Are they going for a more traditional Transformer look this time I wonder? We can only hope!

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And remember kids...

THE POWER OF BAY COMPELS YOU!!!

The kicker was, the shitty local station where I lived never showed TRANSFORMERS, just GOBOTS, because they thought kids were too stupid to notice the difference in quality...and they were. Sadly, that screwed all us slackers, to say nothing of the stoners.

The eighties pretty much sucked...don't let anyone tell you any different.

we here in asia got so much cooler toys growing up you just would not believe. while you were playing with your plastic GI joe and plastic transformers, diecast robots were all the rave here.

HASBRO SUCKS!!!

I know your point is more about toys, but Hollywood has noticed something else, have you seen all the remakes of asian horror movies Hollywood has been churning out on a nearly monthly frequency the last few years?

Anyone else think it's kinda crappy that Jazz, a silver sports car from the first movie, is replaced in the sequel by Sideswipe, a silver sports car?

toys were so good back then.

and he was red but who cares.

Having said all that, Benders it IS pretty devastating when some kid breaks your toy. Even now I'm pretty cranky at the kid who tripped and launched his toy straight into the screen of my 52" XBR LCD (MY toy). Fucking dead pixels from top to bottom. Grrr. Even harder to make out what Bay's robots are up to!

If you're going to rob a bank and you want to hide your identity behind a mask, you should create a Mission Impossible style mask of George Bush or maybe Brad Pitt. Maybe Bin Laden? You know, somebody famous, that way NO ONE will notice you walking around. Or recognize that you're in disguise because, you never know, George Bush or those guys might actually rob a bank one day!

Seriously, Bay needs to stop using these movies so he can drive/keep/whatever these concept cars or whatever the hell is happening. It makes zero fucking sense to use unique concept cars or 1 of 10 in the world concept cars not in standard production for these alien robots to transform into. I mean shit...these guys should be transforming into a fucking Nissan Maxima..Toyota Camry's, etc. Not a car valued at almost a million dollars or a car that isn't produced both of which would draw MUCH undesired attention. Isn't Bay kind of shooting himself in the foot with the dumbass gun here?

I thought the exact same thing when T3 had this "Terminatrix" female terminator who then proceeded to not bother to hide the 'terminator' aspect at all so why even have a girl? Why not discard the flesh covering after time-traveling and just nuke the town? (flesh covered bomb plot hole, etc).

They need to get rid of these "12 year old boy" mentality having screenwriters who can help but write huge amounts of dumbass into their scripts.

Cut out the criminal use of The Jesus, anything with Jon Voight (he was so good in Heat and now he's a jackass in everything), every scene with Anthony Anderson, Decepticon comic antics on AirForce1, the 'get their hands of my bush' line, Autobots being all "hip and trendy" and all of the sudden, it's an infinitely better movie. Bay loves that shit tho so he's one of them and every time I see him pushing further and further outside the realm of reality and into the hyper-reality of the somewhat retarded 12 year old boy who spontaneously starts masturbating if he even sees blond hair, becomes mesmerized by a jet flying overhead...basically, the little glasses wearing ritalin challenged, sexually disturbing, karate psycho from "Smokin' Aces". With a coke habit. And no sense of restraint. And all this shit actually gets in the way of making these movies better than they could be...

Well, when it comes to GM and the Big 3, Bay is ALWAYS going to go American. It's his bread and butter; much like choosing to shoot the majority of his films in US locations.

Do you think we'll have as much Don Murphy lunacy this time around?

However, since Transformers only redeeming factor is the special effects. People will assume GI Joe is going to be the same. Unfortunately, there isn't much interesting about a special effects GI Joe movie.

Your only hope is to stick to the source material, look at the original GI Joe and figure out what made it work. What are the STAPLES of the series. Etc...

My first advice would be to make sure you NEVER see Cobra Commanders face. But i'm certain you have already made a blunder of that. Cobra Commander should be a terrorist who is only seen on ransom videos and in private meetings but should ALWAYS be wearing his helmet, hiding his face. BUT you're going to show him as a child and then as a young adult. Maybe even show what makes him so cranky. Sadly, audiences don't want to see that. I'd hope more screenwriters realize this type of thing but they don't.

I didn't "embiggen", but it sort of has a head like G1 Unicron, no?

And for all you "logic" fans, hey, there's this moronic scene in the Empire Strikes Back, where even after establishing antigravity as an internal logic and spaceships whizzing around (sound in space regardless), for some reason we're supposed to buy gigantic tanks that WALK over uneven terrain! Shaped like animals! OMG! LOLZ! That's the stupidest thing ever!!!

And a darker story.

And action htat makes sence of the filmic geography.

Where the action is, is more important than what the action is.

Why do the Transformers need to 'transform' at all?

This was a part of the first film I did not understand at all. If you are a giant robot and capable of stomping anyone you come across into a sticky puddle of goo, why would you need to disguise yourself? Why wouldn't you just go wherever you pleased and simply sit on anyone who took offense to your presence?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Who owns this factory? How much does a Transformer cost to buy (or can they be leased)?

Assuming I'm wrong about the factory, does that mean two Transformers (who love each other very much and are married) make a tiny little baby Transformer?

What would dirty, sweaty Transformer sex sound like?

Thanks in advance (again) for your help.

Not everything's completely black & white y'know. Like it is for all those who can't admit the initial choice of a flatnosed truck was a big compromise in service to both the constraints of 2d animation/long lens/less perspective hand-animation headaches and of cheaper toy costs. The longnose for 3d/cg/film makes a lot of fucking sense and erases the constraints that were there previously. And saying that does NOT mean I don't think he fucked up other things, simpleton. I have a harder time understanding changing say, the new Astro Boy's design when there were no reasons/constraints on what they changed in the first place, for example. But hey, if you like red washing machines despite everything, go for it sunshine. And casting Peter Cullen evidence that G1 is irrelevant? Uh, what? Hope your shrink is worth it...

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If I'm not mistaken, American Beauty also had splashes of red in the center of the screen throughout the movie.

As far as mate goes, I didn't think you'd get it the first time (considering your initial Americacentric assumption) so I hit you over the head with it. What's even funnier is that you did it again - why would I have seen an outback steakhouse ad if I DON'T live in America? Strike 2, copout 2.

Dingbatty, don't make Killian's mistake. I'm NOT talking red in general. And I'm not talking about emotional/narrative use of colour in film either. I do that all the time. And it goes for costume design too. And "telegraphing" (which Spielberg loves). One other trick is putting a small amount of contrasting colour temperature in the frame so the eyes don't fatigue over time and so the colour doesn't lose it's vibrancy. Having a touch of cool or warm colour in there to balance helps it pop. Things stand out more when they have something to contrast. The other thing American filmmakers tend to forget is that when using colour for an emotional response, the west is different to the east, and the same colours mean different things. Cheers. - Mate.