My morning-after thoughts probably do count as a spoiler, so...
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Really, OP and Elita and Jar Jar Bee are there too, but this is Megatron's movie. He's the one with a character arc that amounts to more than getting a pep talk after a moment of doubt, having enough of someone's bullshit and then getting over it to work with them anyway, or the stunning personal achievement of shutting the frag up for a full minute without being physically gagged. It's a downwards arc, but arc it is, and it's a far better origin story than off screen time travel that results in being built as the ultimate Decepticon in a cave by a bunch of bots he personally captured and reprogrammed into Decepticons.
It finally gives him more motivation than simple cruelty, ego, and ambition for why he can tolerate no other leader as well, even if it does mostly tread ground the comics broke first to do it - but that's not a bad thing either, as unlike so much of the past ten years of remakes and pastiches, the level of detail and coherence of the result in Tramsformers One make it clear that it come3s from a place of love, that more than just oine of the people making the major creative decisions on the project were knowledgeable and passionate about the franchise as a whole, and wanted tomake a movie that okdheads like us could groove along to while introducing a whole new genration to it in a way that isn't some deconstruction or moral tract, just a cinematic adventure that shiws more than it tells of the deeper meanings and issues it presents.
I really would like to see it get a Phantom Edit treatment to excise as much Jar Jar as possible, though,
It finally gives him more motivation than simple cruelty, ego, and ambition for why he can tolerate no other leader as well, even if it does mostly tread ground the comics broke first to do it - but that's not a bad thing either, as unlike so much of the past ten years of remakes and pastiches, the level of detail and coherence of the result in Tramsformers One make it clear that it come3s from a place of love, that more than just oine of the people making the major creative decisions on the project were knowledgeable and passionate about the franchise as a whole, and wanted tomake a movie that okdheads like us could groove along to while introducing a whole new genration to it in a way that isn't some deconstruction or moral tract, just a cinematic adventure that shiws more than it tells of the deeper meanings and issues it presents.
I really would like to see it get a Phantom Edit treatment to excise as much Jar Jar as possible, though,
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