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88339, RE: X-Men worked.
Posted by Stryfe, Fri Jun-29-07 01:58 AM
>Main reason being, the costumes would look really ridiculous
>on-screen.
>If you ever see the Marvel island of Adventure theme park,
>it's apparent.
>
>They got a few things wrong, but got most right.
>
>===
>
>With Transformers, though?
>
>One of the main gripes was Bay's thorough dismissal of the
>establish design aesthetic of TFs in favor of him being able
>to include whatever new flashy GM (read:American) cars he got
>a boner off of.
>
>He also wanted them to be over complex and ugly, to symbolize
>their alien nature... ignoring established canon that the
>robots were initially manufactured as service and military
>machines, but later gained self-awareness. They shouldn't be
>ugly, but presentable.
>If anything, they should look as refined as a car would, with
>the mechanisms hidden for the most part.
>
>Other shit?
>
>• Instead of accidentally crash landing their ship on Earth
>and remaining dormant for millions of years, the new movie has
>them crash land in 2007 as self-propelled metallic turds that
>can reshape themselves into any form they please.
>
>• Instead of the Decepticons seeking to deplete the planet's
>energy sources to return to Cybertron and rule, they're
>instead seeking a mystical cube that can make a Mountain Dew
>vending machine and a cellphone turn into robots so they can
>take over Earth.
>
>• Instead of the being the runt of the litter, Bumblebee is
>now larger than Jazz and a muscle car... but can not talk, and
>instead plays songs to convey his thoughts.
>
>• Spike and Sparkplug are now called Sam and Ron, man.
>
>• There is no Soundwave, but theres a little... thing that
>turns into a stereo.
>
>• Why does Optimus Prime have flames? It betrays his
>character.
>
>• Jazz dies? You just introduced him! WTF?! (Always gotta be
>the Black guy, right Hollywood?)
>
>• The film spends more time with the humans, where in the REAL
>TF movie, the only organic characters were Spike and his son
>(and a fucking fish).
>
>• The script ends with the plot device gone and the main
>villain disposed of. Now there is no reason for the TFs to be
>on Earth. How you gonna make a series of films out of that?
>
>===
>
>IMO, they botched the handling of the actual film (aside from
>the CGI).
>Even worse is, the rift this has caused in the TF fandom,
>which is as die hard as Star Wars/Star Trek, only on a smaller
>scale.
>
>And with Hasbro basically giving the middle finger to the
>incarnation of TF that people know best? I'm pretty much
>through.
>
>I'm gonna cop the figure in my avy (Hot Rod) and the
>Masterpiece Starscream and be done with my collecting.
>
>I got better things to do tonight than cry.


THANK U....
i couldnt actually put into words how much the movie annoyed the shit out of me..but u said mst of it right here


also, for all bay's bitching about mass reduction, the frenzy decep(the one that turns into a stereo) manages to turn into both a stereo and a cellphone...
and the big ass mystical cube, bigger then all the robots, turns into a small cube that Sam carries with him...gee wouldnt THAT involve mass reduction?

except or maybe 4 character, no one has a personality....Jazz dies, but who cares, u could've jus as well put ironhide or ratchet in there, i dotn know em anyways


and people tell me i should wait till after the credits, to see what happened to the 2 missing deceps
fuck that..if its important show me in the movie...dont do someting completely illogical and then waist my time even more by making me watch a lot of letters on a screen