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Clint over at moviehole says he's friends with actress Teresa Palmer & that she's been cast in the TRANSFORMERS sequel.
My old buddy Teresa Palmer (“2:37”, “December Boys”) has been cast in ''Transformers 2'', we confirmed a few minutes ago.
...says THIS ARTICLE, which goes on to discuss a few more details regarding Palmer's background (and her association with a project that one assumes was JUSTICE LEAGUE).
THE GRUDGE 2 is another recent Palmer title.
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very similar...
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oh, she's that hot blonde schoolgirl in part 2? yum. she was so hot i almost wanted to do her during her "grudged" look.....almost.
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This movie doesn't need more people. It needs less interaction with humans. It's time for some robot on robot violence!
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May 01, 2008 8:23:42 AM CDT
Please let that goddess from the first film be in it!
by silentbobafett2
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Unfortunately Bay will screw her.
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She's very tiny, not like Charlize.
Lovely though. Maybe she'll get to keep her accent too. I'm sure even Hollywood casting directors don't even realise how many Aussie actors there are over there. Seeing as they're always doing Seppo accents. -
IS SO NOT G1!!! GrrrrrrrRRR!
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Fuck TF2 - the only movie I want to see Megan Fox in is slasher-fest HACK/SLASH as sex-bomb Cassie Hack!
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Transformers has a lot of producers.
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. . . I thought it was Paris Hilton. Not that she could make this any dumber though.
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Just what a Transformers movie needs . . . more humans! Why don't they change the name to Humans with Special Guest Stars The Transformers!
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We all Learned to Hate Bay and his Lady-Boy Beard! http://tinyurl.com/5u3wz8
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This is 2008. Not 1988. But I will say this for the guy singing. If you're gonna suck do it right and you're suckin' right brother. The truth is though, Michael Bay sucks even more than this guy which makes this guy awesome. Alright Duce!! Keep Suckin' and Rawk On!!
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Scenes like when Bumble was fighting a decpticon (i can't really remember who it was because we only saw like 2 seconds of the fight) and instead of seeing the fight, we get to follow Indie Jr. and (insert obligitory actress here) run around and get chased I think. It was so cool! It was like being at Manchester Township, New Jersey, U.S., on 6 May 1937 and turning your back to the Hindenburg to order a sandwhich instead of watching the horror.
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Transformers was a cool ass movie. Shes so fine i'd eat the corn out her shit!
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... it will still be a giant steaming pile of shit.
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that chick looked like some second rate porn star. I never saw a girl like that in my high school ever. And that guy in the music video was trying too hard. Weak. I'm still seeing Transformers 2. I'll just ignore all the people parts and wait for some robot to punch some guy. It'll be cool.
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is one of those few actresses that doesn't have nude pics all over the internet. I mean, there's none. Does anyone know how rare that is? Maybe that's why they picked her.
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Pandering bullshit for idiots.
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Heck, I can do without a love interest altogether. Did Megan Fox bring anything to the table except look hot? Does "Transformers" even need a love interest anyway? This is "Transformers", Michael Bay. Not "the human teen who gets the girl while the robots look on".
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Must have done one massive bukkake session to get that the Transformers role, since her acting is non existent. It still amazes me how shallow,stupid and sleazy supposed mainstream Hollyweird movie producers are in their dealings. Someone give me a job at a Hollyweird movie studio and i will get rid of all the weak porn addicted cocaine shovelling executives at a stoke of a pen. But of course you would need to allow me to greenlight a decent Last Starfighter sequel.
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It wasn't the cliche teen actors that runied Trans 1, but the well known actors Anderson/Vogit/Tutrro. See with Bay films you have to fucking act serious and can only bust out silly one liners. I mean Bill Bob Thornton deserve the award for best Micheal Bay acting. Anderson/Tuturro/Voigt were more Owen Wilson Bay acting, in that they couldn't care less that they were there. We all knew the Robots were going to be dumb and say dumb shit, but the horriblness of those three actors was what put me over the top for this movie. Also I am not even sure if Meghan Fox said a word in the movie? I wonder why Bay had to use Tuturro over Steve Buscemi and Voigt over William Fichtner or Will Patton? The whole Anderson role though is unexplainable. I mean he is some big computer geek, yet it looks like he just has the family computer in the living room, thats an old IBM? How did Len Wiseman out Bay Micheal Bay last summer?
