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UPDATED: Something New For Megatron In TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN??

Published at:  Sep 21, 2008 11:10:37 PM CDT

SPOILER ALERT !!


Merrick again...

These images look to have originated from THIS ARTICLE over at Latino Review, where you can see larger versions of 'em.

Head on over to check them out!







>>>ORIGINAL ARTICLE FOLLOWS<<<















Merrick here...



Images of Megatron's new vehicle configuration from TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN have appeared on line...

HERE!!!



They show Megatron transformed into a tank-like thingie resembling a hybrid of Batman's Tumbler, a TRON tank, and a Terminator HK rolly-aroundie thingie.

Personally, I think this is a vast improvement over the "alien jet" vehicle we saw in the first film. Provided, of course, this isn't part of the alleged "misinformation" campaign Mr. Bay claims is underway. Gottta be careful with that, though. Sometimes "misinformation" is cooler than what eventually ends up on screen.

Thanks to Colin for dropping us a line about this.









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    Readers Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:29:44 PM CDT

    first

    by orionsangels

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:29:47 PM CDT

    Still have no clue...

    by gilkuliehe

    What the fuck is what.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:32:36 PM CDT

    That looks...

    by aeghast

    ..odd enough, yeah

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  • Sep 21, 2008 10:33:22 PM CDT

    Just as long as Megatron has a big gun because...

    by amy chasing

    He used to be one.

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  • Sep 21, 2008 10:37:19 PM CDT

    Still sucks

    by darthsiskel

    The designs are about 4x more cluttered than they should be.

    The point of Transformers vehicle and weapon forms is that they blended in on earth. How does that giant crumpled piece of shit blend in?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:37:26 PM CDT

    He's dead Jim

    by melvin_pelvis

    He died in the first movie

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:39:13 PM CDT

    There Should Be A Car That Merely Turns Into Another Kind Of Car

    by laserpants

    And not like a superduper car, either; just,like, a 93 Toyota Camry that transformers into a 93 Honda Civic.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:44:38 PM CDT

    He should transform into a handgun...

    by phaedrus007

    He should change from a giant robot into a lightweight handgun with the physics left completely unexplained. Anything less is unacceptable.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:49:08 PM CDT

    A Porsche That Transforms Into A MidLife Crisis

    by laserpants

    or vice versa

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:51:17 PM CDT

    Hummer That Transforms Into Man w/ Freakishly Tiny Genitalia

    by laserpants

    OVER-LARGE VEHICLE = Overcompensation for small penis.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:52:15 PM CDT

    Yawn,,, Call me when they get Frank Welker on board.

    by spacker dave

    That's about the only news I'd give a shit about.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:53:26 PM CDT

    Why the alien crap?

    by triceratops on fire

    Just 'cause they're from another planet doesn't mean we need to be beat over the head with it.

    LaserPants I love your car idea. Fear the Civic!

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:53:38 PM CDT

    Pick-Up Truck w/ Gunrack That Transforms Into A KKK Meeting

    by laserpants

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:54:16 PM CDT

    Nascar Racer That Transforms Into A Meth Lab / Church

    by laserpants

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:54:25 PM CDT

    As long as he still looks like a Gremlin, I don't care.

    by youareallmybastardchildren

    MEGAGREMLIN!!!

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:54:53 PM CDT

    Blimp That Transforms Into George Lucas' Neckfat

    by laserpants

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:55:42 PM CDT

    Wagon That Transforms Into Dream Of Innocence Lost

    by laserpants

  • Sep 21, 2008 10:56:09 PM CDT

    Big Wheel That Transforms Into Traumatic Childhood Memories

    by laserpants

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:00:31 PM CDT

    Water That Transforms Into Wine

    by laserpants

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:00:48 PM CDT

    Lead That Transforms Into Gold

    by laserpants

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:01:08 PM CDT

    Jekyl That Transforms Into Hyde

    by laserpants

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:01:55 PM CDT

    Genesis P Orridge Who Transformed Into Some Weird Ladyman

    by laserpants

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:02:37 PM CDT

    Bowie Who Transformed (ChaChaChanged) Into Ziggy Stardust

    by laserpants

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:03:03 PM CDT

    a car that turns into a corner

    by amy chasing

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:03:45 PM CDT

    Obese People Who Transform Into Merely Fat People

    by laserpants

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:06:00 PM CDT

    He should turn into a semi.

    by royston lodge

    That'd confuse people.

