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Here We Go Again!! TRANSFORMERS 2 Churns Into Motion!!
Merrick again...
This morning, Variety confirms reports that've been circulating for a few days now.
Looks like TRANSFORMERS 2 is finally in motion, with a June 26, 2009 release date being eyed. Bay is expected back; Spielberg is expected to reprise his involvement as well.
Although...
...the high-profile project isn't guaranteed total immunity from the ongoing battle of wills between DreamWorks' David Geffen and Steven Spielberg and leadership at Paramount conglom Viacom.
The studios stressed that they are targeting the June 26 date, but that it isn't ironclad.
Even if Spielberg and Geffen exit their deal at Par, as they have threatened to do, the "Transformers" property stays at the Melrose lot, as do all other DreamWorks projects.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
I've heard rumors there'll be no flames on Optimus this time, which kinda sucks. I mean...what'll we do for a catch phrase?
I'm dying to see TRANSFORMERS IN IMAX; my local IMAX won't be screening it (goddamnit!!!) so it's a drive for me to behold Bayness in seven story glory.
The studios stressed that they are targeting the June 26 date, but that it isn't ironclad.
Even if Spielberg and Geffen exit their deal at Par, as they have threatened to do, the "Transformers" property stays at the Melrose lot, as do all other DreamWorks projects.
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First for the first time.
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And fuck Transformers and Michael Bay.
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second for the first time.
and fuck transformers and michael bay too. -
But i just had to say something coz ive never been this high up before. Err....'Transformers on seven story screen? Thats seven stories worth of not being able to make out whats going on during....the.....fighting.....and that'. Oooh, topical!
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Flames on Starscream!
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Bay is an MTV quack, and $peilberg has lost his touch since Shindler's List. Munich was horrid, as was War of the Worlds, Minority Report, etc.
Transformers II should bring a new perspective and have a story that echoes the source material... NOT "a boy and his car hitting on a chick that looks 30 but pretends to be a teen."
Flames on Optimus and the junkyard scrapmetal look of the robots is forgivable compared to the crappy story and blundering dialog.
I'm not looking for M. Night Shalama-lama-ding-dong level self absorbed depth, but I'd like a little more than a car commercial. -
...Memories-Of-Murder blow his brains out.
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...who came up with this one?
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W3n3rbzpin just needed to write something down so his comment would be near the top. it's too early for all of that bile, dude.
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I guarantee it... 2010... Has michael bay been damned yet?
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bring in some female Transformers that have high dating standards and end up being the fashion barometers of Earth, tag line: Robots 'in' and diss guys.
I was seriously drunk when i went to see Transformers, took some in with me too so i dont recall the end fights so much, have to try and cacth it on IMAX if they show it in the one in Glasgow. -
Twice the Shia on Maxim broad embarassing dialouge!
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I love Spielberg, but he's a bit of a whore at times...you don't get that big in the movie biz without being one and he is.
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I read a report that they are going to replace the flames on Optimus Prime with yellow polka dots.
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Meagn looks 30? She looked barely legal which totally creeped me out. But alas, I must be getting old. Being an Eastie I don't have exposure to "Mom is my homey" syndrome back west.
I am one of the few that actually enjoyed this film so I'm excited to see what they do next. It definitely can be improved upon. -
if only becuase we skip the origin crap and move right into having robots in disguise.
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Yes, it's sad that hip-hip Autobots that piss hydraulic fluid gets you close to $300 million box office.
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q.e.d.
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How? Why? Where?
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Yes, I am down with today's youth. Yo, yo, yo...
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Damn you MCMLXXVI
Flames on Optimus were kinda cool actually.
I wonder if they'll kill off their best robot again, ala Barricade. -
"Rock out man!"
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Yay! More slow motion photography and rising suns.
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Except for the useless Military and Hacker sub-plots. Could've cut 30 minutes of that and added 30 minutes more of robots rocking out.
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Right on, I agree completely. Fun movie, but we need more robots fighting! Saw it on IMAX this past Saturday, and it rocked my socks off.
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Still virgins..., so yeah, I think the T2INO audience will still be in the sweet spot.
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didnt even try to have a decent story. i liked Bay until i saw that disaster...
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Yeah, the tank seems to be aiming at the ground a foot in front of him. But the dump truck and Optimus were cool. Sorta.
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now thats an awesome idea...made my day with that. thanks
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HURRAY!!!!! so much fun
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that one was the tits.... and he could go, me hiro, no wait wrong japanese...
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i mean Megan Fox will sit on his hood...
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I thought Bay was doing that for Bruckheimer in 2009. Well maybe they can get someone better now. As cool as another transformers movie would be, I'd love to see a goo big screen adaptation if they give it the same treatment as pirates.