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Nice to see he keeps that old school director 'with privileges' thing goin'...
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I really don't understand why so many people liked this movie. I thought it was so bad I was actually pissed when I left the theater.
From the slapdash, we-wrote-it-in-a-weekend script, filled with one execrable line after another (containing an obligatory line where Optimus Prime has to blather about how the indomitable human spirit is worth saving, UGH!), to the ridiculously lame Sector 7 agent played by John Turturro (he gets peed on by a robot, for crying out loud!), to the slapstick humor of the Transformers in the back yard, to LaBeouf channeling Robin Williams channeling Woody Allen, to the incomprehensible direction of action sequences, I’m flabbergasted that it made the amount of money it did.
I was at a family get together a couple of weekends ago and the kids downstairs popped the movie in, so I ended up seeing a lot of it again and I have to say that the second viewing actually diminished the movie for me, if that’s even possible. Fortunately they also watched Miyazaki’s HOWLS MOVING CASTLE, so I felt assured that at least they do watch good stuff too.
And don’t get me wrong. I love over-the-top action fests as much as the next guy. I don’t even have a knee-jerk hatred for Michael Bay (THE ROCK is awesome). I also watched Transformers regularly as a kid (I’m the target demographic as far as the nostalgia factor goes), but holy shit TRANSFORMERS the movie was horrible!
And now there’s a sequel, not that I’m surprised. I’m just a little repulsed.
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May 01, 2008 9:43:15 AM CDT
Charleze Theron and Alicia Silverstone had a daughter?
by cletus van damme
Never knew
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Bay should be directing Transformers movies and G. I. Joe movies two perfect franchises for him (Maybe the next Superman as well) but Transformers and G. I Joe and endless sequels. Bay was made specificially for these two Hasbro franchises. He is the Kurosawa of Hasbro cartoon movies and I shit u not this is a compliment!!!! Loved Transformers but why not Joe too????
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meh forget this movie then
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and her 5 sisters
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I tried to watch this on home video, and it was so dull I barely made it to the end. It's a film to admire - the photography, the effects - but not to enjoy. It's like, instead of actually RIDING a rollercoaster, you're standing by the side watching other people ride it. While the guy who built it tells you how clever he was.
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We need mo' betta robots!
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We're not coming to Transformers for babes (at least, not primarily), we're coming for Metroplex!! Please please please let him be in the movie.
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I seriously love this dude, but when it's about Michael Bay (and especially Transformers, which is pretty weird if you consider that he isn't even a fan of the source material) he is worse than Me and Tarantino (or BSG or the last few seasons of South Park...).
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we'll see.
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And is the love of my life Meghan Foxy not going to be gracing us with her tan peach fuzz ridled tum tum this time? It would feel wrong to trade my boner in for anything less.
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He doesn't sound British.
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Sing the lyrics clearly!
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They're supposed to be sexy teens but they look more like sexy 30somethings.
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To see that not only is she supernova hot (in the natural beauty way not the 90210 way) but she really can act! Not that this will make a scrap of difference in Bayformers, but not only is she aboout 100 steps up from h0-bag Fox, she is now officially, by far the most interesting person in this. So turn off whatever genre film you've got playing and netflix DECEMBER BOYS, though be warned you'll have to stomach none other than Harry Potter in the lead, but trust me it's worth it. I saw it at the cinema last summer and enjoyed it quite a bit - certainly more than Transformers! And yes Frodo, she has boobs!
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About the "human" actos being cast, I mean. Seriously. Who gives a shit? Transformers should be about the giant robots, because just as the cartoon was a toy commercial, the movies should be toy/car commercials. The sequel needs few humans and more robots beating the shit out of each other while laying waste to a major city. That's all I want to see. If we don't get that, then fuck Bay in the ear with a power drill. If I want a human drama, a love story, or something in that vein then I'll rent Atonement. I'd only pay to see Transformers 2 if it was at least 90% Transformers.
