Transformers ! :D

5tephen said:
I thought it was quite humorous and Megan Fox just unbelievable, if you're wanting a less lame love story then ignore this start bit and go watch the Titanic.


Megatron looked completely different compared to what? And where in any rule book is optimus prime allowed to only have some particular colour scheme? In my opinion they both looked pretty classy, and Prime in Kenworth truck form with LED's and flames did the business for me at least. And complaining about having 50 million extra parts is really just looking for excuses. It'd look well having 2007 CGI technology with 20-year-old robot designs in them :rolleyes:

A bit of humour. That's all it was.

Saving £1 to watch a 20 year old video on your little home TV with a tin of beer rather than taking a night off to enjoy a modern-day cinema display & sound setup and atmosphere, with a film that demonstrates these facilities to the full. You're stuck in the past. You just cannot pass off a £multi-multi-million film with comments like that.
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Spot on there mate, the film was excellant.
 
Its a terrible film.

I saw it last night, and I thought that for a film that cost millions of dollars, they'd get a half decent script writer and actors that you don't want to stab in the face every 5 seconds.

Yes, the effects were good, but they were overshadowed by the awful acting and pretty bad plot.

I know its not meant to be an oscar winning film in most respects, but I expected so much more from it, what with it being my childhood cartoon.
 
As i said before i really enjoyed it?

I suppose i am new generation, so thats probably why :D

Trying to find someone wholl want to go see it again with me :D
 
timmy1988 said:
r u serious?

FAQ

New Magetron

they didnt even try...
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lol was he even alive when the cartoon was out. Not knowing they looked completely different is laughable!

5tephen said:
You just cannot pass off a £multi-multi-million film with comments like that.
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Yes he can, its his and more to the point my opinion to some extent. While the film has kept some of the originality its also sold out in a few areas. For people who grew up with the cartoon I dont believe the film did it justice. For those who didnt grow up with it, I'd imagine its a fairly decent action film.
 
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Saw it on sunday and thought it was a good hollywood blockbuster but was a little dissapointed at the fact the fight sence's were so fast and you couldnt really make them out properly.

would have been nice to get a bit more starscream/megatron dialogue but hey you cant have everything

think ill give it a 8/10 could have been better but still a good film
 
huh what happened there?

i googled imaged megatron...

whats the big deal?

*edit* i didnt search the rest of the link :rolleyes:

crap >.< i dont even want to know what it was

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hang on there was nothing wrong with the link :confused:
 
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lets put it this way, strictly speaking you should have had a lengthy suspension for the image that appeared.

scripts designed to stop people hotlinking are rarely pleasant to look at.
 
Orange Peel said:
lol was he even alive when the cartoon was out. Not knowing they looked completely different is laughable!
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Nope I'm only 15 :rolleyes:
Like I said in my earlier post, "It'd look well having 2007 CGI technology with 20-year-old robot designs in them".... Why not complain that everybody is dressed in modern clothing rather than 80's clothes and hairstyles, and that the cars are too modern as well?
 
5tephen said:
Nope I'm only 15 :rolleyes:
Like I said in my earlier post, "It'd look well having 2007 CGI technology with 20-year-old robot designs in them".... Why not complain that everybody is dressed in modern clothing rather than 80's clothes and hairstyles, and that the cars are too modern as well?
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Ermm, you've missed my point.

You said "Megatron looked completely different compared to what?"

In the Cartoon he was a gun in the film he was a futuristic jetplane. I was commenting on your question.

If your profile age is correct you didnt grow up with them as I predicted so I see no point in the "I'm only 15" statement!
 
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In the cartoon I beleive he was meant to have been on earth for a while, in the film he effectively hadn't had a chance to change.

IIRC he was a type of plane on the home planet along with most of the other deceptacons in at least one version of the story.
Remember there are multiple different versions of Transformers, including the original cartoon version, the new cartoons, the Japanese radio drama's (which are plain weird, his coming from an anime fan;)), the comics in the U.K. and the U.S. and I think books.
Not all of them have the same back story and some plain contradict others.
 
Werewolf said:
In the cartoon I beleive he was meant to have been on earth for a while, in the film he effectively hadn't had a chance to change.

IIRC he was a type of plane on the home planet along with most of the other deceptacons in at least one version of the story.
Remember there are multiple different versions of Transformers, including the original cartoon version, the new cartoons, the Japanese radio drama's (which are plain weird, his coming from an anime fan;)), the comics in the U.K. and the U.S. and I think books.
Not all of them have the same back story and some plain contradict others.
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That makes perfect sense :cool:
 
Orange Peel said:
Ermm, you've missed my point.

You said "Megatron looked completely different compared to what?"

In the Cartoon he was a gun in the film he was a futuristic jetplane. I was commenting on your question.

If your profile age is correct you didnt grow up with them as I predicted so I see no point in the "I'm only 15" statement!
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I didn't grow up with them but watched loads of tapes and had a fair few of the toys, just like Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds etc :) I meant 'compared to what' as in the original was so long ago, and that all the robots in the film are so different in basic design and so modernised that it's not possible to make them look too similar, apart from colours really. I'd rather they looked like they did in the film as all the animations, movements and mechanical parts just looked absolutely top class.
Not a point worth dwelling on to this extent though.
 
5tephen said:
I'd rather they looked like they did in the film as all the animations, movements and mechanical parts just looked absolutely top class.
Not a point worth dwelling on to this extent though.
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I don't mind them looking different/updated, I didnt really like the over complicated transformations. ie Optimus Prime would get owned if he had to change quickly to engage in a fight. It must have taken over 5 seconds what with all the spinning/turning/shuffling that went on between changes.
 
Werewolf said:
lets put it this way, strictly speaking you should have had a lengthy suspension for the image that appeared.

scripts designed to stop people hotlinking are rarely pleasant to look at.
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oh rite oops didnt think of that, never actually tried the link >.< sry people :D
5tephen said:
Nope I'm only 15 :rolleyes:
Like I said in my earlier post, "It'd look well having 2007 CGI technology with 20-year-old robot designs in them".... Why not complain that everybody is dressed in modern clothing rather than 80's clothes and hairstyles, and that the cars are too modern as well?
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the point is he used to be a gun, not a futuristic jetplane thing
 
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iCraig said:
Wasn't he the butler in Mr Deeds? :D
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..and the crazy guy in Anger Management ;)

For the kiddies.. here's the original Megatron

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Oh, and to explain.. in the original series they came to earth without an "image", and scanned the nearest vehicles they could find in order to blend in.. you see this at the start where the Autobots come flying from space as weird asteroid-looking things. Although, the only robot seen scanning anything was Bumblebee and it wasn't obvious to the viewers.. so it probably went unnoticed or even misinterperated as "a cool thing they can do"
 
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Another thing I didn't like was the AllSpark. Why did it make an electrical thing evil? It was never explained.

Plus, I don't remember Megatron and Optimus ever being brothers in the original cartoon, but it has been a while since I've watched it, so I may I have forgotten that much.
 
I think the Megatron/Optimus Prime thing was mentioned in one of the later series or the original film.

As for the reason stuff was evil, it was mentioned that they had reverse engineered Megatron to provide much of the technological advances in the past 50 years, with the strong implication that that is the reason it all went bad (basically it's showing it's ancestry).
 
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