[QUOTE=cmyk]
Good assessment on how the movie might turn out though. And as much as I like the more profound fair when it comes to movies, sometimes I just want to see giant, menacing robots trash the planet for its own sake.
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I agree with that, however if I don’t see Megatron cut down Starscream or any other Decepticon stupid enough to speak a word of descent with vitriolic sarcasm you will read about a movie theater Manger being bludgeoned to death with replica V1 Optimus Prime.
[QUOTE=RetroVertigo]
Was I the only one hoping Optimus Prime would transform into a gorilla?
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<SLAPS RetroVertigo with a Wet Robotic Trout>
[QUOTE=Stuffy]
Well in the cartoon the robots didn’t originally look like earth vehicles either. The ships computer Teletran 1 modified their bodies to match earth vehicles so they’d blend in.
I feel like the biggest geek in the world knowing that.
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Aw, c’mon! Any geek with even a passing knowledge of the original Transformers knows THAT! 
(Sure beat the snot out of the Gobots TV show, where the premiere episode featured the Gobots on Gobotron :rolleyes: transforming into Earth vehicles in the first two minutes…)
I’m sure Rattrap could make a lot of jokes about those mangled-metal robot forms they’ve got…
Cybershark? Is that you?
[QUOTE=MonkeyMule]
I agree with that, however if I don’t see Megatron cut down Starscream or any other Decepticon stupid enough to speak a word of descent with vitriolic sarcasm you will read about a movie theater Manger being bludgeoned to death with replica V1 Optimus Prime.
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[starscream]
**BUT, MEGATROOOON!?!?!
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[QUOTE=Hey you!]
Medic Ratchet is going from the logical ambulance design to a Hummer.
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Actually, if you think about it interms of a military ambulance, it does make a certain amount of sense.
Though one of the points of the Transformers was that the Decepticons traditionally took the form of military vehicles and the autobots civilian ones, though there were exceptions (Powerglide, Warpath, etc…)
Thank god there appears to be a romantic subplot to hold my interest, because giant alien shapeshifting robots invading Earth aren’t anywhere near as cool to watch as a couple of generic teensomethings and their struggling relationship. Having viewed that trailer, I must say that I’m overwhelmed with suspense about whether those kids will make it through all right.
I wonder if that little blonde girl by the pool was the same kid from Spielberg’s War of the Worlds remake. That would be cool. Even if she isn’t, I’m going to pretend that she is. The My Little Pony placement was a nice touch.
Was that a pseudo-Bush presidential-type character I glimpsed there? It would be awesome if he calls on his National Guard piloting experience to personally battle Starscream. Sort of like that president from Independence Day. Interesting how these summer movies all kind of run together after awhile. It’s like all the scripts were stamped out using a Play-Doh Fun Factory.
I didn’t see a dog, though. That can’t be right. Is there no dog?
Speaking of gorillas and Optimus Prime… I recently read an article about how the western lowland gorilla may soon be extinct because of a massive Ebola outbreak that has killed something like 80% of the total population so far. There’s no available funds for any kind of immunization program (evidently a vaccine exists that has proven effective in monkeys), and primate researchers are left hoping that maybe some wealthy philanthropist will offer to pony up the cash. Meanwhile our society will probably wind up throwing tens of millions of dollars at a summer movie based on a line of toys. I think it’s a safe bet that future generations are going to regard our culture as unfathomably, Easter Island-level weird.
I am a bit disappointed, I have heard (no cite, sorry) that Megatron is going to be some weird alien looking cannon thingy, instead of a handgun.
I can understand why they would do that, since they are hoping to keep the physics at least a little credible.
But shouldn’t he be transformed into a Self Propelled Artillery piece or something?
Latest rumor I heard was Megatron will be some sort of alien spaceship/jet.
[QUOTE=Hey you!]
