Sweet ass teaser poster for Transformers!

[the mongoose]

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

:eek:

"It's a robot sphincter ready to shit on our childhood"

God you gotta love some of the Aintitcoolnews talkbacks.....:D:D:D

but *this* (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6152589.html) sounds questionable......

[cured]

the site is live, by the way...

http://www.transformersmovie.com/

[b.miller]

i am hoping hoping HOPING this turns out OK... I am actually in the camp that Michael Bay is a good choice to direct a Transformers movie but the little that I've read of the script is... PROBLEMATIC. that link above about the xbox 360 is just the tip of the iceberg...

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

In the past, most every film released July 4 tends to be a big pile of poo.

[cured]

I'm worried about the movie not because of the animations and plot tweaks but the fact much of this movie (from what I've read in terms of script reviews) appears to deal with humans and the transformers themselves are the eye candy in-between "acting" scenes.

If humans were eliminated from the movie equation altogether, I wouldn't mind one bit.

[the mongoose]

Click (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v729/DSethC2002/bumble.jpg)

for the first pic of an Autobot.....ok now I'm worried.:(

[cured]

^^ that wasn't as bad as I expected it to be. We'll see what the final product looks like...animation, etc.

[Sean]

Teaser trailer is online here....

http://www.transformersmovie.com/ (http://www.transformersmovie.com/)

[the mongoose]

animatic found - here (http://www.shootfortheedit.com/media/tfaccess01.mov)

:cool:

[adam]

i will amputate my head if this is good

not that i want it to be bad, that's not what i'm saying

i'm just saying, i'm so sure this will be bad, that i'm laying that offer on the table.

there.

is.

no.

way.

this.

will.

be.





good.

[the mongoose]

man, Megatron looks pretty damn evil (and cool) now that I'm over the shock and horror of them changing him........

Behold! (http://servewithchips.blogspot.com/)

:cool::cool::cool:

[ffolkes]

errr... he looks like shit.

[myrrh]

I just watched Trailer 2 and I think that this movie is going to be pretty good.

[viddy]

This is going to be bigger than Spiderman 3. The CG is tight and the sound is freakin brutal! One hint of musical awesomeness...SABOTOGE! you'll see

[King of Snake]

I'm sure it's gonna be absolutely shit but I'm going to go see it anyway :)

[Tom]

This is going to be movie of the year for fuck's sake.

Opened in AU today, gonna see it tomorrow night.

[big screen satellite]

This is going to be movie of the year for fuck's sake.

Opened in AU today, gonna see it tomorrow night.

yep the computer game geek fan boys will be out in force for this one... ;)

[adam]

I will eat your brains if this is movie of the year. It's Michael fucking Bay.

But...I scored free sneak preview tickets. Going tonight.

[adam]

Saw it. Yaawn.

[kid cue]

:(

that bad?

[kagenaki koe]

i havent seen it but i did see HBO's First Look at the movie. it will make you want to kill michael bay.

paraphrasing some of what Bay said:
They showed me this picture of this truck that's been lowered WITH FLAMES ON IT....and immediately i thought that's DEFINITELY Optimus Prime..........

[adam]

It's really totally mediocre. Like, the script isn't great, the robot models aren't great, the action execution isn't great. None of it is as bad as it could have been, honestly, but none of it is good enough for me to muster any enthusiasm. The action scenes are chaotic and the robot models are too busy. The pacing is all hectic madness which always irks me that these supposed a-list directors don't understand the importance of build-ups.

And unfortunately, the comment about a robotic sphincter ready to shit all over our childhood comes way too close to the mark.

[adam]

Oh, can we never see the "computer hacker who gets harassed by his <strike>mother</strike>grandmother" character again?

[Tom]

You disliked 300 as well, though, and like MGS for the story, so, you know...

[adam]

Talk to me when you can make it past Metal Gear's first enemy.

Seriously, I know the second one's plot was nonsensical. But the third one?! Awesome.

...and if you liked 300, you'll probably like Transformers.

[Tom]

......
Caps.

OMG TEH ROBOTS IS HAVE NO CHARACTAISATUNS!

[adam]

No, that's not what I mean. When I say the script isn't great, I mean it's actually not that bad considering the source material. There are some lame moments, but they really didn't do a horrible job. I mean all the people I saw it with agreed that the models had so many parts that it was kind of harder to discern what was happening with their bodies, especially the monochromatic ones like Megatron. Kind of like Mario and his overalls was about making his arms really visible? I don't know if that comparison is clear...

