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Michael Bay Re: Soundwave's Voice in REVENGE OF THE FALLEN!!
Merrick here...
In response to a discussion about involving original (animated) Megatron voice actor Frank Welker in TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, The Mighty Bay posted the following on his website (HERE).
I think I'm going to pursue Frank on Soundwave.
Michael
Hugo Weaving has already indicated he's reprising Megatron's voice for the new film (he voiced the character in Bay's first TRANSFORMERS film). Welker voiced Megatron back in the 80s cartoons, but also voiced Soundwave for those same shows...
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fuck this movie
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Megan Fox naked is news.
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Between this news and a new season of South Park starting tomorrow, FUCK YEAH!!!
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What a fucking douchebag this guy is.
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Frank (though he'll be indescernible Bay did something right with this property for a change.Though, as much as I like Weaving, Corey Burton makes for a better non-Welker Megatron.
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(though he'll be indiscernible through the sound effects, most likely).
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Mar 10, 2009 12:38:50 PM CDT
they used franks voice in the "animated" prequel that was used a
by pjvader
he voiced megatron for that i just hope that they dont use the bumblebee voice they used in that prequel though as he narrated it in his northern accent! bumblebee aint from oop north if i remember correctly!
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The odd thing is that under all that vocoding, Soundwave's voice is the same as Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget. (And the same voice as the demon's boss in "The Golden Child".) Oh, Frank Welker, how I used to be able to listen to you every day during my childhood...
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Look Bay - Welker is Megatron, but you fucked that up already. Soundwave's voice is synthesized. You won't even know it's Welker. Michael Bay is all messed up on the point of lining up old voices with new characters. Cullen was a success so why did he choose to stray with everyone else? Because he's a jackass! Don't you think it would've been awesome if Chris Latta voiced Starscream? Shit - I think for the new GI Joe movie they should dub Gordon-Levitt's voice with Latta's! Retreat!
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Bay is still directing. This means it will still be a giant, heaping pile of shit.
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And the Matrix died with him.
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With the exception of Optimus no one's voices really stood out anyway. Just have lebuf die to make the movie more "poignant" and I'll be happy.
But considering they f*&(ed up Hugo Weaving's voice and all Im surprised they just didn't get Welker for Megatron in the first place. What's the point in having Weaving if they were just gonna alter his voice? With all the props he got for getting the original Optimus you would think he would at LEAST have gotten the original Megatron. And its not like Welker's voice changed much; I bought the movie dvd that had the bonus movie tie-in cartoon from wmart and his voice was like how I remembered it from the original cartoon -
He'll be the one that looks like a gillette razor..oh..oh wait
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That Watchman thingy was taking up FAR too much space. Why waste time discussing an ambitious movie adaptation of the best graphic novel ever, when you could be discussing a cynical movie adaptation of some toys?
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Michael Bay didn't give 2 fucks about casting the original voices in the first film. He told Welker & Cullen to audition for the role. And that was only after the fans screamed bloody murder for not considering the original voices in the first place. Welker said he wasn't auditioning for something he had voiced for so many years. Cullen agreed to audition and Bay reluctantly cast him as Optimus due to the overwhelming pressure. None of the other members living original voice cast were even invited to audition, despite what he might have claimed. So fuck Michael Bay and the horse he rode in on.
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Megan Fox body cast!!!
http://tinyurl.com/cjydjz
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THE POWER OF BAY COMPELS YOU!THE POWER OF BAY COMPELS YOU!THE POWER OF BAY COMPELS YOU!
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Bitch, moan, bitch, moan, bitch, moan..... I used to love a Transformer talkback but really. It's getting a bit old.
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yessssssss
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i know hes dead but they can take snippets from his earlier work and splice together..Soundwave IS a cassette player after all
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Soundwaves voice was part of his appeal, without Welker he would no way be as cool. Thank-You Michawel Bay!!
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I cant believe people are complaining about this, Frank was the original voice of Soundewave! sythed or not no one else would sound like that! Optimus the only memorable voice from the original cartoon??!?! are you kidding?!?!? this is great news if it pans out there is something wrong with people who don't agree.