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her accent was just "bloody" anoying...way too much
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the next project on Spielberg's plate, dealing with wormholes and such. And Spielberg's a whore NOW? There have been quite a few questionable movie choices throughout the years associated with Dreamworks and Amblin. Did we really need a Men In Black 2, or Casper, or fill-in-your-choice-for-obvious-money-grabber..Besides an artist, he is a savvy businessman, and as the old saying goes..Half of show business is business. For money saving needs, just get the On The Lot winner to direct Trans2. Expect a lot of slapstick, and a character being hit by a car at least once every half hour.
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to put all those robots into a city to level it in the final, cause thinking about it, i didnt make sense the first time...
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aliens versus predator is called avp-r now, so?
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....be more excited to see a "transformers" movie about the dudes in that you tube video. almost. man, that was some funny shit. how long do you think it takes to come up with a costume like that? you have to have a engenering degree to come up with something like that, no? who sits around thinking: "yea, if i wear this and get on my knees and tuck my head down towars my ass i'll look just like a cement mixer."
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just throwing it out there...
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Ditch the flames and give his hitch some balls. He was kind of a pussy in that movie.
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like in the YouTube video. Also, I hope in the sequel Optimus takes dumps a few Energon Cubes out his tailpipe. Would be just as funny as the golden shower scene in the first movie.
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The first one was a better movie than any of us deserved. And they're giving us a sequel that ramps up everything we loved from the first one? Sorry folks, but I'm sold. Look for the talkbacks to be significantly smaller this time around. After seeing Transformers, I'd say that a lot of you people don't have decen't points to make anymore.
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What's a TINO?
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What does it mean? And what's with all the abbreviations on this site. Lazy fuckers.
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Not a clue why I know that.
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Enough said
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Keep draggin' those knuckles..
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Hey, you're from South Africa, right? Me too. We rock.
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Worse than Steel. Not fucking kidding. At least Steel is short.
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I'm sorry dude, vut I need to correct you on your comment. I mean if you want to post something here you should at least get it right.What you should've wrote is:"...depth, but I'd like a little more than a shittycar commercial". There you go. Now I gotta agree with you that once I saw the movie, the flames didn't bother me as much as I expected, but that was to the fact that Story and dialogue were probably the most bumbest thing around.Who the hell comes up with these shitty storylines? The whole driving into a Prosche dealership was ridiculous and I gotta say that the acting skills of Shia went way down on that one (Not a huge fan but still liked and respected his previous work). Then you have the whole Bumblebee thing where he puts on stupid radio songs to communicate, and then suddenly at the end of the movie he speaks! WTF Happened I'm thinking I must've missed the part where he gets repaired by sleeping or something!The whole family needs to be buried, heck the whole neigborhood,I mean these are people that have 50 foot robots in their backyards ravaging fountains and screaming at dog, and just the walking around tremiors would wake me up yet these people never called the cops. "I'VE GOT A GIANT ROBOT IN MY BACKYARD!!"The whole thing was just plain Spielberesque. I gotta admit that Since Shindler, the man is becoming one crappy Producer/Director. Hell I still think that he owes me more than 2 hours of my life back since A.I. The shittiest movie ever made...
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Optimus is at least an equal to Megatron. The movie showed him get caned in a big way. Not cool.
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Did we even see the same movie? I was pissed off before I saw it, AFTER seeing it, I was livid. I was literally angry for an entire month after seeing Transformers. And usually, I'm a happy guy. The fact that something so disgusting could not only be made in the first place, let alone be hugely successful is abhorent.
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They can't remove them now! Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
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anyone else wondering about all those smaller messed up robot that the cube created? Why did they all become Deception like?They all lost their freaking minds and started shooting averywhere once the came to life, what the hell happened to them?Plus I'm also wondering about the end of the movie where the folks are talking to the media and trying to not tell the world about the robots. I mean, 'bout 10 giant robots go and destroys half a block and not one tv crew around? I mean 'round here a guy loses his mind and wants to jump off the bridge and you have at least two camera men rushing to film the damn thing.Was giant robots just news worthy enough for CNN?!?!?!
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I agree completely. Absolutely. Look at Peter Jackson. The guy won't be a whore, so basically, the whole biz is trying to shut him out. How crappy is it that movies have to be so marred in so many politics with a little 'p'.
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I never thought I would feel anything but unmitigated joy when a Transformers movie was announced, but the TurdFest that was BayFormers has changed all that. I dreading this to the point of nausea - My favourite franchise of all time being served up on a plate to retards who find golden shower jokes (and Michael Bay in general) funny.
Merrick - Please tell us (or at least hint at) where you heard the no-more-Optimus-Flame rumour..? I'm sure Michael Bay wants to annoy actual Transformers fans so much that he'll find some other way to destroy the iconic Prime - Perhaps a giant robotic penis on the forehead? That would be HILARIOUS~!!!!!!!!
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And I don't even have to see it!
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MORE STARSCREAM PLEASE
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His awesomeness that is the power struggle between him and Megatron was why I loved the show so much.
