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From the International Poster Arena comes... John Cassavetes' TRANSFORMERS!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... if you get the above headline - and the posters below and actually laugh - CONGRATS - cuz it's me having fun with Robot faces. Below we have 3 International Posters for Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS. I really prefer these straight on shots to the profiles of the domestic release posters. And I hear there is one more International Poster that is kinda STAR WARS-y that's yet to debut. Dagnabbit! Also - if you catch the MTV MOVIE AWARDS - you're gonna see a new scene from the film.
Meanwhile - for those of you, like me, that are dying for the ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE's Mega-Uber-Supreme Advance Screening of TRANSFORMERS with ROBOSAURUS eating cars and spewing out 60 ft of flame into the sky... well look no further than the Alamo Drafthouse's Own Page about it! It's going to rock like you won't believe! Now - here are these posters!
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I'm almost convinced
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Nothing I've seen yet makes me want to see this film, these posters included
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I do not get the joke though. Guess Im not on the inside of this one.
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Cool!
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who cares about this movie
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like, huh?
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It's all a marketing ploy for the new jack black movie.
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"Bring out the VW gimp!"
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Is Megatron a bull or just EMO?
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Bumblebee looks like the Short Circuit robot wearing a yellow hardhat! haha
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It's still all a marketing ploy for the new jack black movie.
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The autobots eyes make them look like they are lost and confused, and why would megatron need sharp teeth?
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How 'bout that!
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I love the detailing. I still think Megatron is a little busy but what ya gonna do?
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Uh, why do any of them have noses? You know, like in the cartoon?
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Now if someone can slip in Seymour Cassell over Optimus Prime's face (but with mouth gaurd intact), we'll have a winner.
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Seriously, dude, being a PROTOFORM is lame. Why dont you be a tank or something? Wouldnt you want to be a tank? "Maybe." No, you want to be a tank, dont you? "Yeah." So why dont you become a tank. "Im scared." It's okay Megatron. Everything will be fine. Now go scan that WWI tank. Go on. "Are you sure? This tank looks a bit old." No, it's state of the art. "Okay. I'll do it." [SCAN] "Im a TANK!" You are a crappy outdated tank, that will make it easy for Prime to do this. "Do what?" [MEGATRON GOES FLYING] PRIME: "NOW YOU THE FUCK OUT!"
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Please someone Pimp my Bumblebee!!!!!!!!
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"Fuck! You scared me."
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I love the attention to detail and that they aren't all shiny and new (you see that, Lucas?).
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Bumblebee looks like he's been "pwned" in that shot.
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Totally. It also looks like someone's just stuck something up his exhaust.
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looking at Michael Bay. Or remembering the traumatic filming process with him.
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then I probably would have watched the show. Goes to show Michael Bay has a better head on his shoulders then the original creators. "Let's make giant boxes that turn into stuff!" "great idea!" Old and busted: 80's Transformers. New Hotness: Bay's Transformers. Suck it purists...
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Why would anyone expect or assume Harry would do a Star Wars article? He's a KING KONG fan. That's where his heart lies. That's what he's all about, and this explains everything about this site and Star Wars. Outside of McWeeny, nigh a one of the people here, are a true Star Wars fan. Especially that fucker Herc with his hatred of Return of the Jedi. The filthy bastard.
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Shia is in it's menu in the movie!!!!!!!!! And i just saw that star wars like poster and looks cool but just a glimpse. the image it's on Hasbro.com but it's part of a product package. I don't remember what product is but it's ok.
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with a tiny person at their feet. Maybe an action shot of optimus and megatron fighting while a tiny person flees underneath them. Just something besides headshots... it's pretty uninteresting.
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First recognizable shot of him I've seen. Too bad it hasn't been this easy to see his face in the numerous other promo images so far... it'd go a LONG way towards making the fans warm up to Bay's version.It still stinks that this "evil" robot can't transform into something destructive like a laser rifle or a hydrogen bomb to cause more havok, though. Poser.
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very HIGH RES!!!
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It doesn't matter which way you show those designs Bubblebee and Megatron look absurd and Prime looks alright. I'm still hoping for at least 30 minutes of explosions to take my mind off it.
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Looking forward to having a MST3K field day on your next cinematic turd, as always. After downloading it of course.
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Nice, first of the Hater Brigade. I'll take a stab at your "talking points":1) I have NO problem identifying the individual robots. But I've noticed this tired excuse from people who are bitching about not getting near-replicas of the G1 cartoon designs.2) We know the script has retained the overall plot and several noted scenes. Believing that nothing has been changed since the "draft", is silly and ignorant of the screenwriting process.3) Regarding Bay and Murphy, they weren't the only ones who had a hand in this "pie".4) Using a Volkswagon for Bumblebee was NOT an option. VW would not allow their product to be used in the presumed violent context of the movie. And since Megatron is generally considered to be the most powerful and feared Decepticon, one might consider that every part of his being is essentially a weapon. I suppose that's just one way of looking at it with your imagination instead of offering a lame-o "giant robot that doesn't eat" remark. (Conversely, I'm still waiting for one of the diehard G1ers to explain to me why they had noses in the cartoon.)