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  • Sep 21, 2008 11:07:42 PM CDT

    Yep

    by sawney bean

    Looks like dogshit. Damn you, Damn you Michael Bay. May you rot in Hell.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:18:16 PM CDT

    That'll look great in a confused, frenetic murkiness of action

    by yotzvonfrelnik

    Too much detail. WAY too. Now Warner's is going to think they should make all their super hero franchises with insanely scalloped and serrated outfits to go with their brilliant "dark themed" approach. I wish directors would stop trying to impose their own "modern approach" and just do a damn TV-to-movie or comic book-to-movie adaptation that genuinely honors what we remember.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:21:24 PM CDT

    OLD news!

    by themasterofnonsense

    CHUD ran these images over 3 months ago....Ain't It Late News.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:36:03 PM CDT

    Megatron transforms into the Batmobile!

    by royston lodge

    How's THAT for cross-promotion?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:40:08 PM CDT

    FUCK MICHAEL BAY!

    by fuckmichaelbay

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:40:17 PM CDT

    FUCK MICHAEL BAY!

    by fuckmichaelbay

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:40:37 PM CDT

    FUCK MICHAEL BAY!

    by fuckmichaelbay

  • Sep 21, 2008 11:44:53 PM CDT

    I clicked on the Latino Review link...

    by royston lodge

    ...and I got an entry form for a green card lottery. Weird.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 12:20:49 AM CDT

    big question about Transformers, help me out

    by badmrwonka

    when Sam makes a joke about how shitty his car looks, the mustang drives away and comes back brand new and shiny. so that means the transformers are not restricted in their ability to morph into different objects, yeah?so then why, when one of them is wounded, or a part is lopped off, can they not just modify their design a little to make up for it?I know that plot consistency isn't a big worry in a retarded michael bay movie, but I really was bothered by that. can anyone explain it?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 12:27:35 AM CDT

    Frenzy did exactly that..

    by ceejaynightwing

    ..when his head got cut from his body in the movie. He simply grew some legs like a spider then scanned Mikeala's phone and turned into that!

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 12:36:34 AM CDT

    Looks like TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION!!!

    by motoko kusanagi

    But who cares when AVATAR is fucking our eyeballs in 2009?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 12:43:04 AM CDT

    A movie that transforms into a pile of shit

    by inwosuxred

    or perhaps a sequel to said movie.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 12:46:47 AM CDT

    CeejayNightwing

    by badmrwonka

    yes, some of them did it, some not. sometimes they could do it, sometimes not. it's pretty flaky, that's all...

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 12:52:26 AM CDT

    Megatron looked too much like the Guyver...

    by nuking the fridge

    Hope they fix this because it was lame.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 12:53:04 AM CDT

    "Give me the Allspark..."

    by mr. lahey

    "...and I may let you live to be my pet." I think he would have done it too.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 12:55:47 AM CDT

    Mass argument:

    by nerosday

    The energon cube rip off (allspark fucking thing, whatever) was able to alter its mass correct, ie went from Hoover Dam basement filler (yeah dam's do great at keeping water in with a basement, s'why there are so many in Florida) to something LeBeef could carry under his arm as his cried like a little bitch at alien ship-too many moving parts-Megatron, right? Multi tonage to mini poundage, correct?
    Megatron died by forced ingestion of said energon cube rip off (allspark fucking thing, whatever), stupid again but we'll go with it. Obviously it didn't kill him or no sequal, so what the fuck not say he gained some form of mass alteration from the cube, and can now become a goddamn gun? Too logically illogical I guess. Besides, an automatic only has what three or four actual moving parts; not enough for Bay to justify the hugely fucking over engineered fucking robots.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 1:07:26 AM CDT

    A Transformer that Transforms into a Gobot

    by monkeylord

    Might as well. Since, you know, you could pretty much just rename each of the characters and then have a movie that's as relavent to Gobots as it is to Transformers. Oh, and fuck Michael Bay.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 1:30:36 AM CDT

    Give me the allspark douche

    by methosb

    If your going to talk about plot holes then why didn't Optimus take the allspark and kill himself half way through the movie like he went ON AND ON about? Instead he was all content to just prance around with the other robots crushing people under their feet. What a douche.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 1:50:20 AM CDT

    Has anyone said

    by nukethefridge

    Megan Fox sure is hot!!!! No shes not! yes she is!!! I'd put it in her!! No I wouldn't!! Thats two for one folks.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 1:53:45 AM CDT

    I can't wait to see that on the screen...

    by blindambition238

    and not know what the fuck I'm looking at.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 2:12:58 AM CDT

    still havent solved the problem

    by cotton mcknight

    I don't know what the hell that is. There are too many damn parts. The first one had that problem too- so much was going on with the robots that you couldn't really get a good idea of what they would transform into. That is a BIG mistake. Next thing you're going to tell me is that Bay does those stupid closeups again which keep you from seeing anything.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 2:18:05 AM CDT

