The Transformers movie poll!

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:26 am

Starscream, you'll appreciate this (if you can get your mouth out of Mirage's crotch for five minutes):

http://www.tfw2005.com/~buzzbeak/112.jpg

Post by **vynsane** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:43 am

How True!

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:07 pm

Please assure me that everyone here is too smart to buy a ticket for this piece of shit just to see how bad it is.

If you're still considering watching it, check out this turd.

[url]tp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZGObFPpMbg[/url]

Ran · Post by **Ran** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:48 pm

anarky wrote:Please assure me that everyone here is too smart to buy a ticket for this piece of shit just to see how bad it is.

If you're still considering watching it, check out this turd.

[url]tp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZGObFPpMbg[/url]

In the past 6 years, I've been to the theater 3 times (AOTC, the 2nd LOTR flick, and ROTS). No way in hell I'd pay to see this one.

What are the hard core TF fanboys saying, anyway?

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:56 pm

You mean the ones who are really scary, who say that you're not a true fan unless you know the entire Japanese Beast Wars cartoon in the original Japanese?

Check out this thread at tfw2005.com. It makes me embarassed to say I like Transformers.

The best part is when some guy (I don't know who; I've never registered any of my IDs there, nor do I know anyone who has) points out that it's ridiculous slapstick, and all these goons jump on him and say that's the stupidest thing ever said because Episode 4.51 showed Ironhide in a snowball fight, and obviously this guy doesn't really know Transformers.

Oh, and all these trained warriors supposedly in disguise are just walking around in circles, stepping on everything, is so touching that it brings tears to their eyes.

Seriously, hardcore TF fans scare the shit out of me.

Post by **vynsane** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:01 pm

anarky wrote:Seriously, hardcore TF fans scare the shit out of me.

not to mention that they're called "trans fans" - and that the slogan is "more than meets the eye". yeah, i'll bet. how many of their "girlfriends" have adam's apples?

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:48 pm

BTW, I heard that you should stay until after the credits. There's a great scene of Michael Bay lighting a cigar with a hundred dollar bill, then jacking off into a vintage Prime's trailer. But the kicker: he calls it Huffer!

Double_G · Post by **Double_G** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:40 pm

Okay, now there's a whole lot of positive reviews online. People are saying this is a kick ass movie. Now, I wasn't a hardcore Transformers fan when I was a kid. I watched Beast Wars a lot more than the G1 cartoon. I had a few toys. When this was first announced (with Michael Bay as a director), I thought that there was no way this could be good. But at the same time, I didn't give a shit that "they'd be fucking around with my childhood". I was more of a Ninja Turtles kid anyway. Flash forward to today with all the media we have now, I'm starting to change my mind. This movie's just a popcorn flick. Bigass robots fighting each other, explosions, Megan Fox...fun shit. What's the point of bitching about the movie? "Oh, they changed Starscream's design! I fucking hate it!" Who gives a shit? It's just a fucking movie. About giant robots. If you don't want to see it, don't see it. But if there's a whole lot of positive buzz from fans, you'll probably give in and see it. However, even though I'm excited to see the movie now, I still think Michael Bay is a cunt. He knows how to make an action movie, but I just hate his personality. The success of this movie will fall on ILM and Megan Fox's smokin' hot body. So has anyone else changed their mind about this?

mabudon · Post by **mabudon** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:07 am

I'm still confident in calling it a steaming fucking turd- but as you see, probably none of us will even watch it, so I may never know

buzz is buzz- fuck man, some folks say that goddamned "hulk" movie was good so fucked if I know for sure

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:14 pm

I'm going opening week. I always was. Live Action Transformers? C'mon. That's awesome.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:59 pm

EP, you are dead to me.

I think I'd rather be surprised in the dark by Ron Jeremy sticking his johnson in my arse than have to sit through this chunk of shit.

And I say that as a guy who thinks Simon Furman is the fourth entity of the Holy Trinity.

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:40 pm

I don't really care about Transformers - I guess I read about 4 issues of the comic and had 3 toys, or thereabouts. They never did it for me. As it stands, I'll likely wind up going with Pegger (he's already brought up wanting to see it - loves the TF's, Pegger does).... but I haven't got any high hopes for it being any good.... hell, I haven't even seen a trailer.

Chux, I guess you've been following the production of this thing a little closer than I have - iin your opinion, what's the matter? And I'm not kidding - I'm totally out of the loop.

kidhuman · Post by **kidhuman** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:49 pm

The malfunction is that the movie looks like pure shit. It looks like Michael Bay hate a hamburger, and it transformed in his gut and he shit it out and got Starscream

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:46 pm

It looks like Michael Bay has made the ultimate stupid brainless alien invasion movie, and used names of classic Transformers characters to sell it.

I don't mind changing stuff around. A movie has to be new and different, no doubt about it. But stupid little things bother me. Like all the Transformers have to be GM cars because of an exclusive licensing deal. And their using Peter Cullen as Prime, but passing over Frank Welker (despite Mr Welker still doing a lot more VO work than Cullen--not that they're not both demigods). Or, with a base of more than 200 characters to draw from, they felt the need to create new characters. Why?

The humor seems to be absolutely moronic. There's a scene where Bumblebee plays make-out music to help Sam Witwicky (Bay thought "Spike" was an unrealistic name) score with some eye candy. (Nothing against eye candy, but, done properly, this should be one of the few movies that doesn't need a hot chick or two.) Or where three Autobots walk around in a circle in Sam's backyard while Sam keeps diverting his dad's attention. Um, hello? Robots in disguise? Why didn't they turn into fucking cars and park in the street? My favorite uses of humor involve dogs peeing on Ironhide and Bumblebee shitting on Army pursuers.

Every robot looks alike. Except Prime, who's blue and red, and Bumblebee, who's yellow. Fight scenes in the trailers are impossible to follow, since it's a bunch of CG robot lemurs engaging in gay sex acts. Make your movie about gay robot lemurs, fine. Just don't call it Transformers.

Michael Bay also proves in every interview he does that he knows jackshit about the property, cares even less, and just wanted a surefire hit after his last bomb or two. The fact is, I think audiences are fucking sick of him.

It looks really, really bad. I've been a TF fan for years. I know G1/G2 pretty intimately, and don't give a flying fuck about most of the rest.

JJ, if you can find them, issues 56-80 of the original Marvel comic are by far the best. Without those, it would've been a fairly forgettable toy-based comic. Simon Furman really is a god. I'd recommend checking out IDW's paperbacks (Infiltration, Stormbringer, Spotlight, and Escalation, soon to be followed by Devastation and Megatron: Origin). Furman's essentially given free reign, and I dare say it tops even the Marvel run.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:12 am

Oh, the new series easily tops everything that's come before since the Marvel Run was run was basically trying to keep up with the toyline as new properties were produced. They couldn't keep up a consistent plotline and flesh out the characters because 10-15 new robots were showing up every other issue. I will say that was partially why Budainsky was hamstrung with his stories. But towards the end, when Furman took over, they had run out of new toys and he could play with the ones they did have. Which led to a remarkable run. But it was too little, too late and sales on the book dictated it be to rest.

NOW, every Generation1 character has been established, so Furman has free reign to pick and choose which characters to utilize when and where he sees fit. The depth and breadth of the storyline he has planned will become more and more apparent the longer it goes on. And he's not forced to stick the latest Aerialbot or Combaticon into his story to appease the Hasbro Gods. And I missed Megatron: Origin #1 dammit.

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