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Originally Posted by funkychinaman
I went back and watched a few episodes of the original Sunbow series. By today's standards, it wasn't great, and it definitely benefitted from the rose colored glasses of nostalgia. (Sepia colored glasses?) Given the source material, I think the writers and Bay did a decent job of it.
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Oh yeah, I mean the old series is goofy as hell when you're not a kid anymore, but nostalgia is about remembering things as they should have been, not as they are. Though some of those episodes were utterly hilarious.
"It will take more than your puny arm to stop Devastator!"
"Riiight...Which is why it's lucky that the
hand at the end of that
arm...Is holding a gun!"
City of Steel, goddamn wonderful it was.
Anyway, I don't think it's as much a case study in point-missing as, say, John Frakes' absolutely godawful
Thunderbirds movie, I'd just rather have had a director who was willing to let me see what was going on in fight scenes and mechanical designs that weren't confusing jumbles of tens of thousands of tiny moving parts. And for Bay to sign a declaration that he does not understand comedy and will stop trying to perpetrate it anyway.