[kid cue]

"I think it's going to be something the audience has never seen before. In all the years of movie-making, I don't think the image of a truck transforming into a 20-foot tall robot has ever been captured on screen."
— Tom DeSanto on why he produced the film

[adam]

They should have put Truckasaurus in. That would have been huge.

[kid cue]

Dinobots ftw imo

[adam]

I always liked the Combaticons. Only group that I had all five.

[kid cue]

i actually had no Dinobots. my favorite that i had was a Decepticon that turned into a hovercraft, i don't remember his name :(

[Tom]

I had that one too, the hovercraft.

My fave was a big fat die-cast metal Prowl. You could literally kill someone with it.

I really wish I kept all my old toys :(

[grady]

You disliked 300 as well, though, and like MGS for the story, so, you know...

But 300 is best viewed as an extended trailer set to that nin song rather than a two hour film.

[Tom]

You're siding with adam.

Think about it.

[adam]

Actually, it occured to me in 300 that I would have enjoyed it much more if I were just listening to The Fragile.

I so wish I had kept all my toys too.

[cured]

A buddy of mine caught the advance screening of Transformers a couple weeks back, I figured some of you may want to read his review:

***MILD SPOILERS BELOW***

After much anticipation, Friday night I finally saw it.

There's a lot to love about it and a lot to hate about it.

I mean, look, it's a movie about giant robots fighting and yes, we get that....but you have to wait for it.

There's a great opening set piece where a military base in Iraq is attacked by Bonecrusher (I think that's who it was - the helicopter) and then an even better sequence with Scorponok fighting the Marines in the desert.

But how's the robot on robot action? Barricade and Bumblebee go at it, first as a car chase then in full blown fight sequence, which is poorly shot and edited to the point where you have no idea what's going on.

Luckily, however, they fix that problem.

The second act gets very corny and when Optimus arrives on Earth and explains a lot of what's going on, he and his cohorts, Jazz, Ratchet, etc, speak like kids at a mall. They learned how to speak English on the world wide web. Yikes. I know. When Optimus says "My bad' after crushing a bird fountain you start to wonder if this whole thing is going to go South completely.

Then Megatron arrives and all hell breaks loose. Gone are the campy, corny comic moments and bad, cheesy dialogue and after enduring a painfully paced second act, Michael Bay rewards you for sticking with the build up. It starts with a freeway chase in which most of the robots are transforming and fighting literally in mid chase then fighting and falling from freeway overpass to freeway overpass...and Bay slows down the action so you can see metal grinding and crunching against metal.

Then the war is on and they nearly level all of downtown L.A. in an epic 30 foot high robot battle sequence that has the Autobots fighting the Decepticons with the Marines in the crossfire. Cars are flying through the air, people are being flung every which way. Glass is shattering, and buildings are crushed. It's a whirlwind finale that proves the age old adage, an audience will forgive a lame first or second act if you wow them with the third. Bay does just that.

So, the bottom line is this....if you're up for seeing a fighting robot movie, you'll be entertained. It is NOT as serious or intense as the trailer indicates. The film is definitely more light-hearted and retains some of the goofiness of the cartoons. It is VERY LOUD and pretty much the definition of the mainstream popcorn picture. It's better than everything else that has opened this summer....but I'm still waiting to see DIE HARD 4.0 (I will NOT recognize the US title, Live Free or Die Hard. Fuck that.)

[Tom]

Movie of the Year.

[Tom]

I liked it when the transformers came on the screen and transformed and had fights.



Come on adam. Fight me.

[adam]

Seriously, Tom. WTF. 300? Transformers? I bet you like the Saw trilogy, too. I can't handle the fact that you like such absolute garbage.

[cured]

I have mixed feelings about this. Some parts of it were so well done but the action sequences were hard to follow most of the time. The "hacker" and "Section 7" characters could have been completely eliminated and they were VERY poorly cast.

Michael Bay didn't want to do this because it was a "stupid toy movie." I pray that he won't even be near the next movie.

All in all I give it an 8. There was some great action there to make me forget about the snail-like middle of the movie and some bad decisions in regards to shaking the shit out of the camera during big fights scenes. And kudos to the ILM guys for the kick-ass FX.

More on this after the rest of you lot have seen it.

[cured]

on a side note, the new JJ Abrams movie they showed a trailer for looks like it'll be a good one. I'd give both my testes (yes, left and right) if he'd do the next Transformers movie.

[adam]

I don't know how your review warrants an 8. Or was that out of 100?

Seriously, an action movie with action sequences that are hard to follow...? Boo-urns.