    Kind of a funny story about me reading MAXIM at wal mart.

    by cotton mcknight

    I take zoloft, and I have been off of it for about 4 days now. The withdrawals are pretty bad- I keep getting these head rush kind of things that completely disorient me and make me very dizzy. The trigger is unexpected movements, or unexpected images, sounds, etc. Well there were a lot of people obviously, which made me COMPLETELY disoriented. I took refuge in the magazine section, where I see Megan Fox on the cover of maxim. I couldn't resist, so I pick it up. I open it right in the middle of her layout and guess what? It disoriented me so much I fell down. I probably would have done that anyway, to tell you the truth. Wow.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 2:28:22 AM CDT

    Robots not in disguise

    by photoboy

    So Megatron transforms into a subtle and totally discreet giant alien tank? That will really allow him to blend in when he needs to hide. TINO2 is really shaping up nicely to be as completely shit as the first film. Fuck you Bay.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 2:34:30 AM CDT

    Cotton McKnight

    by the brains

    My friend on medication started hyperventilating in the cinema once during a sex scene. He had to put his head between his knees.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 2:40:34 AM CDT

    Wow!

    by the brains

    A sailboat.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 2:43:15 AM CDT

    I'd like to see Megan Fox

    by the brains

    strangle this bitch with her bare hands.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 2:48:35 AM CDT

    no subject

    by the brains

    Michael Bay said since the bots are added in postprod that he just kind of had to guess as to how to film/frame the action. I think this accounts for the "close up" problem in the TF action scenes, where you just want him to pull back a little bit.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 2:51:43 AM CDT

    no subject

    by the brains

    Or maybe I need to put an IMAX theatre into my house.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 2:53:41 AM CDT

    Cotton McKnight

    by fivezero

    That little story made me laugh. Good stuff. It's funny because I was at Walmart today raiding the $5 movie bin and I looked at that same issues of Maxim. I didn't fall though. Haha. Ohhh, and staying on-topic. EVERYONE! Don't be mad that this movie will probably kick ass and fuck your senses until you have a brain orgasm that crosses your eyes and forces you speak in robot tongues.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 3:16:25 AM CDT

    BUMBLEBEE PISSES 2!

    by umaga

    Holy fuck, this is going to be a giant turd.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 3:22:09 AM CDT

    FUCK MICHAEL BAY!!!

    by pissed off and bitter

    Can't stress that enough.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 3:46:42 AM CDT

    Only concept paintings...these could've changed

    by monkey_king

    and I'm hoping they changed because the tank thing was done in the cartoon...and sucked too! Keep him a gun, but NOT a tank for once.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 3:52:01 AM CDT

    Megatron

    by the brains

    He's actually going to turn into a bomb and at the end Jon Voight's gonna ride that sucker! Yee-haw!

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 22, 2008 4:07:52 AM CDT

    Why don't you guys all love this stuff?

    by half vader

    I mean, you're all obviously still 8 years old...

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  • Sep 22, 2008 4:34:26 AM CDT

    Hmm...

    by the brains

    yes, it is in my opinion that "A Room with a View" and "A Passage to India" were superior adaptations of E.M. Forster's work. However, I do consider "Maurice" to be inferior, stemming from my belief that the novel from which it was adapted to be a lesser work from the author.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 4:57:15 AM CDT

    'the brains'

    by half vader

    But by your own logic, even if the film wasn't as good as those others isn't that the fault of the novel being inferior to start with?

    ;)

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  • Sep 22, 2008 5:07:20 AM CDT

    half vader

    by the brains

    fuck I don't know, I just wiki'd that shit.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 5:30:31 AM CDT

    "Meh" About Megan "Hotter Than A Thousand Suns" Fox?!?!

    by laserpants

    Yeah, if you're gay. Everyone I know (both guys and girls) think she is crazy smoking hot. If anything, her alleged lesbian tendencies make her even hotter. Imagine walking in on a Megan Fox making out with Lindsey Lohan. Instant awesome porno fantasee.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 5:42:43 AM CDT

    Sounds to me

    by die_hardest

    Like Kurt Lockwood got dumped.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 5:44:41 AM CDT

    Ooooohhh. I thought you said REVENGE OF THE FARMERS!

    by uncle stan

    Revenge of the Farmers would have been more interesting than robot cars.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 6:02:32 AM CDT

    That was a mistake.

    by die_hardest

    Just looked up Megan Fox's Maxim spread while at work. Well, at least I know what I'm doing when I get home.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 6:29:44 AM CDT

