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Saw "Transformers" last night...

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pointdablame:

--- Quote from: NightGod on July 08, 2007, 09:42:39 pm ---I was almost sure Prime said that during the movie, or something very similar, IIRC it was when they were at the dam getting ready to head to the city for the showdown at the end.

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Prime says "Autobots, roll out" at least once in the movie... if not twice or more.  I believe he says it after leaving Sam's house.  He doesn't add the "transform" part, but it does get said.

WunderCade:

--- Quote from: WunderCade on July 08, 2007, 01:42:01 pm ---I thought the same thing NightGod, about the AllSpark. "How did the Autobots come about if it only creates evil machines?" - I kept thinking.

Anyways, I didn't care for the Sector 7 guy, thought he was a week actor especially for a character that was trying to be a heavy-handed intimidating figure, he seemed a little too scrawny and geeky for that part. It didn't work fo me.
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fixed.

Anyways, yep, I caught the "Autobots let's roll" part, but I was hoping for the complete "Autobots, transform and roll out" soundbite. Why is it that Directors are soo afraid of using original material in remakes? It's like they feel they will be a failure unless they totally come up with their own flavor of the characters re-imagined.


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--- Quote from: btp2k2 on July 07, 2007, 01:43:55 am ---How could you possibly think it was good?

Bumblebee pissing on someone? Wait...not just Bumblebee...a robot in general...pissing on someone.

Optimus Prime saying "whoops...my bad"?

Come on. Terrible.

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I found that sappy too. What irked me even more was Jazz's (I believe) rasta voice. Why do movies always have to throw a friggen rasta into the mix. When Star Wars introduced Jar Jar, I could've puked. Those few things a side, I really did enjoy the movie.

danny_galaga:

finally the school holidays are over and i went and saw it. freakin awesome! i never really got into transformers when i was a kid although strangely enough as soon as i saw that big prime mover i knew it was optimus prime! please tell me they made an actually optimus prime-mover for the movie...

since i didnt know much about transformers, most of the things that have bothered some of you didnt worry me. the only thing i was annoyed about was the thing that annoys me about every action flick where there are bullets fired in aircraft...

oh, and it was nice to see an australian actress not have to change her australian accent. doesnt happen often. pommy actors have got it good...

Howard_Casto:
I just got back and I rather liked it.  The decepticons really got mangled character-wise though... only starscream and megatron retained their personalities from the original show.  This is expected though as Michael Bay is one of those dorks that preferred Luke Skywalker to Darth Vader when he was a kid.  It is evident in his films too, as the bad guy's are always given less attention and their original characters/character design are often ignored (see xmen). 

The designs aren't that bad once you see the film, the only exceptions being frenzy and a few of the decepticons.  It actually worked, because, unlike in the cartoon the film's camera angles are at human level (instead of robot level) and all the extra detail gives you something to look at besides a big, painted, metal foot.

The characterizations on the autobot side were pretty good (yes Jazz IS that conrie, and yes he DID have a voice that dumb back on the G1 cartoons) the only exception being wheel-jack, who was a lot more happy-going on the old series. 

As I said before, the deceptions were pretty ruined, but you've got to remember that many of them didn't even speak... perhaps they will be flesh out more in the sequel. 

One thing I need to point out though that Michael Bay must have confused the Transformers with Transformers Beast Wars!  Don't believe me?  Well people complained about the facial designs of all the robots, but they looked familair to me.  After seeing the film I can confirm.. they all have frikkin beastwars heads on!

You'll excuse me if I don't want to waste two hours of my life tracking down comparison pics, so you'll have to google yourself but here's the rundown of the tranformer in the film and who's head/face they used:

Megatron = DinoBot (Beast Wars gen 1)
Starscream = Waspinator
Devistator = Inferno
Frenzy = Taranchalous (Look closely for the 3 pairs of mandibles, even his jittery personality matches.)


Optimus Prime = Optimus Primal (Beast Machines.. look at the face, when his mouth guard is down)
BumbleBee = Cheetor (Beast Machines... admittedly this one looks more original)

What I don't get is why he used Beast Machines heads (which admittedly look like a technofied version of old G1 heads) for the autobots, which really fit the look of the film and the robot bodies, and yet he used very animalistic beastwars heads for the decepticons.  Was he trying to make them look scarier?  Is there anything scarier than a well-armed 35 foot tall robot? I mean poor starscream has a bug head!  Why? Dear god why does bay have to ruin every good villian (including godzilla) that he gets his hands on?

Sorry to rant a little, I just wanted to point that out so that Bay doesn't get credit in anyone's eyes for making an innovative robot design when he just mixed and matched old designs from the old series. 

I did like the flim though

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