I’m gonna give ‘em the finger and walk it off.
7. Sentinel Prime has a mustache.
WTF. Since when did robots have any preference for manly hair?
6. Wheeljack looks like he’s half-dead.
The only Transformer which looks better in car mode. And he begged for his life. Good thing he died.
5. Starscream died.
Ok, maybe Starscream’s screen time has been stretched far too long. But the Decepticons without Starscream is like sugarfree Redbull. Eeewww.
4. IronHide died.
Why?! Why did it have to be IronHide??? The weapons expert of the Autobots… gone!!! Damn you Sentinel Priiiiiiiiiiiiimmmeeeeee!!!
3. Carly looks like a man.
The only saving grace for the new Mikaela is her sexy British accent. Megan Fox, please come back.
2. Michael Bay recycled clips from another movie.
I swear I have never even heard of The Island but now I feel compelled to watch it and see if Bay did it in the previous two movies. Tsk tsk, naughty move, Michael. You just lost my respect there.
1. Optimus Prime loses an arm but manages to beat a Prime and Megatron literally single-handed.
This drops Transformers 3 really close to Philippine action movies level. Much as I adore Prime, I hate him for winning just like that. He deserves more. I dont know, let all of them die in one sacrificial move to save the Earth?
There’s more to my list I’m sure. But personally, these top them all. It sucked so bad that I will wait for the Bluray release with Behind-The-Scenes features and buy it straight away when it goes on sale so I can have a closer look. Who knows, maybe it wasn’t so bad after all.
Long live Transformers.
7 Responses to “Ten Things I Hate About Transformers 3”
Its ridiculous that Michael Bay encourages non transformers fans to think its all about Prime. Add to the the complete character misrepresentation of Megatron as a sort of deluded bully who can be bossed around. Starscream wasn’t done properly either, he wouldn’t flail about if he lost an eye – he would escape as he always does.
Killing Ironhide was stupid, letting that pass in the film without dealing with the grief was just rude.
I think Bay is a really lazy, unimaginative director who just alters everything to make it simple enough for an idiot to big-up.
Also Hasbro have really failed the franchise – they are quick to meddle in IDW story lines but why not here?
Shame – so many great designs for the characters, such a waste of lore.
I hope this kicks off some kind of need to do more movies, like what happened with Batman – G1 Transformers deserve that, especially if it can be done like IDW’s Infiltration etc.
Okay I agree with u that they should not have killed Ironhide and they did it and didn’t even show any remorse that was so stupid, and in the end yes they should have made it a little harder for optimus to kill those two guys but it was still a good battle scene. And dude I’m sorry if I’m being rude but get ur facts straight Mudflap and Skids weren’t even in the movie Michael Bay cut them from it and no Carly does not look like a man but I do agree that it should have been Megan Fox and even if she had to be cut I would have made her character die in a car crash or something instead of her breaking up with Sam that just didn’t seem right. Over all I thought it was a great movie action packed and amazing. I do hope that they can make a fourth one.
Geoff, couldn’t agree with you more. This stems from the fact that Michael Bay didn’t grow up watching Transformers at all, he himself said this on the TF1 Bluray Features, but he was forced to know Transformers when he was elected to do the movie.
#1Fan, geez, youre correct. I based No. 10 on the assumption that since they were in the toyline, they were in the movie as well. Glad they got cut out.
Dont get me wrong, I love the Transformers like you do and for sure, this will be on my Bluray collection.
The person who wrote this is a moron with nothing in his life to do.
I disagree with some of the comments made here.
Mudflap and Skids are not in the movie?? WTF are you on about? So they got cut out from theatrical release they still weren’t in the movie. Carly looks like a man? lol. Dude you need to get a life, seriously. She didn’t act great but she doesn’t look like a man. Iron Hide dies, and? Autobots have to die. It be very inrealistic if all deceptacons die and no autobots. Plus the death of Ironhide makes it sad and the film more darker. Bay used some old clips from the Island? So what? lol. It’s not like movie watchers are really going to notice. I didn’t notice and I have seen the Island several times. I just don’t go around looking at plot holes to criticise the movie. It probably save the company a lot of money and had already spent $195 to make, plus all the advertising and marketing cost. Optimus loses his arm but he doesn’t beat a Senitel Prime dip shit. Megatron pretty much kills him and all prime does is execute him with his gun.
“It sucked so bad that I will wait for the Bluray release with Behind-The-Scenes features and buy it straight away when it goes on sale so I can have a closer look”.
And you hate the film so much but you are willing to watch it on cinema and now buy the blu ray so you can spend all your precious hours looking for plot holes to diss. Yet so many people criticise the fim, it still makes so much money.
Get a life dick head.
Josh, I was actually thinking whether or not to approve your comment but since I appreciate the time you took for READING my post and actually COMMENTING on it, there you go – your comment is right under my article. Aren’t you happy?
First of all, I do have a lot of things going on in my life, thank you very much. I just enjoy writing out my thoughts on my blog on a website that I happen to own. I don’t go around looking for someone else’s blog checking out every single article they have to look for little things that I don’t agree with and tell them they’re morons and dick heads.
If it’s not obvious for you, then I will spell it out for you: I was being SARCASTIC. I am no fanboy but I love the Transformers. I love the characters, I love the movies (all 3 of them, mind you). Heck, I even love Michael Bay. My post mirrors my opinion about the movie and it was no way meant to be the bottom-line review for TF3. It was a fun way for me to analyze the movie and yes, even to my surprise, there were a lot of things to hate about it. Every single reason written here was my opinion. (Did I emphasize the ‘MY’ part enough?)
I don’t want anyone to agree with me (but apparently a lot of film critics don’t like the film) and I certainly don’t need you to agree with me. It’s my effin’ blog. I want Ironhide alive because I want to and I don’t want pieces of old reels on a new movie because I don’t want to. If you really think Carly doesn’t look like a man then you haven’t been around Asia as much.
And yes, don’t even think about commenting again. Go put up your own Ten Things I Love About TF3 and put Michael Bay’s dick on top, idiot.
i want ironhide alive to.its stupid micheal should of at least let him live till the next movie.great one micheal
K Josh don’t talk smack about Ironhide, he is amazing and he should not have died, he’s defiantly still alive in my books. I kinda agree with u about the island scene but I think u could have used different wording. And I disagree with u about the ending, I don’t think Megetron did all of the killing. Yes before Megatron stepped in Optimus was getting his butt kicked and probably would have died. I honestly didn’t think Optimus was going to kill Megatron and I would have liked to see them work together(or at least try too) in all I liked the final battle scene although it was a bit cheesy.