I caught the midnight showing, arriving at 11:30. It was frickin PACKED! The theatre I went to is huge (18 screens) but I had to park in a completely different complex (for those in Cincy, I went to Rave and had to park at Barnes & Noble). What started as 4 showings developed into a minimum of 9 screens with about 5 marked as sold out when I got to the theatre. Even arriving in the room about 11:40 it was packed to the brim, with the majority of open seats in the very front underneath the screen.
I was completely amazed by the movie. When we got to the Smithsonian and found out the Transformer was a Decepticon turned hero, I kept hoping it was Jetfire and it was! So happy, I always loved Jetfire and his weird history (I didn't do any research to see which 'Bots were gonna be in the movie, wanted it to be a surprise). I'm thinking this was actually better than the first, it had more action and many more Transformers...
LoboStele wrote:
Well, technically Galvatron was in this movie.
The writers said they specifically stuck with the Megatron moniker just so that people wouldn't get confused, but the tank form was always Galvatron in the older series, right?
(I'm not terribly well versed in TF canon, so I may be way off base here)
Nope, Megatron was a tank in Generation 2.
LoboStele wrote:
And did it bother anybody else that Megatron was so obviously a minion of the Fallen? I'd always pictured Megatron as somebody who would never work for anybody else besides himself.
Everyone has to start somewhere
I really liked the idea...
LoboStele wrote:
I did love that Starscream had way more lines in this movie than the 1st one. Got a bit more of the Starscream vs. Megatron rivalry there, which was nice to see fleshed out a bit more than it was in the 1st film.
I loved Starscream's last line, about how cowards live to fight another day. That is classic Starscream!