Well I've seen the film and...

Post by **Kaylee** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:55 pm

Brendocon wrote:Ooh... incentivey.

Though it is seriously gonna be my stock reply for the next month or so for people whose sole criticism of the new stuff is "they changed it"...

why do we need new music? everybody knows rock achieved perfection in 1973! [/Homer]

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:04 pm

And they made Boomer a Cylon. Grrr.

Post by **Kaylee** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:32 pm

Brendocon wrote:And they made Boomer a Cylon. Grrr.

And I hear the cylons are grrrr! Boomer

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:40 pm

That makes no sense!

That makes as little sense as Bayformers! Which is rubbish because... uhm... Apollo is now Adama's son?

WHERE'S MY REWARD?

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:05 am

I just saw the movie in a pre-premiere kind of thing. It was much, much better than I dared to hope it would be.

In fact, I really liked it.

Highly recommended.

<3Starscream · Post by **<3Starscream** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:29 am

I just want to know...
Does Starscream really only have one line in the movie?

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:48 am

Brendocon wrote:Apollo is now Adama's son?

He wasn't before?

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:13 am

I've no idea... wild stab in the dark... hence the question mark...

Uhm... they made Baltar sympathetic?

Starbuck's a chick?

Post by **Best First** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:25 am

<3Starscream wrote:I just want to know...
Does Starscream really only have one line in the movie?

hmm, i don't think he has many more than that.

You may be shocked to hear that this is not exactly a dialogue driven film.

i really don't know how to score it.

and don't get me wrong, there are things about it i was significantly less keen on - Frenzy being one.

However, and this is important, there is a quality wanking gag in there.

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:53 am

Frenzy was a star wars pod droid, plain and simple.

Post by **Kaylee** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:03 am

Brendocon wrote:I've no idea... wild stab in the dark... hence the question mark...

Uhm... they made Baltar sympathetic?

Starbuck's a chick?

{profers a doggie biscuit}

Post by **Best First** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:06 pm

Dylan wrote:Frenzy was a star wars pod droid, plain and simple.

No, Frenzy was an evil metal Jar Jar.

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:27 pm

Fair enough.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:40 pm

Any cheese?

Post by **Best First** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:20 pm

there was some cheese.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:52 pm

Any rice pudding?
Any Flywheels references?
Any "Shockwave did it" jokes?
Any digs at Pat Lee?
Any BtVS cast members in a major role?

Post by **Kaylee** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:55 pm

and did Megatron's gun make the proper noise? You know, the one it made in the cartoon?

And was the girl hot?

etc. etc.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:03 pm

was it the bestest movie EVARRRRRRRRRRRRRR ?

And was the gal HOT?

And who won?

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:04 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:And who won?

America, freedom, kittens and ice cream.

Post by **Kaylee** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:10 pm

Brendocon wrote:
Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:And who won?
America, freedom, kittens and ice cream.

Yes, did the US Army export Freedom across the militant Decepticons to liberate the peace loving autobots? Did they??

<3Starscream · Post by **<3Starscream** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:03 pm

Did it actually lead up to a sequel?!

More questions. More!

Hot Shot · Post by **Hot Shot** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:42 pm

I might as well hear this from a trustworthy source: Is it true that Jazz says "What's crackin', b*tches?"?

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:43 pm

Karl Lynch wrote:and did Megatron's gun make the proper noise? You know, the one it made in the cartoon?

And was the girl hot?

etc. etc.

Megs had a teeny-weeny small gun that shot some blue laser at Prime and he only used it once.

I have mixed feelings about the Movie - Weaving was better as Megs then I expected, the Bots had pretty OK characterisation, but the first half of the movie was forgettable and the Cons were only big metal hi-then-die monsters, Megs included.

And Frenzy talked like Sebulba... :O

Peter Cullen rocks, BTW.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:50 pm

Hot Shot wrote:I might as well hear this from a trustworthy source: Is it true that Jazz says "What's crackin', b*tches?"?

Yes...

He also did a nice break-dance when transforming for the first time, though, so I forgive that.

Actually, in the script, Prime was supposed to talk in Chinese when he talks for the first time, as that's the language most people on earth talk... This was cut, of course. Instead, many jabs at Iran, Nort Korea and Chine were inserted.

Oh and guess what, the Humans killed most of the Decepticons pretty well without Autobot help. The whole movie , especially the last scenes and the attack against Scorponok, felt like a big US army commercial. "We can scrap giant alien robots, punks, so think twice before going to war with Uncle Sam!"

Yeah, Megatron, whose armor should withstand a nuclear explosion, turned into swiss cheese by F22 missiles.

Can't wait for the sequel where Megan Fox plays basketball with Shockwave's head.

Btw, Ironhide was plain irritating. He was made into a mixture of Grimlock and Hightower from Police Academy and always wanted to shoot something, even Sam's dog... or his parents.

The jokes were lame-ass, especially when the parents think Spike was masturbating in his room...

The Witwicky parents are brain-dead, btw. And Agent Simmons is a parody of a real secret agent, the guy with the moustache briefing Jon Voight was a much better actor for that type of secret agency man.

paul cannon · Post by **paul cannon** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:37 am

http://transforce.blog.co.uk/

Full review here. Contains spoilers!

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:55 am

That looks great. I stopped reading when you started describing the film (I'm doing my best to avoid spoilers) but its great to know that Simon and especially Geoff and Andrew were there.

Dead Head · Post by **Dead Head** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:12 pm

I haven't read any posts here, but just to say that a friend of mine whose opinion I trust summarized it as brainless dreck with groanworthy awful humor and terrible dialog, but with some pleasing action sequences. Is this close?

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:34 pm

Dead Head wrote:I haven't read any posts here, but just to say that a friend of mine whose opinion I trust summarized it as brainless dreck with groanworthy awful humor and terrible dialog, but with some pleasing action sequences. Is this close?

It's pretty spot-on, except some of the Bot dialoge isn't so terrible, but the movie wastes too much time on bad humor scenes (IE: the garden scene). A hungarian magazine reviewed the movie saying the first half resembles Back to the Future, then it turns into a total Bay action-fest in the last 30 minutes (I must add that BTF had much better humor and plot...)

So, I'm still continuing my own script, I said to myself if the movie turns out to be great, I'll give it up.

anna · Post by **anna** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:11 pm

i give it 2 thumbs up and 4-4 and a half stars out of five the reason it doesnt get 5 is because all the robots looked too much alike(and too much like bugs) that did not ruin my experience though and i enjoyed it.

<3Starscream · Post by **<3Starscream** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:23 pm

I thought it was amazing.
And I thought I was going to be kinda disappointed at the ending, but I wasn't!
I actually clapped.
For the FIRST time ever, I clapped at the end of a movie.

TransFans.co.uk

Well I've seen the film and...

hmmmm