[the mongoose]

Saw it tonight. Fucking loved the graphics and action. Even the humor and campy shit worked for the most part.:cool:

(However that annoying human sized robot kinda sucked though)

Almost too much for your brain and eyes to handle in one viewing.:cool:

[cured]

I caught the movie again tonight (first time I took my niece and her boyfriend to see it, then i caught it with a bunch of friends). I told everyone to sit in the back of the theater and it made for a better viewing experience.

That Sector 7 aspect threatened to shut down the movie, didn't it?

And did anyone happen to catch where Barricade ran off to? He wasn't present in the final scenes.

The script wasn't horrible...the first 1/3 of the movie was actually the highlight for me. As the reviewer I quoted earlier said, the middle of the movie really dragged and the last part was action-fockin' packed. The problem I had was I wanted some perspective...there were random robots firing and unless it was Bumblebee it wasn't easy to figure out who was who. That was the part of the directing I absolutely hated as it was set on an MTV attention span. No shot for more than 2 seconds before changing picture.

I stand by the 8, though, it was a fun movie and I can't wait for the 2nd one.

[the mongoose]

$$$$$

Click (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=21745)

Cash cow.;)

[grady]

Boo-urns indeed adam!

Four ibuprofens, a couple pints of water, dinner, and some drinks, and I still have lingering headache. The same thing happen to me last time I saw a film bearing the words, directed by Michael Bay and that was Bad Boys 2.

Sure it was cool that robots were fighting and this and that, it would've been cool if I could've seen and discerned what the hell was actually happening on screen.

Sure ILM did a nice job on the effects, if only the camera would've been pulled out very wide to really see more! Were there any masters or wide shots shot during the making of the film, or was it a situation that since it was so effect heavy, they stuck with mediums and close ups as it would be more cost effective in the man hours associated with the animation and rendering. Even when there was the few far and between wide shots, it would be cut away to something of little or no use.

[Tom]

You guys are off your fucking trolleys.

The only scene where I had a little trouble keeping track of the action was Bumblebee vs Barricade (The cop car), when they went for a roll around in the dirt in robot form. Other than that, I thought it was fine.

And no adam, Saw was fucking shit. And I can see how you could mistake my taste in all things as garbage, in that you actually like The Fragile. Fuck the Fragile. Engage that, you cunt.

[adam]

LOL! Bumblebee peed on him! Get it?! LOL!

[the mongoose]

LOL! Bumblebee peed on him! Get it?! LOL!

I did lol at that, and so did the whole theater I saw it with.:D

I was very surprised how much the slapstick comedy stuff worked on me. Bumblebee's radio songs, the Autobots sneaking around the house while Shia went looking for the glasses, and this gem:

"The boy's pheromone levels suggest that he wants to mate with the female."
:D

[b.miller]

sigh......

really?


is the whole world taking crazy pills?


REALLY?

speaking as someone who LOVES Bad Boys 2 (but maybe for the wrong reasons), I think Bay really missed the mark with this one. I knew the in-between bits would be lame but was at least hoping for decent action and was severely let down. Pretty much the only part I liked was Bernie Mac in the beginning, but even that scene had to get lame at the end. Product placement toy commercial complaints aside, this is like a movie for 3 year olds marketed to 16 year olds and I really hope watching this movie doesn't make people dumber. I really hope there are some other people out there who were bored and borderline offended by how the movie treats its audience like I was.

"uploading virus"

[Tom]

how the movie treats its audience


"Here, have some 3 story robots beating each other up and doing other awesome things."

Those fucking bastards.

[Tom]

LOL! Bumblebee peed on him! Get it?! LOL!

I guess it wasn't high brow enough for you. I can understand that.

God damn it, die in a house fire already.

/sneer

[Sarcasmo]

Tom...if you weren't already married...


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The Transformers was fucking shit-hot. I was sporting wood throughout the whole film; because Megan Fox was leaning over Bumblebee's engine, because Optimus Prime shanked Bonecrusher, because Ironsides did all that diving and shooting shit, becuase alot of buildings and cars got busted up and blown to shit. Because Agent Smith was the voice of motherfucking Megatron!

[Professor]

this was a huge waste of time. really reminded me of ninja turtles. big robot suits. hmpf. sap here. sap there. cheese here... god it was totally and completely aweful. and i like some DUMB stuff.

here's my question. if the cube killed megatron, why didn't they just point it at him in the first place?

ugh. at least we had a great dinnner before hand. AND my ass fell asleep during the 2hrs and 23 minutes of cheddar.

[Tom]

Professor is added to the kill-list.