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Or does it look like that bitch has a lazy eye? One eye is looking forward and the other is drifting off to the corner. Plus, she looks a bit too much like Paris Hilton in that photo - and that's NEVER a good thing for any actress.
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This will Suck Optimal Prime!
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The first one was barely watchable. Bay dropped the ball big time. Seriously, it just sucked balls.
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It's giant alien robots on Earth.
So that sort rules out a realistic story.
Slapstick humor is essential to Transformers; the backyard scene is the epitome.
But all that hacker shit and secretary of defense stuff wasn't needed.
Better and more human-like robot designs would've improved it.
And of course more characterization, but it's a Bay movie.
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For some new bimbo with no explanation only so Shia LeBouf has someone new to hilariously chase after? Not that I really care at this point but I hate when movies do that... As for Transformers. I enjoyed it once in theatres... but multiple viewings of this will every time degrade my liking for it... You begin to seriously hate all the character interaction and comedy and just skip to the good fight scenes... Transformers as a whole doesn't hold up on multiple viewings... And all because the comedy is like those jokes that are only funny the first time you hear them. Afterwards it's just annoying.
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These are the five demons you must slay in order to make a Michael Bay movie.
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He makes decently fun movies. I don't always go to a movie to see a fucking Frenchified art flick. Sometimes I like mindless explosions. I absolutely loved Transformers. Saw it three times in the theater and have rented it a bunch. Yeah, I skip past the Tuturro scenes, but everything else is pretty cool. I mean, I have never seen anything so cool as the massive carnage at the end of that film. Shia was believable; John Voight was believable (if typecast) and the girl was smokin. Everything you could want in a summer blockbuster. I have tons of Transformer toys from the 80s, saw the original in the theater and watched every episode. Fuck all you people who thought the movie sucked because of Flames on Optimus Prime. Fuck that. There's nothing wrong with it. It's not about adhering to the original ideas; it's about using them as a palette to paint a pretty movie with, and he did exactly that. I loved the Rock. I loved The Island...I thought it was a fantastic flick. Well done, thoughtful science fiction with a great cast, good acting, wonderful special effects. Pearl Harbour...yeah it was bloated, but it was still pretty cool. That particular one is one of his I don't care for the most, but fuck, to watch that movie and then call the dude a HACK?
FUCK.
YOU.
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Oh, and watch Armageddon over again, and then watch Final Impact. Which one is more fun? Final Impact was great but it was thought provoking and a really smart flick. But sometimes YOU JUST WANNA SEE SHIT GET BLOWDED UP. And Armageddon gave us that in spades.
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I'm glad you enjoy all 5 minutes of all his movies! Do not keep on truckin Michael Bay. Pull over to the rest stop and take as many bumps as you need to fuckin' O.D. already. But not before you pick up Don Murphy!
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Would cost more than her salary.
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The five demons you must slay... That’s hilarious. Thank you.
Evil Archer: Yeah. What can you expect with giant robots? I know.
But having robots in a movie doesn’t preclude the possibility of there being a sharp, witty, well-written script to go along with it. I guess what upsets me is that, in my opinion, shooting a movie with a script this bad shows contempt for the audience, as if to say, “Well, this is good enough. It is just a movie about giant robots, after all.”
I mean really, don’t they want me coming back for more? Because as it stands now, they’re not even getting my Netflix money for the sequel.
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and that's about it. The acting was ok for me, but that's not what I wanted from the movie. That's not what the whole thing's supposed to be about. Watching the transformers themselves was a task. Watching them move is like trying to watch a pile of ants. They're fucking jumbles of oddly angled parts and shit just sticking out everywhere. Why do they have lips? To eat? To form sounds? That is fucktarded. And the premise itself is kind of sloppy too. They can just change themselves into something else whenever they choose? That makes no sense. Bring back the original animated storyline where they are stuck being what they are, after the Autobot computer system modifies them based on earth technology and vehicles.
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there really wasn't enough in the first transformers film. I hope they just ignore the transformers completely tbh and just have it about shia in uni and his hilarious antics. John turturro can play the dean.