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the claustrophobic camera action...zoom out Bay, zoom out! get going the really, really shitty dialogue... please, no more super hot scientists... lets make this movie a little more gritty...
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Please remember that we are talking about a movie about sentient robots from outer space. We are lucky this got made at all. I for one thought it was a great movie, and went to see it 4 times. Just having Peter Cullen there to voice Optimus should have made the movie for all of you (of course, they should have trusted the fans, and brought back Frank Welker for Megatron's voice, like they did for the video game). Sure, if Peter Jackson had directed it, the movie would have more depth, and we probably would have had so much about the military and hackers.
As it was, it was as good as we could have hoped for. Plus, with the origin out of the way, it can focus more on the robots and their conflict.
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My two cents: are you seriously pissed about putting flames on Optimus Prime??? Seriously...No...SERIOUSLY??? Get an F'ing life! It's a movie made about toys! A MOVIE MADE ABOUT TOYS!!! TOYS!!! THEY ARE F'ing TOYS!!! Let it go! Obviously this movie would not live up to your expectations because the people who are making it have distractions like money, sex, and power...They don't get to sit in front of their X-box and thier figurine collections, wasting the day away dreaming of a real life Optimus Prime...I'm not saying it's the best movie ever, but it's a movie that gave me transforming robots, comic releif, a couple of hot chicks, and some of the most bad ass action sequences ever. Michael Bay is awesome! I don't care what you think! I'll go to any movie I see his name on! Because I know that I am going to be entertained if nothing else. It's entertainment. Just entertainment. Stop trying to make it the saga you dreamed up from the age of 12 to 25 when you obviously had nothing else to do but dream up YOUR best version of how these toys should be characterized in a movie! NUFF SAID! - "What're you doin with a gun in space?"
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With the bags of dollars they made on Transformers, why aren't they making the Rocklords movie!?!? That movie would kick ass. They were ten times cooler than the gay-ass Transformers.
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...I'd drink her bath water. The Aussie's, too, for that matter...
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...and when is Robot Jox 3 coming out?! Crash and burn, baby!!
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"Bay's decision to shot her as if she was completly covered with a film of cum all over her."WHAT?!?! What the hell is wrong with you, dude?
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...switching to "Gayformers" over "Bayformers". Clever stuff.
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So? Mars Attacks was based on a set of trading cards, and Pirates on an amusement ride. Though Mars was not Burton's finest, it did display some wit (always find Bronson's performance great) and imagination. And at least 2 Pirates flicks were entertaining without insulting ones intelligence. I thought the excuse that it's a movie based on a toy line was silly when fanboys were upset about flames, and car models and whatnot. But don't excuse it as fun, turn-your-brain-off entertainment because its based on a toy line.
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instead of elrond this time ..
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It's not like back in the days with Back to The Future or Poltergeist. Speilberg just let a couple of screewriters and Bay run amok on TF. How do you aprove a script like Transformers anyway and still be called a master storyteller? Say what you will about Jerry Bruckheimer, but he would have had the balls to say that script was a peice a shit. And that stupid fat kid in Transformers was wrong. It was not cooler than Armageddon. Armageddon is Citizen Kane compared to Transformers.
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Bay would never have had those gay family moments with the parents. You know, like that particularly awful scene where the 50 foot Transformers are hiding in the shadows outside Shia's house?
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Citizen Kane is all black and white and doesn't have any explosions.
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When you put it like that: "a fan of Se7en...should be ashamed" I concur. However, as an avid moviegoer, I am able to appreciate a broad spectrum of films and can usually find something redeemable about most anything. If nothing else...the hard working bastards behind the scenes who don't get the glory or the millions. I feel it's mean spirited to disrespect all of those people by calling any movie stupid, inane, and badly made. I am definitely not calling Transformers the must see event of the Century, but it has a clean, sharp look, great CGI, and some decent performances. I take it as it is.."a popcorn flick"..but one of the better. I enjoyed the ride and left my brain at the door. Could the story have been better? YES. Could some of the gags been cut? YES. But that's the great thing about art...it's all about perspective...I LOVE films like Se7en, Fight Club, Shawshank Redemption, and Legends of the Fall to name a few. But I also appreciate and enjoy mindless action flicks with explosions and guys sayin crazy one liners. Nuff Said. - "I taped Larry Lesters buns together"
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Sorry, I just have to say. The fights in Transformers weren't THAT hard to follow. The fights in transformers were at least 3x more visually coherent than any fight scene in Batman Begins, which has legions of fanboys lining up to suck it's dick.
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caterpillar treads, I think that would have gotten his turret positioned correctly.
The other costumes were great. I liked how the Optimus framework jutted out from the wearers knees before he knelt.
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I'll do the honours and flush it down the u-tube for you. There. No more nasty stinking turd!
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These are movies that are beyond a doubt worse than TF 2007. Once I compiled this list, I discovered I CAN enjoy the movie, and it is pretty good! In no Particular order, here are movies TF if definitely better than!