[gambit]

My thoughts from my lj:

I certainly wasn't expecting Transformers to be anything deeper than Independence Day, but I was expecting more robots. Instead, it's mostly about a lowly high school kid being the savior of the world and trying to get into the pants of the hot girl at school (who just so happens to know everything about cars). It must've taken a good 45 minutes for Optimus Prime to show up, and the movie was winding down to its climax when Megatron finally reared his ugly head. Granted, if a Transformers movie is to take place on Earth, then humans need to be there. Logically, they have to be, and the U.S. military is going to get involved (but strangely, that's it--I'd figure more of a global operation if an alien invasion ever happened), but get that introduction out of the way and have the transforming robots from outer space take center stage. We do get a good amount of robot-smashing action, but it's about the transforming robots from outer space and not Joe Schmoe.

Also, I found it...unsettling that one of the Autobots was talking like he was from the hood and, coincidentally, the only Autobot to die. And Optimus Prime has lips. Optimus Prime does not have lips.

[kagenaki koe]

just saw this this morning.

the movie was a good popcorn flick. and for those that say "if you loved 300 you'll love this" well, i loved 300 and only found Transformers as okay.

and for all the hype i heard about the action at the end, it was rather dissapointing for me. i only like the part where Prime shanks that one decepticon in the neck, that was badass. and Starscream switching from robot to plane form constantly while fighting was possibly the closest thing that reminded me about what i enjoyed with the original cartoons. but the rest of the big finale seemed blah to me. (i'm one of those people who loved all the action of the second Matrix, but didnt see what the big deal was about the action in the original Matrix).

the pacing for the most part was really good all the way up to about when bumblebee gets captured, then after that everything seems rushed for some strange reason. like they slowly introduced the autobots and you get a feel for their characters a bit, then suddenly there are all these decepticons names thrown around in a few seconds in their nonrobot forms and then the action just starts....and the little boombox decepticon seemed to have gotten the most screen time of ALL the decepticons (and i assume this isnt even Soundwave).

just my 2 cent review

[adam]

From Vern vs. Transformers:

"Imagine you took apart a whole bunch of cars, mixed the parts up and welded them all together into a giant ball maybe 15 or 20 feet in diameter, then rolled it down a hill. Shoot that in closeup and you got every fight scene in this movie."

"What Michael Bay has already done to action editing and staging he has now done to character design...If you're gonna make us wait two hours for a big dumb robot fight at least make robots that we can tell apart or can distinguish what they are doing or which part of their body is the head. In a Godzilla movie I can tell which one is Godzilla and which one is Mothra without studying it frame by frame and comparing it to charts and diagrams."

"They were already onto the next scene by the time my brain processed the fact that I had just seen a Mountain Dew machine transform into a bad guy robot. Hopefully he will be the main villain in the sequel. But he'll be defeated by a good guy Nike truck."

"You can't realistically expect a movie as good as ALIENS every time, but that's better than resigning to the idea that "summer movie" equals "horribly made infantile disposable pap" and being excited about it anyway. If a summer movie is meant to be like TRANSFORMERS, then why the fuck aren't you people embarrassed to be going to see summer movies? At least have the decency to admit that it's a strange, possibly deviant hobby."

[adam]

Q Did you find yourself walking the line between creating your own vision for this movie while also trying to satisfy the ardent Transformers fan base?

A Listen, I make my own movies. I don’t need anyone else telling me what to do. I wasn’t a Transformers fan before I signed on to do this movie, but I actually went to Hasbro and met with the CEO and went through the whole Transformer school, about how to fold and unfold all the robots. I figured, what the f**k [laughs]. I’ve been offered a lot of superhero movies before, but nothing really appealed to me. If I was going to make this movie, I wanted to make it real, something that could be new and different. I’ve quickly become one of the biggest authorities in the world about these toys, but I tried to make this movie for non-Transformers fans.

[gambit]

Well, with that attitude, I can see why he was chosen.

[third.toughest]

I was a HUGE fan of Transformers when I was a kid, followed the cartoon, went to see the animated movie, and collected the toys. I thought it was a massive steaming pile!!!! I wasn't sure if I was watching a movie or a propaganda film (part automobile company/part "Yay US Military"). I was EXTREMELY disappointed in it!!!!!! The effects were sloppy and happened so fast I couldn't tell what was going on. The plot was ridiculously stupid.

[chuck]

I wasn't sure if I was watching a movie or a propaganda film (part automobile company/part "Yay US Military"). I was EXTREMELY disappointed in it!!!!!! The effects were sloppy and happened so fast I couldn't tell what was going on. The plot was ridiculously stupid.

