Interesting that you like the cartoon movie so much, i found it disappointing once prime dies.? its still a good movie, but it would have been a million times better had the original characters gotten all the screen time.? that was a clear marketing/toy ploy to make money off new characters.
It was a blatant attempt to sell toys, and yet succeeded anyway!
Doesnt it just amaze u that when Prime dies u actually
feel something - a cartoon character's death can actually affect u, powerful stuff indeed!
I just loved the way the film was the anti-matter of cartoons. The 80's was full of guys blazing away at each other and no one ever dying, no one even being injured
..and then transformers the movie comes along - its damn near genocide, the lasers they fire actually hit - there are consequences, finally some realism, some tension - you've been so used to everyone surving for next week, if only all cartoons were the same!
i don't know, i hope you're right Izzy.
Superman's weakness is kyrptonite - a transformers film's only weakness is attempts at comedy, Bay has never given us comic relief in his films - so my number 1 fear is layed to rest!
I just have a very bad feeling about it.? i want to be excited about it as if it is done right with respect to the source material it SHOULD be an awesome movie.? but Bay scares the shit out of me as does that early draft of the script.
People are so worried abou the plot - or the script
Think back to The Island or Pearl Harbour
Was there a plot there at all?
Bay films have no plot - so does it matter if on paper its good or bad - you wont even notice its there!!!
Bay films have just enough dialogue to explain the next set piece battle - with the script being almost absent, will it matter whats in it?
not sure if you've seen all the leaked pics, but they don't even look like transformers to me.?
No they dont - they look like unstoppable death machines from space.
They look like you could take a battalion to them and have your ass handed to you
They look scary and deadly
...so how is that a bad thing?
Dont we want the decepticons to looks scary and deadly? When Meagtron hits the screen i want to be thinking 'oh gods our hero's are in for it now!'
megatron looks like someone puked metal,
But shouldn't he look like some hellish brute? When he's on screen u dont want to be thinking anything but how awesomely powerful he is - because if he doesnt do that, then does anything else he does actually matter
prime has flames on him (WTF!!!!),
It could be worse - he could be a gorilla....
Providing he doesnt have a hippy daisy on the cab, does it matter? C'mon he's a massive truck with Peter Cullen doing the voice, the flames might actually look cool on screen too
bumblebee looks all Gen-x'd.....
Providing he isnt camp in portrayal or played for laughs i dont think its going to matter what he looks like
so long as they have the theme song and the transformer noise when they transform it'll be somewhat good
They dont have either i'm afraid
The theme song is long gone and the transforming noise is the one in the trailer - sorry
i have also heard they got the original voice for prime (now lets just hope he has good lines).
Yep that is confirmed: Peter Cullen is the voice of Prime and possibly Ironhide too (he did both in the show), and Frank Welker (megatron's original voice) is supposed to be involved
god i sound like a fucking nerd hahah
Nope, Transformers transcended popular entertainment - everyone is a fan, its just some people dont know it yet
EXCELLENT point about Boll though...i dont' know how he is allowed near a movie set.? And yes, Bay can blow shit up real nice.? we'll see.
Uwe Boll gets handed all kinds of films that deserve better - if he was involved - or (god forbid!) - Paul Anderson (AVP) or hell even worse - Bryan Singer or Bret Ratner, then u really could kiss this film goodbye!
Ye gods - imagine if Spielberg was directing - there would be more kids in it than the Simpsons!
Imagine the pretentious bore this film would be with Ridley Scott at the helm!
and u dont even want to think about the feminist film James Cameron would turn transformers into - hell they'd be made by ''the man''! (love the guy, but we dont need transformers learning about crying here!)
Michael Bay is reliable - he just does action - no pretentious shite, no 'atmospheric' snooze fest and no ''clever'' political slants.
Transformers is about war, directed by a man who is obsessed with US military hardware - this is a guy who spends all his interviews raving about A-10 Warthogs,
Starscream is an F-22 - we'll be lucky if Bay can take the camera off him, it will be endless lingering shots of the latest hardware - and people are worried abou the human characters having all the screen time!
Its gonna rock!
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