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ok so his voice got damaged so he cant talk right? then what does he have a speaker for a mouth if he used to be able to speak? what they thought "hey, ur voice is damaged, lets cover ur lips with a speaker cuz one day you might be on earth and become a car and use its radio to talk" yeah...retarded. but i'm not basing the movie, i think it looks awesome and i cant wait but i was just wondering that. posters are nice too.
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A robot that doesn't eat could
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Vapor analysis. Teeth are for food. Vapor analysis is useful in many situations. Forgive my earlier typo.
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Noses are for "vapor analysis". Ha! Fair enough. Still doesn't explain why an ALIEN robot would need a distinctly human facial feature. But with that in mind, teeth can be used for biting and tearing.I guess it all boils down to how anthropomorphic you want your robots to be.
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I think Harry Weinstein and I may have beat you to it. Instead, maybe you can answer why some of the robots in the cartoon (and comics) had beards...
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Let your board pseudo-intellectual elitism shine!
That Prime is great. OH NOEZ, I AM ARE A PLANT!
To all the haters out their..."Wah".
Take your Photosynthesis witchhunt elsewhere, its tired. Old and Tired. -
red eyes: MUST be evil!
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Are you REALLY having that much of a problem telling the bots apart or is it just that you want G1 SO bad that you refuse to accept the fact that things need to be changed once in awhile.
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Sooooooo....for anyone bitching about Megatron having red eyes, take a look at the old series, he had red glowing eyes and the autobots traditionally had blue eyes. WOW, what a concept.
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you're just a moron, admit it. "teeth to fight?" that like saying every feture of a TF's body is designed to fight. and your next point refuses that.
Okay, how about this one? be it the designs on a butterfly's wings, or the stripes on a tiger, or the feathers of a peacock, in nature, many animals have features designe SOLEY to make them appear more dangerous and formidable than they are. It's a very common evolutionary trait. Megatron's teeth may not be functional the way a human's are, but if they help make him look like a bad ass, and intimidate enemies to not fight him, they certainly serve a purpose. -
... one word taglines are sooooo "Idiocracy".
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Like the man says, this is AICN baby! Don't dish the Shit out if you aint ready to take 5X back!
Oh, and the swimming pool autobot is Ironhide. Even so, let's look at some other comic adaptions. You can't honestly tell me that Hackman's Luthor, Neeson's Ra's Al Ghul, Murphey's Scarecrow, or Dafoe's and Franco's Goblins were recognizable, can ya? -
Transformers pwned gobots long ago by buying them out. Gobots is a subline of Transformers now. besides, the movie designs don't look like gobots anyway.
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Is because if it succeeds, fanboys lose everything they've fought for. The whole "Adaptions need extreme fidelity to source material" argument that fans have been pounding into the pavement for Superhero moves, which Hollywood has finally been listening to, gets shot to hell. If an adapted film can change a lot of the details and rock, then anyone can come in and put their personal stamp on whatever character they want. and that will be seen as a good thing again.
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Those designs are just fucking terrible. Michael Bay loses.
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...sigh...
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The FX look cool, the explosions look huge, but these portraits go a long way to defining what I felt was lacking in the trailer - I still have zero read on them as characters. They're just effects. I wonder if Bay stripped them of their personalities by trying too hard to make them tech-y cool.
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with the rest of the design. It's got the old school flava, on these stylisticly different designs and it's just....well...megatron sucks!
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know what i'm sayin?
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Damn you Michael Bay
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I don't get it. Either I'm ignorant or the reference is too forced. I'm guess it's more of the later than the former.
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july 4 needs to hurry up
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this full length Transformers scene before POTC 3..Is it showing in theaters here in the U.S.?
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maybe, well whos seen POTC 3 in here???
I doubt the scene is available here, they always make a big deal when anything new is released on Transformers..I think the movie is coming out overseas before jul4..something like the 29th of june for the U.K. -
so..how many pounds does a movie ticket cost over there?
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...refers to Cassavetes' 1968 film "Faces". In that film, our "faces" were Gena Rowlands, Semour Cassel, John Marley, etc. In Harry's post, the "faces" were of the Transformers. Film geek humor at its most obscure. Cassavetes' film is one of the earliest American independent films ever made, and Cassavetes himself is considered the "father of American independent cinema".
It's funny that in the film "Faces", Seymour Cassel does an impersonation of a robot, referring to the way we sometimes live our lives in a programmed mechanical way. So maybe Harry was even referring to that. Film geek humor at its most obscure.
