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Went and saw this last night, I thought it was the best movie I've seen in ages. Audience loved it everyone was cheerin and clapping at the end and a part in the middle too. Gets into the action right at the start of the movie, no boring bits!

What else could ya want, cool robots, big guns, cute girls and some sick action.

Big 5 stars for me if you liked Transformers when you were a kid then go see it.. not childish or anything at all it was awesome!!

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well i used to have pretty much every single transformer... mirage optimus prime, megatron, sound wave, star scream..... etc etc until i found out my mum gave them all to one of her friends kids and now realise how much the originals are worth on ebay continually pis**s me off!

Anyways as a bday present the missus has booked me gold class at innaloo.... CANT WAIT!

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Ive been waiting over a year for this (damn traliers) should be seeing it in the next few days... but am I the only one that wishes a Skyline was a transformer in the movie?

Maybe its the little kid in me, but id love to put some autobot logos on my car lol.

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Ive been waiting over a year for this (damn traliers) should be seeing it in the next few days... but am I the only one that wishes a Skyline was a transformer in the movie?

Maybe its the little kid in me, but id love to put some autobot logos on my car lol.

Hahah I just got an autobot decal from ebay. Dunno where/if I should put it on though.. it's silver about 15cm.

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Yer wasnt bad it hought they did a good job by not really showing you "everything" (no full screen shots of robots walking about) which lets the audience use their imagination a bit. Not really what id expect from Bay at all. I did however crack up when all of a sudden the ac-130 appears out of nowhere in Qatar, us has like 12 of those, i think the chances of one being in the area would be minimal. yes im one of those technocrats.

all in all much better than i expected but dont think it deserved its M rating.

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5/5 top movie, very good looking girl :) real funny as well. Apparently (according to the express) there were 39,000 attempts at hacking the Industrial Light and Magic which is the lucas owned company responsible for movie effects etc because fans didn't like Michael Bay...lol 39,000 :)

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i saw transformers on sunday arvo and i havent watched the old transformers movie so i didnt really know what the story line was - but i really liked it.

i thought it had the perfect balance of cars and romance and comedy whilst still being about robots from out of space.

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Ive been waiting over a year for this (damn traliers) should be seeing it in the next few days... but am I the only one that wishes a Skyline was a transformer in the movie?

Maybe its the little kid in me, but id love to put some autobot logos on my car lol.

Seen a white R32 around ellenbrook with an Autobot sticker on the fuel lid.

Also a red S2000 with a few autobot stickers on it with the plates Transformer or something similar.....thats just going a bit too far

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was a good flick, hope they make a 2nd.

they stuck to some of the historical story and added some license. Also like how they linked some of the stuff in.

ie bumble bee parking next to a yellow VW, plus he had a bumble bee air freshener.

effacts were awesome (but thats what you expect from lucas arts)

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Hell yeah!!!! best movie ive seen in a long time! saw it few days ago and oh my god, my eyes were stuck to the screen for the whole movie lol! bit of a shame they changed bumblebee to the camaro but still is a sexy car...they did leave it open for a sequal so hopefully it wont take too long :nyaanyaa:

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wellas im an oldie and grew up with the original transformers as a teen in the late 70's early 80's i was a bit dissapointed as it was nothing like the original transformer .

but what do you expect from the yanks glamorizing brilliant japanese work

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ahh but the idea is to go into it seeing it for what it is not for the brilliance of the original that they can never better

personally by moving away from the original plots they made it easier to watch as a stand alone feature tho if you looked closely there were plenty of references back to the cartoon series

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