transformers movie?!!!!

oblian

just saw these now dunno if they been posted or not yet but here they are

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/

this vid looks way too good to be a fanflick or an ad!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=310525832158046051

projectmayhem

yes there will be a movie.

it's only at script stage but michael bay or someone equally shoddy is directing while speilberg puts on his producers hat (and from interviews he's done, he knows a lot about transformers).

that video is also fake. ILM are working on facial expressions and getting the transformers to work as characters on screen that the audience can relate to (as much as a person can relate to a talking truck). getting a car to transform is the easy part

Jimi-Spandex

This will never be as good as the original movie. Only movie to ever make me cry apart from E.T. I swear to god. Even to this day "You've got the touch" gives me the shivers. Even when Marky Mark sang it in Bogey Nights.

Should I be ashamed?

Pigman II

Only problem is it's got Michael Bay directing it. If he couldn't squeeze an ounce of emotion out of a story like PearlHarbor then how's he gonna make us want to follow a film starring robots?

All I hope is that they shoot any scenes involving people from the pov of the people so that we can get an idea of how big these guys are meant to be. The cartoon never picked up on this and an opportunity to get across the size and scale of the robots was lost imho.

(I also agree it'll never be better than the 1986 movie. Classic stuff!)

tman

*strokes "Hooked on Energon" tshirt*

definitely looking forward to this one:)

ObeyGiant

Pigman II wrote:

Only problem is it's got Michael Bay directing it. If he couldn't squeeze an ounce of emotion out of a story like PearlHarbor then how's he gonna make us want to follow a film starring robots?

To be fair, I hated the Island as much as anyone, but I think that Michael Bay is just the right director for this movie. Probably more than any other director working today, he's capable of achieving the kind of overblown, pyrokinetic style that this movie needs. Just look at The Rock or Armageddon (which, jingoism aside, is an amazing movie).

PS - "can't get emotion from Pearl Harbour - how can he make us care about a film starring robots"? To me, this is like saying "if he can't ride a bike, how can he eat fishfingers?" I want massive explosions! And to see huge robots fight each other! I don't want to see huge robots falling in love and wondering if they'll ever see each other again.

maquiladora

Michael Bay.

That pretty much tells you everything you need to know. :rolleyes:

Pigman II

ObeyGiant wrote:

To be fair, I hated the Island as much as anyone, but I think that Michael Bay is just the right director for this movie. Probably more than any other director working today, he's capable of achieving the kind of overblown, pyrokinetic style that this movie needs. Just look at The Rock or Armageddon (which, jingoism aside, is an amazing movie).

But there's the problem you see. All his films are just crash,bang wallop garbage (admittedly very well-made garbage) but garbage none the less. If you want a TF film that that's nothing more than the level of the 1984-1987 tv show (which I only rewatched recently and realised how retarded it was) then yes Bay is your man. If you want something that can get kids-at-heart (as well as just kids) rooting for these robots then they should try get someone who can capture the mood of the 1986 movie version.

PS - "can't get emotion from Pearl Harbour - how can he make us care about a film starring robots"? To me, this is like saying "if he can't ride a bike, how can he eat fishfingers?" I want massive explosions! And to see huge robots fight each other! I don't want to see huge robots falling in love and wondering if they'll ever see each other again.

No it's not the same comparison and no I'm not talking about that embarrasing love triangle in PH either. I'm talking about a story of 2000+ people getting killed horribly yet me leaving the cinema thinking nothing about it other than I'd like to throttle that director for wasting 3hours of my life.

Emotion doesn't have to mean necessarily mean 'love'. imho it can be just the rush you get when the Indy escapes the giant boulder in RotLA. Basically in an action movie I just want characters I can root for and THEN you can hit me with the explosions. If everything is just going to be distilled down to a bunch of cliche-spewing gung-ho idiots who I already know I don't give a damn about from about 2mins in then why should I suddenly be expected to care what happens when the explosions begin.

starn

I still find it hard to belive that the origianl 80's animated movie was Orson "Citzen Kane, The Third Man, Etc" Wells last film. What a way to cap your career

Dave

"Why does michael bay get to keep on making movies"

Trey Parker and Matt Stone said it best really.

Pigman II

starn wrote:

I still find it hard to belive that the origianl 80's animated movie was Orson "Citzen Kane, The Third Man, Etc" Wells last film. What a way to cap your career

There's rumours that some of his lines were actually completed by Leonard Nimoy after his death, tho this has been denied by some members of the voice cast.

madrab

starn wrote:

I still find it hard to belive that the origianl 80's animated movie was Orson "Citzen Kane, The Third Man, Etc" Wells last film. What a way to cap your career

I.....AM UNICRON



my favourite line from the movie, there is soo much power in his voice


EDIT: although on listening to that clip a few times it is very similar to leonard nimoy