However, if John Cassavetes had actually made a "Transformers" movie, about a quarter into the movie, the Autobots and Decepticons would probably question their reasons for beating each other up after Ironside blows a gasket, and start doubting the choices they've made up to this point. They'd all make up, and throw a mad obnoxious robot party on Earth while getting drunk off WD40 and ethanol. Young Bumblebee would die after overdosing on diesel, and after finally realizing that there are consequences to their actions, they'd all depart Earth to go back to their miserable middle class lives on Cybertron and their uhappy Transformer wives who they stopped loving years ago. -
movie posters? Seems odd that a bunck of Gobot rejects from outer space would be checking out the outstanding view from the Empire State building. Figure they'd have better things to do...
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interesting
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Why are you shouting?
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Stop yelling/shouting. It's considered rude to type in all caps as it indicates yelling/shouting.
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The fanboys will only be pleased if the movie was "true" to the material. You know: 280ZX's, minivans, MAC Trucks, Walther P-38's, a boom box with a cassette player...
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Couldn't make an action movie! The metaphor here is about as close as you're gunna get. He'd probably be in the peanut gallery with Godard yelling about how film is and has been dead for oh I don't know, 15 or so years.
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saying the fourth one will be Destroy with Starscream.
I didn't say it was a long limb :-)
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the bastard child of the Guyver and a Critter.
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Or perhaps another poor victim of F.A.S.?
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The other two like look like they aren't vegetarians, if you get my drift. Anyway, the reaction to the new trailer attached to POTC3 was apprehensive with a wait-and-see vibe. So, I'm sure it will make money.
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shows the robots because they are technically impressive. Although you can't tell what they are or where their faces are located (save Prime) only that they apparently transform and blow crap up. And the "I'm not getting you a Porche" joke works. The rest of it looks like cut scenes from any other Bay movie. The script is lame.
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its obvious
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not Gabriel Grey?
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Wasn't he a gun? Did we see him in his other form in the trailers? I am diggin' this, but a shameless Chevy promo for the new Camaro detracts a little bit - just a little.
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Those little icons from the Transformer originals - shields, crests, whatever you'd like. Lego Bionicles. Hmmm, where's the originality anymore?
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youre losing it gabriel
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Is it me or do these robots have too much metal on them?
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Concerning the link to the Alamo
press release: did anyone else giggle at the lines that read that if you buy a
$75 VIP ticket to this event, you get “free” pop-corn and soda? HA! What a fun
little marketing world we live in.
This isn’t a gripe, thought, it does sound like a great deal
to me, even if nothing is free. It’s when I read stuff like this that I wish I
lived in Austin.
I mean, it doesn’t happen very often, I’m much more of an art and theatre freak,
and that’s why I don’t live in Austin,
but what a cool city, and what a cool event. I also love the South Lamar location.
The Godfather Pizza is covered in shredded basil leaves, and they have Spaten on draft. Best damn theater in the world – until the
downtown location opens at the Ritz? (We’ll see… will the pizza measure up?)
Note to the Alamo folks: could you please, please, please,
build a theatre inside the loop in Houston?
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What a goof!
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Will a film go down in infamy as much as this one.
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Infamy! Infamy! these retarded fanboys have it in for me. fuck em, i say!
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... words gets around that TINO is complete shit and it's about a load of scrap metal that falls to Earth looking for some fucking glasses that just happen to be in Shia The Beef's possession?
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I prefer Gamera movies. Sorry.
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Check it out here... http://tinyurl.com/2rsyrd Like this one way better than the profile poster personally...
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Anyone know. Not a gun, surely.
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Megatron transforms into an alien jet.
check this: http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Megatron_%28Movie%29 -
This link works:
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Oh hell,
type in http://transformers.wikia.com and search for "Megatron (movie)" and you can see the Jet mode there. -
like an r-rated pic in the first place and let Paul Verhoeven direct.I'm sad.
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Should have been James Cameron or maybe Robert Zemeckis.
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believe me, after watching the loud inanity of this movie a lifetime of all-caps posts is gonna seem like bliss
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This film is going to be awesome. I LOVED the original Transformers but can understand that those original designs would have looked shit in a film. You all know you are going to see this film, so stop trying to act "cool" and hating on something you have not even seen.
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This movie will make an insane amount of money opening weekend, weather the fan boys bitch about it or not. I kinda wanna see this, but if all the transformers looked like a bunch of painted cardboard boxes, i don't think i'd spend my money on it. Some people have to realize that cheesy shit from the '80 wouldn't work in '07 and has to be changed. Anyway, this movie will make millions an dall the fan boys can suck my dick cuz you're wrong and bay rules.
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What shit... Giving the Transformers mouths & shit, makes them look like Go-Bots!