Transformers 1986
Ghost Rider
Fanstastic Four
Daredevil
Star Wars Episode II
Lethal Weapon 3 and 4
Supernova
Dungeons and Dragons
Star Trek Nemesis
Pleasantville
Tomb Raider 1 and 2
Josie and the Pussy Cats
Scooby Doo 1 and 2
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TINO? Gayformers? Grow up finally please! wHY IS IT only FANBOYS can't see ho utterly stupid the original Transformers cartoon was to begin with? A bunch of robots having an energy crisis on their home-world and 4 million years later the energy crisis is still going on? A boy and his dad hanging out with Battling alien robots week after week with no intervention from the outside world authorities? The Bay movie may not have been Citizen Kane, but what little depth it had was ten times more than what you fanboys got when you were kids form a cartoon that basically made up shit week after week as it went along. Two season went by of Transformers and Cybertron was the only alien let alone robot planet they ever encountered. Then the animated movie not only gives us a living robot planet but only a short ride away from Earth we get a THREE ROBOT INHABITED PLANETS!!! At least Bay's film gave the robots a history and a reason for staying on Earth other than this ridiculous search for energy on the only inhabited planet in a solar system full of larger and more energy rich planets with no lifeforms to get in the way! I sometimes think Fanboys are allergic to common sense, women and anything that tries to make sense of crap they played with or watched as kids, because their narrow minds are far too easily reset to juvenile mode when see shit like a Transformers cartoon. The Transformers live action movie was the best entertainment for a general audience this year that i saw on a repeat viewing, audiences every time i watched it, absolutley loved it and laughed at all the jokes specially the Autobots around the house scene. You fanboys don't make movies for a living and that's why people like Spielberg make bucks at the box office with films like these, because they don't cater for idiots who can't grow up from the 80's and instead market movies to people who demand a little bit more than nostalgia to get them through a film. Frank Welker? God he sounds older than he looks and he's about 60+, his time as Megatron has passed on and rightly so. This Megatron was nothing of the squealing piss-ant who has to run away from a fight every week and while all his soldiers turn into mega machines and vehicles, turns himself into a handgun and hopes whoever picks him up has decent aim!? Let the pass be the pass and if you can't embrace the future then get the fuck out of its way. The movie made $315 million and more because it was great fun and made more sense than the shit you guys are holding a torch for. The second movie will be an even bigger success becasue they got all the ground work out of the way and can unleash a lot more Robot action. Bay may not be a great director but he has a lot of zeal and he managed to get a that production rolling and complete on time with decent enough results to make it the best adaptation of the toys ever. You fanboys can moan all you want, you have season after season of nonsensical cartoons to watch, variation upon variation of comics to read and that stupid as fuck animated movie where if you blinked, a classic robot died in light of a new toy character with zero explanaition to where the fuck they all came from in the first place (and yes, they replaced Frank Welker there too for no damn reason but in typical fanboy rules, that doesn't matter because...?) We in the rest of the NORMAL word who couldn't give a fuck about trying to keep stupid robot designs from 80's cartoons the same on screen, welcome the new film and eagerly await the second movie with Zero expectations other than to be entertained all over again as we were this time around. So Nuh! :P
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Why do they fucking call it 'robots in disguise?' I mean how exactly is a huge fucking metal scorpion running around killing everyone in the desert a fucking disguise??? What like nobody's supposed to notice some random huge metal scorpion knocking about?
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Skorponok normally looks like a pair of mittens.
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Or did he jump off a bridge already?
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She looks different in real life. Why she got a giant tattoo of Marilyn Monroe's face on her forearm is absolutely beyond me.
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As much as the supposed "Fanboys" can get a little repetative on these TB's, it's because of them that the movie was made at all. Too bad it wasn't the movie they wanted. Oh well.
I hated everything about Jazz. He rocked in the toons, but it didn't kill the experience. Bay can get overly flashy, but it was good popcorn fun. What evs. -
But I still hated this movie. I'm not even a fanboy of the original series. This film was just pure crap. The Taco Bell meal that I took into the theatre was more fun than the entire film.
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Oh my God! are you a gluton for shit movie punishmentTransformers was the worst mess I've witnessed in a loooong time! Kind of Like an Independance Day alien Internet virus plot filtered through the Tony Scott ADD Avid Editor with added geek!I for one hope to god Bay AND Spielberg leave well alone because I have no idea what Spielberg's doing attached to this in the first place and Michael Bay IS SHIT!
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Transforming into theaters summer 2009, "Kee-Cha-Choo-Krrch!"
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I AM SO THERE WITH MY DICK TRANSFORMING HARD ON BONER SQUEEZE UNH UNH UNH, KA-POOOW!
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"Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuube."
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transforming into a Mountain Dew dispenser.
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I went to see Transormers - I ate my popcorn - I didnt think about bills/laundry etc What more do you want???? Realism??
