Transformers Movie: Totally Transformed Down
I know you guys have already heard about the upcoming Transformers movie next year. If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, you can watch it on the official Transformers movie website or at YouTube. The Transformers movie trailer shows a rover that was launched to Mars in 2003 that sent transmissions back to earth showing lifeforms or more like robot-life forms in Mars. At first, I was excited but then I realized that my favorite robots as a child, the Transformers, were not from Mars. Once you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve probably never want to see it again as it sucks. Well, if you don’t believe me, read the comments about the Transformers trailer at YouTube.
So who is responsible for the movie? It’s no other than director Michael Bay. The man responsible for blowing up good movie titles like Pearl Harbor. I don’t really know anything about Michael Bay but what I know is that he is one of the most hated directors. Well, probably because some song in Team America has this funny lyrics about Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor movie. Here it goes. You can sing it if you know the Tune.
I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark,
When he made Pearl Harbor.
I miss you more then that movie missed the point,
And that’s an awful lot girl.
And now, now you’ve gone away,
And all I’m trying to say,
Is Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you
I was just hoping that Michael Bay wouldn’t again blow up the Transformers movie but I guess my hopes just deteriorated instantly. I just came across SERVE with CHIPS, a blog, showing photos of some of the characters in the Transformers movie. I was very disappointed when I saw what they did to Megatron. Why can’t they just design the Transformers just the way they should look in the original animation? Even Bumblebee is not a Beetle anymore but instead a Camaro. Even Optimus Prime doesn’t look like the original one. They have just over-designed the robots.
What is excessive is dangerous and that saying too, goes for the movie. They should have kept the robots’ original appearance. Why am I against this? It’s not that I can’t accept change but the truth is I love the Transformers and changing their looks in major ways makes me just wanna despise the upcoming movie. But I’m not totally gonna hate it right away. It’s still in the works and maybe, just maybe they will realize that the Transformers should look how they really look.
But then again, I just wish Spielberg should have just directed the movie.
Update: I made this post a year before the movie was released so before you leave a comment saying how stupid I am for this review (well this isn’t actually a review), I’d like you guys to know that I’ve seen the movie and my god, here’s my reaction to the movie.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
they look like a Gundam not Transformers. hehehe
April 12th, 2007 at 12:49 am
Aint nuthin wrong with Gundams. Most of the characters, from what I’ve seen, are simply a more modern-day but more realistic design. I also want Megz to be a gun or something along those lines…but think about it. Things that look good drawn…do not look good in reality. (Hence Wolverine not having a really gay costume) Anyway it worked for me and I was ok. I’m excited about the upcoming movie. Maybe I’m just easy to please. If you want them to look like the toys of your childhood..make your own movie. Plain and simple
April 12th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Thanks Darth_McNasty. I won’t be making my own movie. Instead, I’ll just watch the transformers cartoons. Maybe I’ll go watch the movie too when someone gives me a free ticket because I’m not gonna be wasting my money on that movie.
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:37 am
All of you hate reviewers are idiots. So freakin what the transformers arent 100% authentic to the original cartoon. First of all do you even remember what the transformers really look like. they were nothing but big ass blocks with limited mobility. Only because of the magic of 2d animation were they able to get away with the movements they were doing in the cartoon. AND THE TRANSFERMATIONS WERE CHEATED TO SHIT!. The fact that the toys were stiff as hell proves that they could never move like that in real life with that blocky shape.
AND the transformers designs have changed numerous of times. all of the other catroons the 2d and 3d ones had different designs. The movie is just making thier own look too, which looks preaty damn cool. and they designed there bodies for optimum mobility. they can run, jump, achieve acrobatic attacks.
Think people, its a realistic movie. some things just wont look right once you make it realistic. some changes has to be made.
quality pictures…why not go for all it can be.
I give my thumbs up to michael bay. and stop mentioning pearl harbor. He made some other movies after that, that were preaty good.
Bad boys II
The Island
and before that!!
Armageddon
The Rock
Bad boys
Get off his back wether pearl harbor was good or not not everybodies perfect all the time. sometimes you hit, some times you miss. But if you hit more than you miss then your misses dont matter.
transformer is going to be hot i dont car what anybody says.
June 7th, 2007 at 9:05 am
@anonymous - Thanks. I get your point but what I wrote is what I feel so there’s nothing you can do about it. I saw the Transformer trailers and it looks good but I won’t be watching it without my free ticket though.
June 22nd, 2007 at 4:07 am
Any real Transformers fan is aware that the Transformers franchise has reinvented itself many times in the past 25 years. Why be upset that Megatron isn’t a gun? Megatron has been (a few) tanks, a dinosaur, a dragon, a race car, a spaceship, and probably some other things. Prime also has been many other things than a flat-nosed semi. So why get upset that the franchise is being reinvented/reimagined again?
