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I must be getting old. 
I just saw the Transformers Live Action Movie.
and it started me. :eek:
I flinched and my heart starting racing. :eek:
and I have never been in a car crash. :o
Haha! 
You used too many smileys! :mad: :rolleyes:
You think that’s cool 
but we all laugh at you! 
I’m skeptical you saw the movie already. :dubious: But it makes me happy that you might have! 
:smack: 
:eek: :eek: :eek:
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Heh. I nearly jumped out of my skin at the “Large Marge” scene in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. I think I squealed higher than the 7-year-olds that made up most of the rest of the audience.
The Transformers movie frightens me, too, but more on a philosophical/existential level.
I did not see the movie yet…it was only the new trailer.
Do you think it might be more than meets the eye?
I did too.
But then…I *was *only ten years old.
I’m holding out for the $200 million My Little Pony epic. Somebody get Jerry Bruckheimer on the horn!
I can’t wait to see a live action version of this:
Oh, it’s screened. It screened down the road from me a couple weeks ago at a local theater here in Phoenix. The Anti-Chri…I mean, Michael Bay, was here as well. That said, I want to see this movie soooooo baaaaaad…
It’s giant robots, man!
GIANT ROBOTS!
That scene scared the bits out of me…and of course my best friend at the time kept rewinding it and over and over…
Also, I echo the affirmation: **Giant Robots! **
Though I wish Bumblebee was still a bug .
So it’s not a joke? Somebody actually made a big-budget movie based on a moronic 1980s cartoon that was basically an ad for toys?
I’d rather shoot my toes off than put a goddamn nickel in Michael Bay’s pocket. I hope he dies soon.
Michael Bay says it reminded him too much of Herbie.
On a related note, has it been revealed what Megatron turns into, or is it still a secret? The producers thought it was ridiculous that the main villain originally turned into a weapon that someone else had to hold- one of the producers said it would be like Darth Vader turning into his own lightsaber and someone else holding it.
Bumblebee, sadly, will never be a VW Bug again, because VW refuses to let one of their designs be used as a weapon of war.
Full stop.
Annoying, but there you go.
Not sure if these classify as spoilers, I mean, I havent seen the film, but from what I understand:
Megatron is found by the army frozen in the Antartic, where he has been for fuck knows how long. I believe I spotted a glimpse of him in an army base with loads of scientists studying him, in a tv spot or trailer. He’s inactive, and is in his Cybertron form, which is all spiked metal and such like. I’m assuming at some stage he “wakes up” and brings the hurt to many Frink-esque scientists. If Steve Buscemi is gonna show up in this movie, its probably here.
He doesnt take an earth form, and instead transforms into a UFO style jet. I can dig it. I’m sure he has some kickass dialogue about how he wouldnt insult himself by transforming into a pathetic earth vehicle. Well, this being a Bay film, kickass dialogue may be scarce, but you what I mean.
So far, i dont mind what I see. Fanboy haters are up in arms about how Prime has lips that move when he talks; Why would a robot need lips, this is an outrage, my childhood is raped, blah blah blah… they seem to forget that many G1 Transformers had lips; shit, Megatron had lips. As for flames on Optimus, well, I’m not going to lose any sleep over that.
What does niggle at me is how “meh” I am over the Autobots in vehicle form; one shot in the trailer shows them driving through the desert… It took me a while to realise what I was seeing. I initially thought that it was the army dudes, or feds or whatever driving somewhere, but then I realised; its the autobots, on their way to a mission. And I thought; this is our hero’s? Cars? Ok they transform into kickass robots, but there’s only so much excitement that you can get from cars driving places. This is where I pray that Bay does what Bay does best; kickass action sequences.
The promised scrap between Bonecrusher and Prime on the freeway should be worth admission price alone; both robots, driving full speed down the highway, sporadically transforming and fighting at 80mph. I’m there.
Except that the movie is bound to dissapoint, because a movie simply CAN NOT match your imagination; as such, the action in the movie wont live up to all those battles to the death between Autobots and Decepticons that were waged on your living room floor all those years ago.
Actually, I read in a USA Today article that Volkswagen was okay with the use of the Beetle, but Michael Bay said it reminded him too much of Herbie the Love Bug.
Hm. Fascinating, if true. I know that for the last five years, Bumblebee the toy has been unable to be a VW Bug for that reason. I trust USA Today’s reporting roughly as far as I can throw it, while I trust a friend of a friend at Hasbro who had an entire design denied for that reason significantly more. The design was reprinted in a book on the ‘Binaltech/Alternators’ series.
Yes, it says BMW. I don’t want to know why, I’m guessing a brain fart, but they show the same reasoning.
See Bumblebee and Jazz there.
The current IDW Transformers comics (the main line - Infiltration, Escalation, Devastation, Stormbringer and Spotlight) have Bumblebee as a bug. So, while it might apply to the toy line (that article mentions Hasbro, only, not any of the companies that have licences for movies/tv shows/comics based on Transformers), it doesn’t necessarily apply to licensors (although the people behind the movie may have factored in the idea that they couldn’t do a Bumblebee toy if he was a bug in their decision).
I’m sorry, I thought that was a ‘went without saying’ thing. I mean… Transformers movie and you can’t make a toy out of one of the main characters?
What do you think this is, art?
Well, the series’s fans are true fanatics, but outside of that small group of males who were sentient yet pre-adolescent between 1984 and 1987, the story is completely impenetrable. Some geek in Hollywood is making quite the gamble.