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I love how I'm an asshole for not tearing off my flesh in orgasmic appreciation of Bay's asstacular work. Between the incessant product placement (watch The Island again this time for all the timely product placements), the idiot-spasm "MORE IS BETTER!!!" mentality to every aspect of Bay's filmmmaking. He has tiny occasional moments but I think we need a new term similar to 'torture porn' except 'action porn' doesn't sound good but I suppose it will do. There is no reason to watch any scene in most Bay movies outside of the action scenes. And since, by that opinion/definition, you wouldn't know what the fuck is going on story-wise...why bother with story at all? Why not make cinematic equivalent to youtube videos with just more loud and fiery explosions and effects? No...one superhottie? Why not 2? One comic relief? Why not 2? See the genius at work here? We had what...6, 7 robots? I could only recognize maybe 2 consistently and I was a big fan of the original cartoon so I'm not exactly in unknown territory as far as who these giant robots are.And please...no more of the expectations arguments cause its pure conjecture. Nobody see's Transformers expecting anything other than to be entertained. Just because a giant robot saying "My bad", or a Wookie giving a Tarzan yodel...or any other thing NOT OF THIS EARTH using bullshit modern Earth sayings/phrases just fucking pisses me off. It's why I hate Shrek. It's not cute or funny...it's total fucking destruction of my suspension of disbelief. but hey...Bay put Scarlett Johansen in The Island and she's freakin' beautiful so fuck my opinion. Let the beating off begin!!!
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Why do they have lips? Because they transform into things that resemble humans, presumably so that humans would more easily relate to them. Or perhaps the original sentient beings that created them were bipedal. WHO THE FUCK CARES. They are transforming robots. All this bullshit about Jazz acting like a soul brother and how dumb it was makes complete sense if their understanding of how humans act came from a very specific style of speech during a specific time. So he's trying to emulate it, and is horribly cheesy in the process. I have no problem with it; it made complete sense to me. Watching them was NOT a task. It was a hell of a lot of fun. Sometimes its cool to see every detail, and other times its cool to see the transforming as a jumbled, complex and complicated mess that moves too fast for the human eyes to see. Conservation of Mass? WHO THE FUCK CARES. "Shit just sticking out everywhere" - What, you what a fucking Auto-Cad screenshot to go with your Auto-Bot to make you feel better about the engineering? Fuck that. This is the rediculous level of silliness on this site about the Transformers. I had fun. Millions of people all over the world watched it and had fun. Michael Bay is laughing all the way to the bank and he is gonna make another one which will make me happy. Fuck, the next thing yiou know you turds will be complaining about the lack of realism with the Insecticons like Kickback because they don't shed like real insects, or you buffoons will complain about Bay making the Dinobots anything other than grey because we don't know what color dinosaurs really were. Fuck.
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Nobody here had a problem with the WHOLE plotline of Galaxy Quest revolving around a bunch of aliens having their entire society built around the "Historical Documents" of a Star Trek clone, but if Michael Bay puts the idea of special glasses relavent to the plot being sold on Ebay and found out by alien robots, or these same robots emulating speech from bad 80's slang or radio stations, somehow your belief doesn't get suspended? Somehow he's a hack for doing that, when one of the funnest movies in a long time, Galaxy Quest, had the WHOLE MOVIE surrounding that? Fuck.
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Galaxy Quest was a comedy. And a good one I may add. I'm not complaining about lips. I'm complaining about shitty movie making made by a hack coke head who by his own admission doesn't know a good movie even if he worked in one. Case in point: He proudly proclaims thinking Raiders of the Lost Ark would suck while he was working for Spielberg when he was a kid. He talks about it all the time. Way off wouldn't you say?
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Didn't LERRRRVE it, but liked it.
