[greenG4]

Originally Posted by Rev-O 

*cough* wild wild west *cough*

Ah! I own that one too! Fortunately it has already been determined here that the arts are subjective. So I am comfortable enjoying what others call mediocre movies.

[MattJeff]

i wont watch it because of the actor....whats his face...i forget.

[Ado]

SPOILER warning incase you have not viewed the movie yet.



The biggest problem with this movie was from day one- The Art Direction
No emotional attachment to the robots designs...

Too many product placements....
Apple, HP, Xbox, Porsche, General Motors, Panasonic San Disk (was soo obvious), Yahoo, Ebay and America (the world globe in Sams room was obviously set to show only America and not randomly spun)


What's with the GM connection. You'd think if you were a futuristic robot you would actually choose a quality european or Japanese car to incarnate yourself?
Bumble Bee as the old Camaro was charming and I did like that, but Jazz as a Solstice from being a 911...No wonder why he died at the end...
Couldnt live with the downgrade.

What I did like-
Original Optimus Prime voice actor
New Bumblebee look
The Cybertronian language for Deceptacons being translated as subtitles.
Sam was a great choice for cast
Sound Effects were maaaad! Blackouts (the chopper) sonic booms got the adrenaline starting.
Bumblebees choice of songs

What was usual hollywood garbage-
optimus using todays slangs.. e.g. "My Bad..."
Bumble bee pissing
cute girl tooth Fairy line
American soldiers are invincible, have white teeth and are too cool to wear standard issue uniforms.
Comical secret agency
Sexy girl is also has a secret bad past...Only the honest nerd can help.
Labeling certain countries as potential enemies, China, Iran, Russia, Nth korea why dont they make it interesting and say Canada....


Go rent the 80's movie....Atleast it purposely made me cry.

[IceEnclosure]

2007 Pontiac Solstice GXP

TECH HIGHLIGHT:

Ecotec 2.0 Turbo
GM’s new turbo four-cylinder Ecotec is the company’s first gasoline-direct-injection engine in the U.S. and its highest-specific-output engine ever. The all-aluminum 2.0-liter makes 260 horsepower at 5300 rpm and 260 pound-feet of torque all the way from 2500 to 5250 rpm, using 18 psi of boost from a dual-scroll turbo, an air-to-air intercooler, a beefed-up crankshaft and connecting rods, and new pistons with cast-in oil channels to keep them cool. This engine, destined for the Solstice GXP and Saturn Sky Red Line, isn’t a bad first effort considering that VW’s similar direct-injection turbo — the 2.0T FSI — makes 200 ponies

(oh, and it's under 3000lbs.)


just sayin.

[irunat2am]

Originally Posted by Rev-O

Horrifyingly bad movie

Originally Posted by JohnM15141 

And no where did he say he thought it was a bad movie

. . .

[PB2K]

just how much has the TRANSFORMERS movie got in common with the 80's transformers?

[IceEnclosure]

who cares, it's a good movie - not a cartoon from the 80's.

[RAILhead]

Originally Posted by ink 

Point of fact.

Independence day was, at best, a mediocre film.

Can Railhead provide more pictures?

Yes, yes I can:

[ink]

Why, thank you sir.

[Dakarʒ]

torso be hatin' today

[Graviton]

When the president character gave his speech in Independence Day, I actually vomited blood.

Twice.

[torsoboy]

My favorite section from that image.... "Tell us about your tatoos: I have five. Anytime I have a feeling about anything, I get tatooed."

Apparently she has only had a feeling about something 5 times in her life.

Oh, and the part about getting a tat of her boyfriend's name (Brian) next to her "pie" is pretty funny too. She said that if she ever breaks up with him she can always have a kid named Brian so the tat can still have meaning. lol. Explain to your kid... yeah, I love you so much I tatooed my "pie" with your name on it.

Funny lady. But at least she looks good.

[IceEnclosure]

torso, i don't call girls like that ladies. unless they're in a group. then they're ladies. but she ain't no lady.

[Rumor]

Originally Posted by Ado 

SPOILER warning incase you have not viewed the movie yet.

 

The biggest problem with this movie was from day one- The Art Direction
No emotional attachment to the robots designs...

Too many product placements....
Apple, HP, Xbox, Porsche, General Motors, Panasonic San Disk (was soo obvious), Yahoo, Ebay and America (the world globe in Sams room was obviously set to show only America and not randomly spun)


What's with the GM connection. You'd think if you were a futuristic robot you would actually choose a quality european or Japanese car to incarnate yourself?
Bumble Bee as the old Camaro was charming and I did like that, but Jazz as a Solstice from being a 911...No wonder why he died at the end...
Couldnt live with the downgrade.

What I did like-
Original Optimus Prime voice actor
New Bumblebee look
The Cybertronian language for Deceptacons being translated as subtitles.
Sam was a great choice for cast
Sound Effects were maaaad! Blackouts (the chopper) sonic booms got the adrenaline starting.
Bumblebees choice of songs

What was usual hollywood garbage-
optimus using todays slangs.. e.g. "My Bad..."
Bumble bee pissing
cute girl tooth Fairy line
American soldiers are invincible, have white teeth and are too cool to wear standard issue uniforms.
Comical secret agency
Sexy girl is also has a secret bad past...Only the honest nerd can help.
Labeling certain countries as potential enemies, China, Iran, Russia, Nth korea why dont they make it interesting and say Canada....


