Stitch on 15/7/2005 at 16:48
Quote Posted by sp4f
"live-acion"
I knew it was time for a film director to skullfuck something I cherished as a child :erg:.
Unplug your angst for a moment and consider the visual of REAL FUCKING AIRPLANES TRANSFORMING INTO ROBOTS.
Seriously, totally spurting here.
Malygris on 15/7/2005 at 17:21
I was (okay, am) a hardcore Transformers geek, but this makes me nervous. I think that whole experience with Rodimus Prime and Galvatron soured me on the whole idea of Transformers movies. If, as someone suggested, they follow the story of the Generation One comic (or whatever the hell it was called, I've got it buried in a box under a bed) then maybe we'll have something, but I'm not getting my hopes up at this point.
TheGreatGodPan on 15/7/2005 at 20:32
Weren't all those old cartoon shows (Transformers, He-Man, Thundercats) just a gimmick to sell toys? Bugs Bunny stomps them all.
Renegen on 15/7/2005 at 20:40
Gimmick to sell toys? I call that great marketing. People would be shocked to know how the movie industry reaaaallly works. If the movie is descent and appeals to a wide audience, look out.
Bugs Bunny is also good, a lot of the 80 year old classics still being shown today are...
Malygris on 16/7/2005 at 03:59
You can't compare Bugs Bunny to Transformers, that's just unfair. Loony Toons kicks the shit out of every other cartoon ever made.
And it never occurred to me until now, but I just realized that Loony Toons were far, far more violent than Transformers, GI Joe, or any other cartoon of that area. Did Optimus Prime ever have his face blown off with a shotgun? Did Cobra Commander ever have 800 tonnes of boulders fall directly on his head? Was Thundarr ever mauled by a hundred pissed-off bulldogs guarding a canary?
I think not.
SubJeff on 16/7/2005 at 07:40
I'm with Stitch on this one. Planes, trains and automobiles turning into robots? drool.
But how are they going to do Soundwave and his tapes? They were the gheyest idea of all even though Soundwave in robot form was serious kickass and Ravage was the best toy ever (cat-robot form was just so sweet).
The special effects better be 100% perfect though. If you can tell it is CG at any point (a la Neo vs 100 Smiths) it will seriously, seriously suck. Live action? Better not look like a cartoon/animation then.
Tonamel on 16/7/2005 at 07:47
But they're robots, so there's very little chance of us complaining that their skin looks like plastic.
thefonz on 16/7/2005 at 07:51
robots are metal?
it cant be live action - unless it goes down the road of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, or Space Jam - animation + live-action.
in which case it will suck balls.
henke on 16/7/2005 at 08:24
Heh, yeah. Seems people here have no idea what they can do with computer-animation these days. Ofcourse live-action + CGI-robots is the only way to go. I'd actualy prefeer that to animation even. We finaly have the technology to make a live-action Transformers movie, so why stick with classic animation?
And don't say "Garfield", that was a completely different thing, too cartoony to work as live-action.