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And he was a kid. So you are judging a highly successful director based on comments he made while a kid. Does he still think it sucks? Not that I am aware. But it's not fucking relevant. His movies are very skillfully sirected with fantastic angles and shots. His movies seem alive. They seem very dynamic to me, bigger than life, like a John Woo film. Who cares if hes a cokehead. Who isn't in Hollywood. He's not Uwe Fucking Boll. He hasn't made a bad movie yet, with the possible exception of Pearl Harbour, which wasnt bad, just too long.He's not making movies to get oscars or to get you to think about fucking lips on robots or flames on transforming turcks. He's making movies to entertain folks. And by the way, what the fuck was wrong with the Island? It was a sci-fi movie in a classical vein of a Heinlien book or 1984 or Gattaca. It was thought provoking and sad, and yet it had a lot of action, with a lot of near-future stuff thrown in. He put a lot of effort into it and a lot of thought about what the near future would be like. I loved it. And I get pissed off when I see fuckos call someone who created a good flick like that call the dude a hack which is what happens any time anyone brings up Michael Bay on this site. FUCK THAT.
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this movie is going to be a complete mirror of the last one. all the peices are falling into place. because bay know that even though most people like us hate the last one, most of us will go to see a babe in some tiny shorts or skirt again.
just give us some god damn transforners. we can get hardcore porn and comedy for free on the internet. why pay $9 for teases and lame humor while we watch a concept go horribly wrong.
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proves that bay is a hack. it's a direct update of the 'clonus horror', aka 'parts' (1979) where the rich and famous have an island of clones who win lotteries and are told they are getting off the island but are being harvested.
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But the movie itself was still very well made. It was directed very well, beautiful to watch, and the acting was spot on. Bay might be a jerk and a cokehead and might steal other's ideas, but the movies he makes are directed well, which to me means he ain't a hack.
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that Bay's movies will ever end up on something like Mystery Science Theater 3000 like the Clonus Horror movie did.
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I agree with zom-bot. When i go to see a film called Transformers i expect to see some Transformers! Take the final scrap between Optimus & Megatron, something i've wanted to see on the big screen since i was 8. What did we get? About 5 seconds of Prime & Megatron facing off & just as they start kicking the shit out of each other the camera follows Shia Lafucking boof! This happens constantly throughout the film. Robots start fighting & we have to watch something else! Whats more frustrating is on the dvd features theres loads of fight scene animatics that are cool as fuck yet none of them ended up on screen! I must admit though that Prime taking off Bonecrushers head was fuckin' hardcore. The soundtrack was also superb.
THe film had some really cool shit in it. Just not enough!
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through about 40 mins of war room and computer talk bullcrap, that ultimately lead to nothing to help the autobots OR humans. techie jargon filler that could have been filled with robots fighting. all that and i actually liked shia. i think his character was the best part of the movie, since the robots let me down so much.
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Frankly, this has nothing to do with Bay. I’ve got nothing against Bay. Bay is no more than a symptom of a malaise affecting the summer blockbuster community of Hollywood. If anything, this tendency toward shitty action movies is really the bastard, mutant offspring of the Simpson/Bruckner louder-and-brighter-makes-better-movies era. If we’re going to blame anyone, it should be them.
But the following are things I hope for but rarely get in big-budget action movies anymore:
A script that doesn't sound like it was cranked out in a weekend by an automated, screenplay-writing program.
A movie that doesn’t hit every clichéd plot-point cue that appears in every dumb action movie ever made. I’m not saying it has to be the epitome of originality, but what’s wrong with giving us all the action and effects we want in a package we haven’t seen before? Why does it have to be so formulaic?
Let’s dispense with the bullshit, tug-the-heartstrings moment where “insert misunderstood good guy here” gets taken down by the big bad government thugs while trying to save the protagonist... who gets caught anyway. And of course he does. It says he needs to get caught right here on page 115 of “How to Write a Screenplay in Three Easy Steps.”
Oh, and how about the hero doesn’t get the girl in the end, huh? Or would that result in the sudden, simultaneous explosion of every eyeball in every theater in America?
Pull all the specifics out of most movies and what you have left is the outline for just about every lame blockbuster action movie that Hollywood produces nowadays.