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May 26, 2007 12:48:44 PM CDT
Visualize the massive crowd you saw Pirates 3 with.
by gibsonusa returns
Can you imagine those people piling up in line in anticipation for this Transformers?? NO WAY!!
People who claim this movie will make assloads of money....money from WHO?? Yes it will make money, yes it will be #1 opening weekend...but to claim it as big as Spiderman and Pirates 3 is foolish. It will not attract those kinds of masses. -
...and they laughed at the TF trailer too.
Casual TF fans = alienated.
Hardcore TF fans = alienated.
Casual movie watchers = laughing their butts off.
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It's a little hard to address a TB ghost.VW didn't want the "Transformers alternator toy line"? How would that effect the VW bug? That statement makes no sense whatsoever.
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Are you sure they weren't just laughing at the whole concept in general? ;^)
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Why are there two suns behind Prime?
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They didn't hate it, but they weren't thrilled, either, even by the special effects and they were a lively bunch. The kid next to me said, "It doesn't look as stupid as I thought it would." So people will go see it, I just don't think it will have legs.
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I guess time will tell. I'm sorry to see that all the big summer sequel films have been letting everyone down. Maybe this will be the one surprise. I'm hoping (foolishly perhaps) that it will be worthwhile.
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Heh heh.
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I get and respect that you have an opinion. It's constructive and valid as any other (opinion).
Do I, having some design experience, see where I would have made some dif. decisions? Sure.
Megs could have had his helm extend down between his eyes to look more G1, sure.
Bumblebee looks a little too "no disassemble!" for my taste in the beginning (though it is obvious he goes through an upgrade in the film ala 2 faces and 2 cars).
If they were smart, megs would be critically wounded and have to merge his Darwinian self with an "inferior" land-bound vehicle like a tank. It would fuel the leadership divide amongst the decepticons (SS as flight-worthy, Megs proved a failure as a landbound vehicle), and give Megs even more reason to HATE the autobots and humans.
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Clearly ILM's best work to date, rendered for fucking days. God they're so less blocky and much more realistic.
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Even though I know that he has lips for most of the movie, (all thirty minutes he's in the sucker), the mask looks okay. Bumblebee looks like some sort of Dean Koontz Horror Doll, however, and seems far more scary than anything else. And Megatron? ........................He looks like a Gremlin wrapped in Tinfoil.
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A friend called me and said he hated but this stooge will pay to mean girls twice (partly due to the fact he's lame other part because he's a perv.) but what did you think.
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We think you are very very funny over here, still claiming against the truth that the film will fail. This film will win the summer. It is over. Goodness won.
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that you think anyone cares about a "stooge". Unless there on stage with iggy pop.
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"Unless they're up on a stage". Dance for me now monkey.
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or are you to busy picking turds out of belly rollzzzzzzz.
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about. I liked it, if you like the first two, it's worth seeing. If you didn't care about part 2, don't bother. The special effects are great, but the characterization is minimal and they throw in, literally, everything from the previous two films. There is absolutely no doubt that the special effects sequences are stellar - I'd like the guy to direct a JLA film with a good story.
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Does anyone else love Johnny Staccato? It's a shame that it doesn't have a DVD release.
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Why are you and little kids trying to put your penises in Transformers? ;^)
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Of course, that still doesn't negate the fact that the story and characterization totally suck. I'm also not sure why Megs and BB have THOSE faces even if they couldn't give them the exact same face they had in the cartoon.
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People said it reminded them of Mr. Bill. Who is Mr. Bill anyway? I was born in, like, 1985 and wrote the script. Should I know who Mr. Bill is? Should I put in a Mr. Bill joke? Anyway, everyone likes Mr. Bill. Oh, and don't worry about Megatron, Mr. Bay. Everyone checked 'very scary' for Megatron, with one guy writing in, 'keep my penis away from that thing!' Ha ha. That's awesome. Should I put in a penis joke?"
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But strangley I also get the comment 'keep my penis away from that thing!'.Wierd.
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just go over to that section seven site or whatever their viral site is and click on the red hard drive and look at the clips of G1 TF's in action, a little rubing fan's noses in it I sense with that, you get one of Grimlock on there as well.
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Why did they even need mouths - don't tell me that it's so they can "speak" as a mouth wouldn't really be necesarry for it to make sounds. Why do they need heads? For that matter why a human-like form at all.
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Hilarious, moondoggy2u.
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I don't get the teeth thing but I am in the seat at the theater opening day, midnight showing on this one. More so than Spider-man 3.
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Some tard in the design department was hungover and lazy, and when Bay said design me am big fucking bad robot, he couldnt be bothered to look at the source material so he copied the description from the Shrike in Hyperion.
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"Fuck! You scared me."Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Dude, I needed that. Good shit.
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