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Transformers: the Movie (dir. Michael Bay, 2007) - SPOILERS

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08:26 / 05.06.06

oopstimus prime. cheers chaps.

it's not even like he was one from 'after my day'.

still, i think the point stands: why call the matrix the energon cube?

13:46 / 05.06.06

still, i think the point stands: why call the matrix the energon cube?

Well, I don't know if you heard it, but apperantly they've made a movie called "The Matrix" a while back. (and you know how execs feel about merchandising overlapping)

15:10 / 05.06.06

well, i don't know if you've hreard but actually the matrix is a 'documentary', not a 'movie'.

i guess we all know which colour pill you took*

sussed by a bus.

18:37 / 09.06.06

i guess we all know which colour pill you took*

I took them both at once. Major bad trip, I'll tell you that. I only had time to ask "Do you have a white pill, perchance?", before I passed out and woke up in Barbelith.

I've been haunting this place ever since.

00:40 / 10.06.06

Not seeing a link to this site so I thought I'd add...

http://www.transformersmovie.com/

00:53 / 12.06.06

I just saw (while watching the Tony awards) a Saab commercial which had a Transformers motif...the idea was that Saab cars are engineered from jet planes, so it featured a jet plane transforming into a car - done in exactly the same way as we all know and love. Roll out!

01:01 / 12.06.06

But, did it breakdance?

01:25 / 12.06.06

Our ones even dance.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

14:42 / 12.06.06

They are filming this movie less then 5 minutes from my apartment and we went to check it out, SERIOUS armed security 24 hours a day to stop people from getting spoiler pics.

And here I was hoping to get a shoutout from Harry Knowles.

16:51 / 21.06.06

First news of a trailer...FYI.

>> Wizard Universe has confirmed the first teaser trailer for the “Transformers” movie will debut on July 4 at the official website, then will run attached to prints of Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” opening on July 7. No details were available as to what would be contained in the teaser, including whether or not an actual Transformer would be seen.

09:41 / 03.07.06

"If you start 'Transformers' with giant robots sitting in a spaceship flying through space, your movie is dead in the water. It's all about keeping it at a human level, and seeing the amazing things that are going on through the eyes of the characters."

Surely Spielberg is talking complete guff here? The original Transformers stories (I'm thinking mostly of the comics, as that's what I'm most familiar with) worked by giving the robots recognisably human characteristics, rather than just crowbarring in some human characters. How can he say stories need to be kept at a "human level" expressing the need for human characters, when movies like Finding Nemo run away with the box office?

Anyway. I'm looking forward to the movie - I think it's perfect material for Michael Bay: real slam-bang summer action movie stuff. Plus he's got a major boner for hardware, so despite Spielberg's yen to keep the movie at a human level, I reckon at least 50% of it will consist of fawning shots of sparkling artillery and giant robots thundering across the landscape. Bay is only really offensive when he's tackling 'worthy' stuff like Pearl Harbour'.When in comes to brainless gawp-fest insanity like Bad Boys II his films are great in that fantastic gurgling 14 year old way, which is exactly what a movie based on a toy line of transforming robots should be like.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

10:53 / 03.07.06

Forget it, that's just Spielberg. It's only adult movies where he is able to break his addiction to putting families in his movies, presumably because there would be an uncomfortable segue from all-American family to Schindlers List. As long as this doesn't get caught up in the post-9/11 'new seriousness' of sci-fi movies like his War of the Worlds it'll be fine.

04:11 / 04.07.06

Fun teaser trailer/"announcement" (went live on the main site today or yesterday)...I like the idea of eeevil Transformers messing with our probes.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:16 / 04.07.06

Prediction- given that it's Spielberg, there'll be a scene where a family are eating breakfast- I imagine they'll look out of the window to see huge robots kicking the shit out of each other in the garden/street.

10:54 / 04.07.06

so that's what happened to Beagle 2...

Jawsus-son Starship

19:27 / 04.07.06

Am I being dense - if this is a spielberg film, why is Michael Bays name all over it?