    MUST BE FAITHFUL DESPITE BEING NONSENSICAL

    by larry sellers

    And don't give me that "well it's a movie about giant robots turning into cars DUH" argument. Shut up. A giant gun? Really? A giant fucking gun. I can't believe some of you would rather see Megatron as a p38 than a tank. I wasn't crazy about the live action Transformers. Too grounded with the hackers, Dept of Defense, Anthony Anderson, etc. I hate that the films aren't as fantastical as the cartoon. But Megatron becoming a gun is fucking stupid. "It's like Vader becoming his own lightsaber" analogy aside, it makes him seem much less powerful. They don't go more than 2-5 minutes as a non-robot in the movie anyway. So he wouldn't even be a DANGEROUS ALIEN TANK instead of a WALTHER P38 for very long.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 7:25:00 AM CDT

    Sorry.

    by knuckleduster

    That looks ridiculous.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 7:41:07 AM CDT

    From a design point of view I like it

    by troutmaskreplicant

    Even if it's super unoriginal. The Predator's face, Alien's "bodywork", the body of the Ground Hunter Killers from T2 and the silvery Sentinels from The Matrix. But I could care less since it's Michael Bay's new "opus". But seriously, a Gun? Some of you want him to be a gun? Even as a child I thought that wasn't the most rational of plot points.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 7:49:10 AM CDT

    Revenge of the Fallen....

    by groorgman

    MEGATURD!! And all his dingleberry friends try to make a stink in the stall that is the Earth. While fighting the awesome power of Charminous Prime (with new absorbant pockets) and his band of AutoGlade air fresheners.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 8:11:03 AM CDT

    Looks good!

    by mr slippy fist

    The cannon looks like it can double as a gun and an ass-ramming dildo!

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:10:33 AM CDT

    Ah yes...

    by mr. nice gaius

    THE POWER OF BAY COMPELS YOU!!!

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:11:05 AM CDT

    This is why we need to secure our borders

    by arcadiands

    These guys have taken away all of AICNs jobs.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:16:09 AM CDT

    People are mean about this Tranformers stuff

    by franklin t marmoset

    But, let's face it, you mongs needs something to watch, too, right? It's not fair to expect you all to do nothing but cram the plastic square into the wooden hole all the live long day while your home carer sops up the drool on your chin with a kitchen towel.No, you guys need films, too. Films about giant robots with urination powers. Films with humorously stereotypical black characters. Films with Shia LeBouf.Keep it up, all of you. You're doing great!

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:16:34 AM CDT

    You know a great gossip site?

    by the brains

    Mr. Showbiz.

    And Corona's Coming Attractions.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:20:28 AM CDT

    I would like to see, in Transformers II...

    by franklin t marmoset

    Some explanation of Transformer sex. They are from another planet and seem to be a kind of living, sentient entity rather than man-made machine, so I assume giant robot fucking of some sort is how they came to be. Biology, is what I'm talking about.Is a robot sex scene entirely out of the question?

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:23:22 AM CDT

    Has anybody else read the alleged T:2 treatment?

    by mr. nice gaius

    If what I read is legit, then it's surprisingly not all that bad. There is a ton of robot-time, the Megatron vs. Starscream dynamic is very prevalent, and what they've chosen to do with Soundwave is both crazy and cool. My only complaint would be that there appears to be too many McGuffins (i.e. a leftover power source from the Allspark, the Creation Matrix, and the Stratosphere). While I'm sure the intent is to ratchet up the tension, it gets to be a bit confusing/repetitive.Ultimately, if it is the storyline they intend to follow, Starscream gets fucked up and you can kiss Las Vegas good-bye...

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:25:42 AM CDT

    "Surprisingly not all that bad"

    by franklin t marmoset

    If they put that quote on the poster, I am charging into that cinema faster than, well, a nerd running into a cinema to see a new film about alien robots who fight each other and whatnot.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:26:20 AM CDT

    LOVE MICHAEL BAY!

    by jdanielp

    C'mon. Someone's got to say it. (Cool pics, by the way.)

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:26:33 AM CDT

    I would like to see these sequels

    by the brains

    'Margot at the Wedding: Revenge of the Poopie Pants.'

    and 'The New World II'. Where Pocahontas becomes a crack ho, illustrated through a dream-like landscape and a free-flowing voiceover narrative.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:28:37 AM CDT

    Michael Bay

    by redfist

    damn him.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:29:02 AM CDT

    OH OH OH! I HAVE AN IDEA!

    by judge briggs

    A CAR THAT TRANSFORMS INTO A SHOE!!! A BROWN ONE!!!