Are you that are bitching and moaning even listening to yourselves - you expected what exactly from the plot - The Piano?/2001: A Space Odyssey?/Dogma?/Transformers by Shakespeare??

FFS - it's a movie about giant talking robots!!!

That's it!

It's got action, it's got a hot babe, it's got holes in the story, it's got cheese, it's got some comedy.

It needed more Barricade and more Starscream - but there's always time for a sequel.

I'm not creaming my pants and saying it's the best movie ever - but I went and saw it on the biggest, loudest screen in my town, precisely because it's a movie about BIG FUCKOFF ROBOTS beating the crap out of each other.

I laughed at bits, I cringed at others, I went "Team America, FUCK YEAH!" a few times, and all in all basically walked out having enjoyed myself the entire time. And the wife did too - and she hates geek culture and pop-hype.

Christ - go back and watch the original Hasbro cartoon and get all anal retentive and invertedly obtuse with your analysis over that "infantile pap" - which coincidentally involved big robots talking and cheesing it up far more than the movie did.

I want to see an Aussie version take place at Bathurst in which 40 foot high Holdens and Fords beat seven shades of holy hell out of each other.

:D

[gambit]

It was barely about giant talking robots.

[kagenaki koe]

Christ - go back and watch the original Hasbro cartoon and get all anal retentive and invertedly obtuse with your analysis over that "infantile pap" - which coincidentally involved big robots talking and cheesing it up far more than the movie did.

i have an issue with this. there are a lot of complaints about the "re-design" of how the transformers looked. and what was the reason they gave us? they wanted it to be "realistic". what's the point of trying to make the robots look realistic if the rest of the movie "doesnt take itself seriously"?

[adam]

It did involve robots cheesing it up but it didn't involve masturbation jokes or robots peeing on things (that I recall).

I would be fine, given the source material, if it were a stupid, well-done action movie. By my standards, it wasn't well-done. The "Vern vs. Transformers" quotes accurately convey my problems with the action and design. Weak.

[Tom]

i have an issue with this. there are a lot of complaints about the "re-design" of how the transformers looked. and what was the reason they gave us? they wanted it to be "realistic". what's the point of trying to make the robots look realistic if the rest of the movie "doesnt take itself seriously"?

Actually try and visualise the G1 models moving and interacting in real life. That's why.

blah blah blah

Fucking hell man.

I saw it again last night and it was rad. All youse bitches are fronting.

Starscream was badass and needs a whole movie revolving around him.

Chuck once again proves that people from the southern hemisphere know what's up.

[kagenaki koe]

Actually try and visualise the G1 models moving and interacting in real life. That's why.

the story and acting in the movie isnt exactly all that realistic. can you honestly say that designs that bears some semblance to the original G1 models would not work when the rest of the movie is campy and cheesy to begin with? like saying Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! would look better if the aliens looked more like Aliens™

[Tom]

can you honestly say that designs that bears some semblance to the original G1 models would not work when the rest of the movie is campy and cheesy to begin with?

No, I'm saying the G1 models couldn't physically move in a 3D space. It'd look like guys in godzilla suits.

[King of Snake]

just saw this yesterday, and I must say I was pleasantly surprised. Or rather it did everything I expected it to do in a pretty good way. I really dug the design of the transformers even though I had my doubts from looking at the pictures, it all worked great in motion. I think they made the right decision by making it pretty light-hearted with a lot of humour. Okay it wasn't always the best jokes but it had some great moments, especially the autobots trying to not get noticed when they're at (whatever the main guy's name was)' house.
Who cares about the story really, for me it didn't get in the way of the action and there was definitely plenty of great looking action scenes.

[King of Snake]

btw I think Tom said it best when he said:
I liked it when the transformers came on the screen and transformed and had fights.


hell yeah

[King of Snake]

btw a few people have mention a part 2 in this thread... has this actually been announced already? Of course they definitely kept that option open in the story (dropping the decepticon wrecks in the ocean rather than melting them in a steelworks which would probably have been the more logical thing to do if you wanted to get rid of them forever :)) so it would be a pretty safe bet that there would be a 2nd one.

[the mongoose]

has a part 2 been announced already?

Click (http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/23/news/companies/hasbro/?postversion=2007072315)

3 million toys sold.....and with a budget of $150, it has in a little over a month made "$595,606,786" worldwide. I think that a billion dollars just might convince someone to maybe just maybe do a low budget, direct to video sequel with none of the same cast or crew involved.:p

[Renze]

Worst movie I have seen in a long while. For the first time in my life, I was seriously thinking about leaving the theatre halfway the movie.