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Old 09-June-2006, 12:42 AM
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Default The NEW "Transformers" movie...

Being a child of the 80's, and a transformers collector, this is very exciting!

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23545

http://www.transformersmovie.com/ (note: countdown is until trailer)

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http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/05/...ansformers-mov ie/
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Unfortunately it's being directed by Michael Bay - the man responsible for such craptacular films as Armaggedon and Pearl Harbor.

I'm in a dilemma. I love transformers, but can't stand Michael Bay!
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And a transformers movie will be good because? do u think it will matter who directs a film for 7 year old boys?
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I don't know about you guys, but I am intrigued... =) the current transformers cartoons are a joke.. I hope this movie redeems them.
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http://www.blackfilm.com/20060512/fe...st_video.shtml

Plot schmot. I wanna see this thing.
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And a transformers movie will be good because? do u think it will matter who directs a film for 7 year old boys?
As a seven year old, I had a small army of those toys. I WANT THIS MOVIE!
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Doodler, I'm with you. I still have a few of my old collection. (Somewhere.) I also want this movie, only done well.
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Doodler, I'm with you. I still have a few of my old collection. (Somewhere.) I also want this movie, only done well.
To their credit, the first dibs chances on the voice acting roles for the lead characters is going to those who voiced them in the original cartoon series. The only concern is how different they might sound with some 20 years between them and the last cartoon.
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As if we need yet another "Let's see how many kids we can get addicted to this junk" movie.
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As if we need yet another "Let's see how many kids we can get addicted to this junk" movie.
This is just a much a "Let's make money from nostalgia" movie, which is exactly why I want to see it.
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I'm not so sure this is going to be a kids' movie. How many kids' movies have the tagline "Their war. Our world."?
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The evil robots had this device that they could point at coal, oil, diamonds, etc. and turn them into energy cubes. So why didn't they just like use it on people? I mean carbon is carbon, isnt' it?

And will the new movie be ecologically sensitive? Will the robots transform into hybrid cars? (I hope so, that way they might turn less of us into energy cubes.)
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Optimus didn't look particularly streamlined in that clip. I am also not sure how comfortable I am with optimus being white and not red, but that may be temporary.

I am seeing this movie, whether it is good or not. There are certain movies I am simply obliged to see whether they are actually worth seeing or not. This is one of those movies.
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Optimus didn't look particularly streamlined in that clip. I am also not sure how comfortable I am with optimus being white and not red, but that may be temporary.
Keep in mind that was a technical audition reel done by a company that wants to get the contract for the CGI work for the film. They wouldn't have had the license to create footage of a red Optimus Prime (yet). Doing so would have been a mite too risky in terms of liability.
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I was never really a Transformers fan, and I'm even less of a Michael Bay fan, so I don't know whether I'll be seeing it; however that FX test was surprisingly realistic, and makes me think they might be going for a less hokey tone than those (I'm sorry) silly cartoons.

To be honest, I never got the idea behind the Transformers. I mean, so they're aliens from the planet Cybertron. OK, then who built them? And why would they change? Surely it would be more efficient to have one form capable of performing both body and vehicle actions simultaneously?
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To be honest, I never got the idea behind the Transformers. I mean, so they're aliens from the planet Cybertron. OK, then who built them? And why would they change? Surely it would be more efficient to have one form capable of performing both body and vehicle actions simultaneously?
Do we build fighter craft that can repair and rearm themselves? Transport vehicles that can also double as electricians?

Vehicles have their uses in transportation, but are ill suited to other tasks. Wouldn't it be spiffy if, instead of having to own a car and find a parking space for it every day, we could simply turn into some form better suited to rapid transportation, then transform back to our original shape when we'd completed our commute?
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To be honest, I never got the idea behind the Transformers. I mean, so they're aliens from the planet Cybertron. OK, then who built them? And why would they change? Surely it would be more efficient to have one form capable of performing both body and vehicle actions simultaneously?
Apparently they were built by some uber-aliens to defeat a giant uber-transformer thing. I am pretty sure they were not originally designed to transform, their ship decided it was a good idea to retro-fit them while they were unconcious after crash-landing on Earth. The ship figured they wouldn't fit in with the other machines on the planet so it modified them. Unfortunately it couldn't tell the difference between friend and foe so everybody got modified (this after the decepticons managed to get on board the ship).
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Apparently they were built by some uber-aliens to defeat a giant uber-transformer thing. I am pretty sure they were not originally designed to transform, their ship decided it was a good idea to retro-fit them while they were unconcious after crash-landing on Earth. The ship figured they wouldn't fit in with the other machines on the planet so it modified them. Unfortunately it couldn't tell the difference between friend and foe so everybody got modified (this after the decepticons managed to get on board the ship).
Actually, no, they could transform before as well. First ep of Transformers had several autobots transform into alien vehicle thingys when they were scavenging energon (bars, not cubes) for the trip. They loaded it up in the closed cargo-bed of the autobot that later turned into a red 80s toyota-like van.

The ship decided to alter their vehicle transformation forms to stuff it found by scanning, as you say, to allow the transformers to blend in with the locals. And you're right about the computer not disginguishing between the autobots or decepticons.

Man, every time I think about it, I'm a bit more stoked for this movie.
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Actually, no, they could transform before as well. First ep of Transformers had several autobots transform into alien vehicle thingys when they were scavenging energon (bars, not cubes) for the trip. They loaded it up in the closed cargo-bed of the autobot that later turned into a red 80s toyota-like van.

The ship decided to alter their vehicle transformation forms to stuff it found by scanning, as you say, to allow the transformers to blend in with the locals. And you're right about the computer not disginguishing between the autobots or decepticons.

Man, every time I think about it, I'm a bit more stoked for this movie.

And to be nitpicky: That "ship" is called "Ark" and that "Toyota Van" must have been Ironhide. The über-Aliens are the Quintessons and the über-Transformer was Unicron.

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