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if Michael Bay is misanthrope and really hates people or if he is just an awful person surrounded by awful people and so thinks that people are just like that.
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I'm all for this. I understand why he didn't cast Welker as Megatron - dude is old and doesn't really sound nearly as vile and threatening as he did 25 years ago. But as the calm and cool Soundwave he could probably still pull it off believably. Looking forward to it.
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And it was absolutely perfect. It added so much more to the Optimus showdown. Weaving was fine, but with all the distortion and the limited lines, what the heck was the point. I'm sure he cost a lot more money too.
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Has more than 10 minutes in the movie like last time? Who would want to bother with that little work?
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Mar 10, 2009 2:15:11 PM CDT
hopefullywe get to see bumblebee shit on someone
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
i loved bumblepee!
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"Do as I command!"
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When was Megatron ever on Family guy? i must have missed that one
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I like out of the box choices...
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Tits, explosions, robots, and Tyrese. That's all I want.
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Said for months they would never see Bay's Transformers, only to turn around later and say what they hated about the movie, because they lined up on opening day and watched it. And they'll be there for the sequel as well.
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Welker or Weaving, that's an awesome supervillian line from Transformers.
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Hard to talk when you're beating the crap out of each other.
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... is supposed to help make up for the travesties thus far? *ERNNNNT* next!
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i only found that out in the last few years, i was surprised. i figured he just spoke in his regular voice and they altered it. who knew it was actually dr. claw under there. :p oh and you forgot another character he did with the same voice, the emperor at the end of the 1st Mortal Kombat. its just like one line but same voice. He must love doing that one.
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The great Michael Bay is extending the olive branch. Take it and pray he accepts the Superman job. No one else on earth can do it, he is Superman's only hope.
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http://tinyurl.com/c7rndx
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Peter Cullen the only memorable voice in the movie. Chris Latta and Frank Welker also stick out, Latta's with God and bay was too stupid to get welker. He'd rather have a fatass comedian eat a bunch of donuts and pass that off as entertaining
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whilst banging the tawdry devil outta Megan between scenes? All those really bad tattoos...with all those silly quotes inked all over her otherwise delicious trailer trash barbie body...do you ever find yourself reading them? Or do you just aim for the bulls e on her lower back?
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whilst banging the tawdry devil outta Megan between scenes? All those really bad tattoos...with all those silly quotes inked all over her otherwise delicious trailer trash barbie body...do you ever find yourself reading them? Or do you just aim for the bulls eye on her lower back?
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Weaving's Megatron was just an inferior copy of Welker's version anyway, so why not just admit Weaving was an ill-advised choice and go back to Welker? Probably the same reason Bay doesn't admit his robot designs are utter fucking excrement and go back to the original designs for them.
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Seriously, Michael Bay makes the shittiest fucking garbage, you can barely call them movies. More like bad music videos with huge sfx budgets. Every time you pay to see one of his "films" you're only telling the suits this shit is acceptable. Fuck this movie and fuck Bay, he's a hack. I'd rather watch Ed Wood films 24/7 than set through this tripe.
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yah, Soundwave was a cylon.
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I had a blast on set, every one had a fist in me at one point. I even sucked a giant robots cock, as it "lubricated" me from behind.
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thin, tangy and copious, thick, sticky and somewhat saltysweet, or somewhere in between?
And if anyone in hollywood can take giant robot cock..it would be our darling Megan. I just hope the tatts don't FUCKING DISTRACT them like they do everyone else. -
The people that post on those forums are biggest bunch of asshats on the interwebz
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especially when ya got guys like Orci running around here. Pissing Robots, mastubation jokes and "My Bad" indeed. No Welker? Megatron in Name Only!
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and it looks just as unfathomable as the first. Twisty turny robots. I just want to see two Transformers go toe-to-toe and piledrive each other to scrap.
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Yes, I like this news very much. :D
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What the hell is that?
