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Peter Cullen has been named as the voice of Optimus Prime on IMDB. Score one for the good guys!
Frank Welker (voice of most notably Megatron and Soundwave) is listed as being rumored for the movie.
This is good news. Peter Cullen also did the voice of Ironhide. I wait with anticipation to see who will voice Starscream, who I can't imagine not being in this film. And I still hope for Grimlock, storyline be damned, if they are going to ruin it anyway, I at least want my favorite characters in there.
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Some of the changes are being done because animation can fudge size differences between a vehicle and a robot better than live action can.
Remember how in some of the earlier Transformers episodes, it looked as if Megatron became a gun a human could hold without too much difficulty?
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I have a rule of thumb when it comes to animated flicks:
The percentage of suck in the movie is roughly equal to the percentage of advertising effort they spend telling you about the people doing the voices.
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Well I think we all knew going into it that they weren't going to use cars from the 80's for the characters. Of course they'd use present day cars. Quite frankly I don't mind that so much, it makes it a bit more realistic. If they made the movie in the 80's, no one would complain if they used all the correct cars for the time as the characters.
Bringing it up to date will be a bit jarring, but it could be fun too, so long as they TRY to make it relevant. I mean, Hot Rod should BE a Hot Rod, like that new Ford GT40 or whatever it's called, the super expensive racing looking car. I only really worry for the Autobots anyways, since the Decepticons aren't cars.
Also, Bumblebee WAS designed after the VW Bug. I'd rather them make him a current looking one, rather than a MiniCooper or some other small car.
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Well, in the way that X-Men and Spider-man have pulled things from their Marvel "Ultimate" incarnations, there are so many different incarnations of the Transformers mythos...so even if it's not exactly like G1, it might not be "wrong".
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Hopefully with Megatron they do some combination of him and Galvatron, so that he doesn't have to shrink when he transforms.
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You don't understand: they're using cars that haven't been released to the public, like prototypes or 2007/2008 model year cars. To some degree I don't have a problem with it, until the auto manufacturers rub it in your face.
And Bumblebee isn't a VW Bug; rumor has it it's the Camaro concept car:
quote:The upcoming live-action Transformers movie will feature a matchup with which most Autoblog readers are intimately familiar: Camaro versus Mustang. A bright orange Chevy Camaro Concept that's more than meets the eye will play the good-natured Transformer named Bumblebee, which has traditionally been portrayed by the Volkswagen Beetle. Meanwhile, a Decepticon named Brawl that reportedly "jacks-up poor Bumblebee" is being played by the Ford Mustang.
We're certain Transformers purists will cry foul at the ousting of VW's bug in favor of the more sensational Camaro Concept. We're also certain that Chevy must've transformed a good chunk of change into thin air to get this prime product placement.
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They didn't have a problem with it before the Holocaust survivors suit that was slapped on them.
I've read a lot of stuff about new vehicle types and made up characters and such being bandied about as names for the show. My feeling on the original characters is, if they aren't going to do them right, then just don't do them. I read Grimlock was being considered as a helicopter. Then they were going to make Soundwave a helicopter. If they want a helicopter fine, just call it something else. Or god forbid, actually use the name of the one Autobot who actually WAS a helicopter.
Using names just because they are there, but with no tie to the character that name is attached to will piss me off. Making Starscream an F-22 doesn't bother me, it's an updated version of what he used to be. Making Bumblebee a Camaro does bother me, it's just ripping off the name without any connection to the actual character.
Just give them all new names, create new robots, and toss in a few fan favorites here and there. I wish the movie were being made by a huge Transformers fan, or at least not Michael Bay. Other than Optimus Prime, I have little faith in the characters actually appearing as anything I might remember them as having been.
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...but we have yet to see Optimus Prime. He could be a 2008 Chrysler PT Cruiser for all you know.
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I've read interviews with Michael Bay and seen enough concept art to be convinced he's a Mac truck.
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Bumblebee should not be a Camaro. If he can't be a VW, he needs to at least be some other small compact car. He can't be a sports car. It's just contrary to the character.
Good news that Peter Cullen is in it. I'm sure I'll see it, but I am not expecting anything good.
But yeah, include Optimus Prime and then just make up some new robots, instead of inappropriately using existing ones. The TF mythos has so many versions, one more won't hurt. But let's not try to make it G1 and then fail so hideously.
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There are (unconfirmed) rumors that at least some of the characters being mentioned as in the film are actually codenames for the all-new, all-different Autobots and Decepticons that will be added to the mix in the movie.
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Maybe by the time they make Transformers 3, they could actually make it as an almost remake of the 80's cartoon movie...if they don't use enough of the old school characters, they could just mix in the new guys with the 'new' old ones and they're off to the races.
I have little doubt that there WILL be a Transformers 2, as Michael Bay reportedly (is rumored to have) cut Soundwave from the first movie because they didn't think they could get him right as a boombox, and didn't want to use him until they could nail it. But regardless, I would hope that later incarnations could do a bit more to incorporate fan favorites into the show.
If I have to choose between the vein of Xmen type comic rape, and the version of Spiderman that came out, I choose Spiderman. They may have gone screwy with plot, but they tried to nail every character in it, and I think did a damned good job for the most part. With X-men it was like they took a roster of names and powers and just recreated everything to suit their purposes. I'd really like to not have that be Transformers.
If they aren't going to get it right, why call it Transformers at all? Call it Go-bots, or Voltron, or Gundam Wing for all that it matters.
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Peter Cullen, thank God. At least they didn't get the Optimus Wuss that has been in the anime-styled things on CN.
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quote:Originally posted by Javert: Well, in the way that X-Men and Spider-man have pulled things from their Marvel "Ultimate" incarnations,
The original X-Men movie was what inspired the Ultimate X-Men comic book series. Not the other way around.
Just sayin'.
Indeed...but Ultimate X-Men came up with the idea of the Pheonix being a part of Jean's subconscious as opposed to an alien force, and they used it for X3. Just sayin'. hehe
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Millar left it ambiguous as to whether the Phoenix was Jean's mind unleashed or a Cosmic Goddess as the Ultimate Hellfire Club believed.
Post-Millar writers have kept it ambiguous. The stuff seen in the movie doesn't fit the stuff in the Ultimate line, as the movie wasn't ambiguous at all. No Sh'iar or Hellfire Club to cast doubt on the Professor's theory, nor even a Phoenix Force effect...despite the foreshadowing in X2. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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