Go rent the 80's movie....Atleast it purposely made me cry.

FYI, we have spoiler tags now.

[torsoboy]

Originally Posted by IceEnclosure 

torso, i don't call girls like that ladies. unless they're in a group. then they're ladies. but she ain't no lady.

girl?

[Spook E]

Just got back from seeing it and have to say it was a great movie, one of the best i've seen in a long while.

There were things that annoyed me (all the product placement, american propaganda) but it was pretty much full tilt action from go to woe, with some genuinely funny moments.

The only disappointment was going back to my car afterwards, knowing it wasn't going to transform into a kick-arse robot

Oh yeah, and that blonde Aussie chick grew up near me and was in the same class as a friend, this is her first big acting role apparently, i thought she did pretty well for someone from tiny Tassie!

[ebuddy]

Originally Posted by MindFad 

Awh, man, I loved Jurassic Park.

I was thinking the same thing.

[Rev-O]

Originally Posted by MindFad 

Awh, man, I loved Jurassic Park.

Originally Posted by ebuddy 

I was thinking the same thing.

Yah, I like JP just fine as well. It took liberties with dinosaurs that were kinda lame, and was weak compared to the book, etc etc etc, but it was better than expected. I just liked looking at the dinos!

JP2 was on my Horryingly Bad list tho. If the statute of limitations wasn't up, I'd sue for my ticket price back and the hour and a half of my life I wasted seeing it. Not to mention punitive damages.

On Topic: Gonna have to take the family to see Transformers this week!

[lpkmckenna]

Originally Posted by IceEnclosure 

torso, i don't call girls like that ladies. unless they're in a group. then they're ladies. but she ain't no lady.

Woman in bikini ≠ lady. Gotcha.

[ApeInTheShell]

The Transformers (1980s) Movie is based on the television series. In this movie, the year is 2005 and the Decepticons have taken over the home planet of Cybertron. The movie introduces a new generation of Transformers, the autobot matrix of leadership, and Unicron. Optimus Prime dies and Megatron is changed into Galvatron.

The Transformers Movie (2007) is based on the original episodes of the television series. It also draws upon current comic book series storylines.

I have to wait until July 4th, 2007 but it will be well worth it since I have the day off. I think the coolest part about Independence Day was when everything was destroyed. After that I didn't care if they killed the aliens.

[IceEnclosure]

Originally Posted by lpkmckenna 

Woman in bikini ≠ lady. Gotcha.

well don't cry about it, gosh.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

The only thing better than that movie would be watching it on my iphone.

[The Mick]

Saw the movie tonight and it rocked.
A few lame moments with the blatant product placements, but otherwise very entertaining.
The action is great and the CGI work throughout is probably the best I've ever seen.

[Ghoser777]

 

I was kind of disappointed. Here's what i didn't like:

1) Too man humans. I really didn't care for them. I wanted more autobot versus decepticon battles. I would really have liked more trash talking between the transformers
2) Jazz dieing sucks - he was my favorite!
3) The robot bodies are nearly impossible to tell apart. The autobot's are colored and the decepticon's aren't (which helps), but I had trouble telling that Megatron had even killed Jazz!
4) Devastator is not a tank - pick another name, there's like 8 million decepticon tanks!
5) What the hell happened to the scorpion decepticon? Or what about all the other robots the cube accidentally spawned? Oh yeah... we have to have a sequel...
6) Why does the cube only seem to make really pissed off robots?
7) Why does Bumble Bee magically gain the power to talk at the end?
8) Why is there so much matador'ing in the action sequences? Yes, it wouldn't be much fun if the humans got killed right away, but the humans were somehow able to outrun the transformers half the time! Of course, the transformers can outrun cars on the freeway.
9) Megan Fox did not get naked

[Randman]

I liked it, a great popcorn movie. And my wife, who had no idea of Transformers or their history also enjoyed it, saying it was much more enjoyable (not better but enjoyable) than any other fare this past spring/summer.

A few misses but overall an enjoyable summer flick that could have been much worse. And it was cool see Optimus Prime kick butt again and kudos to keeping the original voice as Prime.

[Dakarʒ]

Man, they definitely gave Peter Cullen as many cool things to say as possible.

And as indistinguishable as the Transformers bodies were, their voices weren't much better.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

I was disappointed that starscream only had one line though.

[Dakarʒ]

I could care less since it wasn't his original voice.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ 

I could care less since it wasn't his original voice.

what you needed to hear his sweet little voice when he is blowing **** up?
I could have cared if he had the voice of one of the carebears, the dude was bad ass.

Plus I really liked his new voice as well as megatrons. I thought the cop car had the coolest voice though.

[Rumor]

I plan on seeing it tonight.

[Dakarʒ]

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES 

what you needed to hear his sweet little voice when he is blowing **** up?