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:30:42 AM CDT

    Franklin T Marmoset

    by mr. nice gaius

    Well, something tells me you won't have to worry about pissing robots this time.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:35:51 AM CDT

    No pissing robots?

    by franklin t marmoset

    What the hell is the point of a Transformers sequel if it does not build on the successes of the first film?Where Alien had one alien and Aliens had aliens all over the shop, I was hoping Transformers 2 would be wall to wall giant pissing robots. There should be giant robot piss everywhere in that film. It should be like Waterworld, but with giant robot piss instead of water. Shia LaBouf will have to evolve special piss gills to survive!

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:38:07 AM CDT

    Franklin T Marmoset

    by mr. nice gaius

    Hey man, as long as Turturro shows up in his S7 underwear, we're going to be fine!

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:43:16 AM CDT

    Being Shia LaBeouf

    by the brains

    Dude, I have a portal into this guy's mind.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:46:58 AM CDT

    I weep for John Turturro

    by franklin t marmoset

    Obviously, the guy is great and he deserves to earn a paycheque from time to time, but does he have to be humiliated by Michael Bay and his team of computer twiddlers in the process?That just seems wrong to me. Jon Voight makes crap to pay the bills all the time, and no one ever pissed on him. Not even in National Treasure!

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:56:48 AM CDT

    Turturro said that he based his S7 character...

    by mr. nice gaius

    ...on Michael Bay. Lends a whole new perspective to his performance, eh?

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  • Sep 22, 2008 10:09:53 AM CDT

    You've got the touch!

    by bruce leroy

    You've got the power! They should feature that song in the movie as sung by Mark Whalberg. If not then this movie will suck harder then a two dollar whore. Kind of like the first movie did.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 10:10:55 AM CDT

    All this action has caused my oil to become solid

    by inwosuxred

    I must expell it....and thats how Bumblebee will shit on the Jesus.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 10:11:43 AM CDT

    sorry I forgot the spoiler alert

    by inwosuxred

  • Sep 22, 2008 10:17:23 AM CDT

    I like your thinking, INWOsuxRED

    by franklin t marmoset

    Me, I was mesmerised by the piss. All I wanted was more piss.But you, sir, have truly taken it to the next level. Giant robot shit. That is an opportunity I hope they do not pass up in this Transformers 2.

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  • A funky looking tank but it does seem to suffer like his jet mode did from terying to be too Alien, it the movie Transformers all turn into weird alien vehicles then they lose some of there coolness, I wanna see him turn into an Earth tank or, someone please, a gun.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 10:29:04 AM CDT

    Sorry

    by the brains

    You've been replaced by a strap-on.

    Roll out!

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  • Sep 22, 2008 10:57:00 AM CDT

    Now that I've seen it a kajillion times...

    by darth macchio

    ...I gotta say it's not as bad as the first time I saw it. Is that a good thing? I think we would usually expect the reverse...you know...see a movie..love it...and then after the 5th, etc, viewing all of the suddon it isn't so good anymore. I did this with the second viewing of each of the prequels (funny how you know exactly what I'm talking about...like aspirin is a brand name so goes 'prequel' for meaning shitima cinema.But outside of Anthony Anderson screaming the whole time (that guy has to either not scream again or just go away forever...I don't know what's worse...his whine or Rogen's gargle molten lava laugh..ugh), get rid of ALL the hackers, period. I still cringe with the line of "NSA is recruiting out of high school now."!! Ugh.Megan Fox is a lesbo? Well..she's got a very nice body but who gives a shit? A thousand porn stars all have super hot bodies too...in fact I'd argue the truth here and now...having a nice body is either luck or hard work....have a beautiful face is pure chance (or God, or whatever you prefer) and Megan, while not ugly, is more "hot" than she is "beautiful". Look at her face...her eyes and then look at someone like Angelina Jolie...her face and her eyes. Granted, no accounting for taste, but Angelina Jolie is a much more beautiful woman than Megan Fox. And lesbian antics? Meh. I stopped giving a fuck when I was in my twenties; if I'm not gonna be involved why should I care? What is it a tease? And there's a point to that? If she genuinely prefers women..good for her...so do I! But unless I'm gonna be the boarshead of that particular sub I don't care who she's porkin'.But seriously....and I'm not quite a 'bay-hater' per se but I thought TF was dog shite upon first viewing but now it's a passably fun film with some major annoyances and one forbidden taboo (hats off to INWOsuxRED and others). Bay pissed on The Jesus and you don't fuck with The Jesus. EVER. Bay should get beat up (not killed) by those bubble gum kids in asshat's Hostel movie. And then they could *actually* pee on him and then use the quickly drying urine to attach cheap lollipops to his face. Sugar and piss, what a combo!!!