And it’s simply not enough to say “A good script is not what this kind of movie is about.” Because the only thing I can think of when I hear someone say that is “But can’t I have robots AND a script that doesn’t sound like it was written by a twelve-year-old?” Why do I have to sacrifice good dialog at the altar of CGI? Is there some unwritten law of moviemaking that states X amount of special effects per minute equals X number of dumb lines of dialog per page?
The point is that I really wanted to like TRANSFORMERS. And I wasn’t looking for a BATMAN BEGINS kind of “reboot,” where crazy action gives way to brooding, existential angst. I wanted robots saving mankind from being extinguished from the universe. What I got was a two-hour long, MTV-inspired car commercial with a shitty script.
I wanted both a great action movie and a great script. I got neither.
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It was fairly good, escapist fun. Pretty to look at with some hair-raising action sequences.
But I don’t think it was particularly profound “speculative fiction” in the sense that 2001 or SOLARIS or BLADE RUNNER or THE FOUNTAIN were. (And before I get flamed for mentioning it, I’m perfectly willing to concede that THE FOUNTAIN may not be to everyone’s taste as far as science fiction goes.)
THE ISLAND was just another action movie set a little ways into the future with an off-hand nod to classic dystopian themes. Nothing wrong with that. But for action-packed sci-fi with a “message,” I think TERMINATOR 2 is more effective than THE ISLAND.
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And WOW is that babe HOT! I hope she gets a nice sequence involving Megan Fox and some tongue play...
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I think Supernatural_Canary is going to be let down again as i believe this one is written by the same guys who did the first one. The very same guys who before Transformers came out appeared on the web doing a session where they answered fans questions (only the easy ones mind!). During this they claimed to be huge fans of Transformers saying how they used to race home after school to watch the cartoon. They then admit that they werent even aware that the toys exsited at that time! DOH!!
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Michael Bay sucks because of #1 Bad Dialog. It is all truly just empty nonsense to pass the time between stuff gettin' blowed up real good. Transformers is the best example of this because the entire movie for the exception of all the stuff concerning the "All Spark" and Grandpa's glasses was just empty nonsense. That hacker chick asking the Pentagon if they were in the possession of some "DNA based organic computer". What the fuck was that? They never even showed it! At the beginning of the movie, when the helicopter attacks the base, you see the general give orders for a group of jets to scramble. You see the jets take off (courtesy of Mr. Bays access to all things Pentagon), but then YOU DON'T SEE THEM IN ACTION! Get it? Meaningless imagery, and meaningless dialog are a waste of time!
Reason #2: Terrible premises. The best example of this is The Island. Was it gorgeous to look at? Totally. But the whole premise is ridiculous because it hangs on the idea that people want whole bodies and not just cloned organ parts because if they did, then you would not have the whole premise of these clones running around pondering their existence. If anything the movie is completely anti-technological and features a vision of cloning which is politically charged to say the least and misinformed at best. I can't buy into the characters, I can't buy into the situation because the whole premise is fucking absurd! Do you know how much it would cost to keep those clones alive? Food costs alone would bankrupt the stupid corporation which would think of such a thing! The acting was cool. Ewan and Scarlett did great work (although Bay went out of his way to make Scarlett Johanson's character into a complete moron). But the whole idea of the movie itself along with that imbecilic ending with the New Age World Music playing was too much to take.
Reason #3: He needs to slow down just a bit. Fine, that was his style when he first hit the scene, but he needs to evolve and change things up a bit. This is why I have a problem with the guy: He's so busy giving everyone else what they want (or his idea of what they're gonna like), but I have no clue as to what it is that he wants to see. That's no good. -
Does anyone know if theres a reason why any earthly machine that got zapped by the allspark was instantly evil? A bit like when someone becomes a vampire these days they're automaticaly a kung fu master. I dont want to talk about the allspark. Or vampires. I need to get on!!