It was giant robots for fucks sake!
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cmon Spielberg, just merge indy and TF and be done with it
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...Didn't eat any popcorn though. I didn't think about bills either. Did think that Shia Lebouf is growing into a young John Cusack, and hopefully hooks up with a young Savage Steve Holland or Cameron Crowe. What do I want from the next one? Not to be bored out of my mind by cheap (looking), lazily conceived and ugly trash. But with the same creative crew involved, I'll no doubt be out of lock. But hey, thats what DVD is for. Then again, seeing Spider-Man 3 for free still cost me hours of my life.
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"Transformers" had the worst script outside of an Uwe Boll film and it was directed by Michael Bay. This time around, they're diving right in, although no one seems to be talking about what it's about, which means it probably will be about nothing. Maybe it'll have Unicron. And he'll be a cloud.
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and it asked for more..after all he is a handsome devil.
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...I went to the cinema expecting to see giant robots fighting. Instead, I seen Shia LeBouf babbling on about ebay, paypal, and any other product placements they could throw in. I seen a nerdy-but-kindhearted guy try to score with the popular-yet-kindhearted cheerleader while her handsome-but-shallow boyfriend proceded to 'not get her' (seriously, could you get more hamfisted?). I seen a army-guys-in-a-helicopter scene which covered every army guy stereotype known to man (the guy wanting to get home to his new baby, the guy who's looking forward to barbequing and sippin a cold one, the nerdy one with glasses, the black guy who says 'now that's what I'm talkin about', etc, etc). I seen John Turturro shamelessly pissing on every role the Coen Brothers gave him, I seen the plot to Independance Day but replacing the hidden alien spaceship with a hidden alien robot. And oh, so sorry, then I seen around ten minutes, in a two-hour movie, of giant robots fighting, with the cameras so close you couldn't tell what the fuck was going on and which robot was hitting which. THAT's why I won't be seeing GMC and XBox present Sony's Transformers 2.
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You WON'T be getting it a second. You fooled me once. I know have a vow. I will never see a Michael Bay directed movie for the rest of my life. That is etched in stone. He had one last chance with Transformers. He and Spielberg blew it. Yes I know Michael look at the box office. Yet it's like Scooby Doo and The Flintstones - bad movies that made money.
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I Hate this movie with passion. Anyone who defends this simply has No taste. Or an opinion that cannot be respected.
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Absolute fucking garbage. Calling a piece of shit a "popcorn" movie is a far too common excuse these days. TRANSFORMERS was a marketing blitz designed around as flimsy script and a hack director.
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right down through the Earth's core and out the other side, I still could not enjoy the Transformers movie. The whole time my brain kept screaming, "OH MY FUCKING GOD MAKE IT STOP WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME SWEET JUMPING JIMINY JESUS", and I kept saying "Quiet you, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip!!" but the screaming just WOULDN'T STOP. Actually there was ONE scene that was well done, that being the 23 second 'chase' between Bumblebee and Barricade. A movie about giant robots that transform into cars and there's only ONE car chase? Please.
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Fucking A right they need to do a Rock Lords movie before TF2. Big fucking deal if transformers turn into vehicles, rocks are the ultimate camoflage. I'm saying Steve Buschemi to voice Nuggit (he was always like the "Bumblebee" of the RL series) and Orlando Jones from MadTV would be PERFECT as the voice of Crackpot. I'd like to see James Earl Jones voice Magmar, but that's kinda pie in the sky at this point.
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"Whut u want from a toy moovee?!""It about giant robots, u want Citizen Kane?!" No, I want coherance, decent acting, servicable runtime, a modicum of respect as a human being with a functioning brainstem, and fight scenes I can actually make sense out of. Yeah, it's a movie about giant robots. Let's try this: It's a movie about a robot that comes back in time to kill some chick." That sound like it's going to be a good movie? Source material be damned- if this wasn't connected to anything, I'd STILL hate it.
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A working title.
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production to be greenlit.
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and that oh so cool song from the movie
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game of Dance Dance Revolution. I also can't wait to see the cabinet meetings the President will have about these alien robots being around. And will that one soldier ever get to see his newborn baby? What about the mean jocks? Do they ever learn to accept Sam into their midst? And what of Sam's parents? Can he ever tell them the truth or are they doomed to think he's just locked in his room masturbating all the time? Will they ever replant their flower garden after those robots walked all over it? Does their dog get hooked on painkillers? So many interesting sub plots were set up in the first movie. I can't wait to see the sequel.
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Ain't It Cool talkback summed up.
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Transformers rocked and I can't wait to have more. You haters are losers.
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Take Bay with them and get the fuck off the most horrible abortion of an adaptation ever made. Yep, it's that bad. I don't know how anyone seriously enjoyed that. Fucking two hours of my life gone, plus the bandwith used to download this piece of shit. I made sure to fucking not only erase the shit movie, but I considered doing a reformat to get rid of the lingering memory. Damn that movie sucked balls.
