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Old 12-22-2006, 04:14 PM   #321
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Well, they have a My Little Pony reference :p
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Old 12-22-2006, 04:49 PM   #322
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I never have been a TF fan. For some reason, I couldn't make it through an ep w/o falling asleep. I loved the toys though. The teaser trailer for this movie made me raise an eyebrow. It looked 'interesting'. Enough so that I might want to see it. But, the new trailer killed it for me. They're just taking this way too seriously though I should have expected just that from Michael Bay. There was literally no charm or sense of adventure in the recent trailer; just expensive special effects. It brought to mind the Super Mario and He-Man movies. So, that's my two cents. Take it or leave it. I shall now take my leave of you noble 'formersfans.
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Old 12-22-2006, 05:17 PM   #323
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That has "Summer rip off" written all over it. Movies with trailers like that usually end up not having that much action in them.

Example:
V For Vendetta*Though I liked this movie, totally mis advertised*
Blood Diamond
Lord Of War
Miami Vice

Previews and trailers are always BS. They edit them to make the movies look like hardcore action flicks but in reality there's not much action in them at all. I go to see an action movie to watch people kill and beat the crap out of one another. And I damn well better see one or the other. I don't go to see an action movie so I can watch 3 guys stand around and talk for over half the film and then at the end I get a little bit of action.

I normally like movies like this and I know their advertised that way because the average movie going moron wouldn't go see Lord Of War is they really knew what it was about. They wouldn't understand V For Vendetta*And boy they didn't* So the trailer has to look as misleading and appealing as possible so everyone will go see. The people who take the time to understand the film leave rewarded, because usually people like that have a favorite critic and trust their word over others, and the average Joe idiot leaves mad that there weren't enough explosions and shiny objects.

To me I have a feeling this movie will be plagued with lots and lots of long boring dialog scenes that normally I might care about but due to subject matter will put me to sleep. Just like a Godzilla movie, I know already, a big ass dinosaur looking reptile is attacking Toyko and kicking the crap out of some other mutant thing. Stop talking about it and show Godzilla kick some ass. Instead we get scenes with his retarded son in it riding around with some annoying little kid and a bunch of scientists sitting in a room trying to figure out wtf is happening despite the fact that it's happened like 60 times. There's also the lame human drama stories to ooooo. Did I rent Godzilla or did I rent Japanese Soap Opera?

Just my two cents.
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Old 12-22-2006, 05:44 PM   #324
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I never have been a TF fan. For some reason, I couldn't make it through an ep w/o falling asleep. I loved the toys though. The teaser trailer for this movie made me raise an eyebrow. It looked 'interesting'. Enough so that I might want to see it. But, the new trailer killed it for me. They're just taking this way too seriously though I should have expected just that from Michael Bay. There was literally no charm or sense of adventure in the recent trailer; just expensive special effects. It brought to mind the Super Mario and He-Man movies. So, that's my two cents. Take it or leave it. I shall now take my leave of you noble 'formersfans.
I'm a die-hard Transfan (probably one of the few to see right through this s*it), and I agree with you whole-heartedly.

...He-Man movie was awesome though, I think it's gritty space opera is what drove Mattel to ultimately create the New Adventures of He-Man toyline.
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Old 12-26-2006, 12:20 AM   #325
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Meh.

It's a movie. A SUMMER movie.

You're not going to be forced into seeing it, are you Zarius? And really, if you're friends with people who would force you to see it at gun point... you have bigger problems to deal with then a movie about a toyline, that in the end really is just there to push product into kids hands.
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Old 12-26-2006, 01:03 PM   #326
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If you don't get TF, you're never going to.
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Old 01-01-2007, 09:12 PM   #327
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Was never into Transformers. But I love my movies, and I love Michael Bay movies, so that is a double plus for me. I just saw the trailer on mtv.com, and i thought it looked great. I bet it would look even better on the big screen, just like the TMNT.

This is going to be a great year for movies. Epsecially for the audience that doesn't nit pick on every little freaking thing.
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Old 01-01-2007, 10:28 PM   #328
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I've never been a transformer's fan, but that trailer really didn't do much for me. It was just full of fancy CGI and showed absolutely no chance of any real substance from the plot of this movie.
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Old 01-02-2007, 06:20 PM   #329
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What is there to know? By the sounds of it, the two opposing transformer race has brought the fight to Earth, and we are in the middle of the crap. United States military trie s to defend Earth, and maybe make allies with the (autobots) I think that's the good side.
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Old 01-09-2007, 02:01 PM   #330
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IESB.net is reporting that Frank Welker is days away from signing up to voice Megatron in Transformers! Yay!!!

http://www.comics2film.com/FanFrame.php?f_id=23943
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Old 01-09-2007, 08:51 PM   #331
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...If he's voicing THIS, I'm going to f*cking barf

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...4321b149ff.jpg

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I've never been a transformer's fan, but that trailer really didn't do much for me. It was just full of fancy CGI and showed absolutely no chance of any real substance from the plot of this movie.
Which has always been a Micheal Bay tradition for the mindless popcorn audience...to think TF's being wasted on these idiots...
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Old 01-11-2007, 05:48 PM   #332
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A video of a transformation. If only the movie-transformations would look that good.
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Old 03-03-2007, 02:35 PM   #333
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Well, at least Megan Fox is hot. Although her ending up with Spike is possibly the biggest stretch in this film.
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Old 03-03-2007, 03:49 PM   #334
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The other day I saw the trailer for this movie in the theatre and I have to say it looked really, really cool. Yeah, the designs are sh*t, but I'm no Transformers fan - I don't care. I'll be seeing this for sure.
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Old 03-24-2007, 02:48 PM   #335
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Hugo Weaving is Megatron

Sorry Welker, but nostalgia won't win every battle.

As a pormotional thing, the new movie has an online "meta-game" called "Sector 7" where a top secret agency dispenses cryptic information about the upcoming Transformer epidemic on Earth.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=127362

According to the latest release, "As of today agent H. Weaving has officially convinced S.S., M.B., R.O and A.K. to oversee the Megaman issue. The recording will commence immediately."

SS = Steven Spielberg, MB = Michael Bay and RO = Roberto Orci, all producers/directors.

So the fandom has pretty much accepted this as fact that Hugo Weaving has been cast as the voice of Megatron.

Personally, I think he could do a good job. He has an intelligent yet menacing voice much like David Kaye's Megatron voice for Beast Wars.

I honestly never got my hopes up for Welker, since I never expected Bay to cast him to begin with.
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Old 03-24-2007, 02:57 PM   #336
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Good I guess. From what I heard Welker's voice sounded really whiney anyway. Glad they're going with what works in a movie now rather than what worked in a cartoon 20 years ago.
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Old 03-24-2007, 03:09 PM   #337
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Pppft...Welker's voice was awesome back in G1.
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Old 03-24-2007, 03:28 PM   #338
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Anyone got a good voice sample of him? Never heard of his name.

Frank Welker as Megatron in G1 was very good. His voice had something 'evil'. He is a very good voiceactor an he is very versatile.
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Old 03-24-2007, 03:36 PM   #339
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Anyone got a good voice sample of him? Never heard of his name.
It's Agent F'ing Smith.

Wow.
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Old 03-24-2007, 04:27 PM   #340
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Excellent.. Agent smith GO!
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