What sucks about these 80's remakes is how they change things for no good reason. Don't get me wrong, I understand some things must change, that's why its an ADAPTATION. However, when they made Transformers all goofy and filled with humans, it was like they didn't believe in the source material. There were a handful of forgettable bots (with the exception of Optimus, Bee and Megatron.) and an whole slew of humans I cared nothing about. Why did we need the hacker kids? The goofy FBI guy? Why did we need the military guys sidestory? What I'm saying is WHERE WERE THE TRANSFORMERS?!?!? Cause that's what I came to see! All you needed was Sam, his family and Megan Fox for the human characters. (And don't get me started on the Autobots "sneaking" around Sam's backyard.) I know they want to appeal to the masses, but they always go too far. How about just make a good movie, ppl will still come to see it. I also gotta say, if I was an African American I would be upset about the bogus, stereotypical black character that gets thrown into everyone of these things with no regards to character development or anything. They turned Jazz into some throwaway, yo, yo waz up character. When he could have been a strong supporting presence. I haven't seen the sequel but I hear there are brother cars (a la Sideswipe and Sunstreaker) that are worse. I haven't seen G.I. Joe but a Wayne's brother (and not one of the good, funny ones) plays Ripcord, and from what little I've seen he is the stereotypical, yo yo sup B, buffoon. I may be mistaken but I believe Ripcord was originally a white character. What was wrong with the established existing African American characters? What about Stalker? What about (one of my personal favs back in the day) Roadblock? Needless to say I'm very afraid for Panthro. What I'm saying is, stop changing things just for the sake of changing it. If it ain't broke, don't monkey around with it! I just don't understand why every movie that comes out today has to be watered down for the masses. I say instead of assuming the majority of ppl are stupid and making the movie for them, make it for the intelligent and for the fans and raise everyone else up instead of bringing us all down.
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