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But they aren't in robot form, should he use CG or just film a bunch of rocks? Its a tough call. One option is definitely more cost effective than the other. If anybody can make a pile of rocks look badass and do a bunch of sweet ass stunts, its Michael Bay.
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Bay is simply an awful director. I had modest expectations for TRANSFORMERS, but it seemed like the perfect match of director and material. I thought Bay had a movie that wasn't going to suck, at long last. It didn't go down that way at all, and the end result compares unfavorably to even the likes of DRAGON WARS. That's an awful film as well, probably worse than even TRANSFORMERS, but at least there's a spark of passion to it; the sense that the people behind it, however misguided, were giving it their best shot. The only passion involved in the making of TRANSFORMERS was Michael Bay needing a hit after THE ISLAND cratered. The film is like a car commercial, only less involving and no damn fun at all. DRAGON WARS may be inept, but it's fun. And you can see what happens in the action scenes.
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and I have alot of it. When he said " Michael Bay was born to direct movies ". One thing that really annoys me is how people say " It's just a toy movie ". No it is NOT!
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how many of you talkbackers were featured in that costume video?
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The rest of the designs, the plot, the acting, the director, the voices??? Well, if the first one looks good when it shows up on cable, maybe I'll see the 2nd one in the theater. Those dorks transforming in that video kick ass.
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Talk ta me!
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tranformers blows big and loud/big and dumb would some one buy michael bay a steady cam.
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I'm not 12, I had all the transformer toys when they first came out back in '84 -'85... but Fox looked way too old. I mean c'mon, she has crow feet starting to form on her eyes!
And the acting and story were so bad, it made the cartoon look like Shakespeare. Seriously, it will be a great day for Transfans once $peilberg and Bay get fired at they find REAL talent for the project...
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THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE from 1986 will always overshadow TRANSFORMERS from 2007. Why? Because the transformers in the animated film were characters while the transformers in the live-action film were props. Can anyone here point out some characterization from the new film? The only thing that stood out about any of the transformers in Bay's film is Optimus Prime, and only because they used the voice and characterization from the cartoon. Every other autobot or decepticon was just.........there.
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...if that fat bag of shit Anthony Anderson gets stepped on by a giant robot in the first 30 seconds. Repeatedly.
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Saw it tonight, it looked really good. But don't expect to see any action in the two minutes of "extended footage"; what you get are two completely forgettable throwaway gags instead. The first is the crazy cop in the police station showing Sam the old "This is your brain on drugs" video, the second is a silly scene where Capt. White Guy tries to persuade an armed pawn shop owner to let him use her phone. She's fat, black, and sassy: the greatest comedy combination ever known! And he persuades her by telling her how pretty she is, it is a stroke of comedy genius! But worthless extra footage aside, it was still cool to see robots kicking ass in IMAX, and Megan Fox's sweat-glistening body has never looked better. As far as I know.
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It really really sucked ass, and I could give a damn about the holiness of the Transformers. Bay sucks. He really really sucks. There. Enjoy my intellectual discourse.
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Insensitive pricks.
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Every single transformer in the animated film had a distinct personality. The producers/toymakers/comic writers were exceptionally good at making each of them memorable. None of the transformers in the live-action film had a distinct personality or was memorable except Optimus Prime. And again, only because they copied that directly from the cartoon/animated feature.
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Then count me in and BRING IT!!! I WANT TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION!!!!!!!!
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1) It begins with showing Starscream landing on Mars and meeting Shockwave and/or Soundwave. A little (but not to much... just enough to introduce the characters and motives of the Decepticons) dialogue with a brief report from Starscream about how Megatron "failed."
2) The Autobots have managed to avoid the public eye. Bumblebee and Sam still are together, although Sam's father (Ron) doesn't like it.
3) The Constructicons are building a secret Decepticon base of operations in Qatar, near the destroyed SOCCENT military base.
4) Barricade is alive still and contacts Mr. Simmons (former S7 officer) to be a human liason to get them the necessary raw materials to fuel their war efforts. Simmons is a pawn.
5) Megatron is recovered and rebuilt.
6) The Dinobots arrive and save Sam, who is being tortured by Barricade for information on the Autobots whereabouts. Grimlock criticizes Optimus Prime for being a weak leader and for letting Starscream escape. Later in the movie they resolve their differences and work together to help their cause.
7) Starscream returns with Shockwave and Soundwave. Megatron confronts them and a battle ensues between he and Starscream. Megatron wins, but Starscream manages to escape with his life and again leaves Earth.
Bumblebee and Sam find out about the secret Decepticon base in Qatar.
9) Arcee is introduced, and Mikaela hits it off with her.
10) The Autobots attack the Decepticon base in Qatar, only to be defeated by the Constructicons and Megatron. Shockwave recovers the All Spark fragment, unknown to Megatron.