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Hopefully some of the Decepticons will have an actual personality this time.
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I agree. It would be good to see some more dialogue from the Decepticons. In the G1 comic, we actually had decepticons that weren't mindless evil bastards. I'm sure on more than one occasion a decepticon had mercy.
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..cold, oily and tasted faintly of shame.
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taste Megan Fox's cunt juice. Maybe
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Jack Black as Grumpy Bear, Seth Rogen as Cheer Bear, Verne Troyer as Wish Bear
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...he did voice the character in the motion-comic version of the prequel comic book.
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I feel bad for people making movies these days. The nerds will hang you anyway.
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Sounds like a plan to me. Giant Robots are our cinematic friends, we must treat them-Nicely.
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the film will still be a fucking shallow collection of pretty fx and big bangs - plus it doesn't matter who does the voice when the design looks utter dogshit.
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I'd concentrate on making sure your fight scenes don't look like a bag of trash rolling down a hill. Although that has a lot to do with the crummy character designs that tried too hard and were distractingly complicated... Man that really screwed up this franchise.
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Problem with Soundwave's voice (and Megatron's, to a lesser degree) is that they have to be properly processed. Soundwave's has to be run through a vocoder.
The problem is, no one seems to be able to replicate it correctly. Is it some sort of lost technology from the '80s that can't be replicated by modern means?
For example, Soundwave and Megatron on Robot Chicken; their voices were unprocessed, just raw Welker, which is different from how we heard it in the '80s cartoon. This led to some morons saying, "Welker can't do the voice no more," when in actuality that is always how Frank played it. -
if those two slack jawed yokels, Kurtzman and his girlfriend Orci got anywhere near this script, then we can expect the end of western cinema as we know it... unless their new babysitter, Ehren Kurger, can manage to offset their epic shittyness.
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worth. I had mixed feelings about the first movie. Im no big fan of Bay's, and it annoyed me how he just seemed to selectively choose what to keep from the source material. Also the script really was quite weak. But I loved seeing Optimus and loved hearing him be voiced by Cullen. And I have to admit I enjoyed the spectacle of it.
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quite cool, and much more dark. Im really hoping that its more faithful and just simply a better movie. Can Bay actually evolve as a filmaker?
Also, at least the new design of Megatron looks much closer to what we would think of Megatron looking. And apparantly Bay has promised that the Decepticons will have more personality and actually have dialouge scenes together.
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i guess this movie may actually have transformers in it for most of the time.
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THOUGH
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Is it because he's blick?
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Stat Trek and Transformers will be the huge movies.
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He'd better say the above.
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reference dude, however that accent is an Afirkaans accent (Afrikaans is their first language, with English useally being 2nd) but I am sorry to dissapoint you as I am an English speaking South African (as in its my first language, South Africa has 11 official languages, so many different accents)thus I do not talk like the guys in lethal weapon 2
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YOU are so damn right dude, I also think this summer will be ruled by Transformers and Star trek (they both have the best trailers), but only one will be really good (we all know which one). T4 maybe, for me the jurys still out on that one. And gijoe? Well that may depend on how big a train wreck Sommers produces. But I have a little bit of hope because at least Larry Hama has some involvement.
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Mar 10, 2009 8:08:13 PM CDT
And amazingly they seem to have made some effort to be true to t
by southafricanguy
at least a bit more than Bay
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I mean the man is famous for voicing cartoon monkeys. Is Bay going soft on us?
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"Frank is more than just animal sounds."
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Sounds good to me. _Bay was BORN to direct movies of Big Robots (hitting each other) repeatedly.
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Mar 10, 2009 9:26:24 PM CDT
Lightning bolts on Soundwave = Flames on Optimus
by stereotypical evil archer
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FUCK MICHAEL BAY!
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FUCK MICHAEL BAY!
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Well played, you ol' devil!