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"transformers is awesome" "michael bay rules" "this movie was the best", further proof that retards pay to see movies too, and thats hack bay's bread and butter right there
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Here are his merits because I have to be fair. He has a fantastic eye, no doubt. I honestly think that he was excellent with music videos especially. The main reason for that is the fact that he was working in a medium in which the narrative is dictated by the music. In other words NO DIALOG, no voiced acting. And this brings me to a suggestion as to what Michael Bay should do if he truly wants to be respected. Since most of his fans and defenders only have the "He shows stuff getting blowed up real good!" as their only banner, then he should make the next movie with less human interaction. Wanna stretch alot? I honestly believe that Michael Bay is the only director in Hollywood that could get away with making a truly modern full length silent movie! Imagine giant robots beating the crap out of each other with longer shots, less frenetic cutting, a badass soundtrack, and NO FUCKING STUPID HUMAN ACTORS! Just have the humans in the backround screaming in horror, but NO DIALOG! I know it's a hell of a stretch, but if Michael Bay dared such a thing I would actually applaud the guy just for trying it. A whole movie with action, slight pauses, and tons of "stuff getting blowed up real good", and maybe in this instance he could give you just a little more time to look at the things happen. Michael Bay fans, you know this would be your dream come true. No dialog just explosions. I'm not being sarcastic, I honestly believe that it could work for him.
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Excellent point. I wondered the same thing myself. They never made that clear in the movie.
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...when the franchise is rebooted in 6-8 years by a real director. After the first I vowed to never give Bay another cent of my money. I hope you "turds" will all do the same. Let's all just chalk Transformers 1 up as the "Batman and Robin" of the franchise. Maybe the nipples on Optimus Prime in the next one will be enough to convince people that Bay sucks.
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not about Palmer, just about TIMO 2 in general.
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fuck fuck fuck fuck!
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Action set piece director. He's not remotely a hack in that aspect and I think he does those scenes very well. True, they were too quick and a bit overwhelming at first but that's arguably the point. I can watch and enjoy his stuff and he's hell and gone from Boll or Resident Wevil Anderson. But a bit like Lucas, he's really at home in the middle of lunatic action. The more somber moments are fucking cheese. You can argue that action movies are *meant* to have cheese between the action scenes but I'd say you have pathetically low expectations. The best action movies have no "one liners" or the need to balance the intensity with slapstick humor (usually in the form of some bodily discharge). If Bay got with someone better at directing dialogue (read: actor) scenes, stay away from the script and story...I think much like Stan Lee in his context, we'd all be much more appreciative of Bay.Except for MCMLXXVI of course.
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I've said my 2 cents. Done debating. Yer still all a bunch of turds.
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poor thing, doesnt know what a good movie is, actually, i dont think he knows what a movie is...
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just becasue you smell like a turd, doesnt mean everyone is...
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You've Michael Bay directing. WHY???
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Every time the robots engaged in another--and another--CGI showdown, I kept hearing "The Anvil Chrous" in my head. I'd prefer to watch the original CARNIVAL OF SOULS: a director squeezed some beauty out of a poverty row budget. That's a real filmmaker.
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WOW! The fat kid from SUPERBAD, the hot babe from The Grudge2(which was lame) AND wait for it . . .Indie Jr! all in one movie?! Bay you're spoiling us! Where the FUCK are the Transformers which the movie is SUPPOSE to be about not goddamn humans taking up screen time! COME ON PEOPLE! You KNOW this time around the Bayformers will not do as well as the #1. The Constructicons will look like a pile of walking metalic shit and the movie will center on how Sam ACTUALLY got into college while the bumbling Autobots stomp around the girl's dorm rooms trying to hide their massive size so easily, in the mean time the Decepticons (hopefully led by Starscream now) tries to take out the last few Autobots in the last 15mins of the movie! THERE YOU HAVE IT PEOPLE! Bayformers 2 in a nut shell in all its shit stinken’ glory! DAMN YOU BAY! YOU SUCK DONKEY DICK!
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May 01, 2008 7:21:19 PM CDT
Hey Bay, add these other "characters" to make BAYFORMERS. . . go
by violator90
-how about adding Mel Gibbson as a former Nazi general hiding in the suburbs as a crazy retired old mailman stouting shit against Jews, while his neighbor next door, that stupid fucker that played Krammer on Seinfeld joins in shouting anti black shit. You know Speilberg will get a kick out of Mel's "performance." And add George Lopez for good measure as an illegal immegrant working for the Decepticons as a spy as he washes them down and cleans the windshields with spit! Come on Bay. You got the power!
