Comments on: Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye

By: zeppelinrox

zeppelinrox — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:02:21 +0000

Loved the soundwave scenes that were inserted but like uker mentioned above, there were a couple of questionable cuts.
Too bad he didn’t watch the whole thing though, as the second half was better than the first half.

7/10

By: r8s8fr8

r8s8fr8 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:53:57 +0000

This one had quite a lot of issues for me. Scenes that did not work properly, a mood that did not get to me. Transformers is ridiculous fun action. This version like Uncanny Antman’s Freddy vs Jason tries to hard to make it serious and destroys the mood with that. Sorry, but I think the faneditor should work some more on his edits before releasing them. Silent Hill Red God was bad and this is not better at all.

By: uKER

uKER — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:50:16 +0000

I forgot to mention:
- The scene with Sam leaving Mikaela at home became so short and pointless it’s awkward they made a cut back & forth to show it.
- The scene with Scorponok attacking became terrible since you removed the whole sign falling scene, which eliminated the anticipation. Him attacking about 5 seconds into the scene made it totally uneventful.

By: uKER

uKER — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:45:47 +0000

Honestly I was downloading this and watching as every file downloaded and I decided to cut it halfway since I thought it was terrible. Some of the things that bugged me:
- Sam arriving at the lake cut so short that there’s no explanation for Mikaela’s behaviour.
- Sam’s college lecture on his great grandfather AFTER he buys the car so it doesn’t make any sense him saying the sales are for his car’s fund.
- Intertwined scenes with the Allspark shard and Ravage totally pointless. The Allspark wasn’t broken at that point.
- Left the crappy call center gag. WTF?
- As the first poster said, after Bumblebee gets stolen, he is not seen as a robot, so why does Sam freak out?
Technically the cuts were not bad, but the plot became mangled.

By: ab5tract

ab5tract — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:02:57 +0000

Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye is just what I would expect from JasonN. Tight editing in both video and audio, with no technical flaws whatsoever. A strident cutlist that can border on the overly chopped. And a highly enjoyable fanedit, to boot.

(Note: this is a review of the AVI version)
VIDEO: 10/10
AUDIO: 10/10
EDITING (TECHNICAL): 10/10
EDITING (CUTLIST): 8.5/10
ENJOYMENT: 9/10

As always, this fanedit was built to please its fanedtor first and foremost. So it is no real critique when I say that removing the Maggie/hacker friend arrest did not work for me. When they come back later in the helicopter, it feels very tacked on. The addition of Soundwave was a really cool idea and was delivered impeccably. The epilogue, however, did not so much. I like the concept, but with the current execution it also feels too tacked on. I also think removing the Army/Sector 7 confrontation had a negative impact on the flow of the story, as it is not quite obvious why all of the sudden Sector 7 is deferring entirely to Sam.

All that said, this movie is exactly what I’d expect from JasonN: a technically flawless fanedit that delivers a significantly more serious tone to movie that desperately needed it. The tone of this fanedit is almost completely different than the source material, especially after we get past all the original awkward features and into the action.

By: killbillme

killbillme — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:35:23 +0000

Ok, here is my review of this fanedit. Now as a way of setting this up I must mention that I don't know JasonN, I don't hold any hatred or animosity towards him. Sometimes I have been accused of being unduly harsh and insensitive. But that is not my intention, I just call it like I see it. So JasonN if you are ready for this read on... TRANSFORMERS: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE Just finished watching the AVI. I watched the original film once and was not impressed. Also I was never a big TRANSFORMER TAS guy. But when you get 4 TRANSFORMER fanedits in 1 month well I guess you have to find out whats going on. VIDEO Beautiful. Pristine quality. No flash frames or awkward edits. Also no AR/Border issues as in other releases. AUDIO Crisp, sharp. loud. No bad edits. STORY/ENTERTAINMENT Amazing work. It really moves along and doesn't get bogged down. I didn't re-watched the original but did watch UA's and Kevinicus so I can compare them that way. I saw this version first and the opening with Sam buying a car worked perfectly fine for me. The only time I got a bit confused was when Sam sees Bumblebee return the next morning and acts like it's a spawn from hell. it was strange because Sam didn't see BB do anything out of the ordinary the night before. For all he knew BB was stolen. So that had my head scratching. Also you trimmed the British blonde with her hommies and her arrest, all to the good. but then I saw her again in the chopper with Sam's line about his car being a robot and it just reminded me of her and I started wondering what happened to her, what she was doing there, etc. REVENGE OF THE FALLEN I would be remiss if I didn't mentioned the additional REVENGE OF THE FALLEN footage. Great idea. Some of it works, some doesn't Soundwave and the satellite was brilliant. Specially since it allows you to trim the goofy little cell-phone robot. Ravage's attack I can understand and almost forgive. But the epilogue in China was a bit too much. It's too long and you have the audience now wondering "when is this going to end?" and that's not what you want to happen. But I don't blame you. I did the exact same thing in my PREDATOR: ROUGH BEAST fanedit. Alluding to a sequel which I knew I was never going to make. (But there's all this good footage, right?) Overall, a good time was had by all. Well done. On a technical level Audio and Video are impeccable. On the editing level, it is seamless. On a story editing/entertainment level, I enjoyed the movie. On my street-wise rating system I give this film a GREEN LIGHT: Step on It!.