I still really like the Transformers movies

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Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

I'm glad you finally found the time to get back to this. And I can't wait for those PDFs so I can re-read this all over again.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2013 06:20

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 04:16

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

I spent a ton of time catching up on this thread and Terry still hasn't done AoE! I need this hole in my life filled!

# ¿ Jun 28, 2016 02:28

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Any word on Stanley Tucci being in the next film? He's easily the best human character int he films so far.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2016 05:39

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Brother Entropy posted:

okay you're selling me on star saber pretty hard here

He also has two of the best TF toys in the history of the franchise.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2017 06:02

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

General Battuta posted:

Remember that time a transformer ripped his own soul out so his body could be cannibalized to make wings for Optimus Prime.

Wings that fell off five minutes later.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 06:57

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Milky Moor posted:

Which weren't even picked up when Optimus decided he needed wings again in the third film.

I mean, it's possible they built his trailer out of Jetfire's corpse right?

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 07:26

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Ostiosis posted:

I love all the unique designs on the robots, and stuff like Optimus leaving out "This is not your planet to rule" when he plays back "The fallen will rise again."

Did Terry ever post anything about Age of Extinction? I love that the beginning of AOE mirrors ROTF, only the government agency is executing an Autobot instead of a Decepticon, and how in the beginning in Cade's garage Optimus mirrors Megatron down to the damaged face, and he's using Megatrons gun. Also, most of the remaining Autobots seem to absolutely hate each other.

"I'm a fat ballerina who takes scalps and slits throats!"

Terry has not posted in this thread since July '14. I feel like it's done.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 19:24

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Well if Oscar Winner SIR Anthony Hopkins says so it must be true.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2017 06:06

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

That's Oscar Winner SIR Michael Caine to you.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2017 07:13

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

well why not posted:

A Nolan / Bay joint operation would probably kill the cinema discusso crowd outright.

It'd also be the most character-actor filled movie ever made.

I've never wanted anything more than this

# ¿ May 19, 2017 06:24

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

The MSJ posted:

Fandango states that the running time is 2 hours 28 minutes.

http://www.fandango.com/transformers:thelastknight_196457/movieoverview

I still like this Fall of Cybertron trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZazWABl0A8

The scale of Metroplex in that was just perfect.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2017 04:06

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Anthony Hopkins needs to be credited as "T-Hopps" on a film before he dies.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2017 01:57

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Imax and 3D in general are bad for my eyes, gonna see it Wednesday night.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2017 01:03

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

People keep praising Bay for making Earth into Unicron but that's a large part of the [i]Transformers Prime animated series from 5 years back or so.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2017 01:33

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Lord Krangdar posted:

The OP of this thread Terry van Feleday showed that you don't have to "turn off your brain" to appreciate and enjoy these movies.

Yes but where is Terry now. Aren't we still waiting for a writeup on AOE?

# ¿ Jun 25, 2017 03:29

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

edit

wrong thread!

Rhyno fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Aug 1, 2017

# ¿ Aug 1, 2017 05:33

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

AOE is the best TF film. Hands down.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2017 17:17

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Uncle Wemus posted:

Did Terry ever do a write up on 4 and 5?

She ded.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2018 18:36

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

MonsieurChoc posted:

!

Hopefully just forums-ded where they don't post anymore, and not like for realz ded.

They post in games I guess.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2018 22:31

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

There's probably going to be some sort of handwave "Bumblebee was rebooted" thing to explain why he doesn't remember killing Nazis and is afraid of teenage girls.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2018 17:06

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Davros1 posted:

I love the Bernie Mac VO at the beginning of the trailer. You know, the scene that was played entirely for laughs in the movie, but maybe if we slow it down a bit it will become profound?

Wasn't Bernie Mac like a really lovely person in real life?

# ¿ Jun 6, 2018 02:32

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

The MSJ posted:

New villains, both muscle cars (but curiously with jet parts).

The red one is Angela Basset, the blue one is Justin Theroux.

drat, excellent voice casting.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2018 02:32

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Donnerberg posted:

All that effort into making them look like G1, and they don't get a guy with a shrill voice to do Starscream. That's going to bother me because everything else looks top notch.

The Cybertron shots are video gamey like another post said, but it's unavoidable with this aesthetic. It'll probably be better with the Earth scenes when everything isn't CGI.

That's not Starscream. In a fanbase-enraging move, they confirmed it is Blitzwing.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2018 16:44

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Milkfred E. Moore posted:

Cybertron even looks different. Is this really sticking with the Bay continuity?

The only major holdover is Bumblebee's face.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2018 03:31

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

The MSJ posted:

And that's because it's now considered an iconic part of the character.

Eh, his look in the TFP cartoon was less stupid and they did away with it at the end. He also ran through 4 seasons of another cartoon with a normal looking face.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2018 03:36

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

K. Waste posted:

Fandom is a mental disorder.

This but for all fandoms.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 08:22

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

That doesn't make them bad flicks. AoE is metal as all hell.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 11:54

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Blood Boils posted:

That's what he's saying

I thought he was directing it at TF in general.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 20:10

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

I had a customer with both symbols tattooed on his arms.

He also had a huge iron cross that he claimed was for he man but it looked a little too Hitlery to be Motu.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 21:26

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

The current mainline TF toys are definitely aimed at adults who remember their childhoods being not terrible but they actually were.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2018 06:24

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

AoE is a masterpiece.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2018 07:36

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, John Goodman, Titus Weliver.

It's a goddamned delight.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2018 09:08

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Darko posted:

AoE is just painful to watch. It has like 5 acts and never ends.

They cut out over half an hour dealing with a romantic subplot between Cade and Darcy.

IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE LONGER AND IT'S ALREADY GLORIOUSLY PERFECT

# ¿ Dec 18, 2018 15:37

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

There�s a movie within movie buried in TLK with Megatron getting his crew back together and doing evil poo poo and I�m sad we didn�t really get to see most of it. His negotiating for his crew and them getting introductions was so detached from the rest of the movie it was almost hilarious.

I'm not sure if it originated elsewhere first but the Decepticon intros are incredibly similar to the driver intros in direct to dvd classic, Death Race 2.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2018 15:44