11) Ironhide is killed protecting Bumblebee and Sam from Shockwave and Soundwave.
12) The end of the movie shows Starscream floating in space, out of energy and about to deactivate. A strange and poweful voice summons him. Unicron is seen briefly and Starscream agrees to do his bidding in order to destroy Megatron and become leader of the Decepticons.
I guess this may sound lame lol, but I'm just a fan with some ideas... do you guys like them or hate them? -
The plot sucks, the actors suck, optimus has flames, the script was lame, bla bla *cries like a fucking baby! So the big boycott you fucktards where planning and the whole I'm staying away in protest really amounted to fuck all didn't it? You 100 or so basement dwelling cretins who can't let go of your childhood and grow the fuck up must be turning in your optimus PJ's at that figure, and let me please repeat it $695,875,988... yup kiddies, thats how much your so called Hated film made worldwide theatrically... can you imagine how much more money its gonna make on DVD? and now we have the sequel, i hope to god they fuck up and change more of your precious toys just so i can read the rants and ravings of you lunatics... anyways, I'm off to get a cuppa, have fun! and Dinobots, nah leave em out cant see how'd they'd fit into our world without looking silly
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the first one was a load of old wank that constantly boggled my mind as to how astoundingly bad it was. i will be well, well clear of the second impending monstrosity.
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Once again- BOX OFFICE DOES NOT EQUAL QUALITY. sheesh.
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TPM, AOTC, Spiderman 3, Transformers, Shrek 3 all made more money than ESB.
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He makes M-O-M Seem a rank amateur in the trolling stakes. And it doesn't prove that a lot of people liked it- it proves that a lot of people saw it- not the same. Personally, I thought it was shite- but hey, it takes all sorts to make a world
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Soundwave?? Maybe a little background history this time
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it shows that it appealed to a helluvalot more people than the knob'eads on ere that done nothing but complain endlessy about it for fecking months, sure spidey3, pirates and shrek all made shitloads of money and along with TF weren't the best films of 2007, but they had mass market appeal which is what hollywood makes movies for, not wankers that piss and moan over fucking flames on optimus, heck i remember even arguing with some fuck on here about how the internet could make a difference.. how i wish i could remember his name.. anyways TF wasn't a fantastically brilliant movie, it was a fun Saturday afternoon popcorn flick that entertained the missus and i and blew the both of us away with the SFX, so roll on the 2nd one..
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the internet will make fuck all difference. The SoaP fiasco proved that once and for all.
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All it means is that a lot of people saw it.
I saw it. I paid for my ticket, but I didn't like it.
There are a lot of people who did see it and didn't like it.
That amount of gross does prove there were some repeat viewings, but you can't assume a large gross means everyone liked it. -
Why are there people looking for a deep story/plot in this movie? Look at the source material. The story there was lame if it even existed.
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nothing more, nothing less, if you hated it fine, lots of people did but i found it a simple enjoyable and surprisingly amusing movie with some kick ass effects, granted he could've toned down the "bayism" of it all so that you could actually make out what the fuck was going on in some of the shots but as for people who thought it was shite, did you really expect it to be anything other than what it turned out to be? Id say a helluva lot more people enjoyed it than hated it which I'm sure will be proved once the DVD hits the market
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...for The Crystal Skull! Trans....what?
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"What did you expect, Hamlet?"
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Need a life?
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This word does not exist.
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James Earl Jones...no way they can get him. Sure, everyone knows he would make the perfect voice for him, but I just want the movie to get made right now. If they come in demanding Jones, they'll get laughed right out of Paramount Studios. A more realistic tactic would be to try and get him for the sequel (after the original makes phat Bank) to voice one of the Jewel Lords. Any one of them would be fine.
I like Buscemi as Nuggit; he always brings his A game, and you need someone that will really commit to the inherent feistyness of Nuggit. But I think a child actor, like Malcolm from Malcolm in the Middle or that Sixth Sense kid. I see Nuggit more as a young sidekick that gets into trouble. Like the Rocklords version of Aqualad. Sure it would be kind of annoying, but Paramount's gonna really want to get that young demographic. -
Sep 28, 2007 11:15:49 AM CDT
I figure Megs come back at the end of the second one...
by rickey henderson
Which naturally sets up the third movie in the series. There's no way Paramount is letting go of the only cash cow it has in it's arsenal. This is all fine by me really--Transformers knocked my socks off this summer. Bay did it right. By the the summer of 09 rolls around, the fat kids will have graduated to fist bumping. Between that and big angry robots fighting, you've got yourself $10 well spent at the movies.
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...should choke yourselves on a fat cock. I'd rather bury my face in Rosie O' Donnell's festering snatch than read any more of your fucking nonsense.
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Flames on Felicity Huffman's penis!!
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Actually, I'm hearing that T2: T STANDS FOR TRANSFORMERS NOW AND NOT TERMINATOR is going to be a very faithful and unabridged adaptation of Wuthering Heights. But, you know, obviously with all the human characters played by talking Mountain Dew machines and Nike swooshes and whatnot.