**Loving it! **
Whereas the cartoon seemed mostly involved with the Decepticons viewing Autobots as their foe with humans being bystanders; this seemed to change the thrust to the Decepticons invading our planet with the intent of eradicating the human species with only the Autobots to stand in their way.
This seems like a far more compelling twist to me.
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I like the original concept better. Though I recognize its harder to make a widely appealing story out of such material.
-FrL-
They’ve updated the trailer to add a bit of Optimus dialog at the end.
Personally, this is nearly a foolproof movie for me. Nearly.
Are there giant robots?
Do these robots in fact disguise themselves as mundane vehicles and other objects?
Do these robots fight?
If yes to all three, awesome. I don’t give a crap how faithful it is to old cartoons or how many flames Optimus Prime has. The only way to screw this up is to focus too much on the humans instead of the giant transforming robot fights. The trailer hints that this might be, but I still have hope.
Giant robot fights are the right of all sentient beings.
Semi-Hijack (no Optimus jokes, please 
)—Why did the phrase “Transformers Hentai” cross my mind?
Og he’p me, I know, but still…
[QUOTE=Terrifel]
Thank god there appears to be a romantic subplot to hold my interest, because giant alien shapeshifting robots invading Earth aren’t anywhere near as cool to watch as a couple of generic teensomethings and their struggling relationship.
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LOL - you remind me of that kid I saw at the Seattle Aquarium a few years back. Standing next to the glass of a gigantic tank, with toothy sharks and other fish four times this kid’s size swimming past his head, he pointed at the bottom of the tank and squealed, “Daddy look! A starfish!”
(Yes, I realize you were being sarcastic, but still …)
[QUOTE=Menocchio]
They’ve updated the trailer to add a bit of Optimus dialog at the end.
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Where are you seeing this? Following the link in the OP, I don’t see anything I would describe as “Optimus dialogue at the end.”
-FrL-
Regardless of whether or not he speaks in the trailer, all that matters is the got the original voice actor from the cartoon to do Optimus’s voice! That’s all I needed to knwo to see this movie!
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor]
“Transformers Hentai”
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Lord have mercy.
I will watch this movie. It has giant transforming robots in it, that is a good thing. I do have a concern that it will feature the worst sides of both Michael Bay (atrocious directing) and Steven Spielberg (mood wrecking sentimentalism), a combined force that can easily crush any potential quality in any movie.
My other gripe is that the robots are not very characteristic, from what I can tell from the trailer. If I hadn’t watched Transformers as a kid and played with the toys (I had an Optimus Prime at least), I wouldn’t know that the Transformers are highly distuingishable and characteristic, 'cause Michael Bay seems to portray them as anonymous mecha-somethings. Here’s to hoping it won’t be horrible.
You know, it just wouldn’t be a Transformers movie without Weird Al’s Dare To Be Stupid. I just hope that they’re able to slip it in somehow.
[QUOTE=Amp]
You know, it just wouldn’t be a Transformers movie without Weird Al’s Dare To Be Stupid. I just hope that they’re able to slip it in somehow.
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Was that song in the animated movie? Was it part of a montage or something?
-FrL-
[QUOTE=Frylock]
Was that song in the animated movie? Was it part of a montage or something?
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It was in the Junkion scene.
[QUOTE=Hey you!]
According to Wikipedia…
Bumblebee is no longer a VW Bug, but a bitchin’ Camaro
Jazz is going from a Porche 935 Turbo to a Pontiac Solstice
Medic Ratchet is going from the logical ambulance design to a Hummer.
Thank you, GM Marketing Department.
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Aww, hell, if all that turns out to be true, then it’s another long wait until someone does a decent Transformers movie. Not that I held much hope for a Bay picture, anyway. (Bumblebee. A Camaro. The name doesn’t quite scream a glossed-up muscle car.)
Hmm… if there’s no “cheat[ing]” then I doubt we’ll see a Soundwave. Damn shame, too; although, it’d be hilarious to see him as an updated MP3 player. Laserbeak could then be, say, an ejectable Micro SD card.