20:08 / 04.07.06

Michael Bay - director

Speilberg - executive(?) producer

09:57 / 05.07.06

Yeah he's great as an executive producer. I reckon he's going to executive produce the hell out of this film. Did you see The Legend Of Zorro? The film was kind of rubbish, but when I came out the cinema everyone agreed that the executive producing was fantastic. Not like in - say - Hulk. The executive producing for that sucked. You've got everyone else pulling their weight, pushing for the best thing, and then the crummy executive producing torpedos the whole film.

18:10 / 05.07.06

I thought it was awful - looked cheap, like it was shot by some student film makers in the desert with lego kits and using that commercial.

19:06 / 05.07.06

Sorry fot the threadrot, bu am I the only person in the world who enjoyed Hulk? I mean, the story was cool, the acting was great (yo, Nickie Nolte), and that comic-book-like split screen was genious. Maybe the pacing suffered a little, but what the hell, fuck the pacing according to Holywood.

and yeah, the trailer was a bit weak. So, a transformer can beat the heck out of a little Nasa rover-robot? Big deal!

19:19 / 05.07.06

They sure have pretty blue skies on Mars.

19:33 / 05.07.06

They sure have pretty blue skies on Mars.

My god, Hieronymus, excellent point there. I wonder if this is going to be one of those movies where things "fall" in space and such

13:21 / 10.07.06

All I can say was I squeed really hard when the trailer played this weekend before PotC. I knew what it was in 3 seconds and bounced a lot in my seat.

Some snot nosed child in the row behind me quipped "Oh a Transformers movie? They must be out of ideas."

I was very tempted to turn around and tell the wee thing that he'd better shut up or else Starscream would crush him.

12:46 / 17.07.06

Optimus Prime gets Fast & Furious.

Click Here to weep.

courtesy of Film Ick

Excuses from the Bay camp here.

I really want to like this movie, but Michael Bay is skullfucking my childhood.

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:30 / 17.07.06

Right. dub, seeing as that link doesn't work, perhaps you'd like to describe what the image was, and why it makes you so very, very upset.

13:33 / 17.07.06

Regarding the Ludacris rumor...no, he does not have a part in TF.

A shame, given he was the best thing in Crash.

13:35 / 17.07.06

Use the Film Ick one, Fly. It's not a flat-nose truck, and has teh flamezz on it. But you know, there might be context for the latter, and a truck's a truck.

13:36 / 17.07.06

16:06 / 17.07.06

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/1822/400/optimus_prime.jpg for anyone who can't see it.

Mummy, is Kurt Russell going to be voicing the Porkchop Express?

That's not really what I expect Prime to look like but it's only one image innit.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

16:09 / 17.07.06

Maybe Optimus gets "Pimped" before the sillu Hoo Mans realize he is a giant robot.

Apparently the long nosed truck it due to physics requiring greater mass for him to be 50 feet tall or so.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:01 / 17.07.06

Grr. Stupid physics.

17:50 / 17.07.06

I honestly don't see the problem with that Peterbilt version of Optimus. They're huge trucks and perfectly apt for the big guy.

Given all his incarnations, it could just as easily have been a Dodge Ram or something

18:14 / 17.07.06

I could do without the flames, but they're at least subtle flames and aren't so bad. It's cool that the filmmakers are thinking about things like keeping the mass of the objects/robots and such.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:26 / 17.07.06

To an extent... if they get too hung-up on realism, though, someone will inevitably realise that having them transform at all is just too implausible. We'll get Maximum Overdrive 2006.

Professor Silly

19:56 / 17.07.06

I'm actually a little relieved to hear about their attention to physics (although Stotie totally cracked me up with the growl! HIGH FIVE). My biggest complaint about the cartoons was the whole shrinking/growing thing. I understand that the toys had to be made in different scales, so that more people could afford 'em (Bumblebee was what? a few dollars?). I understand why they would want to maintain the ratio of sizes of the robots in the cartoons--so kids would want to play with them too and all that. Still, Megatron and Soundwave shrinking as they did just always rubbed me the wrong way.

not that this means in won't suck...I'll try to keep an open mind, and not get my hopes up.

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