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Thhis is awesome! ERverything is awesome! Big explosions. man boom. snort. Wooosh!
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It would be cool if Johan was in a wheelchair for the first 90% of the movie, but then at the end he just got up and walked around with no explaination.
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IDONTGIVEASHIT! IDONTGIVEASHIT! No more transformers news. NONE!
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She and Megan Fox made the first movie one whole huge sex machine!
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I argue with you sir!!!!! I SHALL ARGUE TO THE DEATH!!!!
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Just got back from "Iron Man".
Proof that sticking to the source material and only making NECESSARY tweaks CAN and DOES work.
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some old tv shows and concepts will never translate well to the big screen. live action thundercats anyone?
transformers was a great movie in my opinion and thats what movies are about
your own opinion. no one is right and no one is wrong when we talk about opinions. maybe we should look at the whole concept of delving into these shows for ideas for movies. where are the original concepts. let casting begin on a live action MASK movie (not rocky dennis) and we go through the whole debate again. would that not end up being a car commercial movie with a human element?
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He truly does. The director of Godzilla and 10,000 BC (Emerich?) is more talented than he is. And he sucks massive balls that smell after a hard workout and a swim in the dead sea.
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TINO2. Zzzzzzzzzzzz
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... except for the fact that the first Bayformers installment was such a steaming turd, of course.
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Has Bay not learned the lesson from Iron Man?
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Is is just me, or was the CAST the worst frigging part of the movie? I REALLY don't care who is in this, since the robots are SUPPOSED to be the stars of a movie called TRANSORMERS. As long as Cullen is Prime, Shia is back, and Bumblebee can talk, this movie MUST be better than the first one. And a dead Megatron shoudl be just about as interesting as the frozen solid one was.
~Matt
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Hold the phone. The Island was a movie????? This whole time I just thought it was an elaborate Puma commercial?
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again ("Nonononononono") in Indy 4 I'm gonna kidnap him and perform the Ludowigo technique on his arse (using his own work, obviously).
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She looks good, but no way can she out hot Megan Fox.
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Capt, we know that was a shot in the dark, but the worse thing is, that it DOES feel like its very close to what BAYFORMERS 2 will actually be like. But IRON MAN opens today and that one any one can tell that it WILL BE as true to the source material like nothing before it. THANK THE COMIC GODS! IRON MAN is here to show all those hacks exactly how a REAL MOVIE should be! FUCK YOU BAY! FUCK YOU SPEILBERG! FUCK YOU BOLL! FUCK YOU ANDERSON! AND ANY OTHER SHITHEAD THAT I JUST DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT!
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She is friggin hot; should be in part 2; should be between my legs, greedily sucking upon my optimus priapus, until it blows hot energon down her throat.
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will never, ever get a girl. You scary nerd.
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Anyone who says Michael Bay should have directed GIJoe. Why wish us Joe fans the same fate as the absolute shit he took on your franchise? Of course, we got that FUCK Stephen Summers about to assfuck our Joes in the fucking ass. Just shut the fuck up about Bay directing GIJoe...a shitty director doesn't translate better into ANYTHING other than the delivering of pizzas.
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when i said "kill", I meant assfuck in the fucking ass -- metaphorically speaking of course. You know, with wit and rhetoric and shit. Fuck off.
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I meant SHOULD never, ever get a girl. Of course.
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Obviously you've never heard of DragonCon. There are a lot of hot bitches there that would take a load of hot energon to the face.
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touché!
Wait, I think you're feeding me a line. If that were true it would be 10 times bigger than some Buffy thing, 10 times bigger than SCCC and there would be hundreds of thousands less single geeks in the world. Though if Trek nerds can hook up anything's possible I guess. Maybe it's the 'hot' part that sounds suspect... -
Go to flickr, search DragonCon 2007. Prepare to enter the gates of geek heaven; especially look at the Slave Leia photo shoots. Those hot chicas voluntarily dress like this...
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were either forced to dress up by their abusive boyfriends, or were the geek equivalent to whores at a dentist convention...or both.
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