Transformers : The Movie * SPOILERS*

JIMBO · Post by **JIMBO** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:29 pm

Dunno if you guys have seen these - or even care, but here are a few leaked designs and on set pics of some of the characters from the upcoming Transformers movie...and they're bloody awful!

I KNOW it's a kids movie based on TOYS from nigh on twenty years ago, but it somehow feels like Michael bay just put his willy up my childhood...

Shockingly bad.

Hexaphim · Post by **Hexaphim** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:48 am

*sigh*

Karnorjax · Post by **Karnorjax** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:32 am

they look kool but its more like beat wars robots mixed with the ugly stepchild of bionicles

more info here

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.ph ... 0&id=37687

Funky Dung · Post by **Funky Dung** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:16 am

I'm really looking forward to this movie. I'm too old to take it personally that they don't look like the toys from 25 years ago, so I'm just up for another rip-roaring Michael Bay piece of overblown eye-bursting nonsense. Bad Boys II is a work of genius.

Timbob · Post by **Timbob** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:07 pm

i dunno
the looks make no sense apart from "being cool"
the old transformers looked more logical.

even megatron looks cool instead of evil.

JIMBO · Post by **JIMBO** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:12 pm

I don't doubt that the movie will be entertaining - I just think it's completely unforgivable for a film with such a wealth of graphic source material to have such poor production design - we are going to spend most of the 2 hr running time looking at the things after all!

If you're going down the perilous route of re-designing characters that have been represented hundreds of times across most forms of media during the last 20 years, you REALLY should have something to show for it. Thousands of dollars and months of pre-production and this is the best they could come up with? The Citroen advert with the dancing robot looks more convincing!

It's a bit like deciding that Indiana Jones needs something ' a bit more sports casual '.

Dog · Post by **Dog** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:31 pm

I thought the guys who did the Citroen ads were animating 'Transformers'?

I see Dodge are using it to promote the new Challenger

Funky Dung · Post by **Funky Dung** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:07 am

The director of the Citroen ad is directing the Halo movie.

It's daft to get all upset over development sketches. You haven't seen them move yet, and that's what's important in movies. They look like Michael Bay's typical production designs (see that buggy they drive around the asteroid in Armageddon), and look a lot more practical than giant clunky versions of the toys (remember that in the cartoons the characters are a lot more mobile than the blocky, awkward toys themselves, and they obviously want to go for believable mobility in the movie).

Anyhow, if it's even 1/3 as entertaining as Bad Boys II I'll love it.

jessopjessopjessop · Post by **jessopjessopjessop** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:56 am

I think the new designs are fantastic. The reason the Transformers looked like chunky children's toys in the 80s was because they were chunky children's toys in the 80s. Twenty years on and they are getting a dark and sinister make-over, much more appropriate to their origins as robotic alien life-forms.

neolmas · Post by **neolmas** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:40 pm

(not so) interesting side note, parts of this movie were filmed down the street from me. It was something of a big commotion in this town, I guess. I certainly couldn't care less.

Bolly · Post by **Bolly** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:13 pm

After seeing the pics all i can say is:

JESUS!

Timbob · Post by **Timbob** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:19 am

Bolly wrote:After seeing the pics all i can say is:

JESUS!

is that positive or negative jesus?

hippy dave · Post by **hippy dave** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:13 pm

Karnorjax · Post by **Karnorjax** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:22 am

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24396

more clean shots of OP

Timbob · Post by **Timbob** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:04 am