Transformers..by Bay and Speilberg?

Vivian on 19/5/2007 at 13:40

Ug. Why can't they do macross instead? Transformers are lame, michael bay is a turd, speilberg is an arch turd-polisher. bah humbug.

PigLick on 19/5/2007 at 13:57

I think we are missing the most important thing here, the theme song. As long as they keep that classic music, they could have cows with boxes on em as far as I care

autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of
the decepticons!
YEAAH!

Apostolus on 20/5/2007 at 06:07

So how exactly do they explain away the fact that these space robots happen to look like Mack trucks, F-15s and lovebugs?

Pyrian on 20/5/2007 at 07:06

They don't "happen to", they're deliberately camoflauged. At least, back in the original TV series that's how it happened. They looked substantially different before they came to Earth.

dylan barry on 20/5/2007 at 08:06

My brother still gets a lump in his throat when that song kicks in " you got the touch!!"
I love seeing the ways they try to justify this stuff nowadays, superman gets that darker, more "street" leather cape.They got one hell of a job with transformers.
Looks intresting but i think the one thing that made the original so endearing was unicron (a moments silence please in honour).
Why do they insist on trying to sell us the same old stuff over and over, bands keep releasing the same old covers.. have people run out of ideas?

SubJeff on 20/5/2007 at 15:38

I think everyone is missing the point here. It's going to suck because it will be uber-Hollywoodised and not about the Transformers at all but about some stupid hero humans.

Just wait and see - the verdict will be as follows: Looks great (grumble by some nerds about how Optimus/Megatron aren't TRUE to the series) but ultimately hollow.

Then there will be the few who are just IN to it. Regardless, it's never going to be a great film. I'm watching it because I liked the original stuff (had loads of toys too) and I think it'll be popcorn fun. But it could be so much more.

henke on 20/5/2007 at 17:38

Dude, I don't think anyone expects it to be a great film. It'll be a big fun dumb popcorn blockbuster feel good flick of the summer. That's what it sets out to be and most people will get what they expect. How could a movie based on an 80's cartoon possibly hope to be a "great film" anyway?

Stitch on 20/5/2007 at 17:53

Quote Posted by Subjective Effect

But it could be so much more.

So much more? Like what, a character-driven study of one man's internal collapse? This is a movie based on a toy-driven cartoon featuring robots from space with names like Laserbeak, let's not forget.

Personally, I understand the fan's frustration with the lack of fidelity to the source material, but we're twenty years past that being a viable option. When dwelling in the wilds of the internet it's easy to develop the misconception that we nerds weild more purchasing power than we really do, but the reality is that there simply aren't enough of us to make fan-only affairs remotely successful. Serenity, anyone?

So with Transformers they basically had two options: try to make a modestly-budgeted family movie pitched at fans and the kids buying the toys today, or blow it up into a grinding metal summer blockbuster that's close enough to the source material to draw in fans but distant enough to appeal to popcorn junkies.

So far it seems to me they're doing the latter pretty well.

Edit: in after henke :(

ZylonBane on 20/5/2007 at 19:42

What they could have done is push Michael Bay into a chipper-shredder, hire a decent writer or two, and make a movie that's actually good, in addition to having an asston of explosions and special effects. The two aren't mutually exclusive. Please show me someone who's walked out of a movie complaining that the acting and writing weren't bad enough.

Printer's Devil on 20/5/2007 at 19:49

Quote Posted by Subjective Effect

I think everyone is missing the point here. It's going to suck because it will be uber-Hollywoodised and not about the Transformers at all but about some stupid hero humans.

Didn't the original cartoon featured several recurring human characters? Spike (rescued oil-rig worker and friend to Bumblebee) and Chip (paraplegic computer whiz who advised Optimus Prime) often helped foil the poorly conceived Decepticon schemes. Sure it was goofy, but without humans for the Autobots to protect (or the Decepticons to attack), there isn't much to distinguish the factions.