The new designs look great. They actually look like they could WORK. Like that other guy said, what works as a toy, and in a cartoon, may just look bad in live-action, big budget movie. I mean you can’t have the front of a car split into two big smooth blocks to make legs, and then the feet are two more blocks that swivel on simple pegs, etc. The early toys and their hand-drawn renditions could get away with being simple, defying mechanics and engineering. I mean I love the toys, but you don’t want the robots on screen, to look like simple toys!
June 22nd, 2007 at 6:26 pm
I wrote this post a year ago and I saw the new trailer last week. Yeah, I agree with you about that the Transformers have been changeing designs lately. There was also Beast Wars which I didn’t like. Having seen the latest trailer, I think I’ll give the movie a peek. It might be worth seeing at all.
June 28th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Optimistic is a studio PLANT! Here to tell us how it was neccessary to turn a great idea in shit so Bay could feed his massive fucking ego.
It’s great to see the same assholes who passioantely defend shit like The Island and Bay’s other shitbombs, then turn around and talk about “realism.”
Hey optimistic, listen you dumbass, NOTHING Bay has done in his life has been realistic. Did you think Wolverine really had claws in his arms? Or that Magneto NEEDED a bucket on his head? No, theese things were done in order to remain true to the source material. And Bay’s redesigned robots look like they can barely stand. The orginials looked great. So Optmisitc, get some glasses or STFU! Tear your lips away from Michale Bay’s ass long enough to realize you are dead-wrong, he’s fucked this up, and he should have stayed with the original concept as is. You’re a plant. If Bay had done as the trufans wanted you’d be in here cheering how the ‘86 designs were so cool, and Bay was so brave for sticking to what worked.
Michael Bay must be handing out the swag like so much government cheese to be getting these plants to be defending what we can all see is going to be a shitty movie.
Oh, and before you pull out the old, “If uou don’t like it then don’t see it,” Don’t worry, I won’t be. And just as you have the right to pimp a piece-of-shit flick you haven’t seen, I have the right to trash it. Especially when the director has yet to make a movie that’s even watchable.
July 2nd, 2007 at 1:37 am
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July 2nd, 2007 at 10:11 am
I saw the new TF movie last night- and I agree with everyone who didn’t like it- they raped our childhood dreams… I appreciated the special effects and the erm… ’story’ but the Transformers’ characters themselves I couldn’t accpet… I know we all had expectations from this movie- and we were let down. Big time. I bet even the those behind the making of the movie had clashing opinions on making this movie- they could have modernised the transformers certainy- but there was no need to change what they looked like so dramatically… If ANYTHING they should have used their Alternators/Binaltech forms! At least they seem like a realistic segue from the 80’s to modern day… Anyway, I am rambling and sounding far nerdier than I actually am…
In summation, I have nothing positive to say about it EXCEPT for my fellow Aussie on the the screen Rachael Taylor!!!
Dr Rindel,
Australia (no, not chasing kangaroos- although I have 5 lounging in my yard right now…)
July 2nd, 2007 at 1:55 pm
@Doctor Rindel: Yeah. The special effects team really made one hell of a good job there. Hey can you send me some close up photos of those Kangaroos? I have never seen a real live Kangaroo in my life.
July 4th, 2007 at 10:42 am
@Stylemo
I’ll sure see what I can do- it’s winter here at the moment so the day has to be just right for them (lounging in the sun on still days when there’s not much wind- I guess the wind chill factor pisses them off). They’re not entirely approachable either (being wild and all) but, I sure will try! I’ve tried to offer them food in the past- but they’re not so friendly- more cautious than rude I’d guess- and stand up and take their ‘hyperventilating’ stance and get very confrontational. Until recently, I honestly never took notice of the claws (’razor sharp talons’ one might say) hanging off their arms- so now my offerings of food are done from a distance!
Two nights ago I went out to put my puppy on the lawn. Having just woken up, I opened the door, turned on the verandah light, steeped outside and gazed up- bleary eyed- at 2am- 3, 4 metres away from a startled, pissed off male Kangaroo with a youngster in tow, which quickly assumed the hyperventilating position. Which is kinda of scary when you see what these things can do. So gnarly- in a pants-browning fashion. The puppy wanted to have a go though *laughs*
I’d better stop. Getting off topic.
My appreciation of the TF movie is changing slowly. I was asked what I thought about it the other day and I whined and whinged, and then I thought- hang on, if kids who have never seen the TransFormers before, then their experience will be so different to my own- they’ll just see it for what it is. A movie about robots. Sure, I wanted a flat front Optimus, A beetle Bumblebee and A Walther P38 megatron, and everyone else like they were- but the movie wasn’t made for ME. As my hasty research has told me, TransFormers were a toy line and THEN a show. The show was to promote the toy line. So now, I look at the movie differently. It is just to promote the new toy line. And that, I CAN deal with. It’s not the end of the world.
Far out I waffle on.