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So there.
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sarcastic or not, euthanise yo' self.
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I guess I should have said, "Do you have a life beyond multi-posting your hate of all things Bay and TRANSFORMERS?" Because, apparently, you don't. In fact, you can't stop bringing it up. IN EVERY SINGLE TALKBACK...NO MATTER THE SUBJECT. Do you know what that's called, M-O-M? Obsession. And you, my lunatic-blowhard friend, have a big raging hard-on called "Obsession".I'll tell you this, I've never seen someone type as much and say as little as you. It's amazing the amount of time you put into each and every post. What's even more amazing is how many of them you're able to vomit onto AICN in a given day.Here's a tip: if you add another "N" to your word "anoying", you will have the adjective that describes you to a motherfucking T.
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must get nuked, that way, there won't be any fat men insulting eachother on the net.
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brokentusk, you know it's true, that's why you know it. ;) T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO! T2INO!
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... all you loveable losers! Megan Fox needs to realize are tatoos are NOT COOL anymore. Get a new chick in there for every sequel! La Beef is James Bond for the new century!
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There was only one other person in TB besides you who:
1) Pretends to not care about nationality yet bashes Americans whenever he can.
2) Rants endlessly about Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer.
3) Makes it a point to "lecture" people on obscure moments in history in a condescending manner.
4) Jizzes all over Blade Runner whenever the opportunity arises.
That person was BladeRunnerUnit. -
Good to see that when I stop by AICN for a peek, there's a Transformers talback welcoming me home. And oh look, there's that MCXLVI waiting for me with a nice hot cup of... DAMN YOU MICHAEL BAY! Where is that silly fucker these days anyway? He's spent the last several months contructing a guillotine to kill himself with, hasn't he? Seriously, how did the movie not alleviate all your concerns?
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BladeRunnerUnit was banned, but google his username and aintitcool. Read the people's responses to his posts and tell me that MOM and BRU aren't one and the same. It's the same shit over and over and over again.
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It's BladeRunnerUnit's posts in the Agony Booth Forum where he, among other things, rants about Bay and Armageddon:
http://tinyurl.com/36jsho
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He won't tell you where he's from, because "nationality doesn't mean anything", but if you are an American and hold opinions that differ from his, he'll make damn sure to include your nationality in his condescending response.
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How can anyone defend this movie?
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Why was this film so focused on bodily functions? The dog pissing on Ironhide, Bumblebee pissing on Jesus, Shia's mom referencing masturbation, etc. All it needed was Megan Fox and the Australian girl having a candid discussion about their periods and they would be all set.
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Because everyone is so passionate one way or another (love & Hate) about a kids toy robot come to life in a movie. all the lovers dont want to think on a hot summer day, they want to be swept away into euphoria for a couple of hours. All the haters wish this would have been done differently. bottom line everyone has something vested in this story about GIANT FUCKING ROBOTS!
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you all live to disagree.
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Megan Fox has periods????
The fuck?
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The abbreviation belongs to the TERMINATOR sequel, not to this robot sequel thingie. Call it TRANS2 or TR2NS or TF2 instead. Morons.
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Damn you Michael Bay
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So much hate. We're all gonna die with this terrible hate in our hearts... I'm drunk....
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HE gave us Universal Soldier! You gave us nothing! HE will smite you and piss on your ruined bum! And I will laugh! And drink more.
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take it, T.F.D.!
what does yoko need? -
I see your irony/sarcasm detector is still broken.
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left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek! left cheek!
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the answer is no. no one on this likes movies. The most anticipated film of next summer is Indy 4 and you will have takbackers ready to pounce and shred any part of the film that they dont like. The script will get shredded and an entire two hour movie movie will be roasted on the basis of the 2 minute trailer. The only film that I actually avioded Shreck the third. oh and bourne Ultimatum i didnt see that too because breach or How robert Hansen spied on the US 20 years is the real. If you listen to the moaners on this site you would swear that no good film came out this summer. I have seen two. Breach and 3:10 to yuma were both superb. but my point stands talbackers hate movies.
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...is NOT "In Dee Four - Krystal Whatever"
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But then again, when is blowing a tranny NOT fun?
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still, he proves that "CUNT" is international. TFD makes me smile.
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boxers use punching bags. They seem encapable of any enjoying movie these days. The only thing that some talkbackers seem to enjoy is beating up on movies. They complain loudly about hollywood without getting off thier asses and doing something about. By becoming invovlved with something that you care about or are interested about. you will end up submitting ideas and contributing articles. If those ideas are any good and the articles like wise, you will impress other people. I should know it has happened to me. eventually people become bored with moaners.
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Im just tired of hearing Michael Bay blab that he knows whats best for Transformers...as best as I can see...he cant even get the characters right...has anyone else seen the character line up???
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