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to TRASH this fucking series. Look, I didn't see the first one in the theater, I didn't give anyone a dime to see Transformers and still felt profoundly ripped off. Even knowing that it was going to be a Michael Bay movie with his standard tropes, it managed to make my brain hurt? Why was every character, robot or human, the comic relief? Generally, there are one or two comic characters in a movie like this (ie: not screwball comedy). Why were the protagonists treated so disrespectfully? You should probably want your viewers to look at these alien robots with awe, not have them giggling at their backyard 'antics'. I don't know, it just makes me sad that it made so much money, when it's such a...a...I don't know, some kind of cinematic whirlpool or vortex. OK, I got it- It's the Event Horizon of movies. The ship, that is. It takes you to Hell, and brings you back. And you become that much more disturbed for having been there. In conclusion: FUCK MICHAEL BAY UP HIS CRUST-BUTTERED COKEROACH INFESTED SPUT-PUCKERED MONSTER BLACK HOLE ANUS! Man, that feels really good. Now I know why you do this. But please, don't go see Transformers 2, buy a ticket to something else and sneak in, but please don't give money to this. If a girl ever lets me impregnate her, I'd like my kids to live in a world untainted by the Bay Sensibility.
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this has a major impact on your day, you will obviously never get laid
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Make it so!
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Now I'm sure to see it! Guarrsh yu sure are swell to throw us stupid fans of a stupid toy commercial a bone. Uh hyuck.
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Bay deliverd an enjoyable movie when we all thought it was going to be junk. And yet you want to sit here and rip on how bad the NEXT one is gonna be. GROW THE FUCK UP. The guys directing comic book or cartoon properties don't make movies for fanboys. They make movies for mass audiences. Be thankful if they respect you enough to solicit your opinion, cause they don't have to. If you don't like the movies, don't watch the movies. See how simple that works? At least they're not like the damned Punisher movies(Man on Fire was the best Punisher movie) or last couple of Batman movies in the 90s.
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Welker wasn't good enough for Bay in the first movie to voice Megatron so I hope Welker has enough self respect to pass on this. Bay should have automatically cast both Cullen and Welker to reprise their roles in these movies.
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cahlk 1 up for the Gen1'ers!
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Aww...am I the last one to quote that? It was the best line in the movie...
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who cares. i was the target audience of this show when it was around and i hated it. you shouldve as well, being teenagers at the time. let them do what they want to this piece of garbage, and bellyache over projects that matter.
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I like him - I did enjoy his Agent Smith - in fact, in the the latter two Matrix films - it was the only thing I did enjoy. But seriously, they could have cast CARROT TOP for Megatron - does anyone sit back and say "Holy crap, Hugo OWNED the role of Megatron." No. Honestly, the only voice that really mattered in the original Transformers was Optimus Prime - and it's great that the role went to the voice actor for that. Hugo Weaving brought nothing to Transformers. I don't understand why Welker just wasn't cast as Megatron. And I'm not a huge Transformers fan (of the cartoon) - it was fine, but really the best part of it was Optimus Prime's voice.
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Didn't he get killed when puny human Shia stuck that cube in his chest to create the lamest death ever in a movie about robots fighting robots?
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I should have said "supposedly" about robots fighting robots.
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Well dude, sorry to tell you he is back...you can find images of him online. He has been redesigned, his one arm is now a giant cannon, and he seems to transform into a tank.
Apparantly he gets resurrected by scorponok useing the last little fragment left of the cube. Hugo Weaving has strongly hinted that that is the case -
Mar 11, 2009 3:30:10 AM CDT
I have to admit Megatron at least looks more like megatron now
by southafricanguy
...for what thats worth. Oh and apparantly he is even stronger now because of the cube fragment bringing him back to life (well he did die and come back in the cartoons and comics so its hardly unprecedented)
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Where the main villain returns and helps the good guys defeat a much larger threat (Magneto helping the xmen against Stryker). supposedly Megatron will have to join forces with the Autobots to defeat the Fallen.
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Come out, Prime! If you give me the Allspark... I might spare these creatures!!
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Enough PG-13 bullshit already.
