It was pretty dope all things considered.
You'd better put out.Pick me up at 530. Movie starts at 7. I require cheap dinner before hand along with flowers. Oh yeah and I'll bring the popcorn
I love the transition from Hot Rod being a hardheaded immature character to being the savior of all the autobots and decepticons.
It was awesome, but there were a lot of groups that were trying to cancel all the awesome stuff of the time. Watchdog groups alleging that all the awesome cartoons of the 80's were making kids violent, etc.
Yes, viewing it as a adult the story is pretty straight forward and it's clear where, who & what the story was going to be. But as a kid, holy shit did I disliked Hotrod for about an hour in, mainly due to the fuckup he did in the beginning of the movie. It's pretty dark for kids movie, but other than that the redemption and revenge you could say was satisfying. I really like the scene when Megatron gives himself up, killed and resurrected into a straight savage, just hunting and killing fools. If only Bays movies had this much heart that this animated film had.
A lot of people preferred Simon Furman's take on the Transformers over Bob Budiansky's. Not that I'm necessarily one of them; actually, I prefer the G1 cartoon over Budiansky or Furman, though between the two I'd take Budiansky's run. I think I'd go with the G1 cartoon and the Dreamwave comics based on G1 as my favorite iterations of the Transformers, probably. I actually liked season 3, especially Return of Optimus Prime. But I thought there were a number of other excellent episodes, like ''Only Human", that featured Cobra Commander, or the stuff with the ghost of Starscream. Season 4 was awful though, no argument there.
What about "Gone But Not Forgotten", the issue where Megatron is consumed by his paranoia over Optimus Prime returning? I thought that was pretty sweet and it started the Transformers tradition of Megatron fighting the Predacons. I thought the idea of Grimlock taking over was a pretty cool idea and I agree that the storyline with Blaster was pretty interesting. I suppose it is probably true that Budiansky lost his way somewhat before Furman took over, but I still tend to prefer his run. Furman is 100-times better than what passes for comic writing these days, but he just got too hung up on minutia and long-winded explanations IMO, if that makes any sense.