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  • Sep 22, 2008 11:08:41 AM CDT

    Transform into a gun shaped like a fist

    by heckles

    Now that would be tits.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 11:46:06 AM CDT

    Kurzinski Valentine

    by mr. nice gaius

    I don't think it was a matter of the Allspark simply being near his chest. I believe Prime said that it had to be shoved into it in order for it to react with his/Megatron's spark.Interestingly enough, the alleged T:2 treatment says this about Megatron: "Having absorbed the Allspark, his system went into shock and thus shut down; the equivalent of an overdose."In other words, Megs will be rise again...

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  • Sep 22, 2008 11:57:40 AM CDT

    my question...

    by bouncy x

    aside from being deactiviated, megatron was in pretty good shape at the end of the movie, minus some scratches maybe from the Prime fight. so why is it that at the end when they dump his body in the ocean, he's missing and arm and a leg? did Prime just beat him more as he lay dead/unconcsious?

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  • Sep 22, 2008 11:59:00 AM CDT

    ok....memory issues

    by bouncy x

    just remembered he got blasted by missiles from those jets. but he still looked to be in one piece.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 12:09:08 PM CDT

    Hah...subtlety in a Bay flick?

    by darth macchio

    Oh, that's what he meant? That one guy basically told the other guy, "Yeah, they're really young! like highschool kids! That one there, with the beard? He was a fetus just last week!" only he used an analogy? No, better still, an exaggeration? OHH fuck man! Now the whole fucking movie makes sense! Jesus dude. All this time I thought those actually were highschool kids. I was like, Anthony Anderson sure seems old for a highschool kid. Wasn't Jett Li kicking his ass ten years ago and wouldn't that make him (Anderson) a child if he's just out of HS? Jett Li doesn't beat up kids and I know that for a fact. Plus that guy with the beard? Kinda Kevin Smith-y a bit? Yeah, didn't seem realistic to have a full beard in high school but then there was a guy with a full on evil-villain whisker-whacks in my highschool so it could happen. Plus the skinny hyper-tanned hyper-blonde aussie hacker chick we all dreamed of over the coagulated remains of our chicken n dumplings...in highschool. In. High. School. Yes. Shia, and Megan and Bubmblebee. In. High. School. Now the whole world makes sense to me...and to think it's all thanks to a Bay movie! Pizza guy at the door! You die, We eat!!!Ok...in all seriousness, I gotta admit I like the idea of Megatron not transforming into anything 'Earthly' as it goes towards his hatred of all things not Megatron. Maybe not lore but still kewl. And even though its only for like 7 seconds in its entirety, Meg does transform into a big gun (well, huge ass cannon actually) in TF and it's actually really kewl. He blasts the shit out of Optimus twice i think. The alien jet thing worked for me as well..gotta admit. I have no loyalty to the original cartoons, I thought the toys were kick ass...but I have to admit that I hated TF until after maybe the 5th viewing where the things that caused me to risk severe eye damage due to uncontrolled 'rollings' weren't so bad anymore. Could it be better? Of course. But at the end of the day, could a Transformers movie be similar in quality to something like 'The Dark Knight'? Doubtful so fuck it, we may as well have fun. Get rid of the "perfect for a car or military recruiting" commercial edit/film work, get rid of the "highshool" hackers, get rid of Tuturro completely (Bay doesn't even begin to know how to use him anyway), loose Voight or at least don't let him shoot a shotgun, make Frenzy scary instead of slapsticky, make it an action movie with some stabs at humor and not an "action-comedy", drop the need for heavy/loud rock soundtracks and you might elevate this material above the ID4 guys....which would be very good actually.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 12:32:17 PM CDT

    For some reason Optimus beating on Megatron's corpse is funny

    by drewlicious

    Optimus just losing it and Rachet and Ironhide trying to pull him off. "Calm down, boss. It's over." Then bumblebee pissing all over the remains because...it's his thing apparently.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 12:34:32 PM CDT

    This makes sense actually........

    by jestafool

    Since in the cartoons, megatron turned into a gun and what better way to turn him into a big dangerous gun than a tank.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 1:01:13 PM CDT

    Will they explain...?

    by zooch

    Why Optimus suddenly called Megatron "brother" with no explanation?Or will they explain why Optimus wanted Shia to stick the cube in his chest, which would have left Megatron alive and the world vunerable to his wrath?Or how Bumblebee's voice just starts working again mysteriously?Or why the militery's plan to save the world was to take the cube into a crowded city full of civilians, to the top of a tall building, to hand the cube off to a chopper, when the air was full of Decepticon aircraft?