July 4th, 2007 at 10:44 am
The visual effects were fantastic- but the characters looked so fragile- with bits and bobs hanging off that could be dislodged with the most minimal graze or knock. Ah, I should stop picking on it! But it is sooooo hard!!! STARSCREAM ONLY HAD ONE LINE!?!?!?!? I’ll be quiet before I get banned (-_-;)
July 7th, 2007 at 12:50 am
This movie sucked
The robots looked NOTHING like their original forms. They werent even recognizeable. The story made ZERO sense. Michael Bay sucks ass.
July 9th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
For all you nay-sayers out there…200 Million Gross
the first week says that it’s a hit with fans and
nubies alike.
So quite your complaining. This was a heck of a better
flick than say…Spiderman 3..and maybe the best movie
of the summer.
July 9th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
@naruto: Transformers - Best Movie of the Summer? Don’t say that yet. The movie was not bad and was not perfect. I love the special effects. I mean who wouldn’t. It looked like every small bit and gear was moving when the robots were transforming but that’s not enough to make it the best movie this summer or for this year. There are still a lot of good movies out there like Die Hard 4.0, Harry Potter and The Simpsons. I’ll bet my ass for The Simpsons.
July 10th, 2007 at 12:12 am
@stylemo- Die Hard 4.0 will be gnarly! Not perfect is right- they killed Jazz… Not only that he was a damn Pontiac… Porsche and Pontiac might strat with P and have the same amount of letters- but that’s about bloody all! *runs off to attempt photographing a ‘roo*
@naruto- Hey sure it grossed 200 million- how many people of thought it was worth the it? It does not suggest that it was a hit- it suggests a shitload of people saw it- it was over hyped and I believe, misled people. The previews shown in Australia show Prime at an angle that leads you to believe he is in his G1 guise. ALSO- WTF is up with having Scorpionok!? WHY??? Lame. AND THEY KILLED JAZZ! I MEAN COME ON! In any case, I WILL NOT be seeing the sequel (allegedy there are two more scheduled… Vector Sigma help us…) or the third installment.
@mike reed-I am back to agreeing that they should have made it like the original- even if they had to compromise on some designs- and for Cybertron’s sake, they could have got some better damn voice actors!!! Bloody hell. No Soundwave, with his awesome vocorder voice, no bloody Wheeljack- THEY KILLED JAZZ for crying out loud! WHY! ARGH!
I realised I am wrong. I CAN’T deal with this. Grrr. I even had to buy the special 17 disc re-release of the original show to calm down (came in a kick ass metal tin and retro packaging like the figures)
July 10th, 2007 at 9:01 am
@Doctor Rindel: I just saw Die Hard 4.0 last two days ago. It absolutely rocks man! Who would love the explosions and those flying cars? Bruce Willis still has it. I wish I could tell more about the movie but then I realized some of you might not have seen it yet.
July 10th, 2007 at 10:51 am
@stylemo- Gnarly! I will see it on Saturday- I thought ‘4.0′ was a strange thign though- what is it? Die Hard 4.0 Litre?? hehehe (^_^) when I go to get my monthly supply of Dr Pepper- the store is next to the cinema- sadly, here in Oz, it is $2.50 a can! About $2.15 US. But I love it… And PopTarts for $18 a box (for 8)… Boo. (>_
July 26th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
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July 27th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Nuff aboot die hard 4, If anyone who’s complaining about the style of the film, or the fact that they look nothing like the eighties ones; was actually honest with themselves, they’d know that if they saw three seconds of the fight between prime and megatron when they were a kid, it would have been better than all the origional episodes combined.
August 1st, 2007 at 11:57 am
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August 18th, 2007 at 8:21 am
SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!! I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOVIE SINCE I WAS LIKE 5….20 YEARS! AND IT WAS AMAZING!!! THE VEHICLES WERE FABULOUS!!!!! AND REALLY HOW COOL WAS IT WHEN BUMBLE BEE JUST SLIPPED BY THE NEW CAMERO AND BOOM HE WAS A SEXY NEW RIDE!!!!!! MY OPINION!!! TRANSFORMERS ROCKED AND THE SERIOUSLY THE BEST MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:50 pm
I can’t believe you would say something like that! You aren’t even going to take the time to watch the movie, so you don’t have the right to critize it. For your information, I do know that the characters are not the orininal animated characters you are used to. But, this is a live action film, so the robots have to look realistic! Get that through your head! Also, Bumblebee isn’t a bug, but he is still the same Bumblebee. Just with a makeover. If you really liked the show, you would take some time to appreciate the hard work these people have done in making the film.
Take that into some thought next time you want to diss someone or something.
November 21st, 2007 at 2:58 pm
U people arestupid, i mean really, what was wrong with giving bumblebee a sweet makeover? and megatron would have been a peice of SHIT if he was a gun because who would fire?
and i thought having scorponok was cool! u people r dumbasses exept for jackie she actualy has som common sese you dumbasses
November 25th, 2007 at 10:54 am
People can say what they want but when a movie does as good as this movie has done they must have done something right. I think there was many fans of transformers as well that was happy with it.