Uh, you're the one who wanted to hear him talk, sweet pea.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ 

Uh, you're the one who wanted to hear him talk, sweet pea.

Ya and i loved it.

I even liked megatron as it sounded like the old one even though it was Hugo.

Hey do you guys know Starscream voice is also the dude who did Cobra Commander? They even sound the same but I never put it together until my friend told me.

[Dakarʒ]

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES 

I even liked megatron as it sounded like the old one even though it was Hugo.

Mostly the first time he goes, "Prime!"

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES 

Hey do you guys know Starscream voice is also the dude who did Cobra Commander? They even sound the same but I never put it together until my friend told me.

Not only that, but in the Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets mugged after winning at the track, he's the mugger.

Died of drugs or something else typically Hollywood a while back, though.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Can you believe this movie only cost $150 mil?

Think about how Spiderman 3 and Superman Returns looked that cost twice as much.

[RAILhead]

I can't frakkin wait to see it.

[macguru234]

Originally Posted by Cipher13 

****ing awesome

I was pretty skeptical, especially with Michael Bay's track record (good, bad, good, bad), but this was really impressive.

It was basically Independence Day with robots instead of Aliens, but at the end of the day I went there to be entertained, and I certainly was.

Oh, and Megan Fox is a hottie.

Go see it ASAP.

Thanks for letting me know it is good

[cjrivera]

Wonder why Soundwave isn't in the movie?
YouTube - Soundwave: The Touch

(F---in' iPod!)

[voodoo]

Originally Posted by IceEnclosure 

who cares, it's a good movie - not a cartoon from the 80's.

That makes as much sense as saying "who cares, it's a good wine - not a Romanée Conti."



V

[analogue SPRINKLES]

I thought that little gremlin one was soundwave as it played his role well.

[Parvez]

I don't care what you people say about this movie.. I mean all the negative opinions. I'm going to watch it tonight

[Cipher13]

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES 

I thought that little gremlin one was soundwave as it played his role well.

What? Do you even remember Soundwaves?

It was nothing like him, apart from the fact that it transformed into a stereo system for a few minutes.

Soundwaves was a loyal, humanoid, "uncharismatic bore". Not a little gremlin-thing.

That thing in the movie wasn't Soundwaves, nor was it meant to be.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Originally Posted by Cipher13 

What? Do you even remember Soundwaves?

It was nothing like him, apart from the fact that it transformed into a stereo system for a few minutes.

Soundwaves was a loyal, humanoid, "uncharismatic bore". Not a little gremlin-thing.

That thing in the movie wasn't Soundwaves, nor was it meant to be.

He hacked in the computers using sounds and he turned into a stereo for a bit so that is as much soundwave as megatron is a alien jet.

[Cipher13]

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES 

He hacked in the computers using sounds and he turned into a stereo for a bit so that is as much soundwave as megatron is a alien jet.

Hardly. Watch the G1 cartoon again.

[His Dudeness]

Originally Posted by RAILhead 

I can't frakkin wait to see it.

I wish I had waited. I hear PayPerView is cheaper than the movie ticket. This movie was so damn lame and pathetic I can't even begin to say.

[exca1ibur]

I just got back, and I thought it was kickass.

[Arty50]

Just got home from seeing it. If you don't go to the nearest theater right now and see this movie, you're doing yourself a huge disservice. I don't care if you have a 60" plasma at home. You'll still tell yourself you wished you'd seen it on the biggest screen possible.

Oh and comparing this movie to ID4 is one of the worst things I've ever heard. The movie schits all over ID4. They're not even in the same league.

Best of all, it wasn't just eye candy either. It's really well written.

One of the best movies I've seen in a long, long time.

[KisforKennedy]

I'm not seeing this movie. I think it'll be more annoying than the chase scene in the Matrix Reloaded, where EVERY freaking vehicle is GM this or GM that, all shiny and new. The only cars in that movie that weren't GM were really old and decrepid. Product placement at it's worst.

I religiously follow autoblog, which has covered the movie since it was just a glimmer in Micheal Bay's eye. I was pumped about it, I loved my transformers and still have all of them in a box. They were the only toy from my childhood I never sold. Then I watched teasers. Then trailers. And the more I saw, the more dissappointed I became. Yes, there is an OLD 1988-91 BMW 5 series, and an OLD 1980s nissan/toyota pickup. Sure, there are a few 'other cars', but ALL of these cars are rusted POSs from the 80s, and none were in good condition. Why?

Because GM wants to portray all ITS cars as the ONLY shiny new models in this movie, and is basically subliminally saying that ALL OTHER marques are old, rusty, and crappy.

That annoys me. I'm not paying money to see a gigantic advertisement for shitty cars.

[ajprice]

Hi Ca$h...

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES 

Ya and i loved it.

I even liked megatron as it sounded like the old one even though it was Hugo.

Hey do you guys know Starscream voice is also the dude who did Cobra Commander? They even sound the same but I never put it together until my friend told me.

More voice over fun:

YTMND - Darth Vader is Mufasa

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - - 

More voice over fun:

YTMND - Darth Vader is Mufasa

That just brought up more questions than it answered.