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Mar 11, 2009 4:49:03 AM CDT
Hey Bay! How about a sweaty bodybuilder on a green tiger?
by wereplatypus
Would it really make a difference?
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...for the never ending laughs.
It blows my mind that people still think Michael "Fuck the source, need more splosions & shitty stereotyping" Bay actually gives a shit about the Transformers.
You think he was reminiscing on his younger years and thought "I LOVED the Transformers. Especially Gen 1, I should make a movie and bring it back....except MY way."
FUCK NO. He found the opportunity to make another shark jumping, mass explosion, super budget blockbuster film and took it. He doesn't give a shit about Transformers. He's in it for the money.
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Admit it--you wanna watch this, you're GONNA watch this, Mikey Bay's gonna get your money-so it's all good. Plus you get to see things blow up and stuff. Who could ask for more--?
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Michael Bay makes the kind of movies I want to see. But I think you are forgetting that we are talking about a CARTOON
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after not getting Megatron. I love Weaving, but that role belonged to Welker.
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To Welker being Megatron again, Soundwave is cool, but Frank as Megatron was tits.
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The fact you see the Transformers source as merely a 'CARTOON' is the exact reason why you actually want to see Bay's movies. You could say the same about films based on comics. It doesn't mean that we should be short changed with quality story telling and character development, especially when some people have spent decades investing in these characters through other mediums. It's just lazy film making.
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cares
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Shows what I know.
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And he didn't seem unhappy in the interview he did with Peter Cullen when they talked about the game, so I guess if Michael Bay does ask him to voice Soundwave, there's a good chance he'll say yes.
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No, we're talking about a movie, not a cartoon. Movies, the ones that come from the studios, at least, used to be held to a certain standard by critics and audiences. Sadly, this no longer seems to be the case.
SalBando-WRONG! I don't wanna see it, I aint gonna see it, and Bay aint gonna get a penny outta me. Maybe if he sent MegaFox over to my house for the weekend...but, just to reiterate: I, personally, don't see how anyone could consider Transformers entertaining, even with your 'brain turned off'. And who the hell would want to do that anyway? -
Thanks, bro. I haven't been a Transformers guy since elementary school, but I do expect something when I go to the movies. And by something, I mean ANYTHING that merits my spending ten bucks.Bay seems incapable of producing that.
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http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/interviews-27/tfw2005-interviews-frank-welker-part-1-of-2-167015/
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"As far as production and sound are concerned I don't believe Activision did much to the vocals. In the old TV shows we had an echo effect rolled in over our voice tracks. This was done by our sound designer and engineer Scott Brownlee. It gave the voices an interesting metal and other worldly quality. It was subtle but I liked it and it worked well with the scratchy Megatron."
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http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/interviews-27/tfw2005-interviews-frank-welker-part-2-of-2-167034/
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I thought that much was obvious. Isn't life useless without half naked MegaFox pics?
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I'd been waiting for this one for a long time, so I got to the theater early enough to get a good seat. After sitting quietly for over 30 minutes, with the room 98% full and just before the trailers start, this couple comes in and heads for my row. Now, I've been here a full 40 minutes and they come in less than 5 minutes from show time and ask me to move a seat down so they can sit side by side. I politely said "no." They got really pissy and angry, but simply left the theater and didn't come back. If you're going to ask someone to give up a seat, at least have the taste to offer to buy them a snack or a soda or something, even if they move and say "that's OK, don't worry about it." I felt a little shitty for being so conceited, but why should I give my seat and reward someone for their own laziness? Anyhow, 2 hours later I felt I'd spared them an ass raping for a little while at least. If you're going with someone else to a movie or show that isn't reserved seating, get there early enough to get the seats you need or at least have the courtesy to offer to compensate someone when you ask them to move down for you.
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Loved it. Bought the DVD as soon as it came out.
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on the Expendables? I want more. Oh yeah, I hope to see more robots peeing on the flesh bags. Ahhhh, good fun.
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if Michael Bay were to go Bungee-jumping with a steel chord tied to his penis, I wouldn’t stop him
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