Transformers Discussion Thread (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

You know I've discovered something a little astounding recently. Starscream obviously only had a minor role in the movies so this would have been largely moot regardless, but Charlie Adler, is someone who can do a pretty good Starscream-esque voice if given the chance. Most newer versions of the character are essentially based off Chris Latta's voice and generally I think they do at least a vaguely passable job.

Tom Kenny did it in Transformers Animated
Doug Parker did it in Beast Wars
Michael Dobson did it in the Unicron Trilogy.

But if they had wanted to give Starscream a G-1 like voice in the movies (like with Optimus) I think the best candidate would have been Scott McNeil. I suspected he could do a good Chris Latta impersonation but I never imagined just how good. Seriously that was the best Starscream-like voice I've ever seen by far. It was amazing.

I've begun to wonder why he never actually played Starscream in any of the Transformers shows he was in.

 

I read it on another message board, but someone there said their beef with Bay's Transformers movies is that it didn't even try to be a space opera like the original show was, and failed to include fan-favorite characters like Grimlock, or even unique G1 characters like Cosmos or Omega Supreme. In some ways, I agree with this person.

 

Agreed.

I wonder what these guys would do if they had a $200 million budget.

 

that was freaking awesome.

the problem with bayformers? almost everything.

 

In what universe are Cosmos and Omega Supreme considered "Fan favourites"?
I mean, I was by no means old enough to really comprehend what was going on when the original Transformers cartoon aired, but growing up on reruns I never got the impression that they were anything other than throwaway characters.

 

Well ASG, maybe Cosmos and Omega Supreme weren't that major, but they could have been introduced into the movies no problem, with Cosmos, being a flying saucer, being the spaceship that crashed at Roswell in 1947, and taking a cue from Transformers Animated, making Omega Supreme be the ship that brings the Autobots to Earth and acts as their base.

 

I have to admit that the sick and twisted part of me wants to buy the Transformers 3 DVD when it comes out later this month simply to complete the set. It's sad because I've never finished watching Part 2 all the way through, but it seems wrong to own parts 1 and 2 and not get 3.

It's that same diabolic urge to buy Termintator 3 and Terminator Salvation even though I know they're bad. I just need to complete the whole set.

What is wrong with me?

 

Have some standards, man. I own DVDs of Alien and Aliens, but have no desire or want to own Alien 3 or Alien Resurrection. As for Star Trek, I got every movie but 5, Generations, and Insurrection (Nemesis was a gift).

You don't need to own every movie in a franchise it you don't like certain films in it.

 

Quite a lot if you own any of the Bay Tranformer movies (especially the second one)

 

I've been able to avoid adding Batman Forever and Batman & Robin to my collection so I'm not a hopeless case.

Cut me some slack, I bought the movie before ever seeing it (and I still haven't watched it all the way through).

 

So has anyone seen Transformers: Prime? It's been going on for a while now. I still haven't seen it yet. I have heard that it was decent to good at least.

 

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BLASPHEMER!

 

I have Episodes III-VI of SW, Terminator 1, 2, and Salvation, Shrek 2 (I would have the first two, but they apparently don't make it in widescreen anymore), and the Alien Quadrilogy (but not the AvP movies). There's nothing wrong with owning parts of series, especially since they aren't always essential to each other.

 

So I finally went and watched the first 5 episodes of Transformers Prime. I can say that while there were many things that bothered me, overall I was very impressed. Definitely better than Transformers Animated by a notch or two, I'd reckon. I don't know if it will be as good as Beast Wars but it definitely has a chance to to be up their with some of it's better episodes.

 

Have to disagree 2nd. Granted I haven't seen the entire season, but I just felt the charcters and story were mostly flat. And if i have to hear "ONE SHALL STAND, ONE SHALL FALL," one more time I think I'l flip.

BEAST WARS still ranks as the best TF tv show IMO

 

Anybody seen these images that came out of Toy Fair?

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Combaticons and Bruticus

SDCC exclusive Shockwave HISS tank

The Shockwave HISS tank is another G.I. Joe/Transformers crossover, that comes with a Destro figure, a small transformed Soundwave and cassettes as an acessory, and some Energon cubes with a BAT trooper painted up in Construction colors.

 

Transformers 4 Confirmed


Hmmmmmmm.

 

Bay also claims he will be "reimagining" or rebooting the series. Though how anyone would tell behind the incomprehensible designs and the ADD editing, I don't know...

 

The continuity (such as it is) exists in movie form.

Bay could IMO start on a Unicron trilogy, have Megs be changed into Galvatron, have Prime reformat himself into a more acceptable form.

He could also intruduce Rodimus, Ultra Magnus etc... and take the film onwards, moving away from the original and thoroughly bastardised versions that we now know and dislike.