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  • Think of it ? The SHOCK !!! The sheer mindbending insanity of that would kill many people instantly.
    Of course there absolutely no chance it WILL be great but still... it would have been funny.
    All the same anyone who expected Tansformers and it's sequel to be anything other than a very silly Movie featuring Giant Transforming Robots hitting each other perhaps wasn't paying very much attention.
    That's not to say Bay didn't bring his own "unique" values to the project or that a silly movie about Giant Transforming Robots hitting each other could have been far, far better. But it's a C.G. film and it lives or dies on it's C.G. hence all these fucking leaks of the Robot Pics. (and so far none of them have looked particularly good)
    I for one will miss these talkbacks after it eventually gets released (there should be a Transformers 3 just for the talkbacks) as theres always some pretty amusing posts. (For those who are not terminally humorless and pompous that is)

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  • Sep 22, 2008 1:07:43 PM CDT

    Tumbler? Tron Tank? HK Rolly thingee?

    by darthjedi

    It looks more like a mutated Gamera.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 1:33:34 PM CDT

    I don't see why...

    by two fathoms deep

    an alien tank is any worse or any better than an alien jet. If I had the choice to become one or the other, I'd be the jet, I think simply because it's way faster. The treads do look pretty bad ass on the tank, though. But I hate seeing his face when he's the tank. Bad idea.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 2:16:03 PM CDT

    Forget robopiss. 2 ROBOTS 1 CUP!

    by half vader

    That's the way to up the ante! Gigantic robo-dump!

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  • Sep 22, 2008 2:42:55 PM CDT

    Good question. Why did they go to LA?

    by drewlicious

    Wouldn't it make sense for them just to meet Optimus halfway?

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  • Sep 22, 2008 3:03:03 PM CDT

    Frank Welker IS Megatron...

    by tvspace

    Anything less is just unacceptable.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 3:04:44 PM CDT

    the brother comment

    by bouncy x

    this is just my take but i always heard that as a military thing. they were brothers in arms sorta thing. i remember hearing about this before the movie came out and everyone was like "they're brothers" so i was expecting some big dramatic scene and then that line came. just another case of people reading into something i guess.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 3:06:58 PM CDT

    ((... a leftover power source from the Allspark))

    by tvspace

    Prime did pick up a piece from Megatron's chest after LaBeef did his business. So, who knows?

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  • Sep 22, 2008 3:22:07 PM CDT

    Mr. Nice Gaius, Megatron OD?

    by mr slippy fist

    That would be hysterical. Megatron is sucking off his fellow TF's for drug money. "Oh Prime, gimme some crack!"

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  • Sep 22, 2008 3:44:26 PM CDT

    tvspace

    by mr. nice gaius

    I don't think that's what they were referring to. Apparently, the guys at Sector 7 had developed a way to siphon off energy from the Allspark with the intent of having it power the whole of the US. It's this "battery" that becomes the newfound object of desire. (That is, of course, if the treatment is legit.)

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  • Sep 22, 2008 3:54:38 PM CDT

    Will NOT see this movie

    by hallmitchell

    I can't go through again the anger and frustration of seeing the first movie. The editing must have given so many kids an epiletic fit.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 4:09:42 PM CDT

    It's all been misdirection so far folks.

    by royston lodge

    The REAL Transformers sequel is going to be a Beast Wars movie. I read it somewhere. This is a REAL SCOOP. I'm not just making it up. Really. I'm not kidding. Not even a little. Yup, totally a real scoop. I'm a FUCKING HOLLYWOOD INSIDER!!!! really. i am...

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  • Sep 22, 2008 5:01:05 PM CDT

    Georgiatron O'Keefe

    by ebonic_plague

    Certain shots of that tank look, howyousay? ah, yes... vaginal. I mean, giant gaping maw with robot teeth and a taint face? Leave it to Mikey Bay to have a giant robot gun/tank/jet come across as halfway phallic, halfway vaginal, and all disturbing. It rapes its own childhood.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 5:04:49 PM CDT

    ZOMG I HAET MIKE BAY HEE IZ SO BAED

    by dr sauch

    Lolz i haet tranzfermers, so stooopid.

    SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! IT WILL BE A GOOD MOVIE!!

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  • Sep 22, 2008 5:52:24 PM CDT

    More MINO in TINO.

    by stereotypical evil archer

    I just sunk to the "in name only" level. It's fun down here.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 6:34:12 PM CDT

    Peter Cullen should boycott unless Welker

    by grammaton cleric binks

    is hired. He's a class act. He'd probably do it, but I bet he's contracted to do the sequels.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 6:44:26 PM CDT

    TINO 2 is teh gay!!

    by cool_britannia79

    SHUT THE FUCK UP!! What a whiny bunch of haters, Transformers owned last summer, haters be damned, penis breaths.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 7:14:14 PM CDT

    Hentai rape machine

    by methosb

    Is what it looks like. Not a tank. Or maybe a piece of shit with a hentai rape dildo embedded in it.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 9:00:56 PM CDT

    Straight from Idiocracy

    by skycrapper

    That looks like those trucks that were trying to kill Luke Wilson at the end of Idiocracy. That movie is ahead of it's time.

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  • Sep 22, 2008 10:20:09 PM CDT

    .....

    by digitalbeachwar

    fucking ugly

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  • Sep 23, 2008 12:04:36 AM CDT

    "Bumblepee" Ha ha ha ha... ew... gross.

    by stereotypical evil archer

  • Sep 23, 2008 12:05:23 AM CDT

    I vote "Bumblepee" as the next Talkback user name.

    by stereotypical evil archer

  • Sep 23, 2008 12:32:14 AM CDT

    What else would've Megatron been?

    by aboriginal

    Seeing as how the idea was that Megatron had come to Earth way back when what would he have morphed into? Besides he crash landed in the Arctic and wasn't active anyway, right? So, in this one the sky's the limit and I wouldn't mind if he became that big ass Robotech ship with aircraft carriers for arms - or just a big ass aircraft carrier.

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  • Sep 23, 2008 1:58:32 AM CDT

    Hang on, Megatron DIDN'T disguise himself

    by half vader

    in the first one. He turned into a jet/gun thingie, but an alien one form the home planet, NOT hiding/duplicating an Earth one. Because he was too arrogant and didn't think he should hide or something. So why would you guys be whingeing about him not disguising himself properly this time around?

    Come to think of it, even if he did 'hide' in the cartoon, why transform into a fucking gun (besides the obvious pre-school level metaphor)? Not too autonomous for the leader...

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  • Sep 23, 2008 5:25:30 AM CDT

    Transforms into a conga line

    by zombiehunter

    They then break into song and dance. When the shit goes down they "bust some moves" and say You've been SERVED yo!

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  • Sep 23, 2008 9:24:34 AM CDT

    Man, what would we do with all our free time

    by half vader

    ... if we didn't have Transformers TBs?

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  • Sep 23, 2008 9:47:29 AM CDT

    WOW! Another big Grey Spiky Yurd!

    by filmfunk

    Woop De Fuckin Doo!

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  • Sep 23, 2008 9:47:34 AM CDT

    A robot that transforms into a building?

    by darth macchio

    What's fun about that?Transformers for girls? Transformers for girls! Bugs.

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  • Sep 23, 2008 9:48:08 AM CDT

    Sorry no idea what a Yurd is!!! TURD!

    by filmfunk

  • Sep 23, 2008 9:49:57 AM CDT

    What About...?

    by filmfunk

    A moovie that turns into an actual Film!!!

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  • Sep 23, 2008 9:57:26 AM CDT

    TINO2

    by robots in das guys

    And by "T" I mean "Terminator."

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  • Sep 23, 2008 11:37:48 AM CDT

    I read the script treatment

    by i am_notreal

    and it sounded just as stupid as the first movie was. Oh, let me guess...this is the "dark" chapter with the "cliffhanger" ending. Setting up the chapter where the good guys "return." Sigh.

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  • Sep 23, 2008 12:35:55 PM CDT

    "Oh, let me guess...this is the "dark" chapter..."

    by mr. nice gaius

    Yeah, good guess. That's usually how these multiple installment/trilogies work...

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  • Sep 23, 2008 1:20:33 PM CDT

    How do I make paragraphs?

    by robots in das guys

  • Sep 23, 2008 1:31:07 PM CDT

    Mr. Nice Gaius, your grasp of sarcasm is great

    by i am_notreal

    Congrats!

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  • Sep 23, 2008 1:50:09 PM CDT

    I am_NOTREAL

    by mr. nice gaius

    Agreed. And I hope you recognized my usage of it.

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  • Sep 23, 2008 2:02:15 PM CDT

    Heh

    by i am_notreal

    I'm outta here

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  • Sep 23, 2008 2:34:58 PM CDT

    i dont think its real

    by lordrando

    It looks like concept art and concept art rarely ever makes it to model form un=changed